Barry W 🇨🇦 @barrwinn - Twitter Profile

For more than two years, Western legacy media have relentlessly repeated the claims that "Israel deliberately kills journalists," that "Gaza is the deadliest place on earth for journalists," and that a "record-breaking number of journalists" have been killed. From the very beginning, Israel argued that many Hamas and PIJ operatives masquerade as journalists—wearing press vests, carrying press credentials, and embedding themselves among genuine reporters—making it extraordinarily difficult to distinguish legitimate journalists from combatants. Israel has consistently maintained that it targets only militants, while acknowledging that genuine journalists have sometimes been tragically killed as collateral damage. Now we have incontrovertible evidence that Hamas and PIJ themselves are celebrating many of these supposed "journalists" as mujahideen and martyrs. Even the Committee to Protect Journalists has removed a whole list of these supposedly slain "journalists" from its records, and they are now conducting a full review of their database (https://t.co/k9FdiACysZ). Below is a compilation, complete with screenshots, of 97 alleged "journalists" who were in fact Hamas or PIJ terrorists. Do you understand what this means? For two years, the media gullibly amplified Hamas propaganda. Now that the narrative has fallen apart, they fall completely silent. It's the same pattern we saw with the infamous "70% women and children" casualty figure, endlessly cited as proof of "genocide" by virtually every major news outlet, until Hamas's own data revisions exposed it as bullshit (casualties are overwhelmingly male and of fighting age). And then... tumbleweeds. No retractions. No accountability. No admission of error. Just a collective shrug—"Who cares anymore?"—before everyone moves on to the next calumny: "Israel is deliberately hunting little children with drones!" I've tried for a long time to preserve at least some semblance of trust in the legacy media. But I find this utterly revolting. These institutions have been completely captured by ideology, nowhere more so than in Europe. So please, spare us the lectures about right-wing "disinformation" and "fake news". After this performance, you've forfeited any claim to moral authority on the subject.

mboudry's tweet photo. For more than two years, Western legacy media have relentlessly repeated the claims that "Israel deliberately kills journalists," that "Gaza is the deadliest place on earth for journalists," and that a "record-breaking number of journalists" have been killed.

From the very beginning, Israel argued that many Hamas and PIJ operatives masquerade as journalists—wearing press vests, carrying press credentials, and embedding themselves among genuine reporters—making it extraordinarily difficult to distinguish legitimate journalists from combatants. Israel has consistently maintained that it targets only militants, while acknowledging that genuine journalists have sometimes been tragically killed as collateral damage.

Now we have incontrovertible evidence that Hamas and PIJ themselves are celebrating many of these supposed "journalists" as mujahideen and martyrs. Even the Committee to Protect Journalists has removed a whole list of these supposedly slain "journalists" from its records, and they are now conducting a full review of their database (https://t.co/k9FdiACysZ). Below is a compilation, complete with screenshots, of 97 alleged "journalists" who were in fact Hamas or PIJ terrorists.

Do you understand what this means? For two years, the media gullibly amplified Hamas propaganda. Now that the narrative has fallen apart, they fall completely silent.

It's the same pattern we saw with the infamous "70% women and children" casualty figure, endlessly cited as proof of "genocide" by virtually every major news outlet, until Hamas's own data revisions exposed it as bullshit (casualties are overwhelmingly male and of fighting age). And then... tumbleweeds.

No retractions. No accountability. No admission of error. Just a collective shrug—"Who cares anymore?"—before everyone moves on to the next calumny: "Israel is deliberately hunting little children with drones!"

I've tried for a long time to preserve at least some semblance of trust in the legacy media. But I find this utterly revolting. These institutions have been completely captured by ideology, nowhere more so than in Europe.

So please, spare us the lectures about right-wing "disinformation" and "fake news". After this performance, you've forfeited any claim to moral authority on the subject.

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Maarten Boudry

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4 months ago · Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe

"This means that almost all Western media outlets have unflinchingly disseminated Hamas propaganda to their tens of millions of viewers, while disregarding Israeli figures almost entirely. The world’s journalists have taken the word of jihadi butchers above the evidence-based testimony of a friendly democracy and shared this narrative with the world. It is no exaggeration to say that this comprises one of the gravest failures of journalistic scepticism in modern times. The uncomfortable truth is that we have been living through the most intense age of propaganda since Soviet times, made only more appalling by the fact that it has been spread voluntarily within supposedly free societies." https://t.co/J3Lme482HL

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Barry W 🇨🇦 @barrwinn

4 months ago

@Milbank Israel because of its government has become a quasi theocracy, the parasitic Haredi and their fanatic allies have really tirned what was once a proud jewel into what is quickly becoming a pariah. Sincerely hope this government is thrown out.

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