#israel gaza

[aas-eg]

This boy has found his cat alive in the ruins of his home in Gaza.! ❤️

#israel gaza #funny cats #catwalk #cats #cat #kitten #kittygirl #vintage #ancient #تمبلريات #تمبلر بالعربي #art #اقتباس #شعر #lovely #gaza news #free gaza #gazaunderattack #save palestine #palestine #gazania #meow

[mostlysignssomeportents]

A media literacy handbook for Israel-Gaza

Next Tuesday (Oct 31) at 10hPT, the Internet Archive is livestreaming my presentation on my recent book, The Internet Con.

Media explainers are a cheap way to become an instant expert on everything from billionaire submarine excursions to hellaciously complex geopolitical conflicts, but On The Media's "Breaking News Consumers' Handbooks" are explainers that help you understand other explainers:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-and-gaza-edition-on-the-media

The latest handbook is an Israel-Gaza edition. It doesn't aim to parse fine distinctions over the definition of "occupation" or identify the source of shell fragments. Rather, it offers seven bullet points' worth of advice on weighing all the other news you hear about the war:

https://media.wnyc.org/media/resources/2023/Oct/27/BNCH_ISRAEL_GAZA_EDITION_1.pdf

I. "Headlines are obscured by the fog of war"

Headline writers have a hard job under the best of circumstances – trying to snag your interest in a few words. Headlines can't encompass all the nuance of a story, and they are often written by editors, not the writers who produced the story. Between the imperatives for speed and brevity and the broken telephone between editors and writers, it's easy for headlines to go wrong, even when no one is attempting to mislead you. Even reliable outlets will screw up headlines sometimes – and that likelihood goes way up in times like these. You gotta read the story, not just the headline.

II. Know red flags for bullshit

The factually untrue information that spreads furthest tends to originate with a handful of superspreader accounts. Whether these people are Just Wrong or malicious disinfo peddlers, they share a few characteristics that should trip your BS meter and prompt extra scrutiny:

High-frequency posting

Emotionally charged framing

Posts that purport to be summaries or excerpts from news outlets, but do not include links to the original

The phrase "breaking news" (no one has that many scoops)

III. Don't trust screenshots

Screenshots of news stories, tweets, and other social media should come with links to the original. It's just too damned easy to fake a screenshot.

IV. "Know your platform"

It used to be that Twitter got a lot of first-person accounts from people in the thick of crises, while Facebook and Reddit contained commentary and reposts. Today, Twitter is just another aggregator. This time around, there's lots of first-person, real-time reporting coming off Telegram (it runs well on old phones and doesn't chew up batteries). Instagram is widely used in both Israel and the West Bank.

V. "Crisis actors" aren't a thing

People who attribute war images to "crisis actors" are either deluded or lying. There's plenty of ways to distort war news, but paying people to pretend to be grieving family members is essentially unheard of. Any explanation that involves crisis actors is a solid reason to permanently block that source.

VI. There's plenty of ways to verify stuff that smells fishy

TinEye, Yandex and Google Image Search are all good tools for checking "breaking" images and seeing if they're old copypasta ganked from earlier conflicts (or, you know, video-games). The fact that an image doesn't show up in one of these searches doesn't guarantee its authenticity, of course.

VII. Think before you post

Israel-Gaza is the most polluted media pool yet. Don't make it worse.

There's plenty more detail on this (especially on the use of verification tools) in Brooke Gladstone's radio segment:

https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/episodes/on-the-media-breaking-news-consumers-handbook-israel-gaza-edition

The media environment sucks, and warrants skepticism and caution. But we also need to be skeptical of skepticism itself! As danah boyd started saying all the way back in 2018, weaponized media literacy leads to conspiratorialism:

https://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2018/03/09/you-think-you-want-media-literacy-do-you.html

Remember, the biggest peddlers of "fake news" are also the most prolific users of the term. For a lot of these information warriors, the point isn't to get you to believe them – they'll settle for you believing nothing. "Flood the zone with bullshit" is Steve Bannon's go-to tactic, and it's one that his acolytes have picked up and multiplied.

It's important to be a critical thinker, but there's plenty of people who've figured out how to weaponize a critical viewpoint and turn it into nihilism. Remember, the guy who wrote How To Lie With Statistics was a tobacco industry shill who made his living obfuscating the link between smoking and cancer. It's absolutely possible to lie with statistics, but it's also possible to use statistics to know the truth, as Tim Harford explains in his 2021 must-read book The Data Detective:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/01/04/how-to-truth/#harford

There's a world of difference between being misled and being brainwashed. A lot of today's worry about "disinformation" and "misinformation" has the whiff of a moral panic:

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2023/10/are-we-having-a-moral-panic-over-misinformation.html

It's possible to have a nuanced view of this subject – to take steps to enure you're not being tricked without equating crude tricks like sticking a fake BBC chyron on a 10-year-old image with unstoppable mind-control:

https://sts-news.medium.com/youre-doing-it-wrong-notes-on-criticism-and-technology-hype-18b08b4307e5

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/28/fog-o-war/#breaking-news

#pluralistic #media literacy #fake news #disinformation #misinformation #israel gaza #gaza #israel #palestine #conspiratorialism #hoaxes #infowar #on the media #breaking news #npr #flood the zone

[internationem]

Just a reminder: intent is much, much more important to genocide than the amount of people dying. simply put, the amount of dead civilians isn't what makes a genocide a genocide.

for example, up to 33k bosnians are estimated to have died because of the bosnian genocide. in contrast, the estimated amount of japanese civilians dead during WWII is between 330k and 900k. yet most (serious) people wouldn't ever consider that there was a genocide against the japanese people. why? well, no government wanted to, planned or carried out systematic attacks with the intent of erasing, in whole or in part, the japanese people. yet, however, it is fairly easy to prove that the serbs wanted the bosnians gone and acted accordingly. You can even fullfill the material criteria for the Genocide Convention (ie killing people, or causing body or mental harm to a population) to a certain extent but if the intent behind those actions isn't to destroy a national/ethnic/etc group, then it's not genocide, the fullfilment of the material elements themselves aren't proof that there's a genocide without fullfilment of the mental element.

This isn't to overlook civilian deaths, but truth is, in modern warfare, civilians ARE gonna die, and that sucks massively, but we have a a whole branch of international law that help mitigate a lot of civilian deaths and allow for criminals to be held accountable for violation of civilian rights and livs, without having to erroneously call every single conflict where people die a genocide.

Similarly, it may be true that a lot more people are dying in the Israel-Gaza war than in the 7/10 attacks, but why did Hamas attack Israel in the first place? Why has Israel been attacked fairly frequently since it's independence? Because they want to completely erase Israel as a whole and expel (and kill, or best case scenario, convert) the jewish people out of the Middle East. This is very easy to prove, read Hamas founding charter and literally any history book that talks about wars against Israel or the expulsion of Jews from several ME countries. It's what the whole "from the river to the sea" slogan is about. It's also the very reason Israel needs to exist. But meanwhile, there's little to nothing that points out Israel wants to wipe out Palestinians as a group: 20% of their citizens are Palestinians who enjoy the same rights as Jewish citizens of Israel and aren't targeted, even Palestinians of the West Bank aren't usually targeted in a way that would even imply the IDF wants to erase them as a group, and even considering the Gaza campaign, its objective is to erradicate Hamas, not Palestinians, and nothing in Israel's policy outwardly implicates they want to erradicate all Gazans. Palestine, and especially Gaza, has massive population growth, which wouldn't make sense if there was a genocide campaign against them. This isn't to say the IDF is doing everything perfectly or that there aren't war crimes being commited. But war crimes don't mean genocide.

Calling what's happening in Gaza genocide is antisemitic, because not only are we applying different standards to Israel than we do any other country, we are also saying that Jewish people defending themselves is, inherently, a crime, one of the worst crimes defined at that. But it's also harmful to palestinians, because claiming that Israel's war against Hamas is a war against Palestinians equates Palestinians (many of whom just want to live regular lives, not war) with terrorists (who also target them, by the way), which seems islamophobic as hell if i'm being honest. it is also insensitive and damaging to every group that has been the victim of genocide, and every group which might be a victim of a genocide in the future, because how you're twisting the definition of the word to mean whatever you want it to mean. If everything is a genocide, nothing is.

#sincerely an IR major tired of people not knowing what words mean #i stand with israel #i stand with palestine #israel #israel gaza #palestine #hamas #israel palestine #genocide #hamas is isis #free palestine #free palestine from hamas #antisemitism

[thatjewishzionistscout]

You know what’s terrible about the pro-Palestinian movement, they don’t let anyone else mourn about anything besides Gaza, like nothing else bad can happen in the world except what’s happening in Gaza.

I saw a post about the attack on Russia, and how Russian are mourning, and guess what the comments were.

“Can you imagine what’s happening in Gaza?”

“What’s happening in Gaza is ten times worse.”

Or how about mothers talking about the baby in America left alone for 11 days and died, guess what the comments.

See this is why no one likes your movement, you don’t allow anyone else to mourn or focus on something that isn’t Gaza.

You’re not caring for people or humanity, you’re caring selectively.

#israel #palestine #israel palestine conflict #jewblr #free palestine #jewish #antisemitism #hamas #i stand with israel #israel genocide #the pro palestinian movement is the most hypocritical thing ever #the pro palestinian movement is a death cult #war in gaza #israel gaza

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

“President Joe Biden ticked through several things that he needed to see Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu do immediately: open up the Erez crossing into northern Gaza and the port of Ashdod in southern Israel for humanitarian aid; significantly ramp up the supplies getting in through Kerem Shalom.

A person familiar with the Thursday call paraphrased Netanyahu as responding: “Joe, we’re gonna do it.”

But Biden wasn’t finished. The prime minister must announce the moves that evening, the president insisted.

By Thursday night, the Israeli security cabinet had approved those three measures to increase humanitarian aid entering the besieged enclave.”

#Netanyahu is a war criminal #Israel Gaza #Netanyahu is a Trump sycophant #unholy alliance of Isreali conservatives and Republican evangelicals #republicans hate Muslims #republicans wan’t to forcibly relocate Palestinians #Netanyahu is influencing our election in favor of Trump #republican assholes #foreign affairs #foreign policy #diplomacy #Netanyahu can’t survive without Hamas #fuck netanyahu #fuck Hamas

[itsdanyy]

"Why don't Palestinians just evacuate?"

Do you hear yourselves? They can't, and even if they could, the questions that should be asked: Why doesn't the Israeli occupation stop its bombs? Why doesn't the world sanction the occupation? Why doesn't it step in to dismantle apartheid?

How, in the midst of a televised genocide, are you scapegoating and putting the burden on people who have been oppressed in ways you cannot even imagine for 75 years? In Gaza where the past two decades has been massacre after massacre under blockade with nowhere to go then too?

#gaza under attack #gaza news #israel gaza #gazaunderattack #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza #free palestine #palestinian #palestine #isreal #genocide

[head-post]

Berlin students rallied in support of Palestine

Students gathered in front of Humboldt University in Berlin on Wednesday to protest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and crackdown on anti-war activists in Germany.

The crowd, which included anti-Israel Jewish protesters, chanted slogans and held placards. One of the students, Gregor Kahl, claimed that hundreds of people took part in the gathering. He lambasted the US for voting against the recent UN General Assembly resolution on Gaza and Germany for abstaining.

Israel targeted the Gaza Strip with aerial and land bombardments, besieged the enclave and launched the ground offensive in response to a cross-border attack by Hamas on October 7.

According to the Gaza Health Ministry, at least 18,608 Palestinians have been killed and nearly 50,600 injured in the Israeli attacks.

Read more HERE

#world news #world politics #news #europe #european news #berlin #rally #student #israel palestine conflict #gaza #ceasefire #israel gaza war #israel gaza conflict #israel news #israel gaza #israel hamas war #antisemitism #hamas #palestine news #fuck israel #current events #gaza strip #gaza under attack #gaza news #gaza war #ceasefire in gaza

[thoughtaddictand]

Those who are "Pro-Palestine" in actually don't give a shit about the Palestinians. They just want an "easy" target to hate on. Israel, due to antisemitism and a misinformation campaign spearheaded by Iran, is "easy to hate".

But people informed about the conflict, like myself, support the only true side.

#israel #palestine #israel hamas conflict #israel hamas war #israel gaza #Jews #Judaism #Gaza #israel gaza war #antisemitism #jew hatred #Iran #misinformation

[39treefrogs]

how are stranger things fans reconciling their fandom identity with the israel gaza conflict? i’m struggling. because it’s like my favorite show and it’s so important to me.

and like. originally i wanted to have some compassion for Noah Schnapp because like. he’s young. and i understand how strong cultural and familial ties could sway someone’s opinion on this. we’re very polarized as a society right now, and so i can see so clearly how people are falling into the mindsets of all anti-israel talk is antisemitic and all anti-hamas talk is anti-muslim when neither of these are true. so i wanted to give him a chance, but idk.

Brett Gelman, on the other hand, i cannot stomach at all. he’s just spreading blatant misinformation and hate, and he’s really pushing this “all palestine supporters are antisemitic” and like. to some extent he’s right. there has been a resurgence of antisemitism in the left because of this. but not to the extent he’s pushing and never enough to justify supporting a literal genocide of innocents who truly have nothing to do with antisemitism in the western left.

people have been talking about the Duffer brother and i’m afraid to look up what they’ve said.

anyway the point is. i love stranger things. people are calling to boycott it. idk how to feel about it. idk. what are other people’s thoughts?

#genocide in gaza #israel gaza #gaza #free gaza #palestine #antisemitism #anti zionisim #rhetoric #stranger things #brett gelman #noah schnapp #the duffer brothers #advice #stranger things fandom #🍉

[brushed-gecko]

my friend wrote a message to a youtuber she likes after seeing her comments regarding the recent war between israel and hamas, explaining why supporting hamas is wrong. i wanted to share it with you all so as many people as possible see it.

"Hi, my name is Hila, I live in Israel, and for the past few years I've followed your content and loved watching your videos. Your content has cheered me up in difficult times, which is why it's important for me to write this message. I have been debating whether or not to write this to you for some days now, so I hope you take the time to read it.

I want to start off by saying something that sadly isn't as obvious as it should be these days- I am against the killing of innocent men, women and children in Gaza. I am against most actions that my own government, which I did not vote for, has taken in the past years toward Palestinians. I believe that while the Israel-Palestine conflict is an extremely complex one, it can and must be solved peacefully and with as little loss of life possible.

The problem right now is that Hamas, the terrorist organization that started the war that is happening in my country now, has nothing to do with the Israeli Palestine conflict.

I want to explain this further with the next few very important points.

The first, is the way Hamas treats Palestinians and the Gaza strip, and while I assure you that the facts I'm stating here are true and proven, I urge you to read for yourself upon these issues. Throughout the years, all the donations sent to Gaza for humanitarian purposes, food and medicine, has been taken by Hamas and used to fund weapons.

Every time Hamas fires rockets at Israel, around 15 percent of them land inside Gaza, killing people who live there.

Hamas place their rocket launchers inside schools and hospitals, and surround them with children, so that if the launchers are attacked it will result in the death of children and injured innocent people.

These facts have created the saying known in the middle east- most countries use rockets to protect their citizens, Hamas uses it's citizens to protect their rockets.

The second point, is that because Hamas is a terror organization, they have never been involved in any discussion about the conflict, and as they stated many times that are only interested in the killing of the Jewish people, they can never be involved in these discussions.

The third point is that even in the eyes of countries and activists who are pro Palestine, Hamas has crossed a moral line. They are the same as ISIS, they are the same as the people who are responsible for the bombing in Manchester and the same as the people responsible for 9/11.

They are not an activist group who fight for the freedom of Palestine, they are murders and war criminals who use Gaza and it's innocent citizens as a base and cannon fodder.

I would like for you to know some of the things that Israel is doing right now.

In the IDF there is a protocol for bombing a building in Gaza called "Knock on Door". It means that as soon as a building is targeted, the IDF sends a message to evacuate the building and it's surrounding, as to minimize the loss of life.

Right now, as Israel is in an all out war with Hamas, the IDF has sent out a public announcement in all possible platforms to Gaza to evacuate the area which will be bombed 24 hours before the attack.

While we know that this is war and loss of life is inevitable, the IDF is doing the most it can to minimize Palestinian casualties, while Hamas is telling citizens not to evacuate, and use their own people, who they claim to fight for, as a human shield.

I don't know if you are aware of exactly what Hamas is doing in Israel right now, and I hope for your sake that you have not seen some of the terrible photos and videos that I have seen, but I must tell you what supporting Hamas means right now. It means supporting the killing of families in their homes, lighting houses on fire so the family hiding inside will have to run outside so they can be shot, the killing of children in front of their parents and the killing of parents in front of their children. It means supporting the massacre of people in a music festival. It means supporting the raping and kidnapping of around 130 men, women and children, and the literal beheading of 40 innocent civilians, some children younger than 5 years old. It means supporting the holding of entire families and children hostage. It means supporting sending a mother a video of her son being slaughtered through a message from his own phone which they have. It means supporting the killing of more than 1,300 people.

It means supporting pure evil. Even Palestinians and social activists are saying that this is not what they want, you do not fight for freedom with the blood of innocent people on both sides.

Almost all Israeli citizens, myself included, are extremely aware of the problematic way our country has treated innocent people, but if after reading all I have written here you can still say that you support Hamas, I suggest that you take a look into your own moral values.

One last thing, more than half of Israelis and Jewish people are brown and black."

#the last paragraph is bc the youtuber said we kill black and brown people #which yea there is racism here but where the fuck there isnt lol america does it way worse so don't pretend lol #i hope everyone who sees this takes the time to read it and stop spreading hamas propaganda #THIS ISNT TO SAY THE PEOPLE IN GAZA DONT DESERVE TO HAVE A PEACEFUL LIFE #THIS IS ABOUT THE MISINTERPRETATION OF THE WAR #MAKING IT LOOK LIKE ITS ISRAEL VS DEFENSLESS GAZA #WHEN ITS ACTUALLY ISRAEL VS HAMAS #A TERRORIST ORGANIZATION FUNDED BY IRAN #hamas #israel #israel palestine conflict #israel palestine war #gaza #israel gaza

[human-rights-today]

like that's cool and all indonesia, but have you looked in the mirror at any time in the last 62 or so years?

#human rights #indonesia #west papua #west papuan #israel #palestine #icj #internationalcriminalcourtofjustice #westpapua #israel gaza

[joyflameball]

Hi. Im someone your age. I have emailed my representatives about the genocide in Gaza but im unable to make phone calls or donate, I also cant go go protests because of my parents and the lack of protests in my area. are there any other ways I can help besides sharing posts and boycotting the consumer BDS targets? I really want to do more but ive had trouble finding ways I can do that. feel free to ignore this if it's a bother

I honestly, genuinely don't know. Doing your daily click here is definitely an important step, but (at least to me so anyone correct me if I'm wrong), I think you are doing the most you can?

Again, could be wrong, so I'm putting this in the Palestine tags so people can give further advice on how minors can help stop the genocide.

#asks #free palestine #palestine #ceasefire now #ceasefire #ceasfire now #gaza strip #gazaunderattack #free gaza #gaza genocide #israel gaza #israel is committing genocide

[thatjewishzionistscout]

Oh thing I find hilarious is that pro-Palestinians will always say Israel’s air strikes can’t kill hamas because they’re in the tunnels, but then believe hamas when they say hostages were killed because of said air strikes, despite hostages being hidden in tunnels.

Hypocrisy of the highest order. 

#israel #israel palestine conflict #jewblr #palestine #free palestine #jewish #antisemitism #i stand with israel #israel genocide #war in gaza #israel gaza #gaza genocide #bring them home now #bring them home #hamas #hamas is evil #fuck hamas #hamas lies #hypothetical #the infinite stupidity of these people

[republicansaredomesticterrorists]

I’ve said it too many times-Trump and the other Republicans will be the worst thing that ever happened to Palestinians.

Stop repeating Hamas/Republican/Russian/Iranian propaganda that blames Biden. You are being played and are cutting off your collective noses to spite your faces. Blaming Biden in any way shape or form earns an instant block. No f—king way we’re going to suffer Trump in the White House again. Get your asses out and vote blue from president all the way down. If we lose, everyone loses. This may be our last chance to remain a free country.

Those crazy ass Evangelical Republicans have been wanting to send troops into Israel since the 1960’s to spark a war on Islam and fulfill their deranged apocalyptic beliefs.

#republican assholes #ron desatan #israel gaza #vote blue #say no to republicans #Republican war mongers #no more Middle East wars

[itsdanyy]

Hundreds of thousands of Israeli troops are massing at Gaza's border, Waiting for the go-ahead to invade.

Some 1,500 people in Gaza have died in the last five days - and officials say they are running out of supplies: "They've bombed everything."

#gaza under attack #gaza news #israel gaza #gazaunderattack #free gaza #gaza strip #gaza #israel #isreal #free palestine #palestinian #palestine #save gaza #genocide

[head-post]

South American countries cut diplomatic ties with Israel over Gaza war

The Bolivian government announced on Tuesday the severing of diplomatic relations with Israel over its attacks on the Gaza Strip. In addition, neighbouring Colombia and Chile recalled their ambassadors.

The South American countries accused Israel of violating international law, condemned the attacks on the Gaza Strip and the deaths of Palestinian civilians, and called for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid access to the region.

Bolivian Deputy Foreign Minister Freddy Mamani stated that the country “decided to break diplomatic relations with the Israeli state in repudiation and condemnation of the aggressive and disproportionate Israeli military offensive taking place in the Gaza Strip.”

Learn more HERE

#world news #world politics #news #middle east #south america #bolivia #chile #colombia #israel #israel palestine conflict #gaza #palestinians #palestine #israel attack #israel politics #israel gaza #israel news #free palestine #gaza war