Be aware of misinformation seen regarding Palestine

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There's a lot of misinformation/propaganda spreading around and this thread is to raise awareness of the ones circulating. Here's one for example:

www.instagram.com/p/Czh2sF_LaUp/?igshid=anFmemQ3OGxpMGpu

Please share any you come across.

If you read the transcript it couldn’t possibly have been prerecorded because there are too many allusions to absolutely current events.

Elon Levy (Israeli spokesperson) is claiming that the air strike death toll in Gaza is far lower than in other 21st century conflicts. They are using data about other conflicts provided by a London based NGO who calculate the number of deaths per air strike which causes harm. The IDF have added their own Gaza column to graph and calculated the number of deaths per air strike by dividing total number of deaths by TOTAL NUMBER OF AIR STRIKES which is how they end up with a rate of deaths per air strike of 0.8 which is significantly lower than in other conflicts.

Dr Ian Overton, who runs the NGO whose data is being used by Israel has tweeted and asked them to delete their tweet because it is inaccurate. Elon Levy has refused to delete and suggested a "community notice". He has now hidden the challenge to his original tweet.

They lie intentionally and rely on people only paying attention to the "headline".

It pains me to post a link to Owen Jones, I'm not a fan, but he gives a full explanation here:

The best concession Israel could make is to stop the occupation. Have you forgotten that Gaza has been under siege for 17 years? Food, water, medicine, building materials, paper, basically anything of use to Palestinians is monitored, confiscated or rationed.

In an article today about the IDF accidentally killing three hostages, there is a quote from a former hostage relating how frightened they had been in the tunnels fearing that they would be killed by Israeli bombs but Israel would blame Hamas.

Re helicopters Oct 7 she said (my bolding).
"The reality is that I was in a hideout that was bombed, and we became wounded refugees. This doesn't even include the helicopter that fired at us on our way to Gaza," she said.
https://www.businessinsider.com/freed-israeli-captives-hamas-terrified-idf-airstrikes-would-kill-them-2023-12

Propaganda from the IDF.

They've taken a folded piece of paper and placed it in a book to look as if it is part of the book.

www.instagram.com/reel/C08aLduO3eO/?igshid=ZWQ3ODFjY2VlOQ==

Confirming what we already suspected.

www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/israeli-hamas-command-center-al-shifa-hospital-falls-report-1234934784/

Can anyone shed some light on this please.

x.com/HonestReporting/status/1728680174252691814?s=20

Video claiming to show Israeli tank being destroyed was fake.

Not even real. 🤷‍♂️

https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-israel-hamas-war-false-video-game-airstrike-317373435066

Videos claiming to show an Israeli bulldozer running over people at a hospital and one claiming to show the capture of an Israeli submarine are both fake.

fullfact.org/online/bulldozer-hospital-Gaza-video-false/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content

fullfact.org/online/video-Israel-submarine-capture-actually-us-coast-guard/?utm_source=content_page&utm_medium=related_content

Neither is actually from the current conflict.

Video does not depict Israeli war crimes. The photos and videos originate from Syria's civil war.

https://www.dw.com/en/fact-check-video-does-not-depict-israeli-war-crimes/a-67777422

@DownNative There's been countless videos going round X the last few months purporting to be of Gaza when it's actually of Syria. (I'm not downplaying the devastation in Gaza btw)

There’s so much misinformation that’s been put out there about both sides that it’s hard to know what’s true and what’s not anymore.

I think the thing to remember is that even though a news story might be inaccurate, it doesn’t mean that something horrific didn’t happen. The story about the 40 beheaded babies wasn’t accurate but that doesn’t mean that babies weren’t killed on 7th October in awful ways so it shouldn’t be used as an excuse to minimise the events of that day.

Just like some of the IDF stories may not be accurate but that doesn’t mean that war crimes have not been committed by the Israeli army and they haven’t done some awful things as well.

@Tripper79 Agree.

Wow. So many fake tic tocs and things on X all there to generate hate

Yep. How about this for blatant anti-semitic material?

Fake Israeli newspaper headline claiming Israelis shorted shares ahead of 7th October 2023. 🤦‍♂️

https://fullfact.org/online/fake-headline-Israeli-shares/

It would make sense that Hamas would bet on the market against Israel in the days before launching a terrorist attack, however the authors of the report appear to have made a colossal miscalculation in the amount of money involved.

So this was a fake headline yet people are still suggesting it's true. Its difficult to correct original stories since many move on to the next story.

The hospital that was apparently blown up turned out to be a misfires rocket from hamas.

Tic toc and x and Instagram users share, react and then form opinion on fake stories that continue to be shared.

Then there is the conspiracy theorists who suggest the correction is a lie...

Why would Israel investigate a story that turned out to be fake?

It is worth noting that the original headline was "Did Hamas Make Millions Betting Against Israeli Shares Before October 7 Massacre?"

So there was a short-selling story, it's just the culprits have been switched.

The short-selling story itself was based on a miscalculation and that's why the investigation was dropped.

Thanks for that, I wasn't aware of original.

🤦‍♀️

The shares were sold all right.
It’s a question of who sold them.