According to that document, Roth tweeted on those topics 413 times in that time period out of 1192 total tweets - 35%. of his total Twitter output. (There seems to be a few duplicates but the percentage is pretty close.)
I did my own further analysis on just the tweets that were negative to Israel, Hamas or both. I found that of 374 relevant tweets, 293 were anti-Israel, 35 anti-Hamas and 46 mentioned both parties.
(This includes 4 tweets that blamed Israel and Egypt equally.)
That is only part of the story.
62 of Roth's anti-Israel tweets were often suffused with either sarcasm or snarkiness, while I could only find a single sarcastic anti-Hamas tweet.
So for example, there are plenty of condescending tweets about Israel and Zionists,often using biased sources:
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 18 Now I understand why #Israel killed the kids on the roof. They were feeding ducks. Clearly future food for fighters. http://trib.al/wOn9Wbi
The only sarcastic Hamas tweet was this one:Kenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 19 Another day, another Gaza toll of kids killed by #Israel "precision" fire: 3 in bedroom, 4 at home w/ family, 4 more. http://trib.al/qdkgKdBKenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 23 In face of @HRW's detailed evidence of attacks on civilians, #Israel ambassador just blathers about "kangaroo court." http://trib.al/BnQ3m5oKenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 28 Why does #Israel condemn #Hamas for firing from a cemetery? Duty is not to endanger living civilians, not dead ones. http://trib.al/6wdsvjyKenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 29 #Israel would never massively destroy civilian property w/o military justification. Except it did in 2009. Not again! http://trib.al/uXum2aIKenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 31 1, 2, 3, 4...1389, 1390 Palestinians killed in #Gaza, 3/4 of them civilians, thanks to #Israel's "precision" attacks. http://trib.al/Md5Mcoy
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 29 Incredibly, #Hamas says it's "targeting Israeli soldiers only...not..civilians"! Except those indiscriminate rockets. http://trib.al/yzKKCTUOn the other side, six of the anti-Hamas tweets sought to minimize Hamas war crimes, usually by employing a very narrow definition of international humanitarian law that is not supported by the source texts. Here are three of them:
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 24 #Hamas is putting civilians at risk but "no evidence" it forces them to stay--definition of human shields: @NYTimes. http://trib.al/61iwSoM
Compare Roth's snarky tweeting that Hamas was innocent of kidnapping and murdering the three Israeli teenagers with how he acknowledged the reports of Hamas admitting they did do it:
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 25 Hamas must as feasible not fight in populated areas http://trib.al/CA94avT but no human shield unless coerced to stay http://trib.al/YQwIIau
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 29 Tunnels used to attack or capture civilians is a rights violation. Tunnels used to attack or capture soldiers isn't. http://trib.al/v8CCCj6
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth Jul 26 Remember when #Israel insisted Hamas was behind kidnap-murder of three West Bank teens. Oops, turns out it wasn't. http://trib.al/BcbP0s8He tweets a definitive statement that Hamas wasn't responsible. Then:
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth · Aug 12 FWIW, a Palestinian man reportedly says during Shin Bet interrogation that Hamas financed kidnap-murder of 3 teens. http://trib.al/3E8kBk7"For what its worth" and "reportedly" indicating that Roth doesn't quite believe it.
Then:
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth · Aug 20 #Hamas official reportedly says Qassam brigade was behind West Bank kidnapping & murder of 3 #Israel teens. http://trib.al/FVOfOkNAgain, the pro-Hamas claims are tweeted as fact and the anti-Hamas claims are given caveats or are minimized.
This pattern is consistent. The only real anti-Hamas tweets were for things Roth had no wriggle room for, namely rockets aimed at civilians and executions of Hamas' enemies in the streets.
More indication of Roth's bias comes from how he reported the 4-year old Israeli child killed by a Hamas rocket. His first mention was anti-Hamas:
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth · Aug 22 #Hamas's indiscriminate attacks take a civilian toll today, including a 4-year-old killed, others injured. http://trib.al/7B2IMzZ
But the next mentions of the dead child were anti-Israel!
Kenneth Roth @KenRoth · Aug 22 IDF claimed Hamas mortar that killed 4yo came from "near an UNRWA school" http://trib.al/2sPTlls Turns out it didn't. http://trib.al/OjAw5Ci
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The bias is unmistakable, and combined with the feedback Roth gets from the thousands of people who retweet his anti-Israel tweets, it is self-enforcing. Who doesn't want to be popular? Roth's anti-Israel tweets get far more readers than any other categories.
Other posts about Roth's Twitter obsession with demonizing Israel here, here, here , here and here.
(h/t Adam Levick)