It’s a real comment on Western self-awareness that numerous intellectuals have come to hate the same people as their grandparents did, and seem to earnestly believe it’s a coincidence
Matti Friedman
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Matti Friedman
@MattiFriedman
Writing in Jerusalem.
- Hersh, by one of Israel's best artists, Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi.
- Many observers, including Israelis, have been trying for years not to see this. It's natural: who wants to think this is the world? But avoidance helped lead us to October 7. We all need to look at this directly and act accordingly.Hamas Official Ghazi Hamad: We Will Repeat the October 7 Attack Time and Again Until Israel Is Annihilated; We Are Victims - Everything We Do Is Justified #Hamas #Gaza #Palestinians
00:00 - Journalists have been covering Hamas wars in Gaza since December 2008 – that’s multiple rounds over 15 years. At this point a newsroom still following the Hamas coverage script, including the “Gaza Health Ministry” routine, can’t really claim it’s an honest error.
- As a measure of international interest in the plight of Syrians under Assad: When I worked for the AP (2006-2011), we had about 40 staffers covering the Israeli-Palestinian story. In Syria we had one regime-approved stringer.@amnesty History will record that between August 2023 and yesterday, you tweeted about the victims of Syria only 2 times. (We at UN Watch mentioned Syria 29 times.) So obsessed with promoting Hamas lies over the past year, you simply had no time for Assad's desperate victims.
- In much of the Western press (as in other Western institutions) sympathy for Hamas is common. The sympathizers' goal now is to erase the slaughter of Oct. 7 and reverse cause and effect in this war. The Gaza hospital was the first try, but there will be more soon
- Shlomo Mantzur (bottom right) was born in Baghdad. When he was 3, he survived a massacre. When he was 13, he fled Iraq and tried not to look back. Then came Oct. 7, 2023. thefp.com/p/the-life-and…
- A war that starts with a Hamas massacre leads to a Canadian prime minister endorsing a conspiracy theory about JewsLiberal Leader Mark Carney lets slip his stance on his Israel policy when he responded to an anti-Israel heckler asking about the “genocide” in Gaza “I’m aware, that’s why we have an arms embargo,” Carney said, to cheers of “Carney! Carney! Carney!” from the crowd.
00:00 - Replying to @MattiFriedmanHamas controls coverage in Gaza. Almost all the work of the foreign press in Gaza is done by locals who support Hamas or fear Hamas. This has been true for years. The pretense of real coverage in Gaza is a fiction, and publishing fiction hasn't been a great model for journalism
- It's easy to complain about the status quo and much harder to create something new -- congratulations @bariweiss and the crew from @TheFP:
- Israelis know that the defense minister is a non-entity and that other people are running the war. But not everyone can be expected to know it, and this level of stupidity is not something we can afford right now.הדיקטטור הרברבן מטהרן הפך לרוצח פחדן שיורה ירי מכוון לעבר העורף האזרחי בישראל כדי להרתיע את צה"ל מהמשך המתקפה שמקריסה את יכולותיו. תושבי טהרן ישלמו את המחיר ובקרוב.
- Replying to @MattiFriedmanAny press organization operating in a dictatorship is going to be compromised, and will further compromise itself to conceal how it has been compromised. It’s not a new story, or one limited to the AP, or to Gaza. I wrote about it here:
- Many other media organizations are sitting quietly right now and praying no one examines how they operate in Gaza.Did any of this money end up in Hamas’ hands? The BBC must follow the money… and come clean.
- Whatever Israel's story is, it isn't black and white. My latest, for @TheAtlantic, on America's racial fantasies from "Exodus" to the present:
