🇵🇸 Israeli helicopter shot civilians at 7 October rave, police find | The Electronic Intifada – 18/11/2023

An Israeli military helicopter shot civilians at the Supernova rave where Israel says 364 people were killed on 7 October.

Israeli investigators have concluded that Hamas fighters who crossed the boundary from Gaza that day had no prior knowledge of the music festival held near Kibbutz Re’im, an Israeli colonial settlement a few kilometers east of Gaza, the Tel Aviv newspaper Haaretz reported on Saturday.

#Palestine #Lies #Hasbara #Propaganda #WarLies #IOF #Israel #OperationAlAqsaFlood #Hamas #WarPropaganda #Hostages #MainstreamMedia

🇵🇸 Francesca Albanese: Western media is living in an alternate reality | The Listening Post

In recent weeks, there has been an alarmingly small number of official voices calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.

One exception has been Francesca Albanese - the United Nation’s Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian territories. She joins us for an interview on #terminology, #context and the blindspots of mainstream media.

Feature contributors: Francesca Albanese - UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories

#Palestine #Gaza #Media #Narative #InternationalLaw #MainstreamMedia #MassMedia #UNSR #OPT #FrancescaAlbanese
26/11/2023

🇵🇸 How a slogan became bigger news than the murder of babies in Gaza | Jonathan Cook - Middle East Eye –

The protest chant 'From the river to the sea' rejects not Israelis or Jews but the apartheid nature of Israel. This is why pro-Israel western politicians and media want to criminalise it

In media coverage, the roles of occupier and occupied, of predator and prey, of abuser and victim, have been reversed

#Palestine #Apartheid #FromTheRiverToTheSea
#FreePalestine #Protest
#Hasbara #Propaganda #MainstreamMedia #MassMedia #Media
28/11/2023

🇵🇸 Translator Ayah Najadat: Arabic mistranslations are ‘weaponised’ against Palestinians

Errors like these are harmful, when language is distorted or weaponised to harm marginalised and vulnerable people.”

Arabic team lead for Respond Crisis Translation, Ayah Najadat, talked to Middle East Eye about how she and her team help with emergency translations in Gaza and other crisis areas and correct harmful mistranslations in media reports.

One such example was when Najadat’s team corrected a video report published by the BBC about a released Palestinian prisoner which featured incorrect subtitles, distorting what she was saying. The #BBC took down the video and corrected the error following the correction by Najadat’s team.

Respond's Arabic team combats language violence against Palestinians — Respond Crisis Translation

Source : Middle East Eye
#MassMedia #Media #MediaLies #Narative #Translation #MainstreamMedia
29/11/2023

Israeli army plants new fake Hamas atrocity story – The Cradle

Israeli journalists are becoming increasingly wary of claims made by the Israeli army and rescue services surrounding 7 October

The Israeli military is seeking to manipulate Israeli journalists to plant false stories of Hamas atrocities in the media.

On 28 November, Israeli journalist Yishai Cohen published video of an interview in which an Israeli soldier claimed that dead “Babies and children were hung in a clothes line in a row,” in Be’eri, a settlement near Gaza that was attacked by Hamas on 7 October. 

Cohen later deleted the video, as the claim could not be confirmed, but the video garnered hundreds of thousands of views on the social media site X during the eight hours it was online. Other X users continued to share the clip after Cohen deleted the post.

#Israel #FakeNews #MediaLies #MainstreamMedia #WarLies #Propaganda #MassMedia
#OperationAlAqsaFlood
#Hasbara
30/11/2023

🇵🇸 Language of War in Gaza: Genocide is Not War

Why is it that Palestinians always murder while Israelis kill, or, at times, Palestinians 'die' on their own in 'clashes'. This is how mainstream media twisted the narrative on Palestine, and why we should fight back

Ramzy Baroud is the editor of Palestine Chronicle , he contributes to many other ME medias and has covered Palestine for decades

Ramzy Baroud: Politics for the People : https://ramzybaroud.net/
Telegram :https://t.me/ramzybaroud

In 2022 Ramzy co-edited a book with Ilan Pappé: OUR VISION FOR LIBERATION: Engaged Palestinian Leaders & Intellectuals Speak Out – CLARITY PRESS –

#Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Hasbara #MainstreamMedia #MassMedia #Media #Narrative
#Propaganda #WarPropaganda #WarLies #RamzyBaroud
31/11/2023

🇵🇸 Haaretz article: Detailing unverified and inaccurate accounts of the 7 October Hamas attack

A leading Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, has detailed how unverified and inaccurate accounts of the 7 October Hamas attack and alleged atrocities committed by Palestinian fighters, led to the widespread publication of stories that appear to be false.

Haaretz cross-referenced some of these allegations provided by Israeli officials and soldiers as well as search and rescue volunteers, in a report published on Sunday, and found that they did not add up.

Analysts have asserted that such spreading of misinformation and fabrications which typically focus on particularly inflammatory issues are used to rile up popular sentiment in favour of atrocities against a specific entity and in this case, have paved the way for Israel’s deadly assaults in Gaza.

Source : Middle East Eye
#Israel #WarLies #Hasbara #Propaganda #Misinformation #Media #MainstreamMedia #MassMedia #Hamas #Gaza #OperationAlAqsaFlood #Narative
04/12/2023

🇵🇸 Debunking Israel's "mass rapes" atrocity propaganda | The Electronic Intifada

See also : Israeli helicopter shot civilians at 7 October rave, police find

Israeli drone pilots targeted own settlements, bases, civilians on 7 October: Report

Previous reports have emerged showing that Israeli forces used tanks to kill Israeli civilians barricaded inside homes with their Hamas captors, and Apache helicopters to fire on Hamas fighters and their Israeli captives while returning back to Gaza. (#HannibalDirective)

Israeli army plants new fake Hamas atrocity story

Haaretz article: Detailing unverified and inaccurate accounts of the 7 October Hamas attack

CNN report claiming sexual violence on October 7 relied on non-credible witnesses, some with undisclosed ties to Israeli govt

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#WarLies #Propaganda #Hasbara #MainstreamMedia #Media #MassMedia #FakeNews #WarPropaganda
#Palestine #Hamas #OperationAlAqsaFlood
04/12/2023

Israel's 43-minute Hamas atrocity video exposed – The Cradle

From private screenings to media manipulations and outright lies, the Israeli military is pulling out all the stops in its propaganda blitz to justify a total war on Gaza

When first presented to 100 international media representatives on 23 October, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel Hagari drew parallels between Hamas and ISIS.

But now prominent Guardian journalist Owen Jones, who watched the footage at a private screening, has emerged to say that not only does the video fall short of those claims, but it is being deliberately used to justify Israel's horrific assault on Gaza's civilians.

“We were told of large-scale beheading, including of 40 babies … [But] we don’t see children being killed … If there was torture, no evidence is given ... If there was rape and sexual violence committed, we don’t see this on the footage either"

See Also

#Hasbara #WarLies #MainstreamMedia #OperationAlAqsaFlood #Propaganda #Medias #Israel
07/12/2023

Why is the media ignoring evidence of Israel’s own actions on 7 October? – Jonathan Cook

"What western governments and institutions should have done is demand an independent investigation to clarify the extent of Hamas atrocities that day rather than echo Israeli officials who wanted an excuse to trash Gaza and drive its inhabitants into neighbouring Sinai.

"The western media’s performance has been even more dismal - and dangerous. It professes to be a watchdog on power. But it has repeatedly amplified the Israeli occupier’s evidence-free claims, peddled libels against Palestinians with little or no scrutiny, and actively suppressed evidence challenging Israel’s official narrative"

#Israel #OperationAlAqsaFlood #Media #Hasbara #WarLies #MediaLies #Propaganda #MainstreamMedia #MassMedia #FriendlyFire #IOF #HannibalDirective #Narrative
15/12/2023

🇵🇸 MEMO Monitoring: Is passive language being used to distort Israel's crimes in Gaza?

Why are Western news outlets using passive language to describe Israel's killing of Palestinians in Gaza? News editors will say it's because they can't verify the facts or trust the information provided by the Gaza health authority, so why have they been much more forthright in naming Russia as the culprit in their coverage of the Ukraine war? MEMO's Political Analyst Nasim Ahmed takes an in depth look at the media giants including the New York Times and the BBC's double standards when it comes to reporting Israeli and Ukrainian deaths vs Palestinian ones.

The Middle East Monitor was set up more than 14 years ago as a press monitoring platform. MEMO Monitoring seeks to continue this mission of observing how the Middle East is reported in newspapers, on TV and on social media.

#Palestine #Hasbara #Media #MassMedia #MainstreamMedia #DoubleStandards #Narative
21/12/2023

🇵🇸 The New York Times "weaponized" Hamas rape story is a fraud. Ali Abunimah debunks it | Electronic Intifada

#Hasbara #WarLies #Propaganda #OperationAlAqsaFlood #MassMedia #MainstreamMedia #Hamas #Gaza #Israel
05/01/2023

🇵🇸 How Corporate Media Whitewash Israeli Crimes: A Personal Narrative | MintPress

Like many of you, my heart is weighed down so heavily by the ongoing turmoil in Gaza. And every day, I witness in absolute horror what Israel is doing to Palestinians, as it commits war crime after war crime; it’s watching dismembered children with their limbs blown off or helpless fathers carrying their decapitated babies while collecting the body parts of their wives and children in plastic bags. Or mothers carrying the dead bodies of their children, crying and screaming for them just to wake up. Or the newlywed wife who embraces her deceased husband, her lover, and gives him her last kiss and hug goodbye. It almost feels like we’re watching a sadistic horror movie right on the screens of our smartphones, but we’re not — we are watching in real-time a genocide of my people unfold before our eyes.

#Gaza #Genocide #Hasbara #MediaLies #MassMedia #MainstreamMedia #CorporateMedia
06/01/2024

🇵🇸 “It’s a bloodbath, and you cannot ignore it,” says Israeli journalist Gideon Levy

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy, in an interview with CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday, describes Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza as "a bloodbath, and you cannot ignore it." Levy continues to explain why he believes the goals declared by Israel are "partly unachievable" and asserts that Israel has crossed the limits of the war "a long time ago."

Levy states that Israelis “are the only people in the world right now who are not exposed at all to what’s going on in Gaza.” He continues by comparing Israel to Russia during the war on Ukraine, saying, “We were always laughing at the Russian TV covering the war in Ukraine. Ours is much worse because here it is voluntary.”

Source : Middle East Eye
#Gaza #Genocide #Hasbara #Propaganda #MainstreamMedia #MassMedia #GideonLevy #Hareetz
11/01/2024

Israel's well-oiled PR machine collapses – The Cradle

Greg Shupack’s book, The Wrong Story: Palestine, Israel and the Media, highlights three central frameworks that form the foundations of Israel's narrative to the west: 

Creating equal blame between both parties to the conflict.
Framing ‘extremists’ as the main obstacle to peace efforts and undermining moderate voices.
Emphasizing Israel's right to ‘self-defense’ even in the face of unarmed protests, with little regard for Palestinian rights.

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

Several key Hasbara strategies were employed to impact the western media narrative following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation:

Reminder : Video on Hasbara
PDF : Luntz Hasbara Doc

#Hasbara #Israel #MassMedia #MainstreamMedia #Propaganda #Book
10/01/2024

Why the Guardian’s ‘Hamas mass rape’ story doesn’t pass the sniff test | Jonathan Cook - Blog

How is it that #journalists are not pausing to question the outrageous improbability of so many of the evidence-poor Hamas rape stories being advanced?

The Guardian has just published the latest in the western media’s endless cycle of stories claiming Hamas committed “systematic, mass rape” on October 7. Its article is headlined: “Evidence points to systematic use of rape and sexual violence by Hamas in 7 October attacks”.

The biggest problem with these stories isn’t just the continuing absence of any meaningful evidence for “systematic” rape; or Israel’s long track record of lying to justify state terrorism; or Israel’s refusal to cooperate with independent investigators; or the racist, anti-Arab tropes that pass for sophisticated analysis in western circles.

#OperationAlAqsaFlood #Hamas #Israel #Hasbara #WarLies #Media #IOF #MediaLies #MainstreamMedia #MassMedia #Propaganda
#FakeNews #Infox
19/01/2024

🇵🇸 BBC Pro-Israel Bias Exposed by Leaked Emails and Internal Studies

Since the beginning of the war on Gaza, the British Broadcasting Corporation (#BBC) has faced repeated accusations of pro-Israel bias, not only from the public but also internally. On July 16 and 18, leaked emails between BBC staff highlighted the extent of these grievances, accusing the outlet of complicity in the ongoing #genocide in #Gaza.

#Jadaliyya, an independent magazine by the #ArabStudiesInstitute, obtained leaked emails from May between Beirut-based BBC correspondent Rami Ruhayem and BBC Director General Tim Davie. Ruhayem also sent these emails to several BBC News departments.

The emails and attachments detail instances where the BBC missed key context, allowed guests to make unsubstantiated claims, and provided “evidence of a collapse in the application of basic standards and norms of #journalism that seems aligned with Israel’s propaganda strategy

#Hasbara #LeakedEmails #Emails
#UK #Palestine #Medias #MainstreamMedia