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[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Anonymous Twitter users are being mysteriously Googled in Israel as soon as they speak out about Palestine, or even discuss Jeffrey Epstein.

Find out how to check if you are being spied upon by reading my new investigation:

https://t.co/LpOwDMVc6k

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

An incredible expose by Ronen Bergman shows how Israel invents quotes from Iranian officials in order to manufacture "evidence" that Iran is building nuclear weapons. This event took place on August 5th, when it was reported globally that Ahmad Vahidi, commander of the IRGC had admitted that Iran was developing nuclear weapons. The only problem? It wasn't true:

1) Netanyahu's pet network in Israel, Channel 14 spent months building Vahedi up as "the strongest man in Iran," priming audiences to treat any dramatic quote from him as coming from Iran itself. In reality, he is one power player among several.

2) An Indian Hindu nationalist account posts an earlier fabricated quote from Vahedi that says that nuclear weapons are a "necessity" for Iran. It does not get much traction.

3) The same account publishes a quote saying that Vahedi stated that Vahedi said that Iran will keep developing nuclear weapons as long as the US and Israel have them. There was no source.

4) The Mossad Commentary account, a large account with no affiliation to the actual Mossad posted the quote in English.

5) Channel 14, a mere 33 minutes later, covers this and claims that this is "the first time" an Iranian official directly admitted to building a nuclear bomb.

6) Three minutes later Yair Netanyahu, son of the Prime Minister, retweets Mossad Commentary, then three minutes later retweets Channel 14 English, followed later by Israel War Room.

7) Two hours later, Netanyahu senior cites the fabricated quote in an official speech at Mount Herzl, now the made up Tweet had become state policy.

8) The Tweet makes it to the US, US Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz shares it saying that Iran is "finally admitting what was clear for years," then deletes it without explanation.

9) Mark Levine shares it and then Fox News reports it as fact, including an on-screen headline.

10) Channel 14 now reports this again with FOX and Netanyahu as the source. Mossad Commentary, the original source of the English version, now cites Channel 14 as its source, completing a circular citation loop.

11) Israel's Foreign Ministry spreads Netanyahu's remarks to Persian-speaking audiences.

12) Indian news agency ANI reports the story back in India, attributing it to "Israeli media," completing the round trip.

This is a well oiled machine of disinformation emanating from Netanyahu and his circle designed to create a false narrative which will destroy negotiations with Iran and renew the war. Similar frauds have been perpetrated in the past like the Jewish Chronicle/Bild affair, when a made up journalist planted stories in the press to justify blowing up a hostage deal with Hamas. But this time he is dragging the entire world into endless war and not just Israel.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Don’t recall seeing a headline like this about Israel…

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israeli occupation is so normalized that they can build bases on Lebanese villages that they flattened and it’s barely considered news.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

if you can't see this as a reputation-launder job for Blinken and Sullivan then I'm not sure what to tell you. Nothing has been more obvious––from the framing, the self-serving spin the Thwarted Humanitarian routine. Citations ep coming soon on this because its sophisticated work

[Matt Duss @mattduss]

I’m sorry, but no. Countless people were sounding the alarm about this trap, both publicly and privately, because it was quite clear what was happening. Fuck this “in the cold light of day” bullshit.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Guy who invented the Dahiya doctrine—a doctrine predicated on the destruction of civil infrastructure and mass civilian death—is being championed as a meaningful liberal break from Netanyahu. Theres 17 people left on earth who still buy this shit & 12 of them work at the Atlantic

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

If you believe Israel is committing genocide, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid, then sending it another dollar or another weapon, with or without subsidies, doesn’t exactly signal that you consider those to be grave offenses

[jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz]

Genuinely hilarious that anyone thinks you’d have to go out of your way to encounter settler terrorists in the occupied West Bank. You people have no fucking clue what’s going on over here. None

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

MUST READ!

Congressman @RoKhanna after visiting Israel and Palestine:

“In Palestine, I felt first as someone who was brown,” he said. “We really saw the apartheidlike conditions, the inequality.”

He added: “No American would support this if they knew the details of what was going on here.”

https://t.co/PRor7hF8ux

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“Who do you believe? Them… or Benjamin Netanyahu?”

@mehdirhasan names the UN officials, human rights and aid groups, prominent Israelis and medical organizations that have accused Israel of committing war crimes, ethnic cleansing, genocide and starvation - all in 60 seconds.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Palestinian pediatrician, Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, has spent 18 months in Israeli prisons without trial or charge. His lawyer reports his life is in immediate danger, following torture and poor treatment in prison.

He must be released immediately.

https://t.co/KUgwWI3ywn

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I spoke to McConnell for about 20 minutes this morning.

He said we should end the war with Iran, quit giving aid to Israel, stop spying on Americans without a warrant, and he’s really sorry about how my primary turned out.

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

First: Hamas has been trying for months to hand over governance to the NCAG but Israel has blocked this and the Board has done nothing. Second: The Israelis are in total violation of Phase 1 and have expanded their occupation. Third: Disarmament was not a condition of Phase 1.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨Today marks 1,000 days of genocide in Gaza. In this video we show ten of Israel’s most well-documented crimes

They're far from the worst atrocities they committed, but together they paint a clear picture of the brutality, deception & impunity that have allowed them to continue

[Translating Falasteen (Palestine) @translatingpal]

Physicians for Human Rights Israel has warned that Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, director of Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza, is now in immediate danger of being killed in Israeli occupation custody. His lawyer, Nasser Odeh, who visited him on 2 July at the underground Rakefet interrogation facility inside Nitzan Prison, said he barely recognized him. Dr. Abu Safiya was brought in shackled hand and foot, flanked by masked guards, his head, eyes, ears and neck covered in fresh injuries. He struggled to breathe and speak, could not sit upright without nearly collapsing, and seemed close to losing consciousness, too frightened to speak freely.

He told his lawyer that after his Supreme Court appeal was heard in June, guards entered his solitary cell and beat him with a hammer and batons, and that since his transfer to Rakefet on 24 June he has been beaten daily to the point of repeatedly losing consciousness, with no medical care. He said plainly: this is the last time you will see me, they brought me here to kill me. Held since December 2024 under the occupation's "Unlawful Combatants" law, without charge or trial, Dr. Abu Safiya saw his beatings escalate sharply only after he legally challenged his detention, and both his lawyer and PHRI are demanding his immediate transfer, an independent medical examination and his release, warning that any delay could cost him his life.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

If you were surprised that Hillary Clinton penned an oped in @FT declaring her support for Trump's Gaza plan - that de facto allows Israel to annex most of the territory - then you haven't been paying attention for the past 25 years.

[Farnaz Fassihi @farnazfassihi]

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. officials believed Israel was plotting to kill Iran's top negotiators Gen. Ghalibaf and foreign minister Araghchi as Tehran and Washington were negotiationg. Assassinating them would derail peace talks. w/ @julianbarnes

https://t.co/r455brpjUP

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.