Over the last few weeks, mainstream media has been burying stories about Israel’s violence against Palestinians. Here’s what they don’t want you to know. 🧵

Bari Weiss’s latest hire for “60 Minutes,” whose major journalistic output includes smearing genocide victims and putting a target on the backs of reporters in Gaza, shows that the full-blown right-wing tabloidification of the television news program is charging ahead. Read more: interc.pt/4fCNeoh

Today, Gaza held one of the largest mass funerals in its history as two Palestinian families buried 112 of their relatives killed in Israel’s genocide. All across Gaza, hundreds of families just like them are still searching for the bodies of their loved ones. 🧵

“Why is Israel so central to US politics?” There is a clear answer: Because for nearly three years, millions of Americans have watched Israel commit a livestreamed genocide against Palestinians that was only made possible by our tax dollars.

Americans across the political spectrum, including clear majorities of independents and Democrats, don’t just want to end weapons giveaways to Israel, but want to end our ruinous alliance with Israel itself. Read more from IMEU Policy Project’s policy director Josh Ruebner:

Israel Is Losing Support But Ending Taxpayer-Funded Weapons Isn’t Enough

From enjoying a once seemingly unassailable position of broad bipartisan support in the United States, the American people have decisively soured on Israel, horrified and repelled by the reality that ...

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Rana was six months pregnant when she realized she was going into premature labor and called an ambulance. Israeli soldiers at an illegal military checkpoint blocked her ambulance from reaching the hospital. She did not make it to the hospital in time, and her baby died.

'I lost my baby': Ambulance delay by Israeli army ends in tragedy for Palestinian mother

As Israel’s military lockdown paralyses movement around Nablus, medics race through checkpoints to save lives, but not every patient survives

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“The settlers have become so emboldened that they even dug up the stones marking the graves of our children. They removed the barbed-wire fence surrounding the cemetery and displaced the grave markers without any religious, moral, or legal restraint.”

A year after Awdah’s killing, Umm Al-Khair struggles for its own survival

The community is facing violent settler expansion and the looming threat of demolition, while the Israeli who shot the beloved activist remains free.

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Now we know why Netanyahu flew to DC this week: to ask for tens of billions of our tax dollars.

Israel bombed a mosque and a refugee camp that was sheltering hundreds of Palestinians in tents in Gaza yesterday. Israel is violating the so-called “ceasefire” nearly every single day with weapons paid for by US tax dollars.

Israel kills Palestinian, destroys mosque in Gaza

Israeli settlers also attack a Palestinian family in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.

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American voters increasingly know what a candidate taking money from AIPAC means: more of their tax dollars and weapons for Israel to kill civilians, and destroy schools and hospitals, instead of funding their own neighborhoods and families.

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NEW: Do Democrats funded by AIPAC pay an electoral penalty in a general election? We find that a Democrat funded by AIPAC performs significantly worse against a Republican than a Democrat who “rejects all outside financial support from industry groups and PACs.”

“Words cannot describe what we went through.” 60 Palestinians who were kidnapped and held captive by Israel have returned from its torture camps where over 9,600 Palestinians, including children, are being beaten, starved, and sexually assaulted.

Sixty Palestinians detained by Israel return to Gaza, describe abuses

The freed men, some in wheelchairs, describe horrific abuses in Israeli detention.

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“In Gaza, it is the complete obliteration of cities and towns and annihilation of families off the registry. And in the West Bank, it is taking different methods and forms, and that is through the use of the Israeli settler, military and judicial system.”

Israeli Army & Settlers Are Working Together to “Ethnically Cleanse” West Bank: Mariam Barghouti

Israeli settlers torched two mosques over the weekend in a new wave of violence targeting Palestinian towns and villages across the occupied West Bank. Meanwhile, Israeli military forces on Saturday d...

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By an overwhelming margin, including 68% of Democrats and 55% of Independents, the American people say the US should enforce the arrest warrant for Netanyahu.

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New poll: Americans believe the U.S. should arrest Benjamin Netanyahu by a +22 margin Total: 49-27 Black: 53-13 Hispanic: 52-15 Ages 18-29: 58-17 Harris voters: 74-10 Independents: 55-20 23% of Trump voters agree as well Economist/YouGov:

Israel is attempting to steal Palestinian archaeological sites from the people that have cared for them for generations. Israel is stealing these historical sites on Palestinian land in an attempt to erase Palestinian heritage and identity.

Israel seizing West Bank heritage sites ‘piece by piece’

The army is expropriating thousands of dunams in Sebastia and Nabi Samwil, using archaeology as a pretext to further isolate Palestinian communities.

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Violent Israeli settlers set fire to a Palestinian mosque in the West Bank before going from house to house in the town, smashing windows and setting them on fire. This is how Israeli settlers try to violently force Palestinians off their own land.

What an Israeli settler pogrom feels like

For the first time in my life, I found myself completely helpless. My car was engulfed in flames, but all that mattered to me was my family's survival.

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Israel has systematically targeted childhood in Gaza by bombing their homes and schools and killing their parents and siblings. After three years of genocide, Palestinians in Gaza have restarted children’s swimming classes to allow kids to reclaim their childhood.

Reclaiming stolen childhoods: swimming classes resume in Gaza after three years of war

In sea pools built with sandbags and rubble, Amjed Tantesh gives traumatised children brief respite from their daily lives

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No organization in US history has ever spent more in a single year’s congressional elections than the $45 million AIPAC and its super PAC, United Democracy Project, spent in 2024. Joining them were millions in donations from Democratic Majority For Israel.

“Some of the settlers are themselves part of the Israeli military. [...] They are armed by the military. Many are trained by the military. They’re all using US-provided arms. So this distinction is not a very important one. They are all supported by the Israeli state.”

Israeli crackdown in occupied West Bank intensifies, settlers cause mayhem

The surge in violence comes after four Palestinians and two soldiers were killed in a gunfight on Friday.

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The last time Netanyahu was here, he lobbied Trump to start a disastrous war that has cost the American people over $100 billion. He is still overseeing the ongoing genocide in Gaza and refuses to end his illegal invasion of Lebanon.

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"I am heading out now to a meeting with our friend, President Donald Trump—this is our eighth meeting since he was elected to his second term, more than with any other international leader."

Israeli politicians led a mob of over 3,200 right-wing Israelis in invading the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem, one of Islam’s holiest sites. Israel’s leaders want to take over the mosque compound and kick Palestinians out of their capital city of Jerusalem for good.

Israeli ministers lead mass Al-Aqsa Mosque raid

Thousands enter the Islamic holy site, raising Israeli flags, praying and erecting a tent during one of the largest incursions in recent years

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“The children were having fun, playing football, and suddenly they started screaming.” In flagrant violation of the so-called “ceasefire,” Israel is still bombing Palestinian hospitals and homes in Gaza.

Israel Firebombed a Family Home Where Children Were Sleeping in Latest Killing Spree

As the world focuses on the renewed U.S. war with Iran, Israel has killed nearly 60 Palestinians over the past week and moved to occupy close to 70 percent of Gaza.

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Israeli settlers set fire to farmland belonging to a Palestinian family in the West Bank today in an attempt to ethnically cleanse them off their land. When two men from the family tried to save their land and put the fires out, Israeli soldiers killed them.

Two Palestinians shot dead by Israeli forces as West Bank fields set ablaze

Two men were killed in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus. An Israeli settler was also reportedly stabbed.

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“Being a doctor is not a crime.” Israel has been holding celebrated Palestinian pediatrician Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya captive in torture camps for 19 months after kidnapping him from his post as director of a hospital in Gaza.

‘My Father Is a Hero’: Detained Palestinian Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s Son Speaks to Zeteo

‘Being a doctor is not a crime,’ Elyas Abu Safiya tells Zeteo’s Diana Buttu, as his father’s health behind Israeli bars deteriorates rapidly.

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Israeli leaders are paving the way to building a crocodile-infested trench around Israeli prisons. In those prisons, Israel holds thousands of Palestinians captive—many without charge or trial—and subjects them to widespread starvation, torture, and abuse.

Israel Strips Crocodiles of Protected Status to Pave Way for Crocodile-Infested Moat

Israel has revoked the protected status of Nile crocodiles to pave the way for a new prison modeled after the Trump administration’s “Alligator Alcatraz” ICE jail in the Florida Everglades. The propos...

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For decades, Palestinian children have gone swimming at The Solomon Pools, an ancient water reservoir near Bethlehem. Israel wants to steal the Solomon Pools and the Palestinian land they’re on—so its military has been firing teargas at Palestinian children while they swim.

Israel threatens to seize ancient water reservoirs near Bethlehem

Solomon’s Pools date back to the second century BCE, and have become a source of recreation for nearby Bethlehem

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Today Israel killed two Palestinian parents and their four children in Gaza, bombing their home as they slept. Israel is using US taxpayer dollars to wipe out Palestinian families with impunity. Palestinians deserve to raise their children in freedom and safety, free from Israel’s endless bombings.

‘There is ‌no safe place’: Israeli attack kills family of six in Gaza

Israeli forces launch regular attacks on Gaza despite a US-backed 'ceasefire' agreed in October.

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Mayor Zohran Mamdani in his address at the Nelson Mandela Global Leadership Forum: “Why must we wait until a thousand more parents bury in their children? Until even more lose their limbs, their homes, their futures, to come together and insist on Palestinian freedom?“

Israel is continuing to break the ceasefire almost everyday: since October 2025, Israel has killed at least 1,168 Palestinians in Gaza with no accountability. Palestinians in Gaza have responded with a digital campaign called #TheyLiedToYou to bring the eyes of the world back to Gaza.

Palestinians launch #TheyLiedtoYou campaign to debunk Gaza 'ceasefire' narrative

Activists and concerned social media users spotlight Israel's ongoing genocide in the besieged enclave

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Israel’s prisons have always operated as torture camps, where thousands of Palestinians have been subjected to crimes against humanity, and countless have been murdered. Israel cannot be allowed to continue committing crimes against humanity on a daily basis with total impunity.

In Israel’s prisons, torture and death have become a norm that it barely tries to hide | Nesrine Malik

The suffering of Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is no isolated case. The abuse of Palestinian detainees is happening in plain sight, yet nothing changes, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

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“There will be no more Arabs in Gaza.” That’s what Israeli politicians and land-theft advocates chanted during a march outside Gaza on Sunday, calling for Israel to permanently take over all Palestinian land in Gaza.

Israeli ministers lead march calling for settlements in Gaza

Thousands join a settler rally near the Gaza border as ministers renew calls to rebuild Israeli settlements in the enclave

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