🗺️📍 Mapped: Gaza Under Ground
For the first time ever, you can see the underground war Hamas is waging beneath Gaza.
HonestReporting just launched a tool that maps Hamas’ tunnel network—buried under homes, hospitals, and schools. Built with open-source data, it’s the only public resource of its kind.
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There is nothing normal about the Palestinian refugee problem. Here are some quick facts:
Most claim there were 750,000 Palestinian refugees after the war. But in 1948, the UN recorded only 472,000 Arab refugees.
Today, the number stands at 5.9 million people. Why? Because UNRWA gives Palestinians permanent, hereditary refugee status that never ends, even if they become citizens elsewhere. That’s unique to them.
The UNHCR, which deals with every other refugee group in the world, seeks to resettle and find permanent solutions. UNRWA, which was created solely to handle the Palestinian refugee problem, refuses to remove that status. Again, unique to them.
The result? A conflict kept alive for 78 years.
#Nakba #UNRWA #MiddleEast
Benjamin Netanyahu threatened to sue @nytimes after Nicholas Kristof published an opinion piece accusing Israeli forces of systematically sexually abusing Palestinian prisoners, including a biologically impossible claim that police dogs were trained to rape.
The article appeared one day before Israel released a 300-page report documenting Hamas’ sexual violence on October 7 and against Israeli hostages.
HonestReporting investigated Kristof’s sources and found serious credibility issues. One cited “independent journalist” had ties to Hamas and Al Jazeera, while organizations referenced in the piece had documented Hamas links that were never disclosed. Despite the sensational claims, no credible evidence was provided.
The New York Times defended the article and denied ignoring Israel’s report. But this goes far beyond one piece. Sensational, unverified accusations against Jews and Israelis fuel dehumanization and real-world antisemitism.
Serious claims require rigorous evidence. The New York Times failed that standard. Demand a retraction and an apology.
Presenter: @the.jewish.ginger
After 1948, 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries, stripped of citizenship, property, and rights. Israel absorbed them, granted citizenship, and integrated them.
Arab states largely denied Palestinians the same, leaving generations in camps under UNRWA’s unique inherited refugee status.
Israel solved its refugee crisis in one generation. Arab states chose not to solve theirs. Palestinians are still paying the price for that decision.
Presenter: @ben.chertoff
A Shabbat request for the NYT: The wife of the Mayor of NYC had a Spotify playlist featuring songs saying Fck lsrael; She illustrated an essay by someone who described October 7 as “spectacular” ; Her friends post images with her at anti-Israel rallies in Kfyas. Yet, the NYT been completely silent on this FACTUAL information for months. Maybe do your job NYT and report on this, instead of more vile Israel dog lies?? Shabbat shalom 250 ❤️💙🇺🇸
The Nakba is usually framed as a story of Palestinian displacement, ethnic cleansing, and expulsion.
But the original meaning was different.
The word “Nakba” was used in 1948 by Syrian historian Constantin Zureiq to describe the catastrophe of the Arab world’s failed attempt to destroy the newly re-established Jewish state.
The catastrophe was not that Jews accepted partition. It was that Arab leaders rejected it, launched a war, and lost.
Yes, many Arabs were displaced in the war.* But so were Jews. And while Israel accepted the UN Partition Plan, every Arab state and the Arab leadership of Palestine rejected it.
By the end of the war, Israel survived. Egypt controlled Gaza. Jordan seized the West Bank. And the Palestinian state that could have existed under the 1947 UN plan never came into being.
That was a catastrophe. But not the one usually told.
It was a catastrophe made by the leaders who chose war over coexistence.
*At the time, they were generally referred to as Arabs. We are using the term Palestinian here for clarity, but it was not the common term used to describe them during the period of the Nakba.
Richard Gizbert from @aljazeeraenglish ’s The Listening Post called our analysis of Saher Alghorra’s Pulitzer-winning work “backlash.” But here’s the reality: questioning images coming out of Gaza that are coordinated with Hamas is not backlash—it’s journalism.
Al Jazeera, funded by Qatar, seems to think the media should go unchecked, but we’ve spent 25 years holding outlets accountable when reporting crosses the line. From exposing staged scenes to correcting false narratives, HonestReporting does the work others ignore.
Media accountability isn’t optional. It’s essential. And yes, we’ll keep calling out misleading coverage, no matter who throws a tantrum about it.
TRIGGER WARNING: S/A
The New York Times published a grotesque accusation against Israel as “opinion” one day before a major report on the sexual violence committed on October 7th.
That timing matters.
It says something terrifying about where society is: evidence is ignored, victims are politicized, and the narrative comes first.
What happened to the NYT?
Yossi Klein Halevi exposes a striking imbalance in how the 1948 war is taught and remembered today.
Most people can instantly name massacres committed against Palestinians that year, Deir Yassin and Lod come to mind right away.
But when asked about massacres committed by Palestinians and Arab forces against Jews in the same period, like the Hadassah convoy, the response is almost total silence.
This is not accidental. It reflects a widespread pattern where only one narrative dominates public discourse while the parallel Jewish story is minimized or erased.
The reality is that 1948 contains more than one legitimate story. Both peoples lived through fear, loss, and existential stakes. Honest history demands that both sides be fully presented and acknowledged, not just the Palestinian perspective.
When only one single account is consistently highlighted, the full truth of what happened is distorted and a fair understanding of Israel becomes nearly impossible.
#Israel #History
Almost three years after October 7, a new 300-page report details evidence of systematic s*xual violence by Hamas.
The Civil Commission on Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children @thecc07 , appointed specifically to investigate these crimes, published the most comprehensive report to date on Tuesday, May 12, 2026. It documents Hamas’ use of s*xual violence, r*pe, and “kinocide” during the attack on Israel.
Among the key findings are instances of gang r*pe, s*xual violence used to terrorize families, and cases where victims were forced to perform s*xual acts on each other. The digital documentation shared by the terrorists themselves on October 7 forms the foundation of the report.
Bear witness to their stories.
Eurovision 2026 has barely started, and Israel is already the talking point.
Several countries aren't participating because Israel is. Headlines are reviving last year’s vote panic. And somehow, Israel asking people to vote has been treated like evidence of a dark conspiracy.
But an ad campaign is not cheating. Countries campaign at Eurovision, promote their artists, and ask people to vote. That's just how a voting competition works.
Israel didn’t break Eurovision. Voters still had to choose Israel themselves, and pay to do it.
Apparently, that’s the part some people can’t handle.
Presenter: @adi.honestly
On May 11, @nytimes published a piece by @nickkristof alleging that the IDF trains dogs to rape Palestinians “day after day,” and that Palestinians have been subjected to a pattern of “widespread Israeli sexual violence.”
The claims are unverified and rely on unreliable, Hamas-linked sources, anonymous testimony, and no substantial evidence.
The timing is telling. On May 12, Israel released a two-year investigation into Hamas’ sexual violence on and after October 7. The New York Times had the chance to preview the findings. It said it wasn’t interested. Instead, it waited until the day before the report would be released to publish these vile claims.
When a major news outlet is more interested in amplifying an agenda built on unreliable sources and nonexistent evidence than engaging with documented evidence and testimony, that tells you exactly what narrative it is trying to sell.
