PhD in Palestine Studies from the University of Exeter. Adjunct Professor @goUFV. My website: https://teapawt.net/t.co/TGk0Ypik9C
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
Of all the propagandists out there delighting in the mass slaughter of Palestinians and Lebanese over the last months, few are more irredeemably vile than Douglas Murray
Colter Louwerse retweeted
It would be nice if Western media gave a damn about the Israelis killed *by Israel* on October 7th. They may not - but we here at Zeteo do. Watch @mehdirhasan take you through that day, explaining the secretive 'Hannibal Directive' and how it was deployed by the Israeli military
Colter Louwerse retweeted
🚨I checked every single name on Israel's list of 170 Gazan "terrorist" journalists. It's the most sloppy shameless fraud possible🧵
In the overwhelming majority of those listed, the IDF presents ZERO credible evidence. In most of them, their pages are literally blank.
Colter Louwerse retweeted
EXCLUSIVE: Leaked photograph depicts the "research" and "writing" processes of top hasbara intellectuals John Spencer (@SpencerGuard) and @Mr_Andrew_Fox, both of whom I recently exposed for repeatedly using AI to write entire or near-entire articles.
Colter Louwerse retweeted
Anyone surprised Thiessen can't even get his cities right?
Horrifying. Clear evidence of genocide…
Oh wait that’s Dresden after US and British bombing in WWII..
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Photo shows destruction of Warsaw, Poland, in early 1945 following systematic razing by Nazi German forces after the 1944 Warsaw Uprising.
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
The IDF not only killed more children than any military or militant group this century, but also more women: more than the genocidaires in Darfur and Myanmar.
Assadist forces over 14 years of civil war in Syria may have killed slightly more women than the IDF in under 3 years in Gaza. But this is misleading because "Assadist Forces" combines multiple militaries and militant groups, such as Hezbollah and the IRGC, not just the SAA. If we compared the IDF to the SAA, or to the IRGC, or to the Russians, any one group in Syria, the IDF would have killed more women (in two years vs 14 years, in a much smaller theater against a much more poorly equipped enemy, etc).
Thus, the IDF has killed the most women AND the most children of any military in the 21st century. This is all the more remarkable given that Gaza has proportionally a lot fewer women than most other parts of the world. (That is because Gaza is about half children, meaning it is only about half adults, including women, who are adults by definition.)
Colter Louwerse retweeted
I hope @PiersMorgan will watch this because he said he believed @HenMazzig when he insisted to Norman Finkelstein and me that he never justified or denied Israel's use of starvation, but denounced it.
These are total, provable lies (and he was a paid propagandist for Israel):
"Am I a child killer?"
Hen Mazzig debates Norman Finkelstein after he called Israel 'a nation of child killers' and more in tonight's Uncensored.
Dropping at 7pm (BST)👇
📺 youtube.com/piersmorganuncen…
@piersmorgan | @normfinkelstein | @HenMazzig | @MrWinMarshall | @ggreenwald
Colter Louwerse retweeted
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Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire: Hen Mazzig
Colter Louwerse retweeted
You'll notice that despite multiple "ceasefires", Israel continues its attacks in Lebanon, even when Hizballah completely ceases its attacks.
For Israel, a "ceasefire" means you cease, we (continue to) fire.
Colter Louwerse retweeted
Airwars was vilified for its assessment that about 99% of Gazans killed in October 2023 were civilians. But this assessment was right or close to right.
The criticism of @airwars was superficially quite plausible: it counted as a civilian everyone for whom there is no open-source evidence of combatant status. In other words, if there was no evidence that x was a combatant on Facebook or other open sources, Airwars would miss this, and thus (it was argued) Airwars hugely underestimated the number of combatants killed in Oct 2023.
However, our audit so far suggests that the vast majority of combatants are in fact recognizable as combatants in open sources. That is to say, of 37 Hamas-confirmed combatants we've studied so far, 35 of them, or 95%, have open-source evidence (apart from Hamas) of their death and combatant status, on Facebook and other sites. (Note that most of those we have studied are regular fighters, not commanders.)
It follows that the @airwars methodology did not dramatically underestimate combatants killed in Oct 2023, but was probably quite close to accurate; perhaps 98% (or 97%) of those killed were civilians in Oct 2023, but 99% wasn't too far off.
The picture of indiscriminate killing is also supported by the insane fatalities demographics in October 2023, with women/children/elderly accounting for about 70% of fatalities. (The % of women/children/elderly among fatalities fell considerably after Oct 2023.)
Colter Louwerse retweeted
"Remarkable how none of Israel's violations of your ceasefire ever caught your attention once in 323 days, but my sole tweet did in mere hours."
Dear Board of Peace,
1- I have a tender issued under your name on 20 May 2026 that includes "levelling & compacting" work in occupied Gaza, do you deny that document?
2- Is the Israeli company Terra Firma NOT doing "rubble clearance" in Gaza allegedly with machines that take rubble & spit out dust while the IDF is doing road-paving work (specifically near Erez)?
3- Are you NOT in any way paying, compensating, subsidising or aiding Israeli companies, contractors, individuals, the Israeli army or government for rubble removal & road paving in Gaza?
4- If you are involved, can you explain whether any effort is being made to separate human remains from rubble or detect potential mass graves under the roads being paved? The Israeli government is silent on this.
5- I have satellite images that show clear & significant rubble removal work in East Gaza in the months of May & June. Do you deny any involvement in this?
6- Do you have anything to say on Israel killing over 1,200 Palestinians under your watch since your ceasefire started? how about Israel restricting humanitarian aid and preventing prostatic limbs from going to largest cohort of child amputees in modern history? How about Israel preventing repairs of basic infrastructure (water, electricity, sewage, hospitals, bakeries), or releasing all children & women still in detention without trial or charges?
All of those unfulfilled commitments were part of phase one of President Trump's 20-point plan!
Remarkable how none of Israel's violations of your ceasefire ever caught your attention once in 323 days, but my sole tweet did in mere hours.
Colter Louwerse retweeted
Another IDF whistleblower admits that when Israel says they’re “only targeting terrorists,” they simply mean *anyone* in Gaza: They only try to manufacture claims their victims are terrorists *after* the IDF has already attacked
Account published in Le Monde on systematic lying
Colter Louwerse retweeted
Supporters of Israel are using a recent UNICEF report as proof that famine in Gaza was a 'hoax'. In our new column for Middle East Eye, Irfan Chowdhury and I show that very sadly the UNICEF report proves nothing of the sort:
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
Very important to note that the UN Commission of Inquiry's conclusion is not only that Israel is indiscriminately killing children in Gaza, but *deliberately* targeting them.
In all my years covering conflicts in the Middle East, I've never before seen armed forces *deliberately* targeting children. But the receipts are there for all to see...
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Colter Louwerse retweeted
It's not really true that Itamar Ben-Gvir is saying the quiet part out loud. Given Israeli culture, it's more like he's just saying the out loud part slightly louder.
Colter Louwerse retweeted
"You can shoot at all buildings except one." Israeli soldiers admit openly they were given genocidal orders.
Just finished reading a book and happened to come across this.
"The open fire instructions are as follows: it's permitted to fire at all the buildings, apart from the one just ahead of us, which is an UNRWA school and not all the civilians have been evacuated from there. That building takes an M339 tank shell to the third floor just as we enter the alley. We deny being involved."
Incident detail: Khan Younis, Jan 2024
From the book: Remembering the light and the darkness, War Diary.
Author: Elkana Cohen, a tank commander from the 9206 Battalion.
Colter Louwerse retweeted
The entire discussion about whether Israel will or will not accept any agreement between the US and Iran is a waste of time, nothing but an exercise in smoke and mirrors.
Israel will do as it is told because it has no choice but to do precisely as it is told.
If Israel rejects or acts to undermine the agreement, and does so without consequence, that is because it has been authorized and perhaps encouraged to do so by Washington.
It really is that simple.
Colter Louwerse retweeted
Surprising no one: Israel lied. The car was not “accerating towards the soldiers”, it was fully stopped. The “single shots” were to the head of a 7 month old baby. Who is evacuated without any help from the soldiers. Never forget Sam. May his memory haunt these monsters forever
תיעוד חדש שהגיע לידי בצלם חושף את רגעי הירי במשפחת אבו הייכל, שכתוצאה ממנו נהרג סאם אבו הייכל, תינוק בן 7 חודשים, ונפצעו שני הוריו. מהתיעוד עולה בבירור כי הירי שביצע החייל לעבר הרכב בוצע בזמן שנהג הרכב האט את נסיעתו לקראת עצירה, וכאשר היה במרחק מהחיילים ולא היווה כל סכנה עבורם.
בהמשך, בסרטון נוסף שהגיע לידי בצלם, נראה פאהד, אביו של סאם בן ה-7 חודשים, ברגעים הראשונים לאחר הירי בבנו. האב נראה כאשר הוא אוחז בתינוק ומנסה לעצור בידיו את הדימום מראשו. עוד ניתן לראותבתיעוד את אימו של התינוק, דאניה, שנפצעה גם היא מהירי בזמן שאחזה בבנה, כשהיא יושבת על הכביש לצד רכב המשפחה.
ביום שישי האחרון, 5 ביוני, חייל ישראלי פתח באש קטלנית לעבר משפחה פלסטינית, שחזרה מביקור משפחתי, בעת שנסעה ברכבה בשכונת תל רומיידה בחברון. הירי בוצע לאחר שאב המשפחה, שנהג ברכב, הבחיןבחיילים שעמדו על הכביש והאט. סאם, תינוק בן 7 חודשים, שהיה באותה עת בזרועותיה של אימו במושב האחורי, נפגע בראשו מהירי ומותו נקבע זמן קצר לאחר מכן. מהירי נפצעו גם אביו של סאם ואימו, שעדייןמאושפזת בבית החולים. לאחר הירי החייל היורה וחייל נוסף שהיה עמו עזבו את המקום מבלי לבדוק את הרכב ומבלי להגיש סיוע לתינוק הפצוע אנוש ולאימו.
בשנתיים וחצי האחרונות ישראל הרגה למעלה מ-20,000 ילדים בעזה ובגדה המערבית. החסינות שהמערכת הישראלית מעניקה לחיילים ולמתנחלים הובילה למציאות יומיומית בה הרג של פלסטינים, באשר הוא, נתמך ומגובה על ידי המערכת - אפילו כשמדובר בתינוק בן 7 חודשים.