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[HalimR @HalimRohiz]

@aiishadahir For Palestine to be free. Aamiin.

[𝙎👼🏻 @SZade15]

This photo was taken 16 years before October 7.

[Abier @abierkhatib]

If there were even 1 rape case caught on video, you mfrs would be broadcasting it across Times Square every week.

[Rima🇵🇸 #FreePalestine 🍉 @RimabestRima12]

Israeli soldiers treat Palestinian women like this::

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israel killed a 3-year-old today and it’s barely a news story. A 3-year-old.

Killing children every day is not normal.

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

DEAR MEDIA:

The word "settler" connotes calm. We "settle down" or "settle in."

Call them what they are: TERRORISTS.

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

Congratulations South Africa Legal Team. What a gift to humanity you are.

[منّان @MohammadMannan]

And when Mark Ruffalo tried to speak about it, he got the anti semitism tag. Fcuk your definition of anti semitism.

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

You've been told the conflict in Palestine is ancient, rooted in centuries of religious hatred between Arabs and Jews.

This video shows an Arab man who grew up in Jerusalem, describing something completely different.

He lived alongside Jews and Christian Arabs. They studied in the same schools. His family was friends with Jewish families. They coexisted peacefully.

For 13 centuries, Jews found refuge in Islamic states when Europe was persecuting them. Palestine welcomed them. The Ottoman Empire protected them.

The conflict began with the arrival of international Zionism. Not before. A political movement created the divide. The hatred you see today was manufactured, not inherited.

This video is from a Soviet documentary from 1982.

[Li Jingjing 李菁菁 @Jingjing_Li]

BBC has no idea why it lost the trust of viewers.

Everyone in the comments is calling it out for making fake news.

BBC uses a tragedy as a political tool to spew its own China-bashing propaganda, but audiences have been watching China's television and social media broadcasting the mudslides 24/7. They know BBC is lying.

Media in China are bringing critical information to audiences across the whole nation, at the same time making sure the content they show is not further hurting families of the victims.

But the BBC only wants disaster porn to get views; they don't care about anyone who has been affected by this disaster.

[Sophia Garcia @SophiaGarcia205]

We’re watching IDF soldiers cheer while setting Palestinian land on fire!

The US funds this with $3.8 billion a year; no conditions, no accountability. That’s not aid, that’s complicity in war crimes. Stop arming apartheid!

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Today is Day 1,059 of Israel's genocide of the Palestinians

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Gandhi is taught in Western schools for a reason.

Not because nonviolent resistance is the only thing that works. Because it is the only thing the system is comfortable including in its curriculum.

Teach Gandhi.

Don't teach the Mau Mau. Don't teach the FLN. Don't teach the Việt Minh.

Don't teach the conditions that made those movements inevitable, the specific brutalities that nonviolent petition had already failed to address for decades before people concluded that petitioning had a ceiling.

The lesson they want you to take from Gandhi is: change comes from asking politely with great moral dignity.

The lesson they don't want you to take from the full history is: the British left India because the empire was no longer sustainable, economically or militarily, after the Second World War, and the independence movements across the empire made continued colonial control more expensive than it was worth.

Gandhi mattered. Gandhi was extraordinary.

He was also operating within a specific set of historical conditions that made nonviolent resistance viable in ways it is not always viable.

The system teaches you the tactic without the conditions.

So you apply the tactic in conditions where it was never going to be enough.

And then it tells you that you failed because you didn't have Gandhi's moral purity.

[Richard @ricwe123]

That time at the beginning of the war against Iran when an unarmed Iranian ship was invited to take part in an Indian naval exercise alongside the United States.
Its sailors were welcomed on land and paraded before the president as a gesture of cooperation.
Then, at the last moment, the United States abruptly withdrew from the exercise,only to turn around and torpedo the very ship it had just stood beside.

What followed was even more grotesque.
After attacking an unarmed vessel, the US refused to rescue the sailors it had thrown into the sea, abandoning them to drown.
The grim work of recovering bodies was left to the Sri Lankan Navy.

This wasn’t warfare,it was treachery of the most disgraceful kind: an ambush carried out under the pretense of diplomacy, followed by a cold refusal to show even the most basic human decency to the dying.
It would represent a collapse of every norm that supposedly governs civilized conduct at sea.

And yet, instead of outrage, much of the American media response has been indifference or rationalization.
The bombing of a girls’ school is brushed aside; talk of carpet-bombing Tehran is floated as if it were just another policy option.
When atrocities are normalized and cruelty is laundered into “strategy,” the line between reporting and complicity begins to disappear.

[Israel Genocide Tracker @trackingisrael]

For Israeli terrorists finishing their service, posing with kidnapped Palestinians, tortured, starved and used as bait for months, is a farewell ritual; it's a trophy to practice and a display of dominance.

For those Palestinian victims, it's their last moment alive.

[Gaofei 高飞 @GaoFei_99]

When I graduated as a master's student in journalism, my thesis was titled "The Loss of Credibility in Western Mainstream Media." Looking back now, the BBC's recent behavior once again proves that my research topic remains highly relevant.

Objectivity, truthfulness, and accuracy are the fundamental principles of journalism—and the BBC clearly fails to meet these basic standards. It should be ashamed of itself.

Chinese media, from mainstream outlets to self-media, have all shown deep concern for the mudslide disaster, closely following the safety of everyone involved. And what is the BBC doing? It is using this tragic event to spread rumors and smear others—utterly speechless. How disgraceful!

[James Wood 武杰士 @commiepommie]

The West’s Rule: If China Shows It, It’s Propaganda. If China Doesn’t Show It, It’s Censorship 🇨🇳

The Telegraph and BBC are showing CCTV footage from a Chinese border camera as "proof" that China is censoring a disaster.

I live in China. The Gyirong disaster has been all over Chinese news and social media since Wednesday: daily casualty figures, press conferences in Gyirong county, scientific briefings on the cause, rescue footage and two 24-hour English hotlines for foreign families.

They even named the immigration officer who stood at his post directing people out while everyone else ran. His name is Huang Peng and he is still on the missing list. None of that fits the “Beijing deleted the truth” lies.

What happened is not a mystery: At 10:52am on 26 August a glacier on Nepal’s Langtang Lirung fractured at about 5,200 metres. The ice and rock dropped, scoured the slope and became a debris flow. It covered 22 kilometres in six to seven minutes and hit Gyirong Port at 1,800 metres. The Chinese Academy of Sciences mapped the whole event, the USGS has since confirmed the early “earthquake” reading was the landslide itself. That is science, not a cover-up.

On the Chinese side the latest count is 16 dead and 546 missing, including 261 foreign nationals from 23 countries. Four hundred and ninety-nine villagers were moved out of risk zones. Five hundred and fifty-five domestic tourists were transferred out. More than 2,100 rescuers are in the mud with dogs, boats, drones and helicopters.

Xi Jinping convened the Politburo and Li Qiang went to Gyirong himself. Two Y-20 transport planes flew 50 tonnes of supplies into Nepal. All of it is public.

Yes, the raw CCTV of people running from the wall of mud did not stay on loop on Weibo and Douyin. That is not the same as “China censored the floods”. Chinese media does not treat dying people as content, but the West does. “If it bleeds, it leads.”

Here the instinct runs the other way: report the numbers, show the rescue, do not replay the last seconds of someone’s life for engagement. You can call that respect, but do not call it an absence of coverage when Xinhua, CCTV and CGTN have been running the disaster and the rescue in public for five days.

The Telegraph quotes a former Nepali MP asking what Beijing is “trying to hide”. The BBC leans on the International Campaign for Tibet and runs an even stranger line: the footage “spread widely around the world, but not in China”. It spread around the world because it came off Chinese cameras and the still everyone is using came from Chinese state media.

The BBC’s own article concedes Beijing has published daily casualty figures and rescue progress since day one and notes how rarely a Chinese premier reaches a disaster zone this fast. Its real grievance is that nobody in China is replaying the last seconds of someone’s life and no survivor is being put on air to sell the story. That is what they are calling censorship: the refusal to turn the dead into content.

The smear campaign writes itself: disaster in Xizang, therefore concealment, therefore politics. A glacial collapse that started on the Nepalese side becomes another lecture about transparency.

Living here in China you watch the same pattern:
A natural disaster on a high Himalayan border becomes a morality play about the CPC, while the rescue is pushed to the background. The dignity rule is recast as guilt and the actual work in waist-deep silt is treated as suspicious because it is not packaged the way London and Washington package grief.

China is not hiding a flood that its own cameras recorded, it is refusing to turn the dead into a product. The West cannot tell the difference and that is the real story.

When a disaster gets used to prosecute a country instead of understand a disaster, who exactly is being dishonest?

The @BBCWorld @bbcchinese and @Telegraph are a joke and lets not forget Laura Bicker, who lives in Beijing, is an excuse for a journalist.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

You want to know what actual free speech looks like in the American context?

Edward Snowden told the truth about what the government was doing to its own citizens.

He is in exile.

Chelsea Manning told the truth about what the military was doing in Iraq, including footage of a helicopter crew killing journalists and laughing.

She was imprisoned.

Julian Assange published documents showing the gap between what Western governments said and what they did.

He spent years in an embassy and then a prison, and the country that lectures the world about press freedom led the effort to destroy him.

Meanwhile the people who lied about weapons of mass destruction and launched a war that killed hundreds of thousands:

They are on the speaking circuit.

They are on television as analysts.

They have libraries named after them.

This is not a paradox. This is the system working correctly.

Free speech, in the empire's operating definition, means you can say anything that doesn't threaten the machine.

The moment the speech has real consequences for real power:

You discover exactly how free it is.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

So when you read about eight members of an NBC News Team being beaten by Israeli settlers today in the West Bank, it's important to note two things:

1. The settler wouldn't do this to Americans had they not received a green light from the Israeli gov.
2. Israel's gov would not have given such a green light unless it felt confident that the US gov - and Amb. Huckabee - wouldn't lift a finger to defend the Americans.