# ![@KareemRifai Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::2612045668.png) @KareemRifai Kareem Rifai 🌐

Kareem Rifai 🌐 posts on X about russia, ukraine, iran, china the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

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**Social topic influence**
[russia](/topic/russia) #3798, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) #3059, [iran](/topic/iran), [china](/topic/china) #913, [moscow](/topic/moscow), [syria](/topic/syria), [japan](/topic/japan), [yemen](/topic/yemen), [twitter](/topic/twitter), [taiwan](/topic/taiwan) #90

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"BREAKING: Almost every single candidate that ran in the [----] opposition Hong Kong primary has been reportedly arrested. This is the largest mass arrest of pro-Democracy figures by the CCP under Hong Kong's new national security law"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1346637618944094214)  2021-01-06T02:00Z 47.2K followers, 17.6K engagements


"Images from Nancy Pelosi's office and of her computer (which was turned on) are apparently making the rounds on Russian telegram channels. Rioters who breached the offices and circulated sensitive images should be prosecuted as national security threats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1346972360600125440)  2021-01-07T00:10Z 47.5K followers, [---] engagements


"Marine Le Pen is a fascist with open allegiances to Hezbollah and Assad along with dubious connections to Putin. Her election would bring irreparable damage to France the EU and the free world"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1354531657651519496)  2021-01-27T20:48Z 47.4K followers, [---] engagements


"BIDEN'S NEW RUSSIA SANCTIONS: [--] Russian cybertech companies involved in attacks on the US [--] individuals and entities connected to US election interference [--] individuals and entities connected to the illegal occupation of Crimea [--] Russian agents in the US expelled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1382715706140147720)  2021-04-15T15:21Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements


"BREAKING: President Biden has banned Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega from entering the United States"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1460696962286632972)  2021-11-16T19:51Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements


"I'm losing my mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1505311251911565312)  2022-03-19T22:32Z 47K followers, [---] engagements


"Top [--] all time worst corporate tweets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1528489256884355074)  2022-05-22T21:33Z 50.5K followers, [----] engagements


"So you're telling me the Jews that went to my parents' schools in Aleppo immigrated there from Europe Families that have hundreds of years of verifiable historical ties to the city Like what What are we accomplishing with this lie"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1564714250857226240)  2022-08-30T20:38Z 47.2K followers, [---] engagements


"'NO' votes on UN motion to allow Zelensky to address the General Assembly by video: Belarus Cuba North Korea Eritrea Nicaragua Russia Syria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1571158972849061888)  2022-09-17T15:27Z 46.9K followers, [----] engagements


"'NO' votes on the UN General Assembly res. to investigate the fate of [------] Syrians detained/disappeared by the Assad regime: - Belarus - Bolivia - China - Cuba - Eritrea - Iran - Nicaragua - North Korea - Russia - Syria - Zimbabwe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1674585749818318848)  2023-06-30T01:08Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Multipolar check-in: Russia : Paramilitary coup and ruble is collapsing Belarus : Lukashenko literally on the brink of death every other week Syria : Do I need to say anything China : Latest political priority is somehow arresting HK activists who live in the West"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1677884935670218753)  2023-07-09T03:50Z 34.2K followers, 12.6K engagements


"@0zgurlukcu The Syrian lira just collapsed to the worst level in the country's history *this month* what in gods name are you talking about"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1685362988016943104)  2023-07-29T18:53Z 34.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Things Ukrainians are not allowed to do according to Twitter (list in progress): - Swim - Walk outside - Go to a nightclub - Go to a theatre - Construct new buildings - Defend themselves from invasion"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1688676435630657536)  2023-08-07T22:20Z 34.2K followers, 16.6K engagements


"The Lebanese Pound is in free-fall Beirut quite literally can't keep the electricity running and Hezbollah is running amok but state-sanctioned homophobia is the priority I guess BREAKING: Lebanon set to ban screening of Barbie over 'promotion of homosexuality' BREAKING: Lebanon set to ban screening of Barbie over 'promotion of homosexuality'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1689460744956358656)  2023-08-10T02:16Z 43.8K followers, [----] engagements


"@alex_sammon I am so sorry that this is happening to you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1689702297637363712)  2023-08-10T18:16Z 34.2K followers, 10.4K engagements


"Arguing for impunity for Russia and rewarding them with parts of Ukraine in the name of "peace" is absolutely wild on its own let alone when you consider the West's policy of impunity for Russia for the past decade is what brought us to this point in the first place"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1693030932377149878)  2023-08-19T22:43Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"A new wave of the Syrian Revolution which for years has been smeared as sectarian and Islamist is being led in part by Druze pro-democracy protesters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1695459656418623584)  2023-08-26T15:34Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Why did Russia just bomb a Ukrainian market and kill over a dozen civilians It's simple: - Russia bombs Syrian hospitals - Words of deep concern - Russia mass-executes Bucha civilians - Words of deep concern - Russia massacres 500+ Malian villagers - Words of deep concern"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1699455856121725166)  2023-09-06T16:13Z 34.2K followers, 22.5K engagements


"Giving up any part of Ukraine means green-lighting more Russian international terrorism not peace"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1703810696159318436)  2023-09-18T16:38Z 25.5K followers, [---] engagements


"UN Security Council condemnation of mass-murder of civilians by the Burma junta: NO: Russia  China YES: USA  France  UK  Albania  Brazil  Ecuador  Gabon  Ghana  Japan  Malta  Mozambique  Switzerland UAE"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1704197917894922690)  2023-09-19T18:17Z 34.2K followers, 17.1K engagements


"PSA: The moment someone points to Iraq to denigrate the Ukrainian cause you do not have to listen to them because it is certain that they do not care about Iraqis or Ukrainians. 1) The same idiots who push the most aggressive posture in Ukraine (you) did the same in Iraq (also you). 2) the bizarre and reflexive WW2 analogies. If we dont stop him here. Neville Chamberlain also said. 3) The defense of the policy in terms of generic institutional 1) The same idiots who push the most aggressive posture in Ukraine (you) did the same in Iraq (also you). 2) the bizarre and reflexive WW2 analogies."  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1706741201582395699)  2023-09-26T18:43Z 47K followers, 16.8K engagements


""Genocide Denier Convention Here" is what first comes to mind but I'm open to more ideas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1708548156227568013)  2023-10-01T18:23Z 34.2K followers, [---] engagements


"Inflation in Lebanon just hit an annual 230%. Domestic prices for olive oil one of Lebanon's only export commodities is unaffordable for the common person. Who draws the most public ire Not Lebanon's government not Hezbollah but gay people and Syrian refugees Incredible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1708590874689429660)  2023-10-01T21:13Z 28.9K followers, 11K engagements


"America's "endless war" in Ukraine: The US military is not fighting in Ukraine It's literally been one year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1709370162900586741)  2023-10-04T00:49Z 34.2K followers, 15.2K engagements


"In this short statement about the Venezuelan refugee crisis AOC manages to blame: The Border Wall Joe Biden [----] Sanctions on Venezuela Marco Rubio AOC does not blame: Nicolas Maduro"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1710065487424475363)  2023-10-05T22:52Z 28.3K followers, 49.9K engagements


"Probably among the top [--] most insane interactions I've ever had on this website"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1710342629496410173)  2023-10-06T17:13Z 34.2K followers, 453.1K engagements


"The Assad regime is throwing cluster munitions on civilians in Idlib but don't expect any pearl clutching or outcry from the people who wrote essays against sending Ukraine cluster munitions to defend itself from Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1710441003147022716)  2023-10-06T23:44Z 34.2K followers, 55K engagements


"Iran is backing murderous anti-democratic movements in quite literally every corner of the Middle East through its own militants and proxies. The suffering will not stop as long as Khamenei's regime is allowed to keep promoting terror with impunity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1710674474142499107)  2023-10-07T15:12Z 34.2K followers, 12K engagements


"This is the modus operandi of the Iran-Russia-Assad alliance: target markets bread lines playgrounds anywhere with civilian assembly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1710721739787808849)  2023-10-07T18:20Z 34.2K followers, 12.4K engagements


"Instead of focusing in on the $6 billion Iranian hostage swap we should be talking about the inability of three American administrations in a row to effectively recognize and tackle the issue of Iran's violent expansionism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1710753364651163801)  2023-10-07T20:26Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Syria Lebanon Yemen Iraq and more. Iran will not be satisfied until the entire region is at its mercy and mimics its version of extremist authoritarianism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1710754935443238990)  2023-10-07T20:32Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"This is a video of the Assad regime bombing civilians in Idlib under the cover of yesterday's chaos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711050484922843484)  2023-10-08T16:06Z 29.8K followers, 18.6K engagements


"Any person that's posting videos of Idlib getting bombed and trying to pass it off as a video of the situation in Israel-Palestine is actively giving cover to the Assad regime and Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711061142028616124)  2023-10-08T16:49Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"A new video too brutal to share of what appears to be a dead Thai or Filipino citizen is circulating on social media. So far two Thai deaths as well as a confirmed [--] Thai citizens have been kidnapped into Gaza. Thailand and the Philippines are both US treaty allies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711067361153863712)  2023-10-08T17:13Z 60.8K followers, 43.8K engagements


"Iran out of Syria Iran out of Iraq Iran out of Yemen Iran out of Lebanon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711161862077686016)  2023-10-08T23:29Z 34.2K followers, 13K engagements


"It was already unconscionable to appease Iran after what they've done to their own citizens and the people of Syria Yemen and beyond but today should finally be the nail in the coffin that the Iranian regime as it stands has no grounds for softball diplomacy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711175333733347794)  2023-10-09T00:22Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Update: Thai Foreign Ministry says [--] Thai citizens have been killed. The Thai Prime Minister is now preparing an evacuation of Thai nationals from Israel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711223091576050152)  2023-10-09T03:32Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Let's zoom out for a second and ask how Iran has managed to have such an outsized terrorist presence in Lebanon Yemen Iraq and Syria with near-complete impunity from the West"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711374793470050548)  2023-10-09T13:35Z 29.7K followers, 15.8K engagements


"I've met with Mustafa Barghouti before in Ramallah. He is a liar and a revisionist. Hamas themselves are releasing the imagery of kidnapped civilians. It is insane to me that Western media is allowing him to blatantly lie to their audiences"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711387356383621121)  2023-10-09T14:25Z 26.2K followers, 36K engagements


"Foreign national confirmed deaths in Israel: Thailand USA UK France Germany Cambodia Nepal Numbers continue to rise but reports currently indicating that Thailand has suffered the largest number of casualties followed by Nepal and the US"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711396537299878224)  2023-10-09T15:01Z 29.4K followers, 22.5K engagements


"2 Ukrainians also confirmed dead. Multiple Filipinos are also missing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711408442496201061)  2023-10-09T15:49Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Reports that [--] Mexican citizens are also confirmed dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711422946718126155)  2023-10-09T16:46Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"First responders have reached the living quarters of several Thai workers in Kibbutz Alumim where they were executed by Hamas. I cannot repost the video because it is beyond graphic the floors are pooled with blood. It is stomach churning. They have been placed in body bags"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711442205817053350)  2023-10-09T18:03Z 34.2K followers, 29K engagements


"Instagram right now is a cesspool of teenagers and 20-somethings who have become experts on geopolitics overnight while promoting the most extreme positions as possible and hurting their friends with actual adjacency to this conflict by spreading misinformation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1711891013734744343)  2023-10-10T23:46Z 34.2K followers, 16.6K engagements


"Critically important to note that [--] hours ago Israel warned Hezbollah that if they joined the war the IDF will raze Damascus and target Bashar al-Assad. If the reports of Hezbollah landing in northern Israel is true regional conflict may be on the horizon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712131709313966153)  2023-10-11T15:43Z 25.3K followers, 117.7K engagements


"Scalise's Ukraine voting record is near-perfect. No telling what he'll do as Speaker but Ukraine aid is definitely better-staked under him than it would be under Jim Jordan who has opposed nearly all pro-Ukraine legislation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712153542025228653)  2023-10-11T17:09Z 34.2K followers, 18.3K engagements


"This is a video of Yarmouk camp in SYRIA which was besieged by ASSAD almost a decade ago. I'm going to lose my mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712233431722057949)  2023-10-11T22:27Z 34.2K followers, 51.6K engagements


"Once again this is Yarmouk in SYRIA which was besieged by ASSAD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712276642062573911)  2023-10-12T01:18Z 47.5K followers, 86.8K engagements


"This is from my family's hometown Aleppo in SYRIA which was demolished by ASSAD and RUSSIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712455778743812101)  2023-10-12T13:10Z 34.2K followers, 480.4K engagements


"Original video uploaded nearly a decade ago"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712455970494836849)  2023-10-12T13:11Z 34.2K followers, 13.4K engagements


"I am writing a piece discussing the insane proliferation of viral Syria videos purported to be from Israel-Palestine. If you come across any of these videos please DM me. If you are an editor at a publication who would like to work with me please DM me. This must stop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712474027284177315)  2023-10-12T14:23Z 34.2K followers, 26.1K engagements


"It is absolutely astounding that there is over a dozen viral videos on this platform of Syria that are being purported to be of the Israel-Gaza war that only are de-amplified when Syrian activists are forced to act as Twitter's unpaid moderation team"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712518447454687738)  2023-10-12T17:19Z 25.1K followers, 18.3K engagements


"Yet another viral video of SYRIA with the uniform of a Syrian Civil Defenseman clearly visible saving a Syrian child buried under rubble. Completely irresponsible and outrageous to misrepresent this as something else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712547679245578489)  2023-10-12T19:15Z 34.2K followers, 22.6K engagements


"The entire White House communications apparatus defending the $6 billion Iran hostage exchange only for the administration to freeze the account [--] hours later is a very interesting (and good) paradigm shift"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712566122179109208)  2023-10-12T20:29Z 34.2K followers, [----] engagements


"Just today I have seen more than a dozen videos go viral purporting to be from the war in Israel and Gaza but are actually from Aleppo Daraa and Yarmouk all locations in Syria besieged by the Assad regime. If you see it call it out. Do not let anyone revise our history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712628468888805548)  2023-10-13T00:37Z 34.2K followers, 42.8K engagements


"Syrians are not asking anyone to center Syria right now. We are simply asking that the videos of our people's suffering not be misused for clicks especially as our families are being bombarded including with white phosphorus and cluster munitions in Idlib and Aleppo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712634278624784776)  2023-10-13T01:00Z 34.2K followers, 41.2K engagements


"This is an image of child victims of ASSAD's gas attack in Eastern Ghouta SYRIA a decade ago. Posted by an account with one million followers. Rewriting innocent children's deaths for likes on Twitter"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712907805370282049)  2023-10-13T19:06Z 25.1K followers, 108.5K engagements


"The following viral imagery of Syria has been falsely attributed to the Israel-Gaza War: - Gassed children in Ghouta - Bombing of Ariha - Children in besieged Yarmouk - Children buried under earthquake rubble - A crying child in besieged Aleppo - A besieged mosque in Daraa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712911007071318295)  2023-10-13T19:19Z 25.1K followers, 32.5K engagements


"Traumatic imagery from Syria ranging from videos taken concurrent to the war in Israel-Gaza all the way to images from over a decade ago. Nothing is off-limits to the bad actors on this platform"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712911648787169619)  2023-10-13T19:22Z 34.2K followers, 18.6K engagements


"FIGHT DISINFORMATION: Comprehensive ongoing list of the most prevalent viral imagery of Syria falsely attributed to the Israel-Gaza war. This image is of child victims of the Assad regime's gas attack against Eastern Ghouta a decade ago not Israeli or Gazan victims of war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1712934425489534989)  2023-10-13T20:52Z 34.2K followers, 455.8K engagements


"You do not need to downplay the civilian death toll in Ukraine to talk about the Israel-Gaza War. You do not need to use videos of suffering Syrian children to talk about the Israel-Gaza War. Free PR for the Putin and Assad regimes will not save lives"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713199485755510950)  2023-10-14T14:26Z 25.1K followers, 33.9K engagements


"This is a video from [----] of Assad regime soldiers in Aleppo being targeted by Syrian resistance fighters. This is not a recent video of Israeli soldiers being attacked by Hamas and vice versa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713204158331838913)  2023-10-14T14:44Z 25.5K followers, 14.5K engagements


"This is a video from [----] of a child buried under rubble after a bombing by RUSSIA in Aleppo SYRIA. Purported to be a video of Gaza by an account with over [--] million followers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713225360190341269)  2023-10-14T16:08Z 25.6K followers, 74.5K engagements


"Video is extremely distressing. The white helmet of a Syria Civil Defenseman is clearly visible throughout"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713225630148428040)  2023-10-14T16:09Z 25.6K followers, [----] engagements


"This is a video from [----] of a child buried under rubble after a bombing in Aleppo as a part of the joint Assad-Russia campaign to seize the city. The white helmet of a Syria Civil Defenseman is clearly visible. This is not a recent video of Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713273139570905501)  2023-10-14T19:18Z 25.5K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Myself and many other Syrians have been screaming at the top of our lungs about the wave of viral Syria videos being falsely attributed to Gaza all week just for Ilhan Omar a sitting US Congresswoman to pull this. I am so beyond frustrated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713277289369092127)  2023-10-14T19:35Z 27.1K followers, 68.7K engagements


"Before she stealth un-retweets without an apology a screen recording:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713278216058593333)  2023-10-14T19:38Z 29.8K followers, 110.6K engagements


"Now that Ilhan Omar has retweeted a viral Syria image purported to be Gaza and Elon Musk has chimed into my replies it would be lovely if a news outlet could commission my writing so I don't have to keep tweeting into the void about this issue which is only getting worse"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713283603986026717)  2023-10-14T20:00Z 27.2K followers, 92.4K engagements


"With the help of other Syrian activists I've fact-checked the most viral misused Syria imagery all week including the image retweeted by Ilhan Omar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713285147238285487)  2023-10-14T20:06Z 30K followers, 27.9K engagements


"The Assad regime's siege of Eastern Ghouta killed 10000+ civilians. The Ghouta gas attack in [----] killed roughly [----] alone. Stop the re-writing of history. The perpetrator of this crime was BASHAR AL-ASSAD. The world needs to know"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713296894238015640)  2023-10-14T20:53Z 34.2K followers, 70.7K engagements


"One of the most viral Syria videos falsely purported to be of Gaza is this clip from a documentary about the Assad regime's war crimes in Yarmouk. Arabic-language accounts have largely been able to evade Community Notes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713304623283400955)  2023-10-14T21:23Z 25.1K followers, 149.1K engagements


"It would be really nice if Ilhan Omar would apologize for promoting the viral misuse of images of gassed children in Eastern Ghouta instead of just stealthily undoing her retweet. Especially considering she's never posted about Assad's crimes in Ghouta in her life"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713310617673625623)  2023-10-14T21:47Z 34.2K followers, 79.5K engagements


"This is a video of a SYRIAN child buried under rubble from the recent earthquake in northern Syria. The child is being saved by a Syria Civil Defenseman. Falsely purported to be from Gaza by this pro-Assad account"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713555705947394228)  2023-10-15T14:01Z 25.5K followers, 136.7K engagements


"The fact that this user has dogwhistled White Helmet (Syria Civil Defense) conspiracies in the past is absolutely incredible. The White Helmets are only good when he can pretend they're not the Syrian opposition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713556160026993125)  2023-10-15T14:03Z 25.4K followers, [----] engagements


"This is a widely-held belief across the Arab community that I always confront with one question: Why do you think there are no Jewish people left in the Jewish Quarter of Damascus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713588160838426732)  2023-10-15T16:10Z 25.1K followers, 141.4K engagements


"There is something so horribly sinister about Assad sympathizers and chemical weapons conspiracists posting the very images of dead Syrian children that they denied for years while trying to pass it off as from the war in Israel-Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713612275989246291)  2023-10-15T17:46Z 46.9K followers, 259.8K engagements


"Exhibit A: the guy that Ilhan Omar retweeted who posted the gassed children of Eastern Ghouta claiming it was Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713613052636016957)  2023-10-15T17:49Z 34.2K followers, 14.9K engagements


"Bashar al-Assad and Vladimir Putin condemned forced displacement on their phone call today. Assad and Putin. Forced displacement"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713909176546512996)  2023-10-16T13:26Z 25.1K followers, 24.5K engagements


"This purported video compilation of Gaza includes imagery from SYRIA while the author claims that the mainstream media is spreading disinformation. Irony is dead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1713976315521433998)  2023-10-16T17:52Z 34.2K followers, 38.5K engagements


"British influencer Sulaiman Ahmed posted an image of Syrian children who were gassed to death by the Assad regime. He said it was a video of Palestinian children killed by the IDF. Ilhan Omar retweeted it. It went viral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714277667716112493)  2023-10-17T13:50Z 54.4K followers, 42.4K engagements


"Israeli influencer Hananya Naftali posted a video of my great-grandmother's hometown Ariha being indiscriminately bombed. He said it was a video of the IDF bombing Gaza. It went viral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714277775224492044)  2023-10-17T13:50Z 25.8K followers, 61.6K engagements


"A pro-Taliban account posted a video of a crying Syrian child in my mom and dad's hometown of Aleppo. His sisters had just been murdered by the Assad regime. They said it was a video of a Palestinian boy in Gaza. It went viral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714277982653849616)  2023-10-17T13:51Z 25.7K followers, 28.1K engagements


"Absolutely critical right now as speculation explodes online to only share verified imagery. Online misinformation can create real-world ramifications and fuel more violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714363282788679980)  2023-10-17T19:30Z 25.5K followers, 26.3K engagements


"Hundreds have already lost their lives. Many old videos are circulating. Don't contribute to the firestorm for clicks at the expense of those who were just killed. Share verified information from trusted sources only"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714364439347015982)  2023-10-17T19:35Z 34.2K followers, 18.5K engagements


"It would be so lovely if quite literally anyone except the hospital bombers caucus called for an emergency meeting about a bombed hospital"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714367543224176755)  2023-10-17T19:47Z 26.6K followers, 52.4K engagements


"Bashar al-Assad condemns a hospital bombing. Unrelated: Bashar al-Assad has bombed 5+ medical centers in northern Syria in the past two weeks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714402820605038669)  2023-10-17T22:07Z 26.6K followers, 287.9K engagements


"A lot of talk about Hezbollah right now so I'm going to repeat myself: Hezbollah has terrorized Arab civilians for decades including butchering Syrians on behalf of Bashar al-Assad. They don't fight for anyone's freedom. They fight for their leaders in Tehran"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714445734286639188)  2023-10-18T00:58Z 25.8K followers, 99.2K engagements


"Iran is willing to use their proxies to drag Lebanon Syria and others into a war against the will of the civilians that they've terrorized for years. What has to be fundamentally understood: Arab civilians are treated as nothing more than pawns in Tehran's game for power"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714459731715125518)  2023-10-18T01:53Z 25.5K followers, 20.8K engagements


"The fact that the UAE Israel's supposedly most supportive Arab ally isn't waiting out an investigation is a pretty good indicator of how meaningless Emirati friendship and promises are regardless of whether or not you think Israel is guilty"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714462873475326117)  2023-10-18T02:06Z 34.2K followers, 23.2K engagements


"Bashar al-Assad posts an image of solidarity after a Palestinian hospital was bombed. Unrelated: Bashar al-Assad once besieged a Palestinian refugee camp so badly that every single hospital and medical center in the vicinity was either destroyed or forced to shut down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714627135875203303)  2023-10-18T12:59Z 26.2K followers, 144K engagements


"Since this tweet was published: A synagogue in Berlin was firebombed A synagogue in Tunisia was burned down and destroyed by a mob We are not solving Islamophobia by denying antisemitism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714715736436777470)  2023-10-18T18:51Z 27.1K followers, 286.7K engagements


"There is a certain amount of privilege involved in people with reach and power irresponsibly posting extremely inflammatory unverified information from the safety of the West that has a profoundly dangerous and real-world impact for civilians across the Middle East"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714723953389039823)  2023-10-18T19:23Z 25.4K followers, 51.2K engagements


"As an Arab Muslim from Michigan predicting Arab and Muslim vote intention seems impossible. We have voters who vote based on the candidate's perceived stance on Palestine the Lebanese Civil War or the war in Syria. We also have religious voters pocketbook voters and more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714737342299119780)  2023-10-18T20:16Z 25.1K followers, 17.5K engagements


"The moment that Bashar al-Assad steps foot into this conflict or even if Iran steps in on his behalf via staging attacks from Syrian territory there is no reason to show his illegitimate regime mercy. The people of Syria have suffered enough without being dragged into war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714744745778377198)  2023-10-18T20:46Z 34.2K followers, 14.3K engagements


"Putin quite literally bombed a Ukrainian maternity hospital and then claimed that the pregnant women imaged on stretchers were crisis actors. We don't have to "imagine.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714971539085410741)  2023-10-19T11:47Z 26.3K followers, 51.8K engagements


"Ma'am you reposted a decade old-image of gassed Syrian children falsely purported to be from Gaza literally days ago and then quietly unreposted it without apology or even addressing it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1714986347935531218)  2023-10-19T12:46Z 25.8K followers, 121.8K engagements


"The bigger picture of the destruction of the Tunisian synagogue yesterday: Over [------] Jews lived in Tunisia in [----] Only 1000-2000 remained by [----] Multiple people including two Jewish cousins were killed in a mass shooting at a Tunisian Jewish festival this May"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715006667425710507)  2023-10-19T14:07Z 26.4K followers, 36K engagements


"Sisi and Assad are using a long-standing Middle Eastern dictator strategy to distract from the dire domestic situations in both Egypt and Syria: Snuff out anti-regime protests Arrest dissidents Point your finger at Israel-Palestine and hope everyone forgets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715020982451065068)  2023-10-19T15:04Z 25.5K followers, 10.5K engagements


"We are so doomed. Are people going insane"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715076712424222942)  2023-10-19T18:45Z 27.1K followers, 147.4K engagements


"So few words multiple layers of wrong and crazy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715079241488822404)  2023-10-19T18:55Z 46.9K followers, [----] engagements


"From chaos in Lebanon to Syria to Iraq to Yemen every road leads back to Iran"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715180539357913534)  2023-10-20T01:38Z 25.1K followers, 32.2K engagements


"If this saga ends without any real repercussions for Iran there is no path forward to real regional peace. Iran will tighten its grip on Iraq Syria Lebanon and Yemen with no regard for the civilians that get caught in the crossfire"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715378725129203899)  2023-10-20T14:45Z 25.5K followers, 15K engagements


"The radical belief that Syria should not be a de-facto military base for Russian and Iranian terror operations and that the West should do something to stop it instead of upholding the status quo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715488255523668129)  2023-10-20T22:00Z 26.3K followers, 105.7K engagements


"Promoting pro-Assad chemical weapons deniers simply because they're posting pro-Palestine content is unacceptable actually and assuring Syrians that it's just "means to an end" is insane. People like Jackson Hinkle are just seeking to profit off of rage not help a cause"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715709795439677793)  2023-10-21T12:41Z 26.6K followers, 90.1K engagements


"On October 9th a massacre happened in Burma that you never heard about. The Burmese junta airstriked a village hosting displaced civilians before indiscriminately firing a barrage of ground-launched mortars. They killed [--] civilians. [--] were children"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715741102379003973)  2023-10-21T14:45Z 26.2K followers, 33.5K engagements


"Assad has long-touted his supposed strong support for Palestine. Let's check out what he's been up to since the beginning of the Israel-Gaza War: Made a few vague tweets of solidarity Bombed Idlib That's literally it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715775935843008614)  2023-10-21T17:03Z 25.8K followers, 25.3K engagements


"The deeper Hezbollah entrenches itself in this conflict the more uncomfortable Assad becomes in Damascus. The Syrian regime has been on the brink for months: its worst economic situation in modern history renewed widespread civil unrest and violence across the country"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715797419781247068)  2023-10-21T18:29Z 25.5K followers, 13.4K engagements


"Just absolutely no words. Sam was a friend of my mom's (and a friend to everyone). She was deeply involved in political organizing and the Metro-Detroit Jewish community fighting for a better Michigan for all. What a devastating and horrific loss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1715834570333962421)  2023-10-21T20:56Z 26.6K followers, 97.3K engagements


"The current environment of atrocity denialism and misinformation is exactly the media ecosystem Russia and China wants us to become where Americans aren't just divided in a hyper-partisan way but also divided on truth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716097413788606584)  2023-10-22T14:21Z 34.2K followers, 31.8K engagements


"200000 views on this video of a child survivor of a flash flood in Tajikistan falsely purported to be a child in Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716113283592151088)  2023-10-22T15:24Z 26.8K followers, 82.8K engagements


"Iran is commanding Hezbollah to continue escalating because ultimately Iran does not care about dragging Lebanon and innocent Lebanese civilians into a devastating war"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716148072344858992)  2023-10-22T17:42Z 25.5K followers, 47K engagements


"DSA's newest talking point: instead of helping Ukraine stop a genocide pay off my student loans. Anti-imperialism achieved"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716216667582153143)  2023-10-22T22:15Z 26.3K followers, 50.4K engagements


"DSA stop pretending to not understand how foreign aid works challenge (impossible)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716217487388205249)  2023-10-22T22:18Z 25.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Again as a Muslim Arab that grew up literally minutes away from Dearborn I find the idea that Arabs are a unified voting bloc absolutely hilarious. Syrians and Lebanese can't even agree on our home country's internal politics you think we agree in America"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716446122565120189)  2023-10-23T13:27Z 26.6K followers, 48.4K engagements


"Everyone rattling off this talking point is just projecting their pet issues onto the Muslim/Arab-American community as a whole and then using the community as a vessel to complain that their personal priorities aren't being represented. It's so transparent"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716446569539473433)  2023-10-23T13:28Z 25.5K followers, [----] engagements


"Iran and its proxies are belligerents in two of the bloodiest wars of the 21st century (Syria and Yemen) actively interfering in the internal politics of Lebanon and Iraq and just this month fueled another major conflict. Clearly the US-MENA policy status quo is not working"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716466802534777025)  2023-10-23T14:49Z 26.2K followers, [----] engagements


"It's completely unacceptable that Iran feels comfortable barraging US troops on an daily basis. We should be hitting back at Iran's genocidal proxies and hitting them back hard. The regime's terror across the region needs to stop"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716865361453461575)  2023-10-24T17:12Z 26.1K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Bashar al-Assad as we speak is: Committing war crimes against civilians in Idlib Allowing Iran to use Syrian territory to attack American troops Allowing Iran to use Syrian territory to fuel other regional war efforts with weapons and more"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716912638855455004)  2023-10-24T20:20Z 26.6K followers, 15.6K engagements


"Iran-sponsored killing in Syria and Yemen Iran-sponsored destabilization of Iraq and Lebanon Brutal repression of Iranian civilians Past [--] weeks of Iran-ignited regional war If this hasn't made it abundantly clear who the problem is I'm not sure what to tell you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1716967882226127194)  2023-10-25T00:00Z 26.2K followers, 21.4K engagements


"Denying what happened on October 7th is an absolutely self-defeating prophecy. The world watched it being live-streamed. There are videos images audio recordings and testimony. No one is going to gain human rights through atrocity denial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717000447037165669)  2023-10-25T02:09Z 26.6K followers, 39.5K engagements


"Earlier this month the junta in Burma massacred [--] civilians mostly children at a village hosting displaced people. Efforts in the Security Council to impose an arms embargo or sanctions have been blocked. Why Because Russia and China provide the junta's weapons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717172491171307953)  2023-10-25T13:33Z 27.1K followers, 53.9K engagements


"New reports are indicating that of the [---] hostages being held by Hamas [--] are Thai citizens. That would mean one out of four hostages is Thai. The previous estimate was only [--]. Thailand is a treaty ally of the US and a major non-NATO ally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717250960278302741)  2023-10-25T18:45Z 26.3K followers, 11.1K engagements


"You sent death squads to my family's home country to mass-murder civilians for the crime of asking for basic human rights"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717296601121567009)  2023-10-25T21:46Z 26.7K followers, 65.2K engagements


"Really incredible stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717327512219378065)  2023-10-25T23:49Z 26.4K followers, 34.1K engagements


"This is a viral video from SYRIA during the ASSAD and PUTIN bombing campaign against civilians in Idlib where my mom's side of the family is from. Falsely purported to be from Gaza with one million views. There is ongoing Assad regime bombing against Idlib as we speak"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717512673972101494)  2023-10-26T12:05Z 26.7K followers, 113.6K engagements


"This is a viral video from SYRIA during the ASSAD and PUTIN bombing campaign against civilians in Idlib where my mom's side of the family is from. Falsely purported to be from Gaza from an Arabic-language account with over 2m followers. Idlib is still being bombed as we speak"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717535628705829055)  2023-10-26T13:36Z 26.9K followers, 23.4K engagements


"Syria is at its bloodiest in YEARS and instead of Assad and Putin shouldering the blame bad actors are pretending that the imagery is from the Israel-Gaza War. Today old misattributed videos of Idlib are going viral while videos of Idlib being bombed this week are ignored"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717552684230717693)  2023-10-26T14:44Z 27K followers, 44.2K engagements


"Just today old videos of Idlib being bombed by Assad and Putin falsely attributed to the Israel-Gaza War received more views / engagement than videos of Idlib being bombarded by Assad this entire month. Literal real-time erasure of war crimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717584500383789535)  2023-10-26T16:50Z 27.2K followers, 61K engagements


"Did the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs write this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717616257006965033)  2023-10-26T18:56Z 26.3K followers, 14K engagements


"Assad is hiding behind the chaos to intensify his attacks on civilians in northern Syria. Every time someone posts a video of his crimes and falsely attributes it to Israel-Gaza they are helping to shield Assad even further which is exactly why I won't stop calling it out. BREAKING: Assad's forces and Russia bombard the city of Sarmin east of Idlib Syria with munitions loaded with incendiary materials. BREAKING: Assad's forces and Russia bombard the city of Sarmin east of Idlib Syria with munitions loaded with incendiary materials"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717663975360340423)  2023-10-26T22:06Z 46.9K followers, 15K engagements


"For those who think the war in Syria is over the parties active in the chaos in Syria just in the past month: Assad regime Iranian proxy militias Hezbollah Israel US coalition Rebel factions Syrian Democratic Forces Turkey ISIS Russia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717723204381286717)  2023-10-27T02:01Z 26.4K followers, 12.3K engagements


"The IRGC and Iranian-backed militias exist in Syria to commit war crimes against civilians with Bashar al-Assad and attempt to colonize the country on behalf of Tehran. No one should weep for them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1717725501748281535)  2023-10-27T02:10Z 26.3K followers, [----] engagements


"We are so so doomed. My god"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1718012305244369019)  2023-10-27T21:10Z 26.6K followers, 346.7K engagements


"I'm so sorry but if you can't recognize how stuff like this harms a movement you have completely and utterly lost the plot you are part of the problem and you are more interested in being inflammatory than securing human rights"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1718013558108107127)  2023-10-27T21:15Z 26.6K followers, 30.4K engagements


"This is a video of children in Yarmouk SYRIA which was besieged so badly by ASSAD that at one point there was not a single hospital or medical facility that remained in the vicinity. Purported to be Gaza from an account with over half a million followers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1718241940704018825)  2023-10-28T12:22Z 27.2K followers, 248.3K engagements


"Hezbollah is intent on dragging the entire nation of Lebanon into a war it knows it will lose throwing millions of Lebanese civilians in the crossfire. Once again Iran using Arab civilian lives as a pawn for their geopolitical games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1718666514016911773)  2023-10-29T16:30Z 27.2K followers, 125.3K engagements


"This is an old video of a hospital being bombed by ASSAD in my family's hometown ALEPPO not Gaza. I met Mustafa Barghouti in Ramallah. He was a liar then and a liar now. Shocking that Western media outlets have been interviewing him as a reliable source"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1718723296118649128)  2023-10-29T20:15Z 27.3K followers, 394.3K engagements


"Assad and Putin are target bombing civilian centers in Syria as we speak but the closest thing to attention the victims are getting is people posting videos of Syria and pretending that it's from the Israel-Gaza War"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1718737183178191084)  2023-10-29T21:10Z 27.1K followers, 48K engagements


"Incredible that this needs to be said but endorsing pogroms against random civilians is not going to help anyone attain human rights"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1718797748147810318)  2023-10-30T01:11Z 26.8K followers, 60.8K engagements


"Putin's most recent "expansion of cooperation with the Islamic world" was target bombing a refugee camp in northern Syria this week"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1718800215119982762)  2023-10-30T01:21Z 26.7K followers, 26.1K engagements


"It would be really lovely if Cori Bush didn't use her official US government account to signal boost Michael Tracey an Assad chemical weapons denier and apologist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719041679817150503)  2023-10-30T17:20Z 27K followers, 146.2K engagements


"You do not have to promote a genocide denier to make your point There are a million other sources you could use other than a grifter journalist whose primary work is running cover for Vladimir Putin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719042415707787470)  2023-10-30T17:23Z 47.4K followers, [----] engagements


"This is the guy Cori Bush just signal boosted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719044251919544709)  2023-10-30T17:31Z 26.7K followers, [----] engagements


"Hezbollah the progressive social movement that assassinated Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hariri with explosives equivalent to [----] pounds of TNT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719069961635664270)  2023-10-30T19:13Z 26.6K followers, 28.9K engagements


"I have no words at this point. What are we doing Who does this help"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719157468817699109)  2023-10-31T01:00Z 27.2K followers, 263.2K engagements


"Stop allowing people like Angelo John Gage and Jackson Hinkle to promote white supremacy and fascism in the name of supposedly "helping Arabs.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719160093684400344)  2023-10-31T01:11Z 27K followers, 21.8K engagements


"The line that Hamas is "mass-infiltrating the US via the southern border" is overshadowing the very real presence of Hezbollah and other Iran-backed proxies across Latin America. The Iran-linked bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina is one of the most infamous examples"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719353670419046467)  2023-10-31T14:00Z 27.1K followers, 13.7K engagements


"Just weeks before the outbreak of war in Israel-Gaza US authorities busted a Hezbollah-South American financial ring including one of the senior operatives involved in the AMIA bombing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719354600149397950)  2023-10-31T14:04Z 26.6K followers, [----] engagements


"These attacks are originating from multiple countries in the Middle East including Syria because the West has de-facto green-lighted Iran's expansion of its terror network. This is completely unsustainable and the ongoing chaos from Syria to Yemen should be proof enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719378212382208064)  2023-10-31T15:38Z 27K followers, 26.1K engagements


"Egypt's solidarity with Palestinians: "we would rather have millions die than have a single Palestinian on our soil." Syria's solidarity with Palestinians: bombing Idlib and hoping everyone forgets about Assad bombing Palestinians in Yarmouk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719403346098876537)  2023-10-31T17:17Z 26.6K followers, 84.3K engagements


"A general rule of thumb is that you shouldn't be upholding commentators who accused gassed Syrian children of being crisis actors as moral authorities on literally any topic let alone on the suffering of Arab civilians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719527257897631902)  2023-11-01T01:30Z 27.1K followers, 15.7K engagements


"People who quite literally made their careers off of denying atrocities against Syrian civilians are now being boosted to the top of the algorithm and applauded for hijacking the Israel-Gaza conflict and pretending to care about Arab civilians. Incredibly frustrating"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719528048427421849)  2023-11-01T01:33Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"Turkey's most recent opposition presidential candidate ran his campaign almost solely on mass-deporting Syrians to their deaths. In Lebanon Syrian refugees are treated like third-class citizens. We shouldn't be surprised that Egypt is treating fleeing Palestinians the same way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719705570360340670)  2023-11-01T13:18Z 26.4K followers, [----] engagements


"This is a video from a hospital in my family's hometown ALEPPO being bombed by ASSAD. Jackson Hinkle is one of the most prolific Assad war crimes deniers on this platform and once accepted a cash award from a shell organization of the Syria Nazi Party"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719727023382200596)  2023-11-01T14:44Z 27.1K followers, [----] engagements


"In just the past hour the most prolific Assad war crimes deniers on this platform have received a million+ views on a video falsely purported to be a strike on Gaza that is actually Assad bombing a hospital. Haven't Syrians suffered enough for the love of god"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719728535856693641)  2023-11-01T14:50Z 27.1K followers, 22.5K engagements


"Super cool how people on this platform can post videos of Assad's war crimes in Syria claim that it's actually Gaza and then delete it after [------] people have seen it with absolutely no consequences"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719734364085391835)  2023-11-01T15:13Z 55.5K followers, 366.7K engagements


"Probably because you just posted a video of a hospital in Aleppo being bombed by Assad falsely claimed it was Gaza then only took it down after it had received half a million views. Good on Twitter for dishing out the absolute bare minimum actionable consequence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719787108594798799)  2023-11-01T18:42Z 27.2K followers, 29.7K engagements


"It has been less than two weeks since the Biden administration rolled back sanctions on the Maduro regime in exchange for free elections. This is an absolute embarrassment. Snapback sanctions are absolutely in order"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1719834100788236403)  2023-11-01T21:49Z 27.2K followers, 41K engagements


"Russian state-funded commentators are building their brands and making money off of the backs of Palestinian civilians that they do not actually care about. The proof Look at how they reacted when Assad besieged Palestinians in Yarmouk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720094703826391132)  2023-11-02T15:05Z 27.1K followers, 11.3K engagements


"Iran is fueling three wars in the Middle East simultaneously two of which are among the bloodiest of the 21st century. Why bow our heads to a warmongering regime not even supported by its own people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720105245819158729)  2023-11-02T15:47Z 27.3K followers, 26.3K engagements


"I wish I was making this up: Rosario Murillo wife of Nicaragua's Sandinista socialist dictator Daniel Ortega just proclaimed herself the head of Nicaragua's Supreme Court. Yesterday police forcibly evicted the President of the Supreme Court on Murillo's command"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720186387138273550)  2023-11-02T21:09Z 27.3K followers, 20.4K engagements


"Lots of people asking "where were the protests when Bashar al-Assad was mass-murdering Syrians" There were protests but they were calling for Assad to keep killing us. Just a week after Assad gassed hundreds of people to death in Eastern Ghouta"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720423957025755292)  2023-11-03T12:53Z 46.9K followers, 151.2K engagements


"Lebanese civilians are waiting to find out if an unelected man whose only mandate of power is bestowed by Iran will thrust the country into another war with Israel. Lebanon is already in the midst of a deep economic crisis. People cannot even afford olive oil"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720429252540031272)  2023-11-03T13:14Z 27.2K followers, 24.2K engagements


"Nasrallah's entire speech is "Iran didn't do it I promise They also don't tell what to do I swear" Extremely convincing stuff"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720432297088823375)  2023-11-03T13:26Z 27.5K followers, 31.8K engagements


"This is the guy who sends his men to mass-murder Syrian civilians for sport by the way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720440184997552496)  2023-11-03T13:57Z 27.3K followers, 17.1K engagements


"Hassan Nasrallah one of the pillars of the Axis of Resistance in summary: "I will not be resisting at this time.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720453462297587997)  2023-11-03T14:50Z 27.2K followers, 14.8K engagements


"Before Nasrallah's big speech Hezbollah's "resistance" strategy was mass-murdering Syrian civilians. After Nasrallah's big speech Hezbollah's "resistance" strategy is still mass-murdering Syrian civilians. Where exactly is the resistance happening"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720465207128944754)  2023-11-03T15:37Z 27.3K followers, 13.6K engagements


"Commentators going viral grandstanding about Arab civilians and then you go to their profile and find stuff like this tweeted right after Assad decimated Aleppo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720807560775639122)  2023-11-04T14:17Z 27.3K followers, 677.8K engagements


"In case you've missed it: anti-imperialist hero and Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro is currently attempting to annex a part of Guyana home to [------] people. That's a third of Guyana's total population"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1720815628414517270)  2023-11-04T14:49Z 27.6K followers, 21.9K engagements


"This Arabic-language tweet with over two million views claims that this video is an IDF soldier laughing about displacing Palestinians. The problem The fighter is Iraqi and he's celebrating cleansing Syrian civilians in Idlib where much of my extended family is from"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1721186716415910295)  2023-11-05T15:24Z 27.9K followers, 261.2K engagements


"Your Hezbollah puppet Nasrallah just made an hour-long speech about how he was not going to help Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1721265875636871665)  2023-11-05T20:38Z 27.3K followers, 15.3K engagements


"Every day that we wait to respond to this aggression is a green-light for more attacks and more Iranian terror across the Middle East"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1721629491326267712)  2023-11-06T20:43Z 27.3K followers, 11.2K engagements


"Three million views on a tweet from the Executive Director of Just Foreign Policy that asserts that less than [-----] people have died in Ukraine. Unrelated: I'm also hearing reports that pigs can now fly and that hell has frozen over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1721866204212600968)  2023-11-07T12:24Z 28.2K followers, 77K engagements


"Even if we're not citing the Ukrainian government (which believes tens of thousands were killed in Mariupol alone) and strictly following the UN count the UN itself even recognizes that the number around [-----] is a severe undercount"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1721866421775286751)  2023-11-07T12:25Z 27.4K followers, [----] engagements


"I can say pretty confidently that Ukraine ceasing to exist would be a far worse deal for Ukrainians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1721990994629988862)  2023-11-07T20:40Z 27.3K followers, 32K engagements


"Really really interesting stuff from a guy who definitely cares about Arab civilians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722297583425507777)  2023-11-08T16:58Z 27.3K followers, 33.1K engagements


"Bashar al-Assad is currently facilitating: Worldwide refugee crisis Atrocities against civilians Attacks against US forces Trafficking of a highly addictive amphetamine Iranian + Russian influence in the Middle East The status quo is unsustainable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722352251535057022)  2023-11-08T20:35Z 27.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Feeling like you've seen this exact tweet dozens of times in the past few weeks Because you have. Iran-backed militants have attacked US forces nearly [--] times in the past few weeks. Dozens of service-members injured. How many times has the US retaliated Once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722375064283152444)  2023-11-08T22:06Z 27.3K followers, 19.8K engagements


"ASSAD out of Syria IRAN out of Syria RUSSIA out of Syria"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722388852654923889)  2023-11-08T23:01Z 27.3K followers, 36K engagements


"Vivek Ramaswamy is going on an anti-Ukraine dialogue written and approved by the Russian Foreign Ministry"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722428141216350677)  2023-11-09T01:37Z 28.2K followers, [----] engagements


"When I lived in Buenos Aires I walked past the memorial park of a Hezbollah bombing that killed [--] people including multiple Jews every day. Pretending like there's no Hezbollah terror presence in Latin America is beyond conspiracy brain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722439615599054947)  2023-11-09T02:23Z 34.2K followers, 84.7K engagements


"Yeah okay anyways"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722687630964347071)  2023-11-09T18:48Z 28.2K followers, 29.6K engagements


"The past week of discourse has convinced me that even if Bashar al-Assad live-streamed himself gassing Eastern Ghouta and Douma there would be a very loud contingent of people on this platform still uncritically denying it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722698309775638643)  2023-11-09T19:30Z 28.4K followers, 105K engagements


"This video with one million views falsely purported to be from Gaza is from a documentary about victims of the ASSAD regime in SYRIA. The abuse of this type of traumatic imagery is so obscene and never-ending for the love of god stop spreading disinformation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722727183179747330)  2023-11-09T21:25Z 29.7K followers, 292.6K engagements


"George Galloway a prominent Assad apologist just reposted this video falsely purported to be from Gaza but is actually a documentary about Syrias White Helmets saving victims of Assad. The kicker Galloway has spent years smearing the White Helmets as terrorists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722758577796845682)  2023-11-09T23:30Z 28.9K followers, 220.3K engagements


"Bashar al-Assad is in Saudi Arabia to participate in the emergency Arab summit on the situation in Gaza. The same Bashar al-Assad that besieged Palestinians in Yarmouk until the area was unrecognizable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1722982286960759103)  2023-11-10T14:19Z 28.7K followers, 182.3K engagements


"Jill Stein's launch video includes clear imagery of the aftermath of a Assad regime bombing as she accuses the US of fueling global conflict. In [----] Stein's website called for the US to cooperate with Russia to help Assad regain power. I don't even know what to say anymore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1723003780252266925)  2023-11-10T15:44Z 28.4K followers, 58.6K engagements


"As long as Bashar al-Assad is in attendance there is absolutely no reason to take the Arab League seriously in any capacity"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1723363160495673732)  2023-11-11T15:32Z 28.7K followers, 66.1K engagements


"Jill Stein 2016: "The US should be working with Syria Russia and Iran to restore all of Syria to control by the Assad government." No picture of you at a conference with Putin needed your words say it all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1723416119497605586)  2023-11-11T19:03Z 28.3K followers, 17K engagements


"Assad's attendance at the Saudi Arabia meeting on Gaza is just another example of how the Syrian regime uses crisis to push for normalization. Assad was not interested in actually saving Syrian earthquake victims nor does he have any care for Palestinians. It's a game to him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1723458312455233641)  2023-11-11T21:50Z 37.3K followers, [----] engagements


"IRAN OUT OF SYRIA"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1723845509989720293)  2023-11-12T23:29Z 28.4K followers, 30.8K engagements


"This viral image is from Homs in SYRIA following bombardment by ASSAD. I cannot fit into one post the unimaginable crimes against humanity that were committed in this city. This is not Gaza. Assad apologists are trying to rewrite war crimes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1724058878424363065)  2023-11-13T13:37Z 28.8K followers, 86.5K engagements


"This is an image from Homs in SYRIA after the ASSAD regime's siege. It is not Gaza. This user is an Assadist who has routinely denied Assad's war crimes for the past decade. She does not care about Palestinians. She wants to protect the illegitimate Syrian regime's image"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1724089536211304948)  2023-11-13T15:39Z 51.1K followers, 221.1K engagements


"Continued unchecked Iranian expansionism across the Middle East is the root of regional escalation. The Iranian regime proves time and time again that they do not care how many Arab civilians are in the crossfire. Giving Iran impunity to avoid "escalation" is paradoxical"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1724130130715439161)  2023-11-13T18:20Z 28.3K followers, [----] engagements


"Hezbollah and its backers in Tehran know exactly what would happen in the event of a Hezbollah entry into the war. Once again Lebanese civilians may become unwilling fodder for the Iranian regime's games. Iran simply doesn't care. BREAKING: NBC reports a Hamas official saying Hezbollah will 'fully enter' the conflict if 'Hamas is completely destroyed' in Gaza and that the 'red line for Hezbollah would be the full destruction of the resistance in Gaza'. BREAKING: NBC reports a Hamas official saying Hezbollah will 'fully enter' the conflict if 'Hamas is completely destroyed' in Gaza and that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1724133163906081189)  2023-11-13T18:32Z 56.8K followers, 16.3K engagements


"Elizabeth is clearly under extreme duress. Very difficult to watch. Iranian-backed groups have held her in captivity for months. They are monsters. She is a Princeton researcher and a tireless friend to the Syrian Revolution and Ukraine. The US must help secure her release"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1724155112354934951)  2023-11-13T19:59Z 28.4K followers, 80.1K engagements


"You know that all of the handwringing about Ukraine not holding an election during martial law is just concern trolling because those very same people do not seem bothered by the fact that Vladimir Putin has ruled the Russian Federation for over 2/3 of its entire existence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1724225365491474730)  2023-11-14T00:38Z 28.9K followers, 13.7K engagements


"Bella Hadid who has [--] million followers just posted this viral image of children in Yarmouk SYRIA following horrific bombardment and siege by the ASSAD regime. She falsely purports that the image is from Gaza"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1724431964185211298)  2023-11-14T14:19Z 29.7K followers, 769.4K engagements


"What's even worse is that the image she's reposting clearly discloses the source of the image. All she had to do was read the caption. Instead she uncritically whitewashed war crimes committed by Assad to more people than the population of major countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/KareemRifai/status/1724432583868506346)  2023-11-14T14:22Z 29.1K followers, 26.1K engagements

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