The images were legitimate as well. The child was starving because he needed medication and twice the food of a normal child. Both were blocked by Israel. After he was successfully ethnically cleansed from Gaza by Israel, he was able to receive the care he needed and recovered his weight. Proving the perpetrator of his starvation was Israel.
Images of a starving Palestinian boy went viral. The attention saved him.
Fadi’s condition requires that he consume up to twice the amount of calories of other children his age. It also requires specific medication: an enzyme that helps people like Fadi get nutrients from food. Without either, Fadi began to waste away, his 31-year-old mother, Shaima, said.
After one night in Rafah, Fadi, his siblings and their mother were evacuated into Egypt on March 24. Fadi received care in an Egyptian hospital to ensure he gained back some weight and that his lungs were taking in enough oxygen to get on an airplane. Flying can be risky for people with untreated cystic fibrosis.
Steve@startrek.website 3 months ago
Deflect, confuse.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yeah, this shit is why I get on my wife about checking the legitimacy of images from Gaza. I tell her, “If you make one mistake that is they excuse they need. The bad actors will focus entirely on that and use it to delegitimize everything you post about it.” Several times I’ve had to point out that she should delete something. These people will repeat lies and falsehoods all day, but the moment you do it they will pounce and never let go.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 3 months ago
I think stirring up antisemitic sentiment is part of the goal. An anti-zionist Jewish friend, who had lived in Israel for a few years, told me they were thrown off by realising the Israeli propaganda machine targets Israelis (and overseas Jews, to a lesser extent), by making them feel unsafe — this is Israel’s raison d’être. Many Israelis have been raised on a steady rhetoric of “no matter where we go, they want to kill us. Our only chance for the Jewish people to survive is to gather together and be prepared to defend ourselves”. It’s straight up weaponizing generational trauma.
If a Jewish person in the US is the victim of an antisemitic hate crime, then that person may be more likely to believe that moving to Israel is the only way to safely be Jewish. And even if not, that violence is more useful at propagandizing other Jewish Americans than anything Israel could directly put out.
I hate how much sense this dynamic made when it was pointed out to me. It is a well tuned propaganda machine. I wish they could fucking see that a fascist ethnostate will not make anyone safer, and this genocide is unjustifiable on every level.