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@pressfreedom 5/ And perhaps Besser gives the game away at the end, when he says neither Israel nor Hamas has “clean hands.” That's the framing viewers are ultimately left with: A democratic state fighting a terrorist organization that massacred civilians, took hostages and embeds itself

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@pressfreedom 3/ And @pressfreedom's supposedly “painstaking” process has already produced some rather inconvenient results. Its own audit removed 19 combatants from its Gaza list. Yet our subsequent research found that 102 of the 191 names remaining had terrorist ties - including

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@pressfreedom 4/ Besser calls the number of Palestinian journalists killed in Gaza “staggering,” comparing it with Afghanistan, Russia and Ukraine combined. But that comparison is meaningless without scrutinizing who is being counted as a “journalist” in the first place. When the dataset

1/ In its recent Media Watch segment, Australia's ABC News Australia admits that “Hamas and other terrorist groups have infiltrated the Gazan press corps” - while characterizing the IDF's exposure of so-called journalists as terrorists as containing merely a “seed of truth.” It

An entire story about buses serving Jewish schools being vandalized with swastikas. Yet @nytimes still feels compelled to tell readers that hate crimes against Muslims have risen too. Why? This story is about antisemitism targeting Jewish children. It does not need to be

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They weren't calling for a different prime minister or a change in policy. They were rejecting the very idea of a Jewish state, where Jews can govern, defend, and protect themselves.

For the past three years, anti-Zionists have insisted they weren't against Jews or Israelis. Their problem, they claimed, was simply with the Israeli government. Then Israel held elections.🧵

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Suddenly, social media users declared that it didn't matter “which war criminal becomes prime minister” and that Israel “doesn't have a Netanyahu problem. It has a Zionism problem.”

At Stanford, Taryn Thomas joined the first anti-Israel encampment, repeating slogans she admits she never really chose. When she suggested a two-state solution, she learned that even believing Israel should exist was unacceptable. Now a pro-Israel activist, Thomas reveals how

The Associated Press selected a photograph of an eight-year-old Gaza boy reaching for colorful toys amid the rubble of his home as one of its best images. But the toys appear unusually clean, neatly arranged on a clear patch of debris. Who put them there? Was the child

Some artists boycott Israel. Boy George showed up. The pop icon has landed in Israel for two sold-out Tel Aviv concerts, including one dedicated to the Nova community and their families. After releasing “We Will Dance Again” and standing by Israel despite threats and backlash,

A year after the ceasefire, Hamas is still holding on to power in Gaza. It has collected taxes, paid fighters, kept ministries and security forces intact, and enforced its authority through public executions and beatings. Plans for a replacement government remain stalled, while

Hey @Reuters, citing “medics and the Hamas-run interior ministry” isn't independent verification. Why identify the interior ministry as Hamas-run but leave the medics' affiliations unexplained? Don't they work for the Hamas-run Health Ministry? And why lead with five “police