Ben Reiff

Ok this might be the weirdest story I’ve ever reported on, involving: • A totally fabricated “exclusive” • A suspected pro-Netanyahu influence campaign • An author whose biography is entirely made up What on earth is going on at @JewishChron ? 972mag.com/jewish-chronic…

@SCynic1 It’s not “bombed out”, it’s been razed to the ground by bulldozers to make it uninhabitable, which is exactly what Israel is about to do to southern Lebanon 972mag.com/israel-gaza-to…

@bentreyf Ben, I can show you a flyover of a bombed out area too. That’s what war does. It doesn’t prove anything you wrote. It’s not even supporting evidence. You wanted to draw a conclusion. You made the facts fit. If you’re proud of that, it’s sad, but it’s not my problem.

Ben, get a grip. There’s no Gaza model & it’s not what happened. Lebanon consistently fails to abide its obligations to disarm terrorists. Your “perhaps” is a convenient guess that - surprise surprise - fits your daft speculation. But Der Guardian is certainly the right fit.

@SCynic1 Not sure which part of this you’re not getting itv.com/news/2025-08-0…

@bentreyf Yes. Your last post doesn’t support what you said. Sure, you found the maddest things said to impress rightwing voters (only for Israel mind you - God forbid you apply that standard to Iran or Palestine) & built a straw house. It’s not real: & you don’t understand the legal case.

@SCynic1 Did you even read my article?

@bentreyf You know perfectly well that does not support what you wrote. I’ve no problem debating this with you, but I’m not prepared to do it if you can’t deal honestly with the difficulties in what you’ve said. I’ve got better ways to spend my time.

Important piece

@HonestReporting @972mag Ok ChatGPT

Portraying Israelis as “jingoistic warmongers” isn’t analysis. It’s distortion. Whatever @972mag's deputy editor claims, Israelis aren’t celebrating war or calling for countries to be “pummelled” or “devastated.” They support necessary operations to remove long-standing threats from regimes and terror groups targeting them. This isn’t about destroying nations. It’s about defending civilians. Israelis want peace. But when faced with those who reject it, supporting action to eliminate those threats isn’t immoral. It’s reality.

Israel is preparing to deploy the “Gaza model” in Lebanon in plain sight — mass ethnic cleansing, annihilation of entire cities and villages, long-term occupation, and perhaps eventually Israeli settlements and annexation. My latest in the Guardian. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@omdimbeyachad The people want war, I’m afraid en.idi.org.il/articles/63617

This is happening soon! Don’t miss Arash Azizi in conversation with Sally Abed about the actions of Netanyahu, Trump, and the Islamic Republic and how we can stand in solidarity with a people’s fight for freedom. Register: standtog.org/4s4Zz8v

With West Bank under total Israeli closure, settlers are seizing the moment Israeli settlers have killed 2 Palestinians and raided countless villages amid the war with Iran, as the army restricts movement and backs up the attackers. @OrenZiv_ @basel_adra 972mag.com/west-bank-clos…

"The updated [@airwars] data shows ... 4.2 to 5.5 times as many civilians were killed in the first 25 days of the US-Israeli attack on Gaza than in the deadliest month for civilians Airwars has ever documented [in Iraq]"

Last year, @Microsoft revoked the Israeli army’s access to AI & cloud tools after we revealed it was using them to store masses of surveillance data on Palestinians. Now, we can reveal that Microsoft is providing similar tools at scale to @ICEgov. 972mag.com/ice-microsoft-…

The US is quietly deporting Palestinians arrested by ICE to the West Bank using a private jet belonging to Trump’s friend, an American-Israeli billionaire. Two deportation flights using the jet in the past two weeks suggest a dramatic shift in policy. Me, @Ghousoon & @guardian.

@leloveluck So sorry Louisa. Your reporting has been among the best out there, and any other outlet will be incredibly lucky to have you.

Heartbroken to have been laid off by The Washington Post today. It has been the honour of a lifetime to work with these colleagues for a decade, from Damascus to Baghdad, Derna to to Bakhmut. I am proud of our work. Thank you, everyone.

"...there is one thing we can be sure of: the climate of denial regarding the health ministry’s figures helped Israel keep slaughtering Palestinians en masse with impunity." theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

@CAMERAorgUK @guardian The grift is over lads, go home

@guardian For the second time in three days, @guardian promotes the "83%" civilian death toll libel, in an opinion piece by @bentreyf that's effectively pro-Hamas.

The fact that @guardian journalists are still citing the farcical and completely discredited "83% civilian death toll" claim five months after their initial report is another example of how their 'reporting' is often no different than Al Jazeera-style propaganda

Israel & its supporters spent 2 years claiming the Gaza death toll was Hamas propaganda — only for a military official to admit last week it’s accurate. So now they’re pushing a new line about the civilian casualty ratio, which is bullshit too. My latest theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

The army confirms today our reporting from two years ago - when it no longer matters as much to admit this

Over the weekend, the last residents of Ras Ein Al-Auja packed their belongings and fled their homes due to Israeli state-backed settler violence. @OrenZiv_ reported on the calculated erasure of the last Palestinian village in the southern Jordan Valley. 972mag.com/ras-ein-al-auj…