Hasbara

Items of hasbara are from 2023-12 - - 2024-04-17 (hasbara4 is from 2014)

Isra-l Uses Three Propaganda Strategies

Isra-l employs (at least) three central frameworks that form the foundations of Isra-l's narrative:^[10]

1. Creating equal blame between both parties to the conflict.

2. Framing ‘extremists’ as the main obstacle

It is always and exclusively, the fault of the ‘extremists’ to reach agreements, which would be acceptable to both sides. It is always the Palestinian side, which is the main obstacle to peace efforts and undermining moderate voices, it's never the fault of the occupier, which is Isra-l.

3. Emphasizing Isra-l's right to ‘self-defense’

Emphasizing Isra-l's^[16] right to ‘self-defense’ even in the face of unarmed protests^[11], with little regard for Palestinian rights.

These frameworks essentially guide western mainstream media coverage of the Palestinian-Isra-li conflict. Though, additionally, Isra-l leverages historical claims to Palestinian land and anti-Semitism accusations to shape its narrative and appeal to western sympathy.

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hasbaraH ==

What is the Hasbara Project?

Captain Dan Hanley
In 1983, there were over 50 major news media outlets. Today there are only 6 media conglomerates that control 96% of the news we read, see or hear and Zionists have infiltrated every level and branch of management to ensure that it happens.

In 1983, Israel launched the Hasbara Project. Its purpose is to control the media to ensure that all reported news is favorable to Israel to maintain American support.

Hasbara was formally introduced to the Zionist vocabulary by Nahum Sokolow. Hasbara (Hebrew: הַסְבָּרָה) has no direct English translation, but roughly means "explaining". It is a communicative strategy that "seeks to explain actions, whether or not they are justified".

Please read this article:

The art of deception: How Israel uses ‘hasbara’ to whitewash its crimes

"Hasbara does not look to jam the supply of contradictory information to audiences. Instead, it willingly accepts an open marketplace of opinion. What it seeks to do in this context is to promote selective listening by limiting the receptivity of audiences to information, rather than constricting its flow."^[17]

Please recall that the Zionist owned-and-controlled mainstream media has been complicit in the coverup of 9/11 since September 11, 2001 to present.^[18]
@danhanley4

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hasbara0 ==

Is Isra-L Losing the Propaganda War

Isra-l's well-oiled PR machine collapses

Hasbara, a Hebrew term uniquely associated with Isra-l's global propaganda efforts, has utterly failed to counter the pro-Palestinian narrative in the Gaza war. As a frontline tool for Tel Aviv's national security strategy, losing its Hasbara power is equal to losing its qualitative military edge. Ali Choukeir JAN 11, 2024^[10]

Observers and researchers say the occupation state is losing the propaganda war, ceding its long-cultivated ‘victim’ image to one of a perpetrator of horrendous war crimes.

In attempting to gain and maintain global sympathy on the back of 7 October events, Isra-l's disinformation and deceptive tactics through its global Hasbara apparatus has faced significant setbacks and backlashes, which may have been entirely avoided had it not chosen to blow Gaza to bits.

It is a national security disaster that more than matches a military loss. For Isra-l, this war was lost from the moment it dropped bombs on homes in the Gaza Strip.

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hasbara9 ==

The term 'terrorism' is restricted to describing Palestinian attacks, J Cook

Jonathan Cook
Research shows terms like 'massacre' and 'slaughter' are only ever used by the New York Times to describe the killing of Israelis, never for the killing of Palestinians.

Now the Intercept has found the NYT memo that specifically bars its journalists, and even interviewees, from using these terms in relation to Palestinian deaths, as well as a ban on the use of 'genocide', 'ethnic cleansing', 'occupied territories', 'refugee camps' and 'Palestine'.

The term 'terrorism' is restricted to describing Palestinian attacks, according to the memo. Israeli attacks on Palestinian civilians and civilian infrastructure, such as hospitals, is excluded.

The entire Palestinian narrative – and the region's history – has been erased from the NYT's coverage, exactly as Israel would want it to be.

Now we just need to unearth the memos issued by the BBC, Guardian and a host of other outlets that are serving precisely the same purpose of skewing the coverage exclusively in Israel's favour. More here:^[25]

@Jonathan_K_Cook 2024-04-17

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hasbara8 ==

a.

Torture, executions, babies left to die, sexual abuse… These are Israel’s crimes, J Cook

Jonathan Cook
Western establishments implicitly defend the fact they constantly stress Hamas’ barbarism over Israel’s on the grounds that the crimes of each are categorically different – in the apples and pears sense.

Hamas supposedly demonstrated a degree of sadism in its killing spree on 7 October inside Israel that marks it out from Israel’s far larger killing spree in Gaza.

That has been the basis for every media interview that requires guests to “condemn” Hamas before they are allowed to express concern about the slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. No one is asked to condemn Israel.

It is the basis too for permitting Israeli spokespeople to claim unchallenged that Israel targets only Hamas, not civilians, even while some three-quarters of Gaza’s dead are women and children.

On the BBC’s evening news last weekend, presenter Clive Myrie made precisely this preposterous assertion as he intoned that since 7 October, “Israel launched a relentless bombing campaign targeting members of Hamas.”
□ comment: BBC reading from the Isra-l script!

But new reports of 27 Palestinian deaths in Israeli torture centres and the testimonies of savagely beaten doctors from Nasser Hospital confirm how bogus this entire narrative framing by the western media is – one intended to mislead and misinform audiences.

Israel claims it is targeting Hamas, but its actions tell an entirely different story. Famine will kill off the sick and vulnerable long before it does Hamas fighters.

The truth is, Israel is not primarily eradicating Hamas. It is eradicating Gaza. Its crimes are at least as cruel and savage as anything Hamas did on 7 October – and its atrocities have been carried out on a far larger scale and for far longer.

Western establishments and their media have been waging a giant campaign of misdirection for the past five months, as they have against the Palestinian people in previous years and decades. Western publics have been encouraged to look in the wrong direction.

Until that changes, the men, women and children of Gaza will continue to pay the heaviest of prices at the hands of a vengeful, sadistic Israeli military.^[21]

The rest of my article (above) can be read here:^[23]
Mar 15, 2024 @Jonathan_K_Cook

b.

Jonathan Cook
I really shouldn't have to be teaching the editors, subs and reporters at Politico how to do their job properly:

"Israel has said it considers civilian infrastructure like hospitals and schools a fair target because [INSERT] it claims [END INSERT] Hamas has hidden fighters and weapons in these buildings."

That "said" above treats only the first proposition as contentious, not the second.^[22]

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hasbara7 ==

Saying Gazans Are Starving (but) Israel Is Starving Them, C Johnstone

Caitlin Johnstone Original Title
It’s Journalistic Malpractice To Say Gazans Are Starving Without Saying Israel Is Starving Them

The mass media are printing some amazingly depraved headlines about a new UN-backed report on starvation in Gaza from the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification, who says half the enclave’s population is now at the highest-possible threat level for starvation.

The New York Times has a real corker out titled “Famine Is Projected for Northern Gaza, Experts Say”, subtitled “A global authority on food security said that in the coming months, as many as 1.1 million people in Gaza could face the severest levels of hunger.”

A casual news consumer could get multiple paragraphs into this article assuming that people in a place called Gaza are suffering from some kind of famine caused by natural events, like a drought or something. Not until paragraph four would they encounter the word “Israeli”, and not until paragraph five would they encounter the line “Israeli’s bombardment and a near-total blockade.”

At a time when only 20 percent of news readers ever make it past the headline of a given story, this is an extremely destructive and propagandistic act of journalistic malpractice.

The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they’re doing packaging a story about Israel’s deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians like it’s a troubling prediction about the weather.

Contrast the New York Times’ headline with that of Al Jazeera’s report on the same story: “Gaza headed towards famine amid Israeli aid curbs: What to know”. That’s the normal way to present a story about a deliberately inflicted famine upon an imperiled population. If a population was being deliberately starved by siege warfare from a nation like Russia, China or Iran, we may be absolutely certain that the name of that nation would appear in the headline. cont. ^[20]
Mar 19, 2024 @caitoz

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hasbara6 ==

How the Western media helped build the case for genocide in Gaza, J Cook

Jonathan Cook
Misdirection by the media is everywhere in its coverage of the famine induced by Israel in Gaza – and it is entirely intentional. It is a playbook being used by every single Western media outlet. It was all too visible when an aid convoy last month reached Gaza City, where levels of Israeli-induced famine are most extreme.

In what has come to be known by Palestinians as the “Flour Massacre”, Israel shot into large crowds desperately trying to get food parcels from a rare aid convoy to feed their starving families. More than 100 Palestinians were killed by the gunfire, or crushed by Israeli tanks or hit by trucks fleeing the scene. Many hundreds more were seriously wounded.

It was an Israeli war crime – shooting on civilians – that came on top of an Israeli crime against humanity – starving two million civilians to death.

The Israeli attack on those waiting for aid was not a one-off. It has been repeated several times, though you would barely know it, given the paucity of coverage.

The depravity of using aid convoys as traps to lure Palestinians to their deaths is almost too much to grasp.

But that is not the reason the headlines that greeted this horrifying incident so uniformly obscured or soft-soaped Israel’s crime.

For any journalist, the headline should have written itself: “Israel accused of killing over 100 as crowd waits for Gaza aid.” Or: “Israel fires into food aid crowd. Hundreds killed and injured”.

But that…^[19]
2024-03-20

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hasbara5 ==

On Isra-l's "Deliberate Propaganda Campaign", Jeremy Scahill

2024-02-07

Democracy Now!
The United States and more than a dozen other countries quickly moved to suspend funding to UNRWA, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, a vital lifeline for millions of people in Gaza, shortly after Isra-l accused a handful of the agency's staff of taking part in the Hamas attack on October 7.

But the U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 obtained the intelligence dossier on UNRWA that Isra-l shared with allied countries, and found "no evidence to support its explosive new claim." The Financial Times and Sky News also reviewed the materials and came to the same conclusion.

Isra-l's claims about UNRWA are just the latest example of what journalist Jeremy Scahill says is a "deliberate propaganda campaign" to justify its brutal assault on Gaza.

"This is one of the most epic frauds in modern history, reminiscent of the lies told to explain and justify the invasion and occupation of Iraq," says Scahill, senior reporter and correspondent at The Intercept.^[12]
(With transcript)

Isra-li soldiers detain blindfolded Palestinian men in a military truck in the southern Gaza Strip on Nov. 19, 2023. (Photo credit: Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images)

J Scahill on Democracy Now!
In The Intercept, Scahill writes, "Nearly every week, sometimes every day, the Isra-li government and military have unloaded a fresh barrage of allegations intended to justify the ongoing slaughter." He adds, "The tactic is effective, particularly because the U.S. and other major allies have consistently laundered Isra-l's unverified allegations as evidence of the righteousness of the cause."

J Scahill on Democracy Now!
In the early morning hours of October 7, members of Hamas from the Qassam Brigades, the Nukba, their elite special forces, as well as members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, led a multi-pronged attack in Isra-l. Everyone is familiar with this.

And the initial targets that they hit constituted almost the entirety of Isra-l's infrastructure in what Tel Aviv calls the Gaza envelope, and they were able to actually quite swiftly overpower the Gaza division, the main entity of the Isra-li state, responsible for enforcing the prison conditions of the people of Gaza, for carrying out drone strikes, for waging war, for conducting all manner of warfare against the people of Gaza.

And then the militant Palestinian fighters made their way into a series of settlements in the area, and the intent was quite clear. They were trying to take hostages captive so that they could negotiate the release of their own prisoners.

But what they did on that day was nothing short of shattering the paradigm, of sending a message that the big lie that is promoted by Isra-l, not just under Netanyahu, but certainly under Netanyahu, that Isra-lis could somehow live in peace, a stone's throw away from what is effectively a concentration camp filled with 2.3 million people that have deprived anything vaguely resembling a human existence, that that is tenable.^[13]

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hasbara4 ==

Corruption of Western Media!

Dr.Bassel Abuwarda ‏@DrBasselAbuward 2014-07-22 ≈ 07:00 UTC
This is how much western media is corrupted !
[They switched the word Palestine with Isra-l, so Americans will think this destruction happened in Isra-l!!]
#GazaUnderAttack
pic.twitter.com/YjjYo6BzHU”

They switched the word Palestine with Isra-l, so Americans will think this destruction happened in Isra-l, but it was in Gaza!!
This is how the Zionists - in Tel Aviv and in Washington , DC are lying, and they lie more than they breathe!

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hasbara3 ==

Consequences of Isra-l Lies for Its People

#Black_propaganda (i.e. lies)^[8]

Feras Smadi
Do you wonder why Isra-l commits genocide? Watch this video to learn about #Nazism=#Isra-l
@feras_alsmadi

□ comment: The video clips are all in the public domain, seen by many of us. This video can only serve as an explanation, not as an excuse for Isra-l's genocidel warfare.

People in Isra-l have been indoctrinated into a pathological fear of "the other", whose land they have taken, and are still taking. And while they endlessly repeat "Khamas", and "Oct 7"^[7], they know themselves that this is all a diversion from the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian population, accompanied by a long list of warcrimes, because there can be NO excuse for genocide ever.

— Feras Smadi (@feras_alsmadi) January 16, 2024

January 16, 2024

Feras Smadi's account on twitter.com has been suspended. 2024-04-14

Comment by J B
The denigration of Palestinians must be generic in the education/socialization of the Isra-li community because the rest of the world sees Palestinians as equals: our neighbours, friends, colleagues, professionals, and associates. J B 2024-01-17

Francesca Albanese
The special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, told the U.N.’s Human Rights Council she believes “the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide against Palestinians as a group in Gaza has been met.”^[3]
26 Mar 2024 #Israel #Gaza #UnitedNations

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hasbara2 ==

How Corporate Media Whitewash Isra-li Crimes

Isr-l spends millions of $s on an Information War to manufacture consent.^{[link to YouTube]}

Very good analysis of what is happening in front of our eyes.

”It's a psychological war against truth tellers. We will not back down.”
”Isra-l thought it could bury us, but we turned out to be seeds.”

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hasbara1 ==

The BBC's reporting on Gaza – or rather lack of it – is beyond parody.

Tonight's News at 10^[1] featured reporter Wyre Davies finding yet another excuse for the BBC to return at length to the fall-out for Isra-lis from the three-month-old events of October 7, followed by him gravely intoning: 'The world's attention is still very much focused on the ongoing war, just over in Gaza.'

Well, the BBC's attention certainly hasn't been focused on the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza. Not a word tonight about Isra-l's continuing bombing of civilians, or the famine and disease it is inducing through its 'complete siege'. Or Isra-l's referral to the International Court of Justice, charged with carrying out a genocide.

Instead we segued from an interview with the families of the hostages and a report on the 'We will dance again' campaign by the Nova festival organisers to Lyse Doucet analysing Isra-l's options for running Gaza on the 'day after'.

Once again, the BBC made the Palestinians of Gaza – and the genocide they are enduring – invisible.
2024-01-06 Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook

1 comment:
Yes, this included the repetition by a BBC reporter that over 300 people at the Nova Festival were killed by Hamas, when this has been thoroughly debunked^[7] and the role of 'friendly fire' to be investigated including witness statements from the festival. M

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