WebsterMark wrote on Today at 04:52:56:I don’t think it’s always fair to assign a level of blame to media malpractice on a violent attack. For example, it was always a lie the Gabby Giffords shooting had anything to do with a Sarah Palin campaign ad.
But I do think the constant drumbeat of lies does push mentally unstable over the line. The guy who shot up the DC baseball game a few years ago for example.
Here’s another. The nonstop ridiculousness that Israel is to blame for the Palestinian plight and not terrorist groups and leaders of Arab nations funding and encouraging this false narrative. A public marketing campaign of lies can have consequences and here is one.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/two-israeli-diplomats-shot-killed-event-capital-je... Ok, at the same time, it's important to recognize that criticism of Israeli government policy is not automatically a ‘lie’ or anti-Semitic.
I believe Israel is fully aware of its actions. Early in the conflict, I saw a flood of Israeli propaganda content on social media, clearly intended to shape public opinion.
Israel has a serious image crisis in the Arab world, and understandably so. While Western societies interpret things through a legalistic or humanitarian lens, in many parts of the Middle East, people feel that core cultural and religious values have been violated for generations, starting with the Nakba in 1948.
Some Arab societies do, unfortunately, condition children to hate Jews, and that’s unacceptable. But hatred like that doesn’t come from nowhere, it often reflects decades of trauma, war, and oppression.
Antisemitism is a real and dangerous force. The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a fake antisemitic text likely produced by the Russian secret police in the early 1900s, was used by Hitler and still fuels conspiracy theories today.
But it is not antisemitic to say that what is happening in Gaza may constitute genocide.
Multiple UN experts, including the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, have warned that Israel’s actions “may amount to genocide.” Amnesty International and others have reported widespread violations of international humanitarian law. The International Court of Justice has taken the case seriously and ordered provisional measures based on a plausible risk of genocide.
The world cannot ignore this. The Genocide Convention was created after the Holocaust to prevent exactly this kind of catastrophe. Israel must be held to the same legal and moral standards as any other nation. That accountability must not be blocked by accusations of antisemitism, especially when the concern is about protecting all human life.
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