@HonestReporting: Italian magazine @espressonlin...

Italian magazine @espressonline put a photo of a Jewish IDF soldier and a Palestinian woman on its cover under the headline “The Abuse.” It played on all of the emotional tropes: an abusive man vs. the abused woman; the heartless Israeli monster vs. the powerless Palestinian.

But press play, and the narrative falls apart.🧵

@espressonline It went viral, racking up more than 3.7 million views on X alone. Like clockwork, antisemitic accounts reposted the image.

@espressonline The photo itself was taken by Pietro Masturzo in October 2025. After backlash from people claiming it was AI-generated, he released a video of the incident to prove it was real.
But the footage showed something very different than what the photo sold on the front page.

@espressonline The Palestinian woman was not harassed. She was the harasser. The photograph flipped the script to push the narrative the photographer, and the magazine, wanted to tell.

@espressonline A very different story, and yet another example of anti-Israel photo bias.