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Here is a selection of HonestReporting’s top X posts for October 2026:
Irish Independent Misquoted Obama. His Distortion of Israel’s Founding Wasn’t.
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. https://t.co/TYqCGTewN2
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 16, 2026
Sam Harris Explains the Difference Between Mass Death and Genocidal Intent
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 @MakingSenseHQ Podcast)
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 11, 2026
The New Yorker Publishes a Truly Punctilious Theory of Israeli “Colonialism”
That moment when Gazology jumps the shark. 🦈 Shame on @NewYorker for giving this @$#%!& the time of day. https://t.co/6eirb7u6uf
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 2, 2026
Mamdani’s October 7 Message Minimizes the Very People It Should Honor
Mayor Mamdani’s October 7 statement is around 200 words long. The Israelis murdered and kidnapped that day get fewer than a quarter of them. Imagine writing an anniversary statement about a massacre and making the victims a supporting detail. So Mr. Mayor, go take your insulting words and shove them where the sun doesn’t shine. https://t.co/Tt7GP8t5vi
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 7, 2026
Mahmoud Khalil Once Again Deflects from Condemning Hamas
No, @mahmoudkhalel, asking whether you condemn Hamas is NOT a “silly question.” If you cannot bring yourself to condemn those who perpetrated the October 7 massacre, why should anyone believe your vision of a “Free Palestine” includes Jews living alongside Palestinians in peace? https://t.co/a1C4M8xXEu
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 4, 2026
Twenty-Six Years Later, the al-Dura Playbook Looks Strikingly Familiar
Twenty-six years ago that day, France 2 gave the world the al-Dura story: Dramatic footage, an absent correspondent, and Israeli guilt presented as fact before the evidence had established it. Later investigations seriously challenged whether the shots could even have come from the Israeli position. The images raced around the world. The doubts arrived later. Sound familiar? The al-Dura affair was an early masterclass in what became known as “Pallywood.” 📦 FROM THE ARCHIVE: https://t.co/WTidVvkUTQ
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 1, 2026
The New York Times Questions the ICRC on the Israeli Hostages. The Answer Is Still “Neutrality.”
1/6 HAMAS STARVED AND TORTURED ISRAELI HOSTAGES. The Red Cross never visited them in captivity. The @nytimes questioned @ICRC president Mirjana Spoljaric. From the hostages to the ICRC’s Holocaust failure, she kept reaching for defense: “neutrality.” Seriously. Watch. 🧵 https://t.co/rlJxLeIiON
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 13, 2026
The Guardian Turns Hamas Data Into a Clean “Child Casualty” Narrative
Here’s how a Hamas statistic gets laundered into a @guardian roundup: 1. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry publishes figures for minors allegedly killed, without distinguishing between uninvolved children and older teenagers who may have been members of or fighting with armed groups. 2. @DropSiteNews “summarizes” the data, turning every minor into a generic “child” casualty. 3. The Guardian repeats that framing as a prominent subheader in its roundup, lending it mainstream credibility. Hamas supplies the numbers. Drop Site packages them. The Guardian amplifies them. And a five-year-old civilian and a 17-year-old fighter become indistinguishable in the statistic. That’s not a minor omission. It changes what readers understand the number to mean.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 11, 2026
CNN’s Turkish Affiliate Blames “Jewish Lobbies” for Riots in France
“Jewish lobbies” secretly pulling the strings behind student riots in France. No, this isn’t some neo-Nazi conspiracy site. It’s @CNN’s Turkish affiliate. Viewers were told Israel can “push the button” in France using its “Jewish lobbies,” economic power and intelligence apparatus. And apparently, “it wouldn’t be right to say that Mossad ALONE is responsible.” Textbook antisemitic conspiracy-mongering, broadcast under the CNN brand.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 5, 2026
Explained: How a False Gaza Claim Goes Viral and the Correction Gets Lost
“14,000 babies will die in 48 hours.” That claim didn’t come from a random account online. It came from the United Nations, and major media outlets ran with it almost instantly. But the number was not a confirmed death toll. It was not a 48-hour mortality forecast. And it was not about babies. It came from an IPC projection estimating that 14,100 children aged 6-59 months could suffer severe acute malnutrition over a longer projection period. A conditional risk assessment became an imminent mass-death claim. Then it became an indictment of Israel. By the time some outlets quietly amended their coverage and the UN’s Tom Fletcher admitted the wording was a mistake, the damage was already done. When claims implicate Israel, the burden of proof collapses. A false claim goes viral, skepticism is treated as cruelty, and the correction never reaches the audience that saw the lie. Presenter: @Erin_Molan
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 14, 2026
Sam Harris Talks How Gaza’s “Famine” Claim Was Built on a Lowered Standard
On his Making Sense podcast, philosopher, neuroscientist, and author Sam Harris explains that the “famine in Gaza” narrative was a hoax. Famine has a specific definition. Under the IPC framework, it requires extreme food insecurity, widespread child malnutrition, and at least two non-trauma deaths per 10,000 people every day. In Gaza, that mortality threshold would equal roughly 420 starvation deaths daily. Yet the Palestinian Authority’s own statistics reported 66 total starvation deaths by July 2025. A study of COGAT aid deliveries also found that food entering Gaza frequently exceeded the humanitarian minimum of 2,100 calories per person per day. Gaza never met the famine threshold. So the standard was lowered in order to fabricate one.
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 2, 2026
As Antisemitism Surges in Chicago, Mayor Johnson Turns on the Jews Raising the Alarm
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. 🧵
— HonestReporting (@HonestReporting) October 18, 2026
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