The Israeli Defense Forces have published photos they say show Al Jazeera reporter Mohamed Washah engaged in Hamas terror activity.

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The Israeli Defense Forces on Sunday accused a prominent journalist– who in recent months has reported regularly for Al Jazeera from Gaza – of moonlighting as a senior Hamas commander.

The Israeli Defense Forces have published photos they say were discovered on a laptop in Gaza that show Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Washah engaged in Hamas terrorist activities.

Neither Al Jazeera nor the Qatari government have responded to the Sun’s request for comment.

    • TWeaK@lemm.eeEnglish
      191·
      9 months ago

      If the UNRWA story is anything to go by, they don’t even bother with the evidence part.

    • IninewCrowEnglish
      141·
      9 months ago

      If you’re not with us … you’re against us

      This is how to describe our current period in history

      • CaptObvious@literature.cafe
        336·
        9 months ago

        No, they “found” a laptop. If I were guessing, if it exists at all, it was planted by the IDF or Mossad. More likely, the Israeli government are lying through their teeth.

        • jonne@infosec.pub
          244·
          9 months ago

          Because terrorists take pictures of all their secret activities. Wouldn’t surprise me if the IDF generated them with AI or something.

          • speaker_hat@lemmy.oneOP
            12·
            9 months ago

            Terrorist use the media as a military tool, so they the do take pictures of their activities. Not all of them, but they do.

          • SzymonEnglish
            241·
            9 months ago

            Just because you’re one doesn’t mean all are.

            Most white people are OK, but 10-20% are idiot racists. Most black people are OK, but 10-20% of them are idiot racists. Most Palestinians are OK, but 10-20% of the are idiot racists. Most Jews are OK, but 10-20% of them are idiot racists.

            See how it doesn’t matter what the color of your skin, or what the name or your God is? You might just be a fucking idiotic racist because it’s pretty consistent that they exist in all cultures and racists will try to paint entire ethncitys as completely homogeneous with everyone thinking the exact same thoughts.

            Lump yourself with idiot racists, not your ethnicity, because you belong with one much more than the other.

          • Kben@kbin.social
            152·
            9 months ago

            No,not jews.Zionist facists who have a history of lying through their teeth while commiting horrendous atrocities.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                181·
                9 months ago

                Hi, I’m also a Jew. And calling me a Zionist is fucking insulting. I am not an Israeli, I have never been to Israel, I do not support Israel. I’m an American Jew born in Indiana. On my mother’s side, we’ve been in America since the 1800s. On my father’s side, we’ve been in Britain since the 1800s. I have more in common with any American or British person than any Israeli.

                So I’m not a Zionist. Don’t fucking associate me with that shit and don’t call other people antisemitic for hating Zionism because that’s a bullshit lie and it’s people like you who encourage violence against other Jews by associating us all with Israel’s war when most of us, at least in the U.S., have nothing to do with it.

              • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                61·
                9 months ago

                You’re misunderstanding that completely. It can be a cloak to hide anti-semitism, but it doesn’t mean that necessarily. You can’t just assume everyone who points out the horrors of the Israeli state are doing so because they don’t like Jews, just as you can’t assume everyone who points out the horrors of Nazi Germany are doing so because they don’t like Germans. Critiquing the state has next to nothing to do with the people (generally the rulers of a state are using and abusing the people, not a part of them), and besides Israel doesn’t represent Jews, it represents the people of Israel. There are tons of Jews outside of Israel, such as Bernie Sanders in the US who also critiques Israel, and he also worked there for while too when I he younger.

                  • Cethin@lemmy.zipEnglish
                    81·
                    9 months ago

                    Yet you accuse everyone critiquing Israel of being anti-semitic. It’s far too easy to dismiss all actual criticism with ad hominem attacks. You didn’t give any legitimate criticism, you just told them to stop talking because they’re racist. That’s not a legitimate argument and you don’t deserve to be considered.

                  • SzymonEnglish
                    21·
                    9 months ago

                    The problem is you purporting this false notion that being against Zionists means you are against Jews - which couldn’t be farther from the truth, but is a point that REALLY hurts the Zionist movement.

          • HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
            113·
            9 months ago

            supposing a modern nation state with a capable intelligence and military apparatus is capable of and motivated to lie isn’t an antisemetic trope.

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
        163·
        9 months ago

        Conservatives will only see articles critical of conservatives as being evidence that the author is their enemy. The author’s laptop would be used in this way.

        A conservative is incapable of honesty. Every word uttered by a conservative is either deception or manipulation. Every word. When a conservative accuses a journalist of a crime, they are lying. Every time.