Graun attacks critic of their Al Ahli hospital bombing lies
Posted by Ian M on October 11, 2024, 2:27 pm
The 'journalist' (sic) involved threw accusations of 'inciting hatred' and 'attacking journalists when the facts don't agree with your worldview', contacted the employer of the critic (Ashok Kumar), then the graun got involved with a reporter also contacting the employer and claiming he: 'targeted journalists of colour in a sustained campaign' and was 'involved in incitement'. Which is ironic given that Kumar (as the name suggests) is also 'of colour', not that that should make a difference to the ability of the public to factually criticise the work/propaganda of journalists.
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin Oct 6 The Guardian journalist @manisha_bot, who authored the “investigation” into Israel’s bombing of Al Ahli Hospital killing 471 Palestinians which shamefully concludes that Palestinians were responsible, is now attacking me for dismantling her sham investigation in the thread 🧵 below
She needs to be sacked immediately and the Guardian need to issue an apology and a retraction:
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Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha_bot Attacking journalists when the fact don't agree with your worldview and demanding the facts be bent to suit your politics - shameful that your employee is doing this, reflects badly on your institution @BirkbeckUoL @bbkpsychosocial @BirkbeckLibrary @birkbeck_arts @BBKPhilosophy ]
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin Also, retweeting yourself over and over again and tagging the librarians in my university is bizarre behaviour. How is this person allowed to run investigations?
Notice how she doesn’t refute a single claim I make, locks her post, finds a post of mine from a year ago, and tags my employer.
Just admit you’re a charlatan, you did a sham investigation and helped give israel a license to destroy every hospital in Gaza and now Lebanon.
I honestly don’t know how these people sleep at night.
She’s doubling down. This is bordering on liable. “Makes a sport of inciting hatred against journalists” - journalists aren’t a protected class. I have no such history, but for propagandists masquerading as journalists to defend genocide, no amount of hatred is enough
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Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha_bot Impressive verbal gymnastics here to defend the actions of an academic who makes a sport of inciting hatred against journalists and has a history of doing so. Asking for a retraction because you don't like the facts isn't "disagreement", don't be daft, Solomon.
[replying to] Solomon Hughes @SolHughesWriter Really bad behaviour for a Guardian journalist to try persuade a university to 'punish' as academic who disagrees with them - I'm a former Birkbeck Librarian, so I feel fairly sure the staff would treat this attempt with the contempt it deserves. ]
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin The real victim here aren’t the 500 murdered Palestinians but @manisha_bot
[imagae of tweet: Dr. Manisha Ganguly @manisha_bot Meanwhile, this is the result - incitement to online harrassment of journalists, threats, and defamation: [image of rando twitter users insulting her] ]
Important to point out that I don’t mention her or any journalist by name in the entire thread
noah @additionaltext that thread doesn't even mention this person's name lol
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin I’ve filed a complaint with the Guardian Ombudsman. Simply put, this reporter fabricated a story, then when i called into question that investigation, she framed it as “an attack” and attempted to get me sanctioned by my employer Submit a complaint here: https://www.theguardian.com/info/2013/sep/23/guardian-readers-editor
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin Since posting this yesterday, friends and former colleagues of the journalist responsible for this fraudulent investigation have written to me to say she expressed serious doubts about the veracity of the investigation weeks and months after it’s publication. If the @guardian would like to speak to them please send me a DM and I will send you their contacts
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin Oct 7 🧵 Manisha Ganguly has a history of fraudulent reporting. The Guardian was fully aware of this yet still assigned her to lead the investigation into the Al Ahli Bombing: ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin Oct 7 🧵 1/5 The Guardian reporter Manisha Ganguly, who was the lead author of the now discredited report into Israel’s bombing of the Ah Ahli Hospital, has a well documented history of misreporting and shoddy investigations. In 2017, she published “a scoop” in Guardian that was immediately refuted by experts. The article is now simply under the byline “Guardian Staff”. Her name was wiped from record after dozens of experts and academics signed on to Professor Zeynep Tufekci’s detailed letter outlining why the “investigation” was fraudulent
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin Shocking behaviour from The Guardian My employer was just contacted by a reporter. It claims that I “targeted journalists of colour in a sustained campaign” and that I was “involved in incitement” for my thread below. This is outrageous from The @guardian and comes after The Guardian lead author of the fallacious Al Ahli Hospital bombing investigation contacted my employer because I dared to question that report. In my original thread I never named the lead investigator of the flawed report and not a single one of my claims about The Guardian’s misreporting have been contested by them or anyone at the paper. They’re just targeting me.
The Guardian (@guardian) must respond to this targeted and abusive behaviour. As well as address the original false investigation on the Al Ahli Hospital Bombing. They must retract and apologise to the people of Palestine.
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin Amused that someone born and raised into the racially supremacist Brahmin caste in India accusing someone from a lower caste of attacking them for their colour. The global south elites arriving in london and ventriloquising a new found identity as a “journalist of colour” to author fabricated stories blaming Palestinians for their own murder. That’s actual racism.Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/
ashok kumar 🇵🇸🇱🇧 @broseph_stalin Sep 11 1/10 🧵 The Guardian’s fallacious investigation into the Al Ahli Hospital explosion
The Guardian still have not published a correction and apology for its October 18th “investigation” into Israel’s October 17th bombing of the Al-Ahli Hospital that killed 471 Palestinians and injured 342.
The Guardian’s conclusion supported Israel’s contention that it was a Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) missile not an Israeli strike — based entirely on a “fairly shallow crater size”. This was the first hospital Israel destroyed, and became a test of global and media responses. The Guardian’s sanctioning of it helped pave the way for Israel to bomb and destroy every hospital in Gaza.
2/10 The Guardian’s investigation claims it’s based on a “forensic reviewing” of “open source information”. There’s little evidence of this. Rather the investigation hinged on a single interview of widely discredited former pentagon official and defence contract Marc Garlasco. Garlasco has no academic credentials as a weapons expert. In the Guardian he claims “the crater is not consistent with an airstrike” which is what the Guardian’s conclusion relies on
3/10 But who is Marc Garlasco? He’s not a weapons expert. He has a BA in government and an MA in international relations, which has nothing to do with the specific study of weapons. His experience is primarily in dropping bombs on entire villages for the the US government and justifying the dropping of bombs and the killing of civilians. He was sacked from his job for an ‘obsession with nazi memorabilia’.
4/10 The Channel 4 investigation counters the spurious Guardian/Israel’s claims directly — the crater could have easily been created by an Israeli Airburst munition - which creates small or no craters. In addition, Israel’s released audio claiming to be from PIJ fighters is debunked as a fake (no mention of this in the Guardian investigation), and the trajectory of the missile does not match the location claimed by Israel (this wasn’t part of the Guardians “forensic reviewing”) nitter.poast.org/MiddleEastEye/st…
5/10 Further: a comprehensive investigation by Forensic Architecture built 3D models that prove “Israeli misinformation” and that the bombing of Ahli Hospital could not be a PIJ missile
Forensic Architecture @ForensicArchi Feb 16 Our latest findings on the al-Ahli hospital blast: using 3D trajectory analysis, we dispute the Israeli military’s claim that the hospital was struck by a misfiring Palestinian rocket from a salvo of 17, with most of the damage caused by unspent rocket propellant.
6/10 the Guardian investigation “forensic” element relies entirely on Israel spokesperson’s claim that a video showing a midair exploration capturing the misfired rocket responsible for the blast at Ahli Hospital. Both Al Jazeera and Forensic Architecture demonstrate that this “is an Israeli interceptor unrelated to the Al Ahli blast”. As you can see from the Forensic Architecture, that the missile was sent from outside of Gaza nitter.poast.org/ForensicArchi/st…
7/10 This is the same and only debunked video the Guardian uses to make its claims:
8/10 A further meticulous investigation by Al Jazeera proves Israel’s litany of misinformation regarding the Al Ahli explosion and proved without a doubt that the source of the explosion was Israel. They take a second by second capture of aerial feeds to prove that the missile came from Israel nitter.poast.org/AJEnglish/status…
9/10 In fact, moments after Ahli Hospital was bombed Netanyahu close advisor, Hananya Naftali, claimed Israel bombed it saying there was a “Hamas terrorist base” inside the hospital. It was deleted once the backlash and the PIJ ‘misfire’ story was born. That never made it into the Guardian investigation
10/10 The Guardian/Israel’s claim is that this misfired PIJ “missile” was not even an entire missile but a fragment of a missile. These missiles are barely explosive as they consist of sugar and common fertiliser. Here you can see that they make a dent on the pavement.
Important to consider: between 2001-2023, prior to the Al Ahli bombing, in 23 years, the total number of rockets fired by every Palestinian faction was 37,000, the total number of people killed was“69 people, two donkeys and one cow” according to the Israeli government’s own figures. The Guardian/Israel would have you believe that this one misfired missile fragment, however, killed 7.2-times the total number of people killed by 37,000 missiles in the 23 years that preceded it. nitter.poast.org/AvivaKlompas/sta…
When I were a lad in the 60s, calling someone coloured became frowned upon, because we're all coloured, using the term to describe black people only was racist. The last working-class hero in England.
Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ? ? ? - 4 November 2021
Sensible times - isn't everything coloured, even the colour white? Nobody has completely white skin anyway... None of the liberal attempts at PC language engineering make sense, and it's notable that the people who are supposed to benefit from these periodic changes are rarely/never the ones a) calling for them or b) using them themselves. They gave up on trying to affect material reality, so were left with trying to mess about with symbols instead, not understanding that the symbols (ie: language) are reactive and downstream of reality & experience. A pointless, impossible project: what good does (for example) banning racial epithets do if you don't challenge the economic & social systems that drive people to view others as inferiors to be exploited & dehumanised in the first place? All that will happen is the racist energy will get diverted into a new channel.
on October 11, 2024, 2:27 pm