Comment on YouTuber Ms. Rachel accused of spreading Hamas propaganda
roofuskit@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoYeah, 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 2 weeks 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.