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How do Israeli elections actually work? 🇮🇱 On October 27, Israelis will head to the polls. But unlike in the US, they're not voting directly for their next prime minister. They're voting for political parties. So how does Israel choose its next government? Here's the process explained in under 2 minutes. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

When David Ellison’s Paramount closed its takeover of Warner Bros., it put HBO, DC, CNN, and CBS News under one company: Skydance. AJ+ built a video around a simple idea: one pro-Israel family now decides what America watches. The Murdochs own Fox News and the New York Post. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Neither got this video. What AJ+ never tells you is who is making that argument. AJ+ is Al Jazeera, and Al Jazeera is owned and funded by the government of Qatar, a country with human rights abuses. Here’s what else they never tell you. Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund owns 10.6% of the company AJ+ just made a video attacking. They’re shareholders. Why is a state broadcaster warning you about a private owner’s influence, while never once disclosing its own? That’s a government using a newsroom to decide which owners you should distrust. And of all the men who own American newsrooms, they picked the Jewish one. Presenter: Jacob Gold 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

When David Ellison’s Paramount closed its takeover of Warner Bros., it put HBO, DC, CNN, and CBS News under one company: Skydance AJ+ built a video around a simple idea: one pro-Israel family now decides what America watches. It spread everywhere. The Murdochs own Fox News and the New York Post. Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post. Neither got this video. What AJ+ never tells you is who is making that argument. AJ+ is Al Jazeera, and Al Jazeera is owned and funded by the government of Qatar, a country with numerous human rights abuses. Here’s what else they never tell you. Qatar’s sovereign wealth fund owns 10.6% of the company AJ+ just made a video attacking. They’re not outside observers. They’re shareholders. Why is a state broadcaster warning you about a private owner’s influence, while never once disclosing its own? That’s not a question about media ownership. It’s a government using a newsroom to decide which owners you should distrust. And of all the men who own American newsrooms, they picked the Jewish one. Presenter: Jacob Gold 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Violent protests rocked France and Italy over the cost of living and schools. None were about Gaza. Rioters looted shops in Milan. A tourist office burned in France. And right there were Palestinian flags. Different countries. Different grievances. Same flag. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

300,000 Jews call Chicago home. Since Mayor Brandon Johnson took office, antisemitic hate crimes in the city have jumped 58%. His response? He called Jewish requests for added security “segregation politics.” He appointed people with records of Holocaust inversion and sympathy for Hamas. On a podcast, he blamed “a nation,” not a government, for what is happening in Gaza, and accused Jews of taking resources from Black Americans. Words from City Hall carry weight. When the mayor uses them this way, Chicago’s Jewish community pays the price. Swipe through his record, then ask: is this what protecting every Chicagoan looks like? 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

“Resistance is justified when people are occupied.” But no claim of occupation gives anyone the right to murder civilians, rape, or take hostages. International law explicitly prohibits these acts. October 7 wasn't justified resistance. It was terrorism. No slogan can change that. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Elazar Yair Wilensky went on a school trip and never came home. The IDF says the teen was killed by an unexploded bomblet from a Hezbollah cluster bomb. Cluster bombs are illegal because they scatter bomblets over a wide area, and the ones that don’t explode can kill anyone who finds them, sometimes years later. Hezbollah fired these weapons indiscriminately, targeting civilian areas and IDF bases alike. So why won’t the media name who did it? 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

CNN’s Jeremy Diamond turned the deaths of 40 hostages in Hamas captivity into an indictment of Israel. Hamas kidnapped them. Hamas held them captive. Hamas executed hostages as Israeli troops approached. But CNN found a way to blame Israel for Hamas pulling the trigger. Every single one of those hostages should still be alive. Hamas bears responsibility for putting them in danger in the first place. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Britain's Green Party recently made "Zionism is racism" official policy and voted down an amendment meant to protect Jewish members. This isn't a new idea. It's a Soviet Cold War smear that the UN passed in 1975 and repealed in 1991, after Russia's own envoy called it "a relic of the Ice Age." Now it's being revived all across the political left, and the Greens likely won't be the last. Read Ben M Freeman's full breakdown here: https://tr.ee/xKeMuP 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Hiroshima and Nagasaki killed well over 100,000 people, yet no major human rights organization calls it genocide. Why? Because genocide is about intent: a project to eradicate a people. After Japan surrendered, America occupied it, helped rebuild it, and by 1952, it was an ally. Compare that to Gaza, where “genocide” is now used freely. Israel has not committed genocide in Gaza. Facilitating the transfer of food, humanitarian aid, and vaccinations is undeniable proof of that. Changing the definition of genocide to mean “a lot of death in war” dishonors victims of actual genocides and erases the truth about the war against Hamas. (via: Sam Harris on the Making Sense Podcast) 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

A hospital room. A family home. A UN building. Israeli hostages were held captive or found dead in the middle of civilian spaces throughout Gaza. That was not an accident. Hamas deliberately embedded itself among civilians, then counted on the world to blame Israel when the fighting reached them. The real question isn't why Israel had to operate there. It's why Hamas put the battle there in the first place. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

They were asked to give up their faith for a bigger portion of food. They were told the beatings were “revenge.” They were warned they’d be killed if they ever spoke. They’re speaking anyway. Rom, Yosef-Haim, Alon and Guy didn’t have to go on camera and relive the worst days of their lives. They did it so the world couldn’t pretend it didn’t happen. Three years after October 7, the least we can do is not look away. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Victims raped and mutilated. Bodies burned beyond recognition, identified only by dental records. Calling October 7 a “massacre” barely captures the barbarity. It was an attempted genocide, with terrorists torturing and murdering Jews and anyone they could find. Don’t erase the horrors. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Three years on, the new trend is blaming Israel for October 7. "Hannibal Directive." "False flag." They leave out the thousands of terrorists who murdered nearly 1,200 people, raped women, and took 251 hostages. Then bragged about it. Every death on Oct 7 is on Hamas. Period. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Three years after October 7, the memories remain painfully vivid. For HonestReporting staff, that day was not something experienced from a distance. Some were in southern Israel as the massacre unfolded. Some lost relatives, friends and neighbors. Others served in the IDF. All have lived with the grief, trauma and consequences ever since. These are their personal reflections on terror, loss, resilience, memory and the determination to keep fighting for the truth. https://honestreporting.com/october-7-reflections-honestreporting-staff-share-their-thoughts-and-experiences/ 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

October 7 was a massacre. Thousands of lives were shattered. And somehow, three years of coverage shows how major media increasingly treat it as background noise. The attack gets blurred. The perpetrators disappear. The victims are pushed to the margins. The massacre should be the story – not a footnote to its own anniversary. HonestReporting's analysis exposes that pattern: https://honestreporting.com/the-minimization-of-october-7-an-analysis-of-the-first-three-years-of-coverage/ 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

⚠️ VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED. It was burning families alive. Executing civilians at close range. Raping women. Cutting off their breasts. Shooting their genitals. It was beheading Thai workers. And executing Bedouins. It was taking innocent people to Gaza to use them as bargaining chips. It was killing Jews with their bare hands, and calling home to brag about it. That’s October 7th. That's what they call resistance. They documented it themselves. So how is it still being denied? 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Three years ago, Hamas carried out unspeakable acts of systematic sexual violence during its attack on October 7. The Civil Commission on Crimes by Hamas against Women and Children, documented the evidence in a 300-page report. 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. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

Why do so many young Palestinians turn to terrorism? It starts with their education. Between UNRWA textbooks and Hamas TV shows, violence is glorified and pushes kids toward "martyrdom." Hamas training camps turn childhood into terror prep, with weapons replacing toys. This isn't just education—it's grooming the next generation for violence. 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting

A rabbi picks Dara Horn up at the airport with a warning: the security guard at the town's Jewish day school had just been arrested. He'd been posting online about murdering the children at recess. That was before October 7th. On October 8th, much of the Jewish world woke up to what she'd been watching for years, as friends, coworkers, even spouses started chanting "globalize the intifada." So what do we do now? Horn says we've been fighting antisemitism the wrong way. It isn't a prejudice. It's a lie, and you beat a lie by asking who profits from it. Her advice to every student facing a crowd chanting slogans: You can answer back. "You don't need a PhD to defeat an argument that's three words long." What you need is courage. 🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://buff.ly/mnQgq5e 📲 See more from Honest Reporting here: linktr.ee/HonestReporting