@tiagoguilhermef These flotilla stories were premeditated gaslightting.
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Todd Berman
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Todd Berman
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Uma das coisas mais perturbadoras sobre os estupros no caso da Flotilha é que os sobreviventes estão tendo que tomar, por 28 dias, medicamentos para prevenir uma possível infecção pelo HIV em razão da violência praticada pelos soldados.
As mulheres, além disso, tiveram que tomar pílulas do dia seguinte e torcer para que fossem efetivas.
Isso mostra que a violência de Israel não termina quando os sequestrados são libertados. Ela continua no corpo, no medo, na espera por exames, nos efeitos colaterais dos medicamentos, na angústia de quem ainda precisa lidar com as consequências de uma agressão cometida sob custódia de um Estado.
A libertação não apaga a tortura. Não apaga a violência sexual. Não apaga o trauma produzido por um sequestro ilegal e por práticas que deveriam ser tratadas como crimes internacionais.
As violências de Israel continuam acontecendo e produzindo efeitos físicos, psicológicos, políticos e humanos muito depois do fim do sequestro.
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Perhaps the worst pedophilia, rape and sexual abuse scandal in Israeli history is ricking the West Bank settlement movement.
1) A Kan 11 investigation exposed a horrifying network of organized, pedophilic, and sadistic child abuse within the Gush Etzion settler bloc. Five women who did not know each other provided identical testimonies, naming the same perpetrators and locations.
2) Perpetrators carried out organized, multi-perpetrator assaults on young children in synagogues, forests, and cemeteries
3) A local religious leader described the systemic crimes as "Sodom and Gomorrah" and "hell incarnate.” Lead journalist Roni Singer categorized the ring as raw "pedophilic and sadistic abuse."
4) Victim recalled a local rabbi raping her and brainwashing her that "her body does not belong only to her."
5) Rabbis hold absolute power in these tight-knit communities. Perpetrators used this spiritual status to command obedience and silence victims.
6) Community reputation took precedence over safety. Public outcry noted the core failure "is not a lack of complaints... the problem is the silencing, the lack of handling complaints, and zero punishment."
7) The West Bank police district routinely closed files without basic investigation. Because local law enforcement is heavily consumed by geopolitical conflict, severe domestic criminal networks operated unchecked in a lawless blind spot.
The system of rape, abuse and unaccountability Israel has created against Palestinians is also eating the country from within. This is what a truly sick genocidal culture does to itself.
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@AnaKasparian You're nothing but a Hamas propagandist and terror supporter
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US-based propagandists for Israel cosplaying as journalists will keep regurgitating bullshit from the Israeli terror regime about how the IDF is "targeting Hezbollah." Does this look like Hezbollah to you?
The IDF is demolishing entire villages in Lebanon. They leveled the entirety of Gaza. Yet these despicable excuses for "reporters" have the audacity to brazenly lie to all of us. They sit in their comfortable little studios and effortlessly provide cover for genocide and ethnic cleansing as actual journalists get mowed down by the very terrorists our news actors provide cover for.
Middle East Observer@ME_Observer_
⚡️🚨 Israeli terror in Lebanon: In a dangerous move, Israeli aircraft bomb the Qaraoun Dam in Beqaa, which contains a large amount of water, and its collapse means the drowning of entire villages. According to Israel, there was a Hezbollah fighter inside the water
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@CogitoEdu What would you have done in response to the ongoing attacks by Hamas and Gazans?
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"You can be openly gay in 1 city a short drive from the mass graves of the children we slaughtered by the tens of thousands"
Peter Savodnik@petersavodnik
In Tel Aviv, gay people can walk hand in hand, live together, embrace their sexual orientation. Across the Arab world, that kind of openness would be unthinkable. You must know this, but your unslakable antisemitic — sorry, ant-Zionist — bloodlust inhibits honest tweeting.
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In the past four days, Cenk Uygur has posted about Israel over 100 times.
He averages one post about Israel every 30 minutes.
This is actual derangement.
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@NickKristof @nytopinion Is there a reason you haven’t addressed PM Olmert saying you misrepresented him?
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lets not forget she was also assisting her zionist professor while he was writing his pro israel book the case for israel during this time btw
𝑹@pacuzl
When Natalie Portman was balancing Hollywood and studying psychology at Harvard University
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One of the biggest historical scams people successfully pulled off was convincing the world that Arabs only started massacring Jews in the Land of Israel because of “occupation” and modern Israel.
The 1929 Hebron Massacre alone completely destroys that narrative.
On August 24, 1929, Arab mobs in Hebron slaughtered one of the oldest Jewish communities in the world. There was no Israel. No IDF. No checkpoints. No “occupation.” No settlements.
Just Jews.
Hebron’s Jewish community had existed for centuries. Many were deeply religious families with roots going back generations, long before political Zionism even existed. But after weeks of incitement and false rumors surrounding Jewish access to holy sites in Jerusalem, Arab mobs stormed Jewish homes and began butchering civilians.
Jews were stabbed, beaten, mutilated, and hacked to death with axes. Families were murdered inside their homes. Synagogues were ransacked. Children and elderly Jews were not spared.
67 Jews were murdered.
Some survivors were only saved because a handful of neighbors hid Jewish families in their homes while the mobs searched the streets outside.
The massacre was so horrific that the surviving Jews were evacuated by the British, effectively ending a Jewish community in Hebron that had existed for hundreds of years.
And this is the part people desperately try to avoid:
This happened in 1929.
Before “occupation.”
Before “settlements.”
Before “the Nakba.”
Before modern Israel existed.
People can argue and complain all day about modern politics, borders, settlements, or governments. But the claim that anti-Jewish violence in the Land of Israel only began because of modern Israel falls apart the moment you look at what happened in Hebron in 1929.
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"I'm trying to imagine" - I'll help you out.
Pro-palestine muslims drove down a Jewish neighbourhood and screamed "Fuck the Jews, rape their daughters".
This is a million times worse than anything you cry about.
Fuck you and your gaslighting, Mehdi.
You are a lying monster.
Mehdi Hasan@mehdirhasan
I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.
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You were fed lie after lie after lie and ate that shit up.
GAZAWOOD - the PALLYWOOD saga@GAZAWOOD1
Same actor. Same script. Same choreography. Always right after 'rescuing a newborn from the rubble'—complete with brand new, spotless blankets.
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Absurd Claims of Dog Rape and Genocide. I see a correlation between those who believe absurd claims like dogs were trained to rape Palestinians and those who believe and insist Israel committed genocide in Gaza.
Both claims collapse under scrutiny and mountains of contrary evidence. One ignores basic physiology and science, including the reality that dogs cannot rape humans in the way being alleged. The other disregards the legal definition of genocide, which requires intent to destroy a people, alongside repeated public statements by Israeli political and military leaders after October 7 that the war was against Hamas, not the people of Gaza. It also requires evidence of actions taken to fulfill that intent, yet accusers dismiss Israel’s documented actions to mitigate civilian harm, facilitate aid, move civilians from combat zones, and even vaccinate Gaza’s population during active war under conditions no military has ever faced. It further ignores that even critics of Israel’s campaign have acknowledged civilian-to-combatant casualty ratios that are historically low for dense urban warfare against an entrenched enemy purposely embedded among civilians.
What connects these beliefs is not evidence, but a double standard in how definitions, laws, reason, science, and even common sense are applied. Facts that would invalidate the accusation are dismissed because the conclusion comes first: Israelis are uniquely evil. And that demonization rarely stops with Israelis alone. It often extends to Jews broadly, regardless of any personal connection to the conflict. I see this less as a dispute over evidence and more as an effort to delegitimize Israel’s existence through accusations that do not withstand logical, factual, or legal scrutiny.
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While the NYT is busy posting depraved falsehoods about Israelis — I'm thinking about Miss. Arbel Yehoud, who was kidnapped from Israel by Palestinians on October 7th.
For 482 days, Arbel was sexually abused "almost every day" in Gazan captivity.
“I tried to take my life several times. I felt that I couldn’t go on,” Yehoud told Israel Hayoum news.
"There were moments I thought it was the only way out," she said, clarifying that she attempted suicide 3 times.
The abuse — she stressed to the news outlet — was "not a one-time incident but an almost daily reality throughout her 482 days in captivity."
She says in the following video she only spoke out about it publicly after she saw fellow former hostage Romi Gonen speak publicly about her traumas.
"I think the change [of wanting to speak out] happened to me after our beloved Romi appeared on the news. I had kept it buried until then."
May we never forget the real victims of sexual abuse on October 7th💔
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🚨 They manufactured this.
This photo went mega-viral last year. Mainstream media everywhere. Millions of shares.
“Starving Gaza child amid the horror.”
Barefoot girl. Dirty clothes. Empty pot in hand. Hair dramatically blowing. Scattered pots in the dust. Smoke and destroyed buildings behind her.
It was 100% staged.
Watch the full 52-second video of exactly how they directed and shot it. The final frame is the exact photo that fooled the world.
This is Pallywood.
Not documenting suffering, but producing it for outrage and donations.
They lied. The camera caught them.
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My Lebanese grandma used to say the same thing: Palestinians sold their land to the Jews and came and took our country (Lebanon).
Nuseir Yassin@nasdaily
Narrative violation warning: Elders in my Arab village in Israel told me the richest Palestinians sold their land and left first. 80 years later, their grandkids now claim to be displaced victims. I am so allergic to victim mindset. It boils my blood. ~15 million displaced Hindus and Muslims in India-Pakistan around the SAME year. No one is trying to be a victim there. It's time to move on. "You only get to be a victim once. After that, you’re a volunteer."
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We don’t talk about other, larger population displacements that took place around the same time of the Nakba (700K) with the same ferocity:
• India/Pakistan (10-15 million)
• Germans from East Europe (10-12 million)
• Greece/Turkey (2 million)
• Jews from Arab countries (800K)
The main difference is that in none of those cases are activists pretending that they’re “ongoing” or treat descendants as perpetual refugees.
The expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe is probably the closest analogue to the Palestinian displacement. Other than the fact that it was vastly larger, most historians agree that the Germans had it coming to them, having started WWII. Meanwhile, an industry of lies continues to make excuses for the Palestinians, painting them as perfect victims.
The Nakba (“catastrophe”) is not a hoax because Palestinians weren’t displaced. They were, and it was tragic. The hoax is the mythology built around it, that the displacement was uniquely evil, uniquely permanent, and completely detached from violent Arab rejectionism. The real “catastrophe” in the Arab psyche was not merely displacement, but the humiliation of losing an ongoing war that many still today hope would end with the Jews driven out of the Middle East.
Strxwmxn@strxwmxn
@RepRashida The Nakba is the greatest hoax in modern history
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Regarding the Kristof column. Let’s put aside the dog rape stuff and focus on one additional specific example of why it was such poor and indefensible journalism. There were two named victims of sexual assault by Israeli soldiers in Kristof’s column.
One of them Issa Amro. He was detained and interrogated for 10 hours on 10/7.
The only problem? He himself put out the below video about what happened to him that day. I will link to it in this week’s newsletter. In the video, he claims his hands were tied tightly, they cursed at him, and he was hit several times. But at no point does he suggest anything even close to sexual assault.
Two weeks later, he was interviewed by ABC news. Again, no mention of sexual assault. He would later be interviewed by the Washington Post and would claim he was threatened with sexual assault (but not that it occurred). This person repeatedly talked about the events that day and never once claimed sexual assault except when it became convenient to fit Kristof’s narrative to provide evidence of a systemic problem. And no, it’s not a coincidence that this activist has done a ton of media.
Did Kristof know that there was a contemporaneous account from one of the two named alleged victims that does not claim sexual assault? Did the NYT editors know the person being cited changed their story?
Was Amro even asked why his story changed?
None of this seemed to matter.
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Narrative violation warning:
Elders in my Arab village in Israel told me the richest Palestinians sold their land and left first. 80 years later, their grandkids now claim to be displaced victims.
I am so allergic to victim mindset. It boils my blood. ~15 million displaced Hindus and Muslims in India-Pakistan around the SAME year. No one is trying to be a victim there. It's time to move on.
"You only get to be a victim once. After that, you’re a volunteer."
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@NYCMayor
Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed. Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us — one of home, tradition and memory over generations.
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OK this is even more wild.
They literally show a photo of Palestinian Arabs burning a Jewish convoy trying to supply food to Jerusalem (when they attempt to starve the 100K Jews living there).
TF is wrong with these people
State of Palestine@Palestine_UN
78 years of ongoing Nakba. 78 years of erasure. Against all odds, we remain on our land and the land of our ancestors. Return is our right. Freedom is our destiny. On May 15, join the Palestinian people in commemorating the Nakba. #NAKBA78 🎥 PAL Global Echo
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Thousands of tons of food are being sent into Gaza.
They are having full-blown music festivals.
On the other hand, over 20 million people are starving in Sudan.
Guess where these boats are headed?
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@brhodes Nice "complex question fallacy." When did you stop beating your wife?
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Why not be angry at the conduct instead of the reporting of the conduct?
Luke Tress@luketress
Several hundred demonstrators outside the New York Times to protest Kristof column
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