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2 weeks ago | honestreporting.com | Rachel O'Donoghue

Border security and a visa policy. There isn’t a single sovereign state in the world that doesn’t have both. The United Kingdom certainly does — a robust one, no less. For Palestinians, a visa is mandatory to enter the UK, whether for tourism, family visits, business, or study — short stay or long.

3 weeks ago | honestreporting.com | Rachel O'Donoghue

Not for the first time since the start of Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the terror group — which controls the enclave’s health ministry and is routinely cited as a reliable source by the UN and major news outlets — has quietly erased thousands of names from its own casualty lists.

3 weeks ago | honestreporting.com | Rachel O'Donoghue

The Irish Times has published some breathtakingly poor journalism over the years. It once described Israel’s military campaign in Gaza as evidence of a national “thirst for war,” defended Hezbollah as a “defensive” force in Lebanon, and, in one memorable dispatch, its Middle East correspondent appeared almost exhilarated by the idea of the Iranian regime launching a hypersonic missile at Tel Aviv. Yet even by those standards, the paper’s latest international story marks a new low.

3 weeks ago | honestreporting.com | Rachel O'Donoghue

In the largest anti-Hamas demonstrations Gaza has seen in years, thousands of Palestinians have taken to the streets over the past week. Protesters in the north of the Strip — particularly in Gaza City — have chanted “Hamas out” and “Hamas are terrorists,” while holding banners that read, “Hamas does not represent us.”Hamas has responded with predictable brutality. According to reports from local activists, at least six protest organizers have been executed.

4 weeks ago | honestreporting.com | Rachel O'Donoghue

“Beaten bloody.” “Attacked by a group of about 15 armed settlers.” Assaulted with “brass knuckles and the butt of a rifle to his head.” And later, struck by Israeli soldiers who supposedly “beat him with the butt of their rifles.” These were just a few of the claims—or variations of them—breathlessly relayed by The New York Times, Sky News, CNN, The Guardian, and the BBC—based entirely on accounts from so-called “activists on the scene.” And at the center of the chaos was none other than...