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If the Palestinians wanted peace, they would teach it instead of hate and violence;
they would ombat terrorism instead of supporting it;
they would build their legitimacy instead of delegitimizing Israel;
they would secure territory under their control before demanding more.
Undeference retweeted
War reporting used to be:
- Someone makes a claim.
- You demand evidence.
- You check the facts.
- You question your sources.
- You apply the same standards to everyone.
- You publish only what you can verify.
War reporting in 2026:
The idea is that there are some things that are so inherently evil that there is no accounting for them. It does not matter what they claim it is in response to. The issue is that people defend or "contextualize" it anyway. They have no morality.
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TIL Under US federal law, there are actually SIXTY SIX US "States". One is not part of the US. Only 50 have the rights of states under the Constitution (but 4 of them don't call themselves states).
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In this alternate universe we live in, the less plausible a claim is, the more likely people are to believe it without any evidence.
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"The public is being told that genocide has been established when what the commission has actually produced is a contested preliminary assessment made under a substantially lower evidential threshold. This is an enormously consequential distortion."
The UN Commission of Inquiry report published this week selectively quoted Israeli officials, relied on unsubstantiated allegations, omitted crucial context, and failed to apply an appropriate standard of proof to exceptionally serious accusations. It should be called out for these failings, and the Commission should respond.
In this exchange, I summarise the report in which we challenge the evidence, methodology and legal reasoning of the report, which accuses Israel of genocide in Gaza and extermination in Judea and Samaria. @UKLFI @UNWatch
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Undeference retweeted
It says a lot about the “expert” class that they had to completely redefine what words meant to justify their claims about Gaza.
Changed the definition of genocide, famine, and almost every other accusation to justify lobbing them.
Now they are utterly discredited.
De Waal declared a famine somewhere that received record war zone aid per capita. The result has been a population in relatively better health than many surrounding countries. So now he has to invent a new version of “famine” that relates to some subjective view of dignity instead of objective measurements on food insecurity and malnutrition.
Former US president @BarackObama engages in antisemitic tropes about where Jews are from, accuses Jews (not "zionists") of stealing and gluttony, and says it is "understandable" people would want to take their "land back" (i.e., Palestinian terrorism).
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According to @BarackObama, Jews fled Europe, arrived in someone else’s land and became “excessive.”
Conveniently missing: The Jewish people’s millennia-old connection to the Land of Israel and centuries of continuous Jewish presence there.
Israel’s legitimacy did not begin with European persecution.
Neither did Jewish history.
ALT https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/israel-has-ceded-moral-ground-over-middle-east-conflict-says-barack-obama-during-belfast-appearance/a/163033927.html
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Apparently Irish Independent somehow replaced expelled with excessive and partially rephrased the (still ignorant) statement…?
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What’s worse?
1. Incompetent Irish media misquoted @BarackObama.
Or:
2. What Obama actually said: that Jews “understandably sought a refuge in a place where they had historic ties,” but they “expelled” the people “they took the land off” rather than being “excessive.”
That still reduces Israel’s founding to a simplistic story of foreign Jews taking somebody else’s land.
One acknowledgment of Jewish history does not make the subsequent distortion any less serious.
We have no problem correcting a misquote. But that doesn't change the bottom line: President Obama deserves the criticism that he's received.
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There's something exquisitely ridiculous about listening to the British lecture Israel and Jews on religious equality and democratic citizenship.
Israel, the Jewish nation-state, has no established state religion, no religious qualification for its president or prime minister, and no hereditary religious monarch. Jewish, Muslim, Christian and Druze citizens can vote, serve in the Knesset, hold government office and participate in the country's political life.
Israel's Declaration of Independence explicitly promises equal social and political rights to citizens regardless of religion, race or sex.
Now, let's visit Britain, that magnificent self-appointed guardian of enlightened democratic values, shall we?
🤡Britain actually has an established church.
Not metaphorically. Not culturally. Not because someone hung a crucifix in a government office. An actual church, established by law, with the monarch serving as its Supreme Governor.
🤡Twenty-six Anglican bishops are entitled to seats in the House of Lords simply because they're Anglican bishops.They can debate legislation, propose amendments and vote on laws governing Jews, Muslims, Hindus, Catholics, atheists and everyone else.
Do rabbis get 26 reserved seats? No.
Imams? No.
Catholic bishops? Absolutely not.
🤡England still has a legal requirement for daily collective worship in state-funded schools. In ordinary nonreligious state schools, worship is required to be Christian.
🤡The British monarch must be Protestant and in communion with the Church of England.
So the next time someone declares that Israel's Jewish national identity is inherently incompatible with democracy, perhaps they could explain why Britain's formally established Anglican church, constitutionally Protestant monarchy and parliamentary bishops supposedly present no comparable problem.
Better still, they could explain why Jewish national self-determination is treated as inherently suspect while Britain's centuries-old religious establishment is waved away as charming tradition.
One might almost begin to suspect that the objection isn't really to the principle at all. 🤔
Obviously the ICC won't do anything to diminish its power. Why doesn't the US pressure members to withdraw from the Rome Statute? If no one will enforce its warrants, it has no power.
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ChatGPT seems dumb today.
* "Is there something else has materially similarity to any of these attributes of X?" → "yes, X has those attributes"
* "I mean something *other than* X" → "here are things that are holistically similar to X"
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Self-described anti *ism/*phobia people tend to be the most bigoted, in particular against the groups they "support" as soon as members disagree with them.
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This is written in anger. Today @bbcnews put out a propaganda piece demonising Israel. Think about the timing. October 8. They must have had this one lined up especially. It is not news. It just rehashes old stories without any evidence at all - and it gets worse 1/5
Undeference retweeted
This was Zohran Mamdani only 13 days after October 7. No one could have predicted that this unhinged radical would become New York's next mayor. Israel had not yet launched its ground invasion into Gaza and he was already screaming genocide
tnx @mazemoore for that video
