9 January 2024 | Dishonest Reporting, Featured, Israeli Propaganda
Today, on 9 January 2024, COGAT turned up the dial on its gaslighting stove to the very highest setting. Knowing that all the aid Israel has permitted to enter has averaged 76 trucks a day since October 7th, COGAT’s social media team cooked up a 1-minute video featuring spokeswoman Shani Sasson, introduced with the obviously false claim that, “Before the war, an average of 70 food trucks entered Gaza every day. The average last week was 109.”
8 January 2024 | Israeli Propaganda
Israel is conducting genocide by starvation. In mid-December, Israeli government and hasbara accounts began posting links to a new website from the IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), “Operation Swords of Iron: Humanitarian Efforts“. The website offers updates about the humanitarian aid that Israel gives permission to enter Gaza after an intentional, complicated ‘inspection’ process.
2 January 2024 | Israeli Propaganda
“Operation Swords of Iron”—Israel’s “response” to HAMAS’s attack—has seen Israel directly indiscriminately bombing and otherwise targeting Palestinian civilians, leaving at the end of the year over 22,000 dead, over 61,000 wounded, and 1.9 million homeless.
20 December 2023 | Dishonest Reporting, Featured, Israeli Propaganda
Contents Background to October 7th (20 December 2023) The first Mondoweiss article challenging the narrative, “CNN report claiming sexual violence on October 7 relied on non-credible witnesses, some with undisclosed ties to Israeli govt” (1 December 2023)...
19 December 2023 | Israeli Propaganda
After HAMAS took form during the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1992), it released a 1988 charter. Formed out of the Muslim Brotherhood, an Egyptian organization, it had a lot of characteristics of old school Islamic movements, including performative references to...
19 December 2023 | Featured, Israeli Propaganda
While Internet claims of HAMAS atrocities perpetrated against Israeli babies had circulated from October 7, the “HAMAS beheaded 40 babies” story started to spread in earnest after the IDF arranged a October 10 tour for foreign journalists of the Kfar Aza town in Israel.
