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For years, the United Nations said Gaza was starving, and Israel was singularly to blame. In 2023, it warned of mass starvation. In 2024, famine was “imminent.” By 2025, the UN-backed IPC said famine was happening. Now, new UN data shows acute malnutrition across Gaza at 0.2% to 0.8%, comparable to or below pre-war levels, and lower than neighboring Arab countries like Egypt and Jordan. Those famine claims were used to accuse Israel of deliberately starving civilians, despite questionable methodology, shifting thresholds, and data that did not support the claims. Which raises the question: if there was never a famine in Gaza, why was the UN so invested in falsifying one?
HonestReporting70,434 Aufrufe • vor 13 Tagen
We are not in the business of defending politicians, let alone Ben-Gvir. We are in the business of defending the truth. As distasteful as many of Ben-Gvir's statements are, he did not call for the mass murder of Palestinians. He called for killing terrorists and those he considers complicit in terrorism. And the position he expresses here is explicitly not the Israeli government's policy - Ben-Gvir himself says he disagrees with Netanyahu's approach. You can condemn what Ben-Gvir actually said without making false and inflammatory accusations.
HonestReporting27,476 Aufrufe • vor 12 Tagen
Louis Theroux’s new BBC ‘Settlers’ documentary claims impartiality. What it delivers is a slick propaganda film: Israel as aggressor, settlers as sociopaths, Palestinians as voiceless victims. Let’s talk about what Theroux really chose to show—and what he left out. 🧵
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Today, information moves faster than verification. Claims turn into headlines. Headlines turn into global narratives. And by the time the facts actually come out… most people have already scrolled past, shared the clip, or made up their minds. It’s a pattern that repeatedly fuels anti-Israel narratives. A prime example? The Gaza hospital explosion in October 2023 may be the clearest case of how misinformation about Israel doesn’t just spread — it becomes the truth. Major outlets blamed Israel for the Al-Ahli Hospital blast within minutes. Hamas sources were quoted instantly. The correction? A misfired Islamic Jihad rocket, confirmed within hours. The false story reached over 100 million people. The truth lagged far behind. This is how narratives are built and how accusations of genocide are fueled. First reports rarely wait for facts. Corrections often never catch up. Watch how it happened, and why it still matters. Presenter: Erin Molan
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The UN created UNKRA to rebuild war-torn Korea. It completed its mission and shut down. UNRWA was also created as a temporary agency. More than 75 years later, it spends over $1 billion a year and registers nearly 6 million people, including descendants. One agency worked toward an ending. UNRWA made the crisis, and itself, permanent.
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.Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch released separate reports on the death of Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil, reaching the same conclusion: the Israeli strike should be investigated as a war crime. But there was more to the story. Khalil was traveling with two Hezbollah operatives, who were the intended targets. Then another detail emerged: they had coordinated the release of their reports “for impact.” They didn’t have independent evidence. They had repetition, with one institution reinforcing the authority of another. And that’s what we call the NGO halo effect.
HonestReporting16,427 Aufrufe • vor 23 Tagen
People say Israel “buys” American politicians. So let’s follow the money. Abdul El-Sayed built his campaign around attacking Israel and AIPAC, accusing the organization of buying influence, punishing critics of Israel, and using antisemitism to silence opposition. After narrowly defeating Rep. Haley Stevens, he framed AIPAC’s spending against him as retaliation for his opposition to U.S. military aid to Israel. So what is AIPAC really? For starters, it's not a foreign lobby. It's an American organization, and compared with the biggest power players in Washington, its spending is far from exceptional. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Association of Realtors, Amazon, and other major corporations spend far more on lobbying and elections. Israel doesn’t control American politics. So why is so much attention focused on it? #AIPAC #ElSayed
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“Globalize the intifada.” Most people shouting it would probably call it resistance or liberation. For the families of the 16 people murdered 25 years ago today in a Jerusalem pizzeria, the definition is written in blood. The intifada isn’t a metaphor. It is unforgivable violence.
HonestReporting16,612 Aufrufe • vor 25 Tagen
Israel provided evidence to the media and US military documenting Islamic Jihad's attack on the Gaza hospital. Yet, the media chose to run with Hamas' narrative that it was an Israeli airstrike. Those accusations will haunt Israel forever. Shame on the media.
HonestReporting360,680 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren