The lies spewed by the press and individuals on social media have real-world consequences.
If there was one and only one lesson to learn from Covid, it would be that many people simply do not care about the truth. There was the curious case of a hotshot virus researcher who wrote to Tony Fauci to inform him that he had discovered a portion of the Covid RNA that clearly proved that the virus had been engineered, as the part in question had never been seen in nature. After a phone call between the two doctors, the fellow gladly joined a research paper stating unequivocally that the virus started naturally in a Wuhan wet market and probably came from some pangolin, though no pangolin was ever found to harbor the virus.
As with Covid, lies kill. Of late, there have been more than the usual number of lies regarding Israel and its prosecution of the Gaza war. After more than 18 months, some lightbulb went off and Israel and the U.S. finally realized that aid should be delivered in a manner that is Hamas-proof. The new American distribution points in the strip have been very successful and have already delivered the equivalent of 6 million meals in only a week of operation. Some of the Gazans expressed shock that they did not have to pay for their food boxes, and of course, many items went up for sale online after being picked up for free. The food distribution system is a direct and potentially fatal threat to Hamas’ teetering rule. People need to eat and as long as Hamas could steal the food from the trucks entering Gaza, they controlled the lives of its residents and de facto the strip itself. As Gazans can now live independently of Hamas, the latter feels threatened. So, it has set up roadblocks and actually fired at Gazans trying to get food from the American distribution sites. It has also accused Israel several times of mass murder of Gazans trying to get to the free food. They claim that the IDF killed numerous civilians each time. And every such claim was a lie.
But it was not in vain. Israel-hating outlets like CNN and WaPo, as well as Jew-haters online and on television, grabbed the claimed massacres and used them to hammer Israel. “Israel is killing poor, hungry civilians who are just trying to get food.” When the lie was exposed, the damage had been and continues to be done. Each outlet could either ignore the facts now proven or could write some drivel about “not meeting our standards” or “after further review, the article has been removed.” But the lies had their intended effect: a dirtball British talking head used the Hamas lies to browbeat his pro-Israel guests. The guests pointed out that they were lies, but he had them in black and white, so they had to be true. The method of the media and the online Jew-haters is very simple: use fake Hamas or similar data, then when it’s shown to be a lie, either ignore the correction or maybe mumble something about the facts still not being clear. It’s like shooting someone dead and then after three days saying, “Sorry, wrong guy” to the corpse.
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The antisemitism in the West is all based on lies, and the lies are accepted as fact because a lot of people hate Jews. When those people are told what they want to hear, they simply grab the lies and hold them up proudly to show that they are in the right. The violent rape of many women in the south of Israel presented a problem. There was the “me too” issue. Additionally, rape has nothing to do with fighting colonizers. But our hateful left and their Muslim friends weren’t worried. One woman said that nobody had been raped in Israel, though eyewitness and first-responder accounts (and terrorist admissions) said otherwise. One woman claimed that Israeli women were too ugly to be raped. Still others claimed that rape was a form of resistance, but they left the exact details as to how that works unexplained. Because so many now in the West hate Jews and Israel, they have no reason to question bald-faced lies presented by online personalities and the press. Karoline Leavitt did an outstanding job eviscerating the BBC for peddling Hamas lies. In the end, it does not matter. The BBC refuses to call Hamas a terrorist organization and many who listen to the BBC hate Israel. Like a chef giving his customer what he wants, the BBC tells its listeners exactly what they want to hear about those terrible Jews and Israelis. The comeuppance will be that England will be an Islamic state in place of Israel.
Throughout the Gaza war there has been an endless series of lies about Israel and the IDF. Israel was accused of bombing a hospital, when it was a Gazan misfire that actually landed near the hospital in question. Israeli soldiers were accused of raping Gazan women, until the liars admitted to lying. Israel was accused of starving Gazans when Hamas stole endless tons of food and stored it in its own warehouses. For over two months, no food trucks have entered Gaza and there were zero recorded cases of Palestinians dying from malnutrition. Israel was recently lambasted for bombing a hospital, but the Jew-haters conveniently left out that Muhamed Sinwar was hiding in a large control center intentionally built and located under the same hospital. My kids taught me ages ago that if you want to always get a bullseye, shoot the arrow first and then paint the target around where it lands. Those who hate Israel, both famous and unknown, wait for whatever piece of information—including outright lies—to come out so as to further justify their position and convert Israel-hating to Jew-hating. The old folks burned in Colorado had no political position. They were simply Jews who wanted to keep the hostages’ plight front and center. No matter; the illegal alien Egyptian came to incinerate them all. In one of the few cases where the system worked, he tried to buy a gun for the attack and was denied due to his visa status.
The Telegraph recently ran a piece claiming that white Brits will be a minority in 2040. I looked at the title and realized how foolish the editors and reporters of this and many other magazines truly are. The issue is not skin color; rather it is fidelity to a country’s purpose. Who cares if in 2040 whites are a minority in a country that is 100 percent pro-British? Look at the U.S. Most of the loons protesting outside of Tesla dealerships, promulgating DEI edicts or demanding open borders are white. The issue is not color or place of origin; rather, it is how much a person is part of the country where he or she lives. The massive influx of illegal immigrants without any effort to make them part of the local fabric is destroying the West. The lies about Israel can find footing because the Muslims brought in and who never integrated use the lies to push their antisemitic agendas. The BBC, WaPo and the NYT would rather publish an unconfirmed calumny on Israel and then add a correction on page 17 a few days later than find the truth, even if it might help protect lives of the local Jewish population.
For Jew-haters in the West, a lie is simply a truth with an expiration date.