Simon Plosker

Amazing how the Hamas media office was able to assess the number of flooded tents and the financial damage within hours of and during a rainstorm. Almost as if they had a press release ready to go as soon as they saw the weather forecast. 🤔

Reporters Without Borders has reached a new low. After quietly removing terrorists from its own list of slain journalists, RSF has the audacity to blacklist HonestReporting alongside some of the world's worst dictators. Our crime? Exposing the very claims @RSF_inter would rather nobody scrutinized. This isn't defending press freedom. It's a disgraceful attempt to smear and intimidate a watchdog that dares to hold RSF accountable. RSF should be ashamed. honestreporting.com/press-fr…

Genocide is no laughing matter. Good thing there's no genocide in Gaza or SNL's “joke" would fall even flatter than it already has.

What’s worse? 1. Incompetent Irish media misquoted @BarackObama. Or: 2. What Obama actually said: that Jews “understandably sought a refuge in a place where they had historic ties,” but they “expelled” the people “they took the land off” rather than being “excessive.” That still reduces Israel’s founding to a simplistic story of foreign Jews taking somebody else’s land. One acknowledgment of Jewish history does not make the subsequent distortion any less serious. We have no problem correcting a misquote. But that doesn't change the bottom line: President Obama deserves the criticism that he's received. xitter.cf/HonestReporting/status…

According to @BarackObama, Jews fled Europe, arrived in someone else’s land and became “excessive.” Conveniently missing: The Jewish people’s millennia-old connection to the Land of Israel and centuries of continuous Jewish presence there. Israel’s legitimacy did not begin with European persecution. Neither did Jewish history.

1/ Forget yellow lines. When it comes to sourcing, @CNN apparently has no red lines. Its latest Gaza piece repeatedly cites Hamas-run institutions, Hamas-linked figures and deeply compromised advocacy groups without giving readers the context needed to judge their credibility. Let’s follow the source trail. 🧵

For those fighting Israel’s media battles, October 7 was never just another story. The headlines, accusations and online abuse collided with a reality of sirens, funerals, friends called to reserve duty and loved ones lost. @SimonPlosker reflected a year after October 7 on what it means to defend Israel in the media while living through the same war at home. As we commemorate the third anniversary, what he wrote then still rings true. #October7 #Israel #MediaBias honestreporting.com/when-the…

That moment when Gazology jumps the shark. 🦈 Shame on @NewYorker for giving this @$#%!& the time of day.

1/ More than 4,000 words on Israeli checkpoints. Hundreds of movement restrictions mapped. Countless paragraphs on their impact. And virtually nothing explaining why many of these security measures exist in the first place. Palestinian terrorism barely enters the story. The human cost deserves scrutiny. So does the context @WIRED left out. 🧵 xitter.cf/WIRED/status/210523770…

1/2 @nytimes caught lifting propaganda straight from Gaza’s Hamas-run apparatus. On Tuesday, in the NYT, Sharif Labad became a human-interest story: a “civil defense worker” who rushed to help after a strike, complete with wedding plans and a funeral prayer. Today, the IDF identified him as a Hamas Nukhba terrorist who invaded Israel on Oct. 7.

Here’s every way the 🇬🇧 British government’s sanctions on 🇮🇱 Israel will make the region safer, weaken terrorists, and bring peace closer: 👇 Take your time.

Check out the latest thoughts from @SimonPlosker at The Honest Word - our brand new blog.

Israel: There are terrorists moonlighting as journalists and photographers. @pressfreedom: Israel is making baseless claims to suppress the press. Hamas-affiliated Telegram channel: Hold my camera. t.me/AqmarTofan/2658

We've launched The Honest Word, HonestReporting’s new blog for the stories, observations and media moments that don’t always need a full article. Expect more personal commentary, real-time reactions as narratives take shape, journalism worth reading, journalism worth calling out, and the occasional lighter moment amid the news. Welcome to the conversation in between. honestreporting.com/blog/

Two British Jews are murdered in an antisemitic terror attack. And @guardian’s former senior journalist Michael White is “startled” that the BBC memorial focuses on antisemitism rather than Gaza. Apparently, even murdered British Jews must share their memorial with a political justification for why someone wanted them dead. Shameful. xitter.cf/michaelwhite/status/20…

The Palestinian child at 1:49 specifically refers to Yahud - Jews. Not Israelis. If you are going to promote Palestinian propaganda, at least translate it correctly, @SkyNews. And, @AdamParsons, communities inside Israel are not "settlements" as you say at 2:30. Do you have the same problem with Jews living in their own state as the Palestinian child you interviewed? xitter.cf/SkyNews/status/2091978…

1/6 🪁 Hamas are directing children to launch kites across Israel’s border. They’re landing near communities devastated on October 7. The IDF believes Hamas may be testing Israel’s response. Before mocking Israel, watch what incendiary kites from Gaza did in 2018. 🧵

Thank you, @Telegraph, for covering @GaryLineker’s latest social media outrage. But let’s be clear about two things: 1. Lineker went far beyond “criticism of Israel.” He left the BBC after sharing a pro-Palestinian video featuring a rat emoji, an antisemitic trope. Calling that merely “criticism of Israel” sanitizes what happened. 2. Tony Greenstein isn’t simply an “anti-Zionist.” He has a documented history of antisemitism, was expelled from the Labour Party, and sued a Jewish organization after it described him as an antisemite. He lost. Because he's an antisemite. Let's not mince words. Lineker doesn't share content from people like Greenstein because he's merely "anti-Zionist."

Seriously, @nytimes?!! "Disrupting worship" is when someone talks incessantly during prayers. Invading a synagogue and attacking worshipers is on an entirely different level. Antisemitism is dangerous and potentially fatal. But The New York Times only sees it as a minor inconvenience.