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edenfenixblogs · 4 months

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hi, i wanted to give you an update on that post of mine you reblogged. heritageposts has informed me that they were using the red triangle in this context: https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231123-one-small-red-triangle-palestine-we-are-finally-looking/

i was wrong about what they meant with the 🔻 emoji and i am officially rescinding my previous statement

I am all for fact checking and I would love to believe that Heritage Posts did not mean this particular horrible thing they did.

However, Middle East Monitor (MEMO) is not a reliable source for information in this conflict. If HP is actually using MEMO for news, they should focus on more reliable ones going forward.

There are plenty of other left-leaning sources with more reliability, credibility, sourcing, and transparency.

They have failed several fact checks for misleading and occasionally false information. The publication is explicitly and repeatedly pro-Hamas, and they often omit vital information to skew their stories.

While they are not rated as an outright propaganda publication or as a source of conspiracy theories, they do often cite sources which do and are.

Finally, they are funded by donations. Of course these donations largely come from people who support the kind of reporting that people who donate to them support. They are a nonprofit organization, which is not inherently a bad thing. But this means their interests are not based in journalistic ideals but in political ideology. This is not a reason to completely discount a source, but it is something to keep in mind.

In general, with a topic this intense and with such profound consequences for so many people, I’m only engaging with sources who receive a “reporting” rating of “high” or better and a “credibility” rating of “high credibility.”

I would POSSIBLY consider a “reporting” rating of “Mostly factual” if it had a “high credibility” rating and several extenuating circumstances and reduced media bias to compensate for its lower score in another area.

Leftist sources worth referencing instead:

Forward Progressives

Haaretz

International Policy Digest

Current Affairs

And many others

Personally, though, (for this particular conflict especially) I tend to prefer sources that fall into the central three categories: left-center biased, least biased, and right-center biased.

No news source is perfect or without bias. But this conflict is so fraught that I frankly don’t trust anyone reporting with extreme ideological intentions. And I also don’t want to only read sources that make me comfortable. I am personally very leftist in all of my personal politics and voting. However, I also know that the far left has been more hostile to me based solely on my Jewish ethnicity than anyone else in these past months. Furthermore, I think politicians should be more left, but journalism should always prioritize facts and a full scope of a situation over any one viewpoint. I am the daughter of a journalist. I am deeply in favor of journalistic freedom. And I absolutely do NOT believe in “both sidesism.” Sometimes, there really aren’t two sides to a situation that are both equally worth listening to. There is no alternative viewpoint to “Black Lives Matter” for example that is not deeply racist.

There are not “two sides worth teaching” when it comes to The Holocaust.

But the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not so simple. Israel should stop its bombing of Palestine. Palestinians should have full and equal rights. Jewish people in Israel and around the world should not have to live in constant fear or attack, harassment, or murder. There are a lot of extremely valid perspectives from Palestinians, Muslims, Israelis, Arabs, and Jews. And right now, the far left and the far right are weaponizing their ideologies to reduce all of the aforementioned groups to their worst actors. That is not something that will help anyone with regard to this conflict.

Left Leaning Sources

ABC News

Associated Press

Atlantic Media

Boston Globe

The Forward (This is a Jewish source. They had one failed fact check in the last five years, but issued an official correction.)

Human Rights Watch

Institute for Middle East Understanding (This is a Palestinian source and it has a completely clean fact check record)

Least Biased Sources

Jewish Telegraphic Agency (Obviously a Jewish source)

Reuters (this has a Very High reporting rating)

American Press Institute (not only have they not failed a fact check in five years; they have never failed a fact check ever)

The Conversation

Pew Research

Foreign Policy

Foreign Affairs

Sky News UK

Right Leaning

Note: As I stated numerous times, including in this post, I am a leftist. However, something important for American readers of this post to know is that, when it comes specifically to matters involving military analysis of foreign conflicts, a slight right lean in perspective is common and sometimes preferable to leftist idealism. I say this as someone who votes and holds opinions that are about as far left as one can get. However, I also say this as someone with a background in university studies of international politics. Because analysis of military conflicts is often done by those with experience in and understanding of the military, most of the most credible and detailed analyses of foreign military affairs do tend to be more right leaning than sources of equal worth focused on domestic political matters. Furthermore, a leftist tendency toward pacifism (which I share) tends to mean less leftist involvement in military-involved political matters at all. Of course, none of this means there are no quality leftist sources on the current conflict (which I obviously demonstrated by linking to such sources above). I am simply explaining the value of such sources to those who may justifiably be skeptical of anything right-leaning after the hellish past two decades of domestic policies and US-caused violence in other countries.

Note 2: There are plenty of right-leaning sources that received “high” credibility ratings and “high” reporting ratings. I found no sources that had both “very high” credibility and “high” reporting ratings in the “right-center” category.

Boston Herald

Chicago Tribune

Counter Extremism Project

Foreign Policy Research Institute

The Jewish Press (clearly a Jewish source, this publication is geared toward the Modern Orthodox Jewish community. They have no failed fact checks)

ITV News

Jewish Unpacked (this source has no failed fact checks. this source is right-leaning by necessity because of its historical examination of antisemitism in leftist spaces making those spaces inherently unsafe for Jews—not specifically in this most recent flare up in the I/p conflict, but for years).

Right Bias

Note: I don’t personally follow or read any of these sources. But I did list leftist sources with high credibility and reporting ratings, so I will do the same here in the interest of fairness. It should be noted that all other source bias ratings had results several pages long. Right Bias sources with high credibility and reporting ratings were confined to one page only. There are no Right Bias Sources with Very High reporting ratings and high credibility.

Economic Policy Journal (no failed fact checks now or ever)

Influence Watch (tends to view liberal and progressive politics as “extremist,” but has no failed fact checks.)

I am not inclined to trust HP simply because their most recent antisemitic behavior fell short of hoping for Jewish genocide. I have a higher bar for accounts than that.

#antisemitism #leftist antisemitism #media literacy #I/p #israel #palestine #oh boy #I’m about to get so much hate #I’m not looking forward to it #but media literacy is important #and HP needs to be held accountable for the harm it is causing to Jews online #source evaluation

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flowering-darkness · 1 month

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oh also one more thing before I go to sleep (a lot later than I should have given what time I woke up this morning, but that’s what getting hungry at gone midnight will do unfortunately):

If there’s ever anything that I’m talking about that doesn’t make sense to you, please know that you are always allowed to ask about it. Even if it’s, like, a game mechanic I mention that someone would know if they knew the game but you yourself haven’t played it, or a term I use for a scene or concept that I haven’t actually ever explained and you aren’t sure what it refers to, or me describing story events as going a certain way that’s different to canon and you want more clarity on what I actually change - or really anything at all! I’m always very happy to explain stuff~

#heart of the void #..not sure how to tag this one #I just don’t want people to be left confused and not knowing what I’m on about #particularly when I focus on more obscure games like reborn (or just generally selfships not as well-known by people here!!)#you can always ask me to infodump. and if you are also someone who likes to infodump in this way then I can ask you stuff too #I hope this makes sense #it’s nearly one o’clock in the morning #tomorrow I get dragged back down into coursework hell #I’m not looking forward to it #but it’ll all be done by Monday and then I can decompress at home for the next two weeks at least

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gale-in-space · 10 months

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Yo so I’m going to my brother’s wedding in a few days and making the trip over now. I will be with my abusive family most of the time and might be posting less. If I get venty I’m sorry. Love you guys a ton

#i’m not looking forward to it #basically i got s*icidal because that’s how they make me #my mom told me to stop making shit about me #she told me to be better for my brother’s special day #and also threatened a uhhh wellness check lmao #anyways.#if i have seemed sad and strange(r) lately that’s why #tbd eventually

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stevesjockstrap · 5 months

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I have to start Christmas shopping tonight…

#I’ve bought some gift cards and I ordered some stuff for my boyfriend but that’s it 😬#I’m not looking forward to it #jess talks to herself

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velv3tdream · 2 years

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I’m not ok with this

#sos send help #hot weather #i’m not looking forward to it #ughhh

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a-star-that-fell · 1 month

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Heya slick, happy birthday in advance

ha, thank you anon

#i’m not looking forward to it #jules speaks #ask

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diyadoesntdowhatshessupposedto · 3 months

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First exam of the semester. Wish me luck.

#it’s chemistry #I’m not looking forward to it

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death-by-sc0tland · 5 months

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“david overshadowed ncuti blah blah blah” dude everyone in the fandom is falling head over heels for ncuti’s doctor just from the 15 minutes of content we’ve had with him plus ncuti himself got to act alongside his idol he grew up watching like i don’t think there were any losses here

#anyway i’m really looking forward to the christmas special #doctor who #ncuti gatwa #fifteenth doctor #the giggle #dw spoilers #1k #5k #10k

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crow-cap · 10 months

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Putting him in a blender

#crowcraft #across the spiderverse spoilers #spiderverse #atsv #atsv spoilers #miles morales #uh kinda #the prowler #prowler miles #atsv prowler #new fandom new tags #I have so. So SO many canvasses full of him and 1610 miles it’s insane #drawing low quality stuff but no time to post :(#exams are nearly over though! reallllllly looking forward to a break #got one more to freak out over then I’m DONE #woah the quality on this one is proper fucked

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manzanamarim · 29 days

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Guess what I finally got to play! I had a blast I wish lawyers were real

#marim's art #ace attorney #phoenix wright #pwaa #god how many tags are there #miles edgeworth #franziska von karma #maya fey #pearl fey #ema skye #wrightworth #narumitsu #sorta #new obsession unlocked #as someone who grew up playing every professor Layton game it felt like a crime to never have played these #though I’m glad I played them when my English has gotten better #looking forward to playing more a games AGHHHHHH

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soosoosoup · 16 days

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snowzone

#dreamworks trolls #trolls #trolls john dory #trolls bruce #trolls clay #trolls floyd #trolls branch #brozone #kinda missing the snow #while I'm glad it's not so cold anymore; I am not looking forward to how hot it gets #their sleds are walnut shells!! would a walnut shell make a good sled? probably not but it's cute so... walnut sled!#wanted to give bitty b one of those baby cow earmuffs and it spiraled to this lol #also saw some panels of dungeon meshi where young elves where these hats. truly inspired #haven't read/watched it yet but i can tell i would totally love it #I'm thinking of maybe making this my banner? it's like accidentally the correct size #trolls fanart #excuse the messiness #my art <3 #trolls band together #i have another snowzone drawing but im not really vibing with it.#thinking of maybe posting those discarded sketches under like... a scrapyard tag #there's only like 2 sketches so far lol #sorry I haven’t posted some broppy in a bit #been having some trouble with it coming out a little stiff. so I’m thinking that some good old brozone can refresh my system lol

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daydreamingharold · 1 year

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y’all really need to stop pointing out that harry and ashton are in their last year of their 20s bc it’s reminding me that i’m in the same boat

#post from anna.#but seriously #i’m not looking forward to it

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potentialheartofdarkness · 1 year

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tomorrow I have a dinner with my dad and his gf which means i have to sit through dinner pretending to be a woman and hearing my government name and asked when i’m going to get married and my life together or whatever. maybe i’ll just get high before i go

#i’m not looking forward to it #at all #maybe i’ll get some cash out of it tho #remy speaks #vent #ish

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swiftful-thinking13 · 2 years

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I need to have a very uncomfortable conversation with my supervisor about our assistant manager