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[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Turkey didn’t kill 70,000 people. It killed over 4.5 million. It’s arguably the most genocidal nation in history.

But you’ll never hear Hasan Piker speak about the horrors that his own people have committed.

I wonder why!

[Max 📟 @MaxNordau]

In January 2024, the world’s leading famine expert gave Gaza two weeks until catastrophic mass starvation.

Alex de Waal wrote the standard textbook on famine, runs the World Peace Foundation, and helped write starvation crimes into international law. When the media says ‘famine experts warn,’ this is who they mean.

In January 2024, he did an interview with Owen Jones and made a series of predictions/declarations about starvation in Gaza.

0:00 “I’ve not seen anything like this before” in 40 years
0:21 Famine “probably by early February [2024],” nothing like it in 75 years
1:29 Even a ceasefire cannot stop the deaths, “those deaths are on Israel”
2:33 Starvation deaths “will soon exceed those directly from violence”
2:50 “A catastrophe the likes of which we have not seen in my lifetime”

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What actually happened:

The IPC’s own Famine Review Committee, June 2024: the famine claims were “not plausible,” and “the available evidence does not indicate that Famine is currently occurring.”
https://t.co/f85dKsV6gV

Gaza’s recorded malnutrition death rate in 2025 (74 deaths through late July, per the WHO) works out to roughly the same per-capita rate as the United States, where the CDC counted over 20,000 malnutrition deaths in 2022.
https://t.co/ZEmvKh0axK

After the October 2025 ceasefire, a UNICEF-led survey found 0.5 percent acute child malnutrition in Gaza, one of the lowest rates in the region.
https://t.co/BfWvPDIyiR

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Every single declaration was false at the time.

Every single prediction didn’t happen.

The only thing that collapsed in February 2024 was Alex de Waal’s credibility.

[UN Watch @UNWatch]

BREAKING: Secretary-General admits anti-Israel bias among UN's human rights experts, saying “many rapporteurs are totally out of control.”

António Guterres previously called UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese “a horrible woman.”

[Israel Foreign Ministry @IsraelMFA]

The media can push whatever narrative it wants about Israel. The facts remain the facts.

Israel is a country governed by law.

Recent cases where Israeli authorities have acted in Judea and Samaria include:

• A 16-year-old suspected of assaulting Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
• An Israeli linked to extremist violence near Samoa involving damaged Palestinian property.
• A 16-year-old suspected of violence in the village of Atara.

Israel investigates. Israel arrests. Israel prosecutes.

The law applies to everyone.

[Roman @user5643677]

@bigbirdNYC27 @politicalelle Little fire? Rubbish. Sniping children for sport? Rubbish. I bet you could go on and on with your imagination. Liar. https://t.co/uBmJDW5AWJ

[Avi Mayer אבי מאיר @AviMayer]

BREAKING: Massive fire rages across from Sapir College in Sderot after Palestinians dispatch kites carrying Molotov cocktails over the border from Gaza into Israel

[Sofia Afonso Ferreira @sofiafonsoferre]

Good morning 🍉

[Hillel Neuer @HillelNeuer]

The speech the U.N. would rather forget: Kofi Annan on Israel and double standards

[henrikbeckheim @henrikbeckheim]

Natasha Hausdorff goes toe to toe with deputy foreign minister of Norway, Andreas Kravik, about the proposed norwegian trade ban with Israeli settlements. Watch the whole episode on Henrik Beckheim Podcast

[Adin - عدین - עדין @AdinHaykin1]

Barghouti went to prison for murdering 5 civilians like Al Capone went to prison for tax evasion.

Barghouti was the leader of the Tanzim that murdered over 100 Israelis and his operatives raped Christian girls to force their families to finance their activities

[Olivia Reingold @Olivia_Reingold]

You would think that data showing remarkably low levels of child malnutrition in Gaza would be front page news.

Nope. Perhaps because the data is causing experts to ask: should a famine even have been declared in Gaza in the first place?

[Yehuda Teitelbaum @chalavyishmael]

@jeremycorbyn "I'm Jeremy corbyn. Of course I support Nazi kites."

[Natasha Hausdorff @HausdorffMedia]

Addressing the diplomatic row over Area E1 and the proposed UK trade ban with areas of Israeli settlement in disputed territories, Jerusalem and Judea and Sameria/West Bank, with David Ross.

The deeply concerning rhetoric from UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband MP misstates international law, ignores the UK’s real international law obligations and its responsibilities under trade agreements and falls foul of UK-endorsed international agreements, including the Oslo Accords. It also misrepresents the factual position I witnessed on the ground last week.

[Lior 🪬 @ChaiLife613]

NO to the two-state solution. That ship sailed, hit an iceberg, and sank a long time ago.

And from a Jewish perspective, I’m tired of being told that Jewish safety has to depend on giving the Palestinian national movement one more chance to prove it can coexist with us.

Not every national movement automatically earns a state. The Kurds have a powerful claim to self-determination after generations of persecution, yet somehow Palestinian statehood is treated as an international obligation no matter how many times violence, rejectionism, and failed leadership follow.

At some point, “try again” becomes insanity.

I keep seeing Jews praise Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib as a “radical pragmatist.” He condemns Hamas, which is good. He criticizes Israel, which naturally gets him plenty of attention. His bio describes him as “pro-Palestine & anti-Hamas/violence, pro-peace/coexistence.”

Okay. Let’s unpack that.

Pro-Palestine. What exactly does Palestine mean here? A Palestinian culture and people? Fine. But if it means another sovereign Palestinian state alongside Israel, then we’re still discussing the same political objective. The method may be different, but the destination remains Palestinian statehood.

Anti-Hamas. Good. But after October 7 and after what Hamas has done to Gazans themselves, opposing Hamas should be the starting point, not some extraordinary act of courage deserving a blank check on everything else.

Anti-violence. Again, good. But violence has repeatedly brought Palestinians devastation rather than independence. Israel survived every attempt to destroy it. A pragmatist should understand that better than anyone.

Pro-peace. Wonderful. Every Jew I know wants peace. But what does “peace” actually require? Israeli concessions? Ending military operations regardless of the security situation? Another agreement based on promises that the next generation won’t pick up where the last one left off?

Jews have heard promises of peace before. Forgive us if Jewish survival requires more than promises.

And then there’s coexistence.

Israel already contains Jews from every corner of the diaspora alongside Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze, Bedouins and others. It isn’t perfect because no country is, but coexistence isn’t some theoretical idea Israelis have never attempted.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian national movement has left a very complicated history with its neighbors: Black September in Jordan, the PLO’s role in Lebanon’s turmoil and war, Arafat’s disastrous support for Saddam Hussein after Iraq invaded Kuwait, and ultimately the collapse of the Oslo dream into another era of bloodshed.

So why is Israel always expected to be the laboratory for the next experiment?

Jewish history has taught us something rather important: when someone tells you their political ambitions require putting Jewish lives at risk, believe the risk.

Before Israel is asked to gamble Jewish lives on another promise that this time will be different, let Palestinian society demonstrate peaceful, functional self-government and coexistence somewhere other than against the people it has spent generations calling its enemy.

Israel does not owe anyone a suicide pact disguised as optimism.

For two thousand years Jews prayed toward Jerusalem while empires came and went. We finally returned to sovereignty in our ancestral homeland. Protecting that sovereignty and Jewish life is not extremism. It is one of the hardest lessons Jewish history ever taught us.

You don’t reward the threat of violence with sovereignty.

[MOT @nachal_giyus86]

The BBC repeatedly presents the West Bank as though the only relevant fact is that Israel “occupies” it, while largely ignoring how Israel came to control the territory in 1967 after Jordan and other Arab states went to war with Israel. BBC also treats the international-law status of settlements as completely settled while barely acknowledging that Israel disputes the legal interpretation, particularly regarding the status of the territory and the applicability of certain provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

More importantly, the BBC takes the expansion of settlements and turns it into an assumed Israeli strategy to make a Palestinian state impossible. It cites Smotrich saying exactly that, but Smotrich is a far-right minister whose views do not represent all Israelis or even all members of Netanyahu's government, much less Israel as a whole.

And there is an enormous historical omission that the West Bank was not an independent Palestinian state before 1967. Jordan controlled and annexed it from 1948 until 1967, a move recognized by only a handful of countries. There was no Palestinian state there for Israel to “occupy.”

The BBC also talks about “700,000 Jews” living there as though the number itself proves a deliberate demographic takeover. But population growth does not by itself establish an intention to eliminate Palestinian statehood.

There is a legitimate debate over settlements, borders and Palestinian statehood. But a serious report should distinguish between what Israel's current government is doing, what extremist ministers advocate, what international organizations claim, and what is actually established as a matter of law.

Instead, the BBC repeatedly blurs those categories and then presents the resulting narrative as fact.

That isn't neutral reporting. It's anti-Israel advocacy wrapped in maps, satellite imagery and the BBC Verify logo. #StopTheLies #Antisemitism #Israel #FactsMatter #StandWithIsrael #DoubleStandards #Hypocrisy

[Emily Schrader - אמילי שריידר امیلی شریدر @emilykschrader]

If you are only “concerned” about Gaza, you might just be a racist (or ignorant).

[Marten Visser @martenvisser]

Dit is een grafiek van de oorlogsslachtoffers in Gaza, op basis van Hamas-cijfers. Ga ervan uit dat alle vrouwen burgerslachtoffers zijn. Ga ervan uit dat er net zoveel mannelijke als vrouwelijke burgerslachtoffers zijn. Dan is de verhouding strijder-burger onder de slachtoffers 1:1,5.

De grootste database ter wereld over zulke situaties is van het Uppsala Conflict Data Program. Die geeft voor conflicten in grote stedelijke gebieden een gemiddelde van 1:2. Een groter percentage burgerslachtoffers dus dan in Gaza.

Dit zou voor altijd voldoende moeten zijn om beschuldigingen van genocide in Gaza van tafel te vegen. Uiteraard kun je erover discussiëren of het gerechtvaardigd is dat Israël tegen Hamas blijft vechten zolang die zich niet overgegeven heeft of ontwapend is. (Voor de duidelijkheid: ik vind het wel.) Maar dat is echt iets anders.

Maar de vrijwel exclusieve aandacht voor deze oorlog; de vrijwel exclusieve morele verontwaardiging over deze oorlog; en vooral het ter verantwoording roepen van niet-Israëlische joden overal ter wereld over deze oorlog: dat is zo diep onlogisch. Dat is antisemitisme.

Ik zie je bruine hemd.

[Roman @user5643677]

@wiseobserver77 @visegrad24 we are human beings! we are jews & christians at heart and always will be, but let us into your country en masse! we are human beings! i demand free accommodation & an allowance paid by your government BECAUSE OUR RELIGIOUS GROUPS SAY MY COUNTRY SUCKS AND I HAVE TO GO ELSEWHERE

[Gerald Posner @geraldposner]

Someone I've known for twenty years lives a couple of blocks away. He is not a partisan, he does not post about the Middle East, and he is not the sort of person who chants anything.

Out of the blue, he asked me: "Do you think there's a genocide in Gaza?"

No, I told him. By every metric that matters — legal, historical, statistical — there is not.

He looked at me the way you look at someone who has just told you the earth is flat. Netanyahu wants to eliminate the Palestinian people, he said. Everybody knows that.

Not a study. Not a court ruling. Not a casualty figure. Just a thing everybody knows.

I have spent forty years as a reporter learning that "everybody knows" is where investigations begin, not where they end.

Tomorrow on Just the Facts: Genocide for Dummies: a plain-language piece on what the word actually means under international law, how Gaza compares on every relevant metric, and why even the strongest case for the genocide charge still doesn't clear the bar the word requires.

By the way, I know the title will bother some readers, and I address that directly in the piece. My argument is not that the subject is trivial — it is that the word is being used by people who cannot define it, at a threshold they have never examined, with a confidence that bears no relationship to the evidence.

[Dan Burmawi @DanBurmawy]

Between 1894 and 1924, the Ottoman Empire and its successor state, modern Turkey, carried out one of the most systematic religious and ethnic purges in modern history.

Armenians, Assyrians, and Greeks Christians were targeted.

Under Sultan Abdul Hamid II, the empire initiated its first large-scale assault on Christians, primarily Armenians and Assyrians.

In the eastern provinces, especially in Diyarbekir, Ottoman soldiers and Kurdish irregulars carried out coordinated massacres. Entire villages were leveled.

Men were butchered. Women and children were burned alive in churches. Somewhere between 100,000 and 300,000 Christians were slaughtered, an opening act to what would become a long nightmare.

The Young Turk regime, intoxicated with nationalist ideology, escalated the extermination effort during World War I.

Under the cover of war, the Armenian Genocide was launched. 1.5 million Armenians were deported, starved, raped, and murdered.

As Ottoman forces crushed resistance and restructured the empire, they turned against the Assyrian and Greek Christian populations.

In Pontus, Ionia, and Thrace, Greek communities were subjected to massacre, forced deportation, and labor camps.

The burning of Smyrna in 1922, under Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s command, marked the final expulsion of Greeks from Asia Minor, ending 3,000 years of Hellenic presence.

In Hakkari, Tur Abdin, and northern Mesopotamia, Assyrian Christians were annihilated village by village.

Entire dioceses vanished. Ancient monasteries were looted, clergy executed, and Christian communities that had survived since the apostolic era were erased.

As documented in The Thirty-Year Genocide by Benny Morris and Dror Ze’evi, these three campaigns, Hamidian, Young Turk, and Kemalist, were ideologically linked, methodically executed, and religiously motivated.

Thousands of churches were desecrated or repurposed. Christian inscriptions were scraped off stone. Place names were Turkified.

The destruction of the Christian East wasn’t ancient history, it was the first modern genocide, and it set the blueprint for others to follow. Nazi officials studied the Armenian Genocide as a precedent.

[Azat @AzatAlsalim]

1700 people of Kocho village were killed or kidnapped for refusing to convert to lslam!

UN watched 10K Yezidis being killed, 7K being kidnapped and raped,500K escaped home without any action!

12 years and still UN ignore Yezidi Genocide!!