Israel’s propagandists on the social media are still pushing this  nonsense, so we need to inject some fact into the debate.

Here’s Jonathan Cook:

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Respected outlets like the New York Times, the BBC and Guardian have repeatedly breathed credibility into the claims of systematic rape by Hamas, but only by unquestioningly repeating Israeli atrocity propaganda.

Madeleine Rees, secretary general of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom, told Al Jazeera: “A state has instrumentalised the horrific attacks on women in order, we believe, to justify an attack on Gaza, of which the majority suffering are other women.”

In other cases, Israel has blamed Hamas for mutilating the bodies of Israeli victims, including by driving over them, smashing their pelvises. In several cases, Al Jazeera’s investigation showed that the bodies were of Hamas fighters mutilated or driven over by Israeli soldiers.

The documentary notes that reporting by the Israeli media – followed by the western media – “focuses not on the crimes they [Hamas] committed but on the crimes they did not”.

The question is why, when there were plenty of real atrocities by Hamas to report, did Israel feel the need to fabricate even worse ones? And why, especially after the initial fabrication of beheaded babies was debunked, did the western media carry on credulously recycling improbable stories of Hamas savagery?

The answer to the first question is that Israel needed to manufacture a favourable political climate that would excuse its genocide in Gaza as necessary.

Netanyahu is shown congratulating the leaders of Zaka – the first responders’ unit that fabricated so many of these stories – on their role in influencing world opinion: “We need to buy time, which we gain by turning to world leaders and to public opinion. You have an important role in influencing public opinion, which also influences leaders.”

The answer to the second question is that western journalists’ racist preconceptions ensured they would be easily persuaded that brown people were capable of such barbarity.

More from my article We were lied into the Gaza genocide. Al Jazeera has shown us how can be read here: https://middleeasteye.net/big-story/gaza

Interesting that This Site – Vox Political – debunked the “beheaded babies” story and the Zaka “rape” claims, based on evidence available to the social media, and has been proved correct.

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