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Right-wing extremists are trying to exploit claims of anti-Semitism and racism. Don’t let them

Dis-influencers: they try to flood the media and social media with falsehoods, to blind you to the facts.

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Is this the new theme of UK politics – projecting one’s own behaviour onto others?

This Writer has already mentioned it in connection with the behaviour of BBC reporters at the Rochdale by-election count.

But it also seems to be gripping our political classes, who are trying to get us to believe that Jewish people across the UK are living in fear of Nazi-style persecution – when it is they who seem desperate to impose it on all of us.

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So we are being spoon-fed reports the like of which Aaron Winter discusses below:

He’s right on the button. The article states:

Jewish people in Britain say they are considering leaving the country as it “feels like Nazi Germany”, amid a surge in antisemitic incidents since the 7 October Hamas massacre in Israel.

Physical attacks, threats and accusations of “slaughtering babies” are among the incidents suffered by terrified residents, after recent figures showed more than 4,000 reports of antisemitism last year.

The number of Islamophobic incidents in the UK has also soared.

How many of these alleged incidents have been investigated by police? Where are the figures showing how many of them were found to have actually taken place? And why have those figures not been reported?

Answer: because none of them have. They are simply claims that have been made and then bandied about by pressure groups like the so-called Community Security Trust, in order to heighten fear among the public and boost support for their own political ends.

CST is getting £54 million of public money from Rishi Sunak, on the basis of nothing more than hearsay.

The Independent reports two alleged anti-Semitic incidents – but one-sidedly. Only the claims of the alleged victims are put forward and we hear nothing from the people they accuse. That is not balanced reporting.

And other Jews are furious:

The Independent also reports that the Board of Deputies of British Jews condemned George Galloway’s Rochdale by-election win as a “dark day” for the UK’s Jewish community – but consider this:

Meanwhile, other Jews are suffering abuse and intimidation from the self-appointed representatives and organisations claiming to represent all Jews in the UK, who want to prevent their fellows from expressing any support for the people of Palestine who are suffering a genocide at the hands of the government and military of Israel, the country that presents itself as the nation-state of the Jewish people:

The knock-on effect is that organisations speaking up for the persecuted Palestinians are themselves being persecuted – here in the UK.

The BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg has echoed the comments of Lord Walney, formerly the Labour MP John Woodcocksuggested that the Palestine Solidarity Campaign should be de-platformed – its voice silenced among the media and political classes:

Woodcock (or Walney if you like) left Labour under a cloud after one of his former staff members said he had sent her inappropriate text messages between 2014 and 2016. The allegations were never fully investigated.

This Writer agrees. It seems improper to trumpet this man’s allegations about others while ignoring the fact that he has unexamined allegations against himself. How can we believe anything he says?

Also resurfacing as a consequence of the claims of anti-Semitism is Islamophobia; if anti-Semitism is said to be rising because of the way Israel has carried out its assault on Gaza, then it is also being claimed that Muslims are acting in solidarity with their fellows in that land – with violence; and that has triggered a wave of anti-Muslim feeling.

We see it in the resurgence of the long-debunked trope of “no-go” areas in our towns and cities, where it is claimed nobody is welcome who is not a Muslim. It isn’t true – but notice that politicians representing these areas seem to be conspicuously absent from the debates:

Open Democracy puts its finger on what is really happening:

The fears about antisemitism, particularly in relation to such marches and solidarity, are being stoked by political figures and the media. This was evident when former home secretary Suella Braverman called ceasefire protests “hate marches”.

We need to … address fears; challenge misconceptions, misrepresentations and politicisation; and fight antisemitism itself, instead of targeting and delegitimising critics of Israel and the fight against other racisms, occupation and genocide.

The author, who is clearly Jewish, expresses joy at Jewish participation in pro-Palestine activities:

Something that gives me hope, however, has been the solidarity expressed by communities around the world – among them Jewish groups such as If Not Now, Jewish Voice for Peace, Na’amod, the Black-Jewish Alliance, and Jewdas.

On the one hand, our presence in these movements as Jewish people can help offset accusations that opposition to Israel is antisemitic. On the other, many of us are accused of being self-hating, kapos, Judenrats, and not Jewish anyway.

And JINOs, apparently.

And, of course, opposing Israel does not become antisemitic just because someone who is not Jewish does it.

The accusation of genocide directed at Israel is framed by critics as antisemitism or even Holocaust minimisation. This not only serves genocide denial and spits in the face of the promise ‘Never Again’, but also corresponds to the redemption of the Nazis and the actual minimisation of the Holocaust.

So instead of the UK becoming like Nazi Germany because of anti-Semitism alleged against people who want to see Palestine supported before Israel destroys it completely, it is becoming like Nazi Germany because of the behaviour of the Zionist organisations, media outlets and politicians who are supporting Israel.

They are simply projecting their own abhorrent behaviour onto others – making it seem that it is their opponents who are the wrong-doers and not them.

What is to be done about it?

The first choice is obvious: you simply don’t believe what the pro-Zionist, anti-Palestinian mob are saying, from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer down to the keyboard warriors on the social media.

Beyond that, it should be our responsibility to do to them what they so keenly wish to do to those of us who are trying to present the facts: we should do what we can to remove them from public life.

That is most easily done with politicians. We’ve seen the upset that George Galloway’s election as MP for Rochdale has caused – and there is a general election coming.

Keir Starmer’s blind support for Israel, in the face of video evidence of that country’s military slaughtering children, has been particularly nauseating.

There is an excellent candidate standing against him – and for peace in Gaza – in his Holborn & St Pancras constituency.

Everybody there should vote for Andrew Feinstein. Those of us in other constituencies should look for the candidates who also oppose the right-wing, pro-Zionist dogma that we’re being force-fed, and do our best to get them into the House of Commons too.


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It gets worse: did Israel LIE about rescuing hostages to justify Rafah bloodbath?

This Site has no way of proving or disproving what follows.

I am merely showing you what’s being said. Hopefully more information will become available (although probably not via the BBC) and we’ll all be able to make up our own minds.

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Here’s the issue:

Just when you think Israel could not descend any lower, this happens.


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US claim that Hamas used Al Shifa Hospital is unsupported rubbish

Invasion of the liars: IDF troops in al-Shifa hospital. Their claims that the place had been used by Hamas have been supported by the US intelligence services – allegedly. But nobody seems able to provide any proof to the rest of us.

According to a source in the United States intelligence service – allegedly – Hamas did use Al Shifa hospital as a command centre and to hold hostages. But I’m calling “bullshit” on that claim.

Here’s Reuters:

The complex was used by both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to command forces fighting against Israel, the U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity.

U.S. intelligence agencies have not disclosed the evidence on which they based their assessment.

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The American government believed that Hamas used the hospital complex and sites beneath it to carry out command and control activities, store some weapons and hold a few hostages, the U.S. official said.

Right. So there is no evidence to support any claim that Al Shifa Hospital was used by terrorists in any way, at any time.

The only person saying it – if you believe anybody has actually said it at all – is so unconvinced of their information that they won’t attach their name to it.

But the US government, which will make a fortune in tax receipts from arms companies that are supplying Israel with the weapons being used to bomb Gaza into dust (along with Lebanon, Syria and Iran, now), is happy to accept this fairy tale at face value.

It seems to me that there may be an ulterior motive behind this claim. What do you think?

Source: US believes Hamas used Al Shifa Hospital but evacuated before Israeli operation- source


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Has anybody seen propaganda adverts from Israel on YouTube?

Interesting message from a friend:

“I see Israel is so desperate that it’s putting ADVERTS during videos on YouTube saying ‘Hamas burned civilians alive’. I’ve never seen anything like it!”

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Of course the claim that Hamas burned civilians alive is hotly disputed. Such an advert would be nothing but a propaganda tool for a genocidal power that wants to brainwash us into believing something that isn’t true – otherwise there would be no reason for it.

I haven’t seen these adverts. Have you?


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Dis-influencers are trying to say pro-Israel BBC is anti-Semitic. Really?

How sad for the BBC. Once again, it can’t do anything right.

Usually, Auntie is caught in the crossfire between Tories and left-wingers (we can’t count Labour among those any more), each of whom say the BBC is biased towards the other.

This time, the Beeb is quite clearly biased in favour of Israel – but mouthpieces for that country are determined that it is, in fact, not only opposed to that country but actually anti-Semitic.

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Here’s some evidence of pro-Israel bias – a news report that deliberately (it seems) mistranslates what a former Palestinian prisoner said in order to make Israel seems less brutal:

But look at what Israel’s apologists have to say about the BBC:

Someone’s not telling the truth here.

Who could the liars be?

Oh, that’s right… All of them.


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Dis-influencers: how are Jewish people in the UK being forced to leave their homes?

Protest: apparently marches like this, calling for an end to Israel’s genocide of Palestine, are terrifying Jewish people. Here are some of the Jewish people who took part in one of the marches. Do they look terrified to you – afraid to admit their identities?

We learned yesterday that the Israeli regime has an army of dis-influencers – people who try to influence others with disinformation – information that they know is false but deliberately present to others as factual in order to mislead. Here’s a great example:

The article states:

Speaking to MPs on the Home Affairs Select Committee on Wednesday, [Gideon] Falter [of the Campaign Against Antisemitism] said the marches had prompted Jews to “vacate their homes” and “remove their Star of David necklaces and hide their kippahs”.

Dave Rich, director of policy at the Community Security Trust, also addressed the panel and said:

“It was statements like: ‘I feel very unsafe living in my country, I’ve been afraid to go into London every Saturday, I’ve avoided making plans and I feel afraid on the tube’.”

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“Many also changed the time of hospital appointments, central London synagogues changed their service times and many parents wouldn’t allow their children to use the tube on the weekends.”

But there is a flaw in these statements, as outlined below:

To be forced into doing something, there has to be an element of coercion against someone; another person has to have told them to leave – with threats. They need to have been told to hide the emblems of their Jewishness under fear of violence.

Were they?

Where’s the evidence for that?

Without it, this is just more disinformation from the Tel Aviv lie factory. Isn’t it?

We already know that Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu is concerned about the harm to his government’s international reputation caused by week after week of pro-Palestine protests in western capitals:

“We need to apply counter-pressure,” he said.

And up leapt Messrs Falter and Rich to spread fear among the UK’s Jewish community – of a threat that doesn’t exist.

That is dis-influencing.


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Dis-Influencers: Israel’s secret fifth-column* pushing lying anti-Palestine propaganda

Dis-influencers: they try to flood your social media with falsehoods, to blind you to the facts.

What connects these social media phenomena?

  • A post falsely suggesting that images of parents mourning their babies were of actors with dolls.
  • A clip said to be of a Palestinian nurse in a Gaza hospital, saying that Hamas had a base there and she sympathised with Israel.
  • A clip showing a car doing doughnuts in a US street, the passengers waving what were described as Palestinian flags (there was actually a flag of Cuba).
  • A claim that pro-Palestinian activists planted material on a Canadian university campus to increase anti-Semitic feeling.

They’re all examples of dis-influencer activity, according to Marc Owen Jones, an associate professor in Middle Eastern Studies.

Dis-influencers are people who try to influence others with disinformation – information that they know is false but deliberately present to others as factual in order to mislead.

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The Israeli government and its cheerleaders are heavily involved in dis-influencer activity, it seems – as explained in the following video interview with the UK journalist, also called Owen Jones:

This Writer reckons Marc Owen Jones makes a good point.

The ‘doll’ story was picked up and published as factual by the Jerusalem Post, which subsequently published this retraction:

… as spotted by Marc Owen Jones:

Look at the comments by the reporter, quoted below. Totally unrepentant. I wonder whether this person has changed their tune now:

The claim in the video was that we can’t tell who starts these falsehoods because they are picked up and spread by so many mouthpieces. This seems to be borne out by the following:

I’m sure you get the point.

The argument put forward by Marc Owen Jones – and Owen Jones – is persuasive.

So next time you see someone making bold claims about the depravity of Palestinians, Gazans, and/or Hamas… don’t be too quick to believe it. And see if it isn’t debunked within days – or even hours.

*For clarity, I’m aware that a fifth column is actually “a group within a country at war who are sympathetic to or working for its enemies”, but it seems the closest description of what these people are. Is there a word for a group within one country who spread lies in order to further another country’s interests?


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Times ‘Israel/Hamas’ article is slammed for lack of evidence. Why was it published?

The first duty of any journalist – including newspaper reporters – is to the facts. This appears to have eluded staff at The Times (or was it The Sunday Times) with an article claiming that Hamas personnel were “on a mission” to rape Israelis on October 7,

It alleges that Hamas both raped and murdered.

But it seems just one element of the story was missing: evidence.

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Some were quite happy to take the story at face value…

… which leads this professional journalist to question that fellow (former) newspaper editor’s credibility.

In contrast, there has been a deluge of disbelief. I’m putting this on the top because it provides access to information contradicting the Times claims. This Writer has a problem with the source material because it suggests that babies were killed and beheaded, and this contradicts what was previously known (Israeli figures have shown that no babies were among the dead, although the statistics are, of course, always subject to revision). But the fact that rape is not mentioned in a report that makes so many other claims is strong evidence against the Times story:

Here’s the deluge:

It is accurate to say that Israel and its representatives have lied repeatedly.

And without evidence, the Times story is just another fairy tale.

I wonder if any will suddenly be magicked up, now we’ve demanded it?


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Ridiculous: media claim 3:1 hostage exchange ratio means Israel does not value Palestinian life

Yasmin Porat: she was an Israeli hostage who escaped Hamas, which is not the same as the current situation – but this is the only image of a former hostage that This Site has at the time of publication.

Dept. of Even-Handedness: after spending a huge amount of time defending Gaza and Palestinians from Israeli falsehoods and propaganda, it is only fair that this idiocy be identified as well.

It has been suggested by some media types that the fact that three Palestinians are being traded for every Israeli hostage means Israel thinks Palestinian lives are worth less than Israeli lives:

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This has been seized by the usual propagandists:

But of course this time they have a point.

This Writer hasn’t thought for a moment that the numbers we’re seeing mean Israel doesn’t value Palestinian lives as highly as those of Israelis.

It seems far more likely to me that Hamas demanded three Palestinians for every Israeli and saw that wish granted.

The suggestion that the ceasefire was delayed because of further Hamas demands tends to support that thesis.

I hope none of you have been seduced by this particular form of twisted reasoning.


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Story about poppy seller attacked by peace protesters was a LIE

No he wasn’t: British Transport Police have investigated this claim and it is not true.

Were you shocked by allegations that a poppy seller was attacked by pro-Palestine protesters at Edinburgh Waverley Railway Station?

This story:

IT WAS A LIE:

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The statement by British Transport Police Assistant Chief Constable Sean O’Callaghan reads:

A reported assault on a poppy stall seller whilst a demonstration was taking place at the station[:] Detectives have extensively monitored CCTV and spoken with key identified witnesses. There is insufficient evidence to take the investigation further at this time.

We have no reason to believe that poppy sellers are at any risk or being intentionally targeted.

Let that sink in – while you’re compiling a list of all the right-wing mouthpieces who lied to you about it.


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