A 2024 claim and its 2026 re-emergence
A specific claim — that the IDF deliberately trains dogs to anally rape Palestinian detainees at Sde Teiman — first appeared on X in June 2024, went largely dormant through 2025, and re-emerged in English-language coverage between April 13 and May 12, 2026. The record reviewed for this report indicates the claim traveled from a 2024 Arabic-language broadcast through a series of advocacy and personal-account amplifications, into a 2026 NGO report, an X thread by a self-identified Israeli source, and a New York Times opinion column the paper has formally declined to retract. The available record does not document new forensic evidence introduced in either cycle. What the record does document is a changed messenger sequence.
The record indicates two cycles of phrase convergence around a single claim, with a traceable Arabic-language point of origin.
The record indicates the narrative originated as four posts by @ajmubasher — Al Jazeera Mubasher's Arabic-language Twitter account — on June 18, 2024, broadcasting clips of an interview with Gaza Health Ministry DG Munir al-Bursh. Approximately 15 hours later, @SuppressedNws (a North-Africa-based X account with a track record of anti-Israel amplification) re-uploaded the video natively with editorialized English framing — verified at 2,316,912 impressions per XPOZ, equivalent to roughly 28× the strongest single Mubasher origin post (the 82,299-impression al-Bursh-attributed card) and roughly 14× the combined four-post Mubasher origin cluster. Within 48 hours, Ryan Grim, @TrackAIPAC, and @ppultori carried the claim to a combined ~7.4M impressions. The April–May 2026 cycle restates the same June 2024 narrative, this time accompanied by a Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor report, the Ben-Ephraim self-identified-Israeli-source X thread, and the Kristof NYT column.
The thread that did the work, second cycle
The April 17, 2026 thread is the documented X-platform inflection point for the 2026 cycle. Shaiel Ben-Ephraim — a former UCLA postdoctoral fellow now describing himself as a geopolitical analyst — posted an X thread asserting the dog-rape claim with an opening preemptive reference to "blood libel." Per the record, the same claim was discussed four days earlier on the Danny Jones Podcast (Episode #387) with a "not verified" qualifier; that qualifier does not appear in the X thread version, and subsequent English-language coverage of the claim cites the X thread rather than the podcast.
Point of origin: tracing the narrative to its actual seed posts
SGI traces the narrative's birth point to a precise 72-hour ignition window in which the claim transitioned from an Al Jazeera Arabic broadcast clip to a multi-million-impression viral cascade. The findings are unambiguous: this narrative did not begin in 2026, and it did not originate organically. The originating publisher was Al Jazeera's live-broadcast Arabic-language Twitter account; the post that achieved Western virality was a native re-upload of the Al Jazeera video by a North-Africa-based account with a multi-rebranded identity history.
The original broadcast
On the evening of June 18, 2024, Al Jazeera Mubasher aired a live interview with Dr. Munir al-Bursh, Director General of the Hamas-administered Gaza Health Ministry, framed around the death of Dr. Iyad al-Rantisi at Sde Teiman in November 2023 (also reported by Haaretz). The report distinguishes Munir al-Bursh — the Gaza Health Ministry official still in that role — from Dr. Adnan al-Bursh, the Al-Shifa orthopedic surgeon who died in Israeli custody in April 2024 (documented separately by The New York Times, Haaretz, and Physicians for Human Rights Israel). Per the broadcast transcript, al-Bursh stated: "the occupation tortured them in a very sadistic and barbaric way... in which they brought in trained dogs and made these dogs carry out vile actions against the detainees." Mubasher posted four Twitter cards from the segment between 17:04 and 23:32 UTC — combined ~163,000 impressions per XPOZ. Al Jazeera English reported on al-Rantisi's death the same day but did not carry the dogs claim.
The 72-hour ignition window
The cascade ran in two stages. Stage 1: four Al Jazeera Mubasher posts on June 18, 2024 — combined ~163,000 impressions per XPOZ, Arabic audience. Stage 2: approximately 15 hours later, @SuppressedNws — a North-Africa-based X account with a track record of anti-Israel amplification — re-uploaded the Mubasher video natively (its own media upload, not a retweet or quote), with editorialized English framing that converted al-Bursh's reported third-person testimony into a first-person eyewitness exclamation. That single re-upload accumulated 2,316,912 impressions per XPOZ — roughly 28× the strongest single Mubasher origin post (the 82,299-impression al-Bursh-attributed card) and roughly 14× the combined four-post Mubasher origin cluster. The record indicates every Western-facing viral post in the next 96 hours sits downstream of this re-upload rather than of the Al Jazeera original.
Stage 1 — The Al Jazeera Mubasher origin posts (June 18, 2024)
Stage 2 — The native re-upload that achieved Western virality (June 19, 2024)
18 hours after the Al Jazeera Mubasher video card was posted, @SuppressedNws — a North-Africa-based X account with a track record of anti-Israel content — re-uploaded the Mubasher video as native X media, captioned with editorialized English-language framing. The re-upload bypassed the lower engagement ceiling of a quote-tweet/retweet model: 2,316,912 impressions, 11,955 RTs, 15,220 likes, 3,400 bookmarks — roughly 28× the strongest single Mubasher origin post (the 82,299-impression al-Bursh-attributed card 1803167299962028145) and roughly 14× the combined four-post Mubasher origin cluster (~163,000 combined impressions).
The account profile self-identifies as North Africa-based and has a track record as an anti-Israel content amplifier on X. The account currently displays "This account is Shut," with a successor account, @SuppressedNws1, amplifying the 2026 resurgence. This report does not undertake further forensic characterization of the account beyond noting that its origin region and topical posture made it a plausible re-upload vector for English-language amplification of Arabic-language Al Jazeera Mubasher source material.
Stage 3 — Phrase-pivot and journalist-tier amplification (June 20, 2024)
26 hours after the SuppressedNws re-upload, two posts on June 20 locked in the framing that would carry through to the 2026 NYT column. Ryan Grim of Drop Site News quoted al-Bursh's full statement — the first journalistic byline. 30 minutes later, @TrackAIPAC stripped qualification and reduced it to a 16-word assertion: "Read that again."
The full 72-hour ignition sequence
Earliest adjacent precursorPrecursor
Two months before the seed, Gerard Horton (via @Resist_05) posts that the IDF threatens Palestinian children with "dogs to eat off their genitals." The dog + sexual-abuse + Palestinian bundle enters the discourse — not yet the specific "trained dogs rape detainees" formulation.
@Resist_05 — Gerard Horton
74,894 impressions · 1,343 RTs · 1,647 likes
Historical scaffolding deployedPre-frame
Two days before the seed, @Sinister_Sophia introduces the plausibility scaffolding invoked throughout the cascade: "Pinochet had trained rape dogs that his goons used on female prisoners." The historical-precedent frame appears first.
SS @Sinister_Sophia 785 impressionsAl Jazeera English reports al-Rantisi death (Haaretz citation)Context anchor
Al Jazeera English posts a topically adjacent report citing Haaretz: "A prominent Palestinian doctor Dr. Iyad Rantisi died while in Israeli police custody just 6 days after he was detained." No trained-dogs claim — but it establishes al-Rantisi's death as an active English-language topic 1 hour before Mubasher's Arabic cards drop the additional claim.
AJ @AJEnglish — Al Jazeera English 30,634 impressions · 75 RTs · 91 likesFIRST ORIGIN POST — Al Jazeera Mubasher publishes the claimTRUE ORIGIN · T-0
Al Jazeera Mubasher (Al Jazeera Media Network's Arabic live-events channel) posts the first of three Twitter cards from the al-Bursh interview, framed around al-Rantisi: "Dogs sexually assault prisoners.. Director General of the Ministry of Health in Gaza reveals to Al Jazeera Mubasher horrific torture suffered by the Palestinian martyr doctor Iyad al-Rantisi in the occupation's prisons." First known public posting of the trained-dogs claim in any form. 82,299 impressions over 72 hours, Arabic audience.
@ajmubasher — Al Jazeera Mubasher
Al Jazeera Mubasher second post — direct al-Bursh attributionOrigin · T+0:54
54 minutes later, Mubasher posts a second card crediting al-Bursh by name: "Munir al-Bursh to Al Jazeera Mubasher: The occupation used trained dogs to rape detainees from #Gaza (video)." Links to a longer article at ajm.news/qsysls. This is the post Ryan Grim paraphrases 19 hours later.
@ajmubasher — Al Jazeera Mubasher
16,557 impressions · 17 RTs · 48 likes
Al Jazeera Mubasher VIDEO drop — the clip itselfOrigin · T+2:46
Mubasher's fourth and highest-reach origin post carries the actual video: "Humanity's forehead is mourning for it.. Dr. Munir al-Bursh reveals the occupation's horrific methods of torturing detainees using dogs." Per XPOZ, this post reached 55,340 impressions, 1,558 RTs, 1,896 likes, 63 bookmarks. The video carried in this post is the video @SuppressedNws subsequently re-uploaded natively to X approximately 15 hours later; the re-uploaded post, per the record reviewed, reached substantially higher impressions than this source post.
@ajmubasher — Al Jazeera Mubasher (video card)
NATIVE RE-UPLOAD — Al Jazeera video pirated into English-language XViral · T+18h
@SuppressedNws — North-Africa-based X account with a track record of anti-Israel amplification — re-uploads the Mubasher video as native X media with editorialized English framing: "I literally cannot believe what i just heard, in detention centers 'concentration camps' israel is using trained dogs to r*pe Palestinians." The Mubasher مباشر ("Live") watermark stays visible. Within 6 days: 2,316,912 impressions — approximately 28× the strongest single Mubasher origin post and approximately 14× the four-post Mubasher origin cluster combined. Per the record, the native-upload approach yielded a substantially different reach trajectory than the quote-tweet and retweet pathways used by other early amplifiers, which were bounded by the source post's engagement ceiling.
@SuppressedNws (native re-upload)
First mainstream journalist amplificationLegitimation
Ryan Grim — co-founder of Drop Site News, formerly The Intercept — quotes the full al-Bursh statement and attributes it to "DG of Gaza Health Ministry." First time the claim carries a recognized journalistic byline. Grim doesn't endorse it, but the framing legitimizes the next downstream tier.
@ryangrim — Ryan Grim, Drop Site News
THE PHRASE-PIVOT — "Read that again"Phrase-pivot
30 minutes after Grim, @TrackAIPAC strips qualification and sourcing: "Israel is using trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. Read that again." 16 words. Per XPOZ metrics, this post records the highest single-post reach in the data reviewed for this report. The "Read that again" formulation gets mirrored verbatim by downstream amplifiers for 23 months — and resurfaces in 2026.
@TrackAIPAC
Viral cascade ignition
@ppultori posts a decontextualized variant: "isnotreal is training dogs to 🍇 palestinians and yet ur still here scrolling past it." 1.9M impressions, 40,030 likes in 48 hours. The narrative achieves self-sustaining virality independent of the al-Bursh source.
@ppultori
Bagram historical analogy addedFrame extension
@PalCommunities quotes the @SuppressedNws video and grafts a U.S. historical precedent on top: "The US used dogs to rape Afghan prisoners at Bagram Air Base. Israel is using dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners." Pinochet and Bagram now both in circulation as plausibility scaffolding.
@PalCommunities
55,712 impressions · 297 RTs · 520 likes
NGO-adjacent voice deploys Pinochet frameFrame extension
@sasa_ghada (Ghada Sasa, academic) quotes the @SuppressedNws video and locks in the Pinochet-Chile parallel pre-seeded by @Sinister_Sophia four days earlier — the framing that appears in nearly every long-form treatment in 2024 and 2026.
@sasa_ghada
45,497 impressions · 365 RTs · 658 likes
"Don't ever ask me to condemn Hamas" pivotFrame extension
@ThiaBallerina mirrors @TrackAIPAC's "Read that again" and adds the move that defines the narrative's politicization: "Israel is using trained dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners. Don't ever ask me to condemn Hamas." The claim is now explicitly recruited into the Hamas-rape-denial counter-discourse.
@ThiaBallerina
14,172 impressions · 234 RTs · 623 likes
NGO institutional legitimationNGO endorsement
Ramy Abdu — chairman of Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Geneva-based; NGO Monitor and other observers have raised questions about the organization's institutional ties) — posts: "A horrifying testimony from one of the released detainees from Israeli prisons reveals how Palestinian prisoners were raped using Israeli dogs." Per the record reviewed, Euro-Med's name appears in subsequent rungs of the 2026 cascade documented in this report.
@RamAbdu — Ramy Abdu, Euro-Med Monitor
105,968 impressions · 1,407 RTs · 1,701 likes · 150 quotes
Cultural meta-story ignition
Briahna Joy Gray — Bernie Sanders's former 2020 national press secretary — posts: "I might have missed it, but has the Times or any other major US paper covered these reports of Israel training dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners?" The post itself is low-key; what propels it is the contrast between Gray's prior skepticism of Hamas Oct 7 rape claims and her uncritical adoption of this one.
@briebriejoy — Briahna Joy Gray
Generated dozens of high-engagement reply threads, including ~93K-impression and ~184K-impression rebuttal posts
Day-6 viral consolidation
@MuhammadSmiry — Gaza-based commentator with a large pro-Palestinian following — posts an all-caps consolidation: "ISRAEL USED TRAINED DOGS TO SEXUALLY ASSAULT PALESTINIANS WHO WERE KIDNAPPED FROM GAZA!" 115K impressions, 5,333 likes. The narrative is now fully detached from its al-Bursh source — every post that follows treats the claim as established fact.
@MuhammadSmiry
115,734 impressions · 4,106 RTs · 5,333 likes
The cultural-meta moment, revisited (March 2026)
Briahna Joy Gray's June 23, 2024 post ("has the Times or any other major US paper covered these reports of Israel training dogs to rape Palestinian prisoners?") drove a further round of viral amplification. The juxtaposition of the two posts below illustrates what NGO Monitor and other researchers have described as an asymmetric application of evidentiary standards: testimonial claims on one side of the conflict are treated as credible without forensic substantiation, while testimonial claims of the opposite valence — even when subsequently corroborated by indictments, leaked video, and UN reporting — are characterized as unverified or politically motivated.
The 2024→2026 bridge: one actor connects both cycles
Per the record, Ramy Abdu appears across the 23-month arc both as a personal-account 2024 amplifier and as the head of the institutional source (Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor) whose 2026 report is cited by Ben-Ephraim and by Kristof. Whether the 2026 cycle would have produced a comparable "NGO source" rung absent the 2024 imprinting cannot be established from the available record; the record does document that the same actor occupies both positions across the two cycles examined.
The 2024 ignition network — visual map
Visual map of the June 2024 cascade in the same notation as the 2026 diagram in § 04. Node size = reach; line thickness = amplification weight. The structural difference from 2026 is on the right: the 2024 cycle did not produce a documented mainstream Western institutional pickup within the period reviewed, and went dormant after the initial amplifier burst until April 2026. The dashed teal arrow from @RamAbdu points forward into the 2026 cycle, where Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor (which Abdu heads) functions as the institutional source cited in subsequent coverage.
The 2026 resurgence, 60 days at a glance
From the March 2026 dropping of the Force 100 charges to the May 12 NYT retraction denial — seven inflection points, in sequence. The 2024 origin event documented in § 03 is the substrate; this timeline traces only the resurgence cycle.
Force 100 charges dropped
The Israeli Military Advocate General drops all charges against five soldiers in the July 2024 Sde Teiman case. By April 16, all five are reinstated to reserve duty. The Sde Teiman detention center returns to the English-language news cycle for the first sustained period since June 2024, providing the contextual frame within which the April 2026 re-emergence of the dog-rape claim occurs.
Euro-Med Monitor releases "organised state policy" report
The Geneva-based NGO whose founder Ramy Abdu personally posted the day-3 viral seed in June 2024 (§ 03) releases a formal report repackaging the same testimony as "Another Genocide Behind Walls." Middle East Eye carries the exclusive.
Ben-Ephraim on the Danny Jones Podcast
Episode #387 of the Danny Jones Podcast airs with Ben-Ephraim as guest — a long-form American audio platform with a heterodox audience. He publicly makes his "I spoke to two Sde Teiman guards" claim for the first time, qualified here as "not verified" (a hedge Eli Kowaz later surfaced — see § 09). Full episode (2:28:06): 134,587 YouTube views; @JonesDanny's launch post and three promo clips on X total ~85,500 impressions. The dog-rape claim wasn't promoted as a standalone clip — it stayed inside the long-form audio, escaping via foreign-language excerpts.
Shaiel Ben-Ephraim's X thread — the 2026 pivot
The April 17, 2026 thread is the X-platform inflection point in the 2026 cycle. Ben-Ephraim's thread asserts that two Sde Teiman guards confirmed dogs were used for sexual assault. The thread's first sentence opens with a preemptive reference to "blood libel" allegations; the "not verified" qualifier Ben-Ephraim used four days earlier on the Danny Jones Podcast does not appear in the thread version. The thread reached approximately 2 million impressions within days per XPOZ — comparable to the @SuppressedNws seed reach from June 2024.
Novara Media & Owen Jones carry the claim westward
Novara's repackaging post hits 561K impressions, 9.7K likes, 7.5K retweets. Owen Jones publishes "Israel is raping Palestinians with dogs" on his Substack. Translated to French, syndicated in Arabic. UK mass commentariat reached.
The Kristof New York Times column — major-byline English-language pickup
Nicholas Kristof, two-time Pulitzer winner, publishes "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians." Cites Ben-Ephraim and Euro-Med directly. Includes the dog-mounting testimony. Israel's Foreign Ministry calls it "one of the worst blood libels ever to appear in the modern press." NYT masthead reportedly discussing retraction within hours.
NYT formally denies retraction
NYT spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander tells The Wrap there is "no truth" to retraction rumors. Kristof responds publicly, deflecting source-credibility critique toward a call for Red Cross and lawyer visits to "the 9,000 Palestinian 'security' prisoners." As of the date of this report, the column remains published without retraction, correction, or editor's note.
The network behind the resurgence
Visual map of 2026 claim flow. Node size = reach; line thickness = amplification weight. Pro-claim flow runs left-to-right; state-aligned track at bottom trails the Western chain. 2024 origin actors (§ 03) sit upstream and are not all redrawn — the recurring carryover most visible in the 2026 record reviewed is the @TrackAIPAC "Read that again" formulation, mirrored by multiple 2026 amplifiers.
The 2026 amplification sequence from advocacy posts to NYT column
Each rung increases institutional credibility while the underlying evidence stays constant. The same testimony block — collected by Euro-Med Monitor and PCHR, originally framed by Munir al-Bursh in the June 2024 Al Jazeera Arabic broadcast (§ 03) — carries through all four rungs without forensic substantiation being added anywhere in the chain.
Advocacy NGOs collect testimony
Post-release detainee statements aggregated into NGO reports, with no public forensic, medical, or chain-of-custody documentation released.
Self-identified Israeli source enters the cycle
The record indicates Ben-Ephraim's April 17, 2026 thread introduced a self-described Israeli voice attesting to the claim. The thread opens with a reference to "blood libel" allegations as a preemptive frame. The function of this step in the propagation chain, per the documented downstream pickup, is that subsequent English-language coverage cited the thread as its Israeli source attribution.
UK and Western left commentariat amplify
Novara's 561K-impression post and Owen Jones's Substack carry the claim into mass UK commentariat audience. DropSite News, QudsNen, and Middle East Eye Twitter accounts spread the claim in English and Arabic.
@novaramedia
@owenjonesjourno
@DropSiteNews
@QudsNenThe New York Times opinion page
Kristof cites Ben-Ephraim and Euro-Med directly. The dog-mounting testimony appears in the column body. Acknowledges "no evidence Israeli leaders order rapes" but frames it as "standard operating procedure." Reverse-amplification begins immediately from Tehran Times, Pravda EN, and CAIR.
The underlying witnesses
Every iteration of the dog-rape claim — in both the June 2024 origin cycle and the 2026 resurgence — relies on the same small set of post-release Palestinian detainee testimonies collected by advocacy NGOs. No forensic, medical, or chain-of-custody documentation has been publicly released for any of them.
"The soldiers later pulled a young man sitting to my right, forced him to sleep on the ground, and tied his hands and feet. Suddenly, the occupation soldiers let loose trained police dogs on the young man, who was subjected to rape by the dogs."
Euro-Med via ReliefWebTold a visiting lawyer he witnessed soldiers sexually abuse captives with dogs at Sde Teiman. "One of the soldiers tried to get one of the dogs to rape one of the prisoners." First Israeli outlet to publish was +972 Magazine.
"I was taken to a corridor away from surveillance cameras... a trained dog raped me inside the Sde Teiman military prison... one of them raped me in a calculated manner, knowing exactly what it was doing."
"Tied to a metal bed and raped by both a soldier and a dog while other guards filmed the event for future mockery." Soldier identity, dog breed, and location specifics not provided in any version of the account.
Told Middle East Eye that while forced to kneel with his head in a toilet, guards brought in a dog that "mounted and raped" him. When he screamed, guards reportedly beat him for "disturbing the dog."
Reported witnessing fire-extinguisher-nozzle abuse and rape with objects and dogs at Sde Teiman. Sourced repeatedly by Middle East Eye; amplified by QudsNen in April 2025 (27,000 impressions).
Said soldiers in a Megiddo cell removed his trousers and penetrated him with batons. Per HonestReporting, al-Sai "has a long record of celebrating terrorists on social media" — context Kristof did not include.
Said detainees were "raped by trained dogs while soldiers laughed and filmed." Account appears in the Committee to Protect Journalists' February 19, 2026 special report on journalist detentions (page 14).
The NGO network behind the testimony
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor
Founded by Ramy Abdu (Gaza-born, UK-based). NGO Monitor has reported alleged 2013 ties to Hamas-linked operatives in Europe; Euro-Med disputes the characterization. Per the record reviewed, Abdu posted from his personal X account on June 23, 2024 (§ 03), four days after the @SuppressedNws viral re-upload, with detainee testimony video that several downstream amplifiers in both the 2024 and 2026 cycles subsequently cited.
Palestinian Centre for Human Rights
Collected the "A.A./Amir" testimony at the center of the November 2025 Novara Media story. Advocacy officer Basel Alsourani framed dog-rape as "part of their genocidal intention." Founded 1995.
B'Tselem
Israeli left-wing human rights NGO. January 2026 report "Living Hell: The Israeli Prison System as a Network of Torture Camps" documents broader abuse including dog attacks but is not the direct source of the dog-rape claims. Frequently bundled by amplifiers.
Middle East Eye
Published the exclusive on the April 2026 Euro-Med report. Primary bridge between Euro-Med and English-language commentariat. Owned by Qatar-linked interests per public reporting.
Committee to Protect Journalists
February 19, 2026 special report on Palestinian journalist detentions includes Osama al-Sayed's dog-rape testimony (page 14). Used by Kristof and DropSite as press-freedom NGO credibility.
CAIR · Council on American-Islamic Relations
Issued press release within hours of the Kristof column demanding Congressional hearings and suspension of U.S. military aid. Cited by Ben-Ephraim alongside Euro-Med as "confirming."
The news cycle, chronological
Every published article directly covering the dog-rape claim or the underlying Sde Teiman case, from the original 2024 reporting through the May 11, 2026 Kristof column and its institutional rebuttals.
Building the narrative
The NYT column and the response to it
The parallel amplification track
A parallel track of state-aligned and state-adjacent outlets ran the claim with maximalist framing throughout both cycles. They trail the Western chain — but harden the narrative for non-Western audiences and provide future citation depth.
The rebuttal stack
Institutional and individual rebuttals to the Kristof column and the underlying claim. Counter-coverage volume spiked sharply on May 11–12, 2026.
Institutional response
Individual analysts and commentators
Eli Kowaz
David Collier
Stephen L. Miller
Gerald Steinberg
Michael Altman
Maccabi226kmThe word that does the work
A consistent feature of each iteration of this claim across both cycles examined is the word "trained" or its semantic equivalents. The record indicates this term, traceable to the original al-Bursh Al Jazeera Arabic phrasing identified in § 03, functions as the load-bearing distinction between two analytically separable claims. Without the term, the claim describes K9 units being present during abusive interrogations — a category of conduct partially documented in leaked Sde Teiman footage and Force 100 indictments. With the term, the claim becomes the assertion that the IDF maintains a specific program to train animals to commit sexual assault on command. K9 trainers consulted in published reporting have characterized the latter as operationally implausible; the available record reviewed for this report does not document forensic substantiation for the latter claim in either cycle.
The posts that built the resurgence wave
The reach of the April–May 2026 surge concentrated on a small number of high-engagement X posts. Ben-Ephraim's pivot thread is shown in § 02; the 2024 origin posts in § 03. The posts below represent the largest 2026 secondary amplifiers and the strongest counter-voice. Engagement metrics drawn from social media collection.
Secondary amplifier network
An additional pool of accounts repeated the claim across multiple posts during the April–May 2026 surge. The complete amplifier roster includes Arabic-language outlets, French translations, and U.S. left-wing accounts: