Guest Post by Kit Knightly
As a brand new war-narrative unfolds, there’s already efforts underway to parlay the conflict into tighter controls on free speech and freedom of expression, both in person and on the internet.
The headlines have been filled with nothing but Israel and Hamas since the “surprise attack” on Saturday, with the predictable back and forth of historical grievances and accusations of racism, punctuated by unsubstantiated claims of atrocities.
“Atrocity Propaganda” is nothing new. It is the opening salvo of every war as state combatants try to win the public to their side.
For example, the totally unsubstantiated claim that Hamas “threw forty Jewish babies out of their cribs and beheaded them”, which was doing the rounds yesterday. As far as atrocity propaganda goes the claim is startling in its unoriginality (Nayirah anyone?)
There’s a lot of that right now, lurid claims of graphic and pointless violence directed against the innocent, most of which survives just long enough to cause some outrage before being “debunked” or walked-back.
Part of that is the general “fog of war”, heightened by the advent of social media. When a lot of people can talk a lot more is said (good and bad).
But there’s another interpretation: That fake war stories are being intentionally seeded onto social media and then “debunked” to discredit platforms and appear to justify digital censorship.
Within the past twenty-four hours Reuters, NBC, YahooNews, The Guardian and the AP have run stories criticising the proliferation of “fake war news” on social media. Al Jazeera joined in too.
Almost all of those accusations have been directed solely at Twitter/X – increasingly the media’s anti-free speech strawman.
Governments have not been quiet on the issue either, with the European Union reportedly “warning” Elon Musk there would be “penalties” for the spread of war-related “misinformation” on his platform.
It’s not just “misinformation” either, but also “hate”. In an unusually subtle headline, NBCNews warns of the “increasingly fraught nature of online speech”. USA Today is more on the nose, claiming “online hate” is “surging”.
Oh, and there are the “unregulated” sites to worry about, where terrorists allegedly upload violent videos, at least so the New York Times says:
Hamas Seeds Violent Videos on Sites With Little Moderation”
It’s not hard to see where this leads.
And while “misinformation” is used to justify social media censorship, “safety” is used to justify shutting down freedom of assembly.
In the UK and US pro-Palestinian rallies were met with calls for the police to get involved, citing laws that outlaw the public support of “listed terrorist organizations”.
UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has told the police that waving a Palestinian flag could be considered a crime. Metropolitan police are engaging in “reassurance patrols”.
In France the police are already more directly involved, shutting down a pro-Palestine demonstration.
…and people applauded.
Many of them the same voices who railed against tyranny in defending the Canadian truckers or anti-lockdown protests. It is disheartening to see.
In short, the “war” is four days old and is already being used to suppress dissent on the streets and argue against free-speech on the internet.
However the war narrative evolves over there, over here it’s just more of the same.
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They have to run with “beheaded babies” because a bunch of rave-goers in the desert don’t elicit sympathy. If Hamas offered to fly ultralights in to wipe out Burning Man, I’d seriously consider it.
I’d donate to that.
“Nobody listens to techno”
Eminem
When will the global warming crowd going to chip in?
Actually one could consider Gaza the original fifteen minute city.
Until we fix every problem in the USA, I don’t care what these savages do to each other.
Deep Shekel shills gonna’ shill…via someone who’s actually been there….
“Back when I believed in the United States and the moral superiority of our cause, I ran all over the world on behalf of the American Empire. Seventy-eight countries and a prison term later, my positions have clearly changed. But that which I know about the groups has not.
The Israelis are lying.
It is not the nature of Hamas or Hezbollah to indiscriminantly kill hostages. These are not American-created ISIS or Al Qaeda, with no official state responsibilities. These are highly advanced, well oiled machines with a high level of discipline and political accumen.
That is not to say that hostages have not died in their care. They certainly have. But generally, hostages taken by Hezbollah and Hamas are often kept alive and reasonably comfortable because they become bargaining chips. Intelligence assets will be harmed – no doubt – as most are when captured. But these organizations are fairly adept at identifying who are the innocent civilians and who are the assets. Again, this is not the ham-fisted Boko Harem – another American created entity designed to undermine Nigerian stability (another country within which I worked) that “justifies” a need for AFRICOM.
Contrary to Jewish sadomasochistic pornographic fantasies, Israeli females will not be raped by male prison guards. They will be remanded to Palestinian women who may be harsh, but will not rape the women. The male prisoners will be handled according to their fighting capacity, with older hostages likely to receive basic care in accordance with Islamic law. Whereas many of the same charges levied against Hamas and Hezbollah were claimed as “Nazi” atrocities in the past, just as they were lies in 1945, so too will those be lies in 2023.
The bottom line is that Hamas and Hezbollah have very clear, geopolitical and religious goals. Iran has a very clear geopolitical and religious goal. The geographic state of Israel is not merely a problem for those entities because it occupies disputed ground. The Israelis have created a great deal of unrest, political turmoil, terror, and physical harm to their neighbors for decades. They cry out while they strike you – an experience that the region knows all too well. The Jewish occupiers are not to be trusted, especially when you understand that the American media is dominated by fellow leftist Talmudic Jews.”
https://gab.com/PadraigMartin/posts/111216996295712419
e.g. It’s Deep Shekel hypocrites all the way down.
Khazarian criminal not allowed by law to commit state sanctioned genocide as head of apartheid state…Oy vey…
Analysis | Another Concept Implodes: Israel Can’t Be Managed by a Criminal Defendant
A direct line runs between the judicial overhaul and the Gaza war. Netanyahu should emulate Begin and go, but we can’t expect introspection from him. The future inquiry must invrstigate how much time the prime minister devoted to the reform – and how much listening to the military leadership
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2023-10-09/ty-article/.premium/another-concept-implodes-israel-cant-be-managed-by-a-criminal-defendant/0000018b-1382-d2fc-a59f-d39b5dbf0000
Six milion total.
4.1 million killed at Auschwitz.
Auschwitz number revised down by three million.
Six million total.
Then came the Leuchter Report in 1988. This was followed by a “re-evaluation” of the total deaths at Auschwitz (down to 1.1 million). As a budding historian—and a Jew—Cole was intrigued.
Previous to 1992, anyone who publicly doubted the 4.1 million “gassing” deaths at Auschwitz was labeled an anti-Semite, neo-nazi skinhead (at the very least). Quietly, because of revisionist findings, the official figure was lowered to 1.1 million. No mention of that missing 3 million.
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What number did they claim in reference to the recent fighting and retaliation?
6 million.
If six million minus three million is still six million?
Then six million was never six million.
Far more German civilians died than people in labor camps.
20,000,000 in ww1
40,000,000 in ww2.
60,000,000 total.
Far more Japenes civilians died…heck the night they burned 16 square miles of Tokyo to the ground they killed st least 1,600,000 souls.
Add the millions burned to death in other firebombed Japanese cities and the number of civilians literally holocausted far exceeds a real SIX MILLION.
Compare to Jews whose claims of 6,000,000-3,000,000 = 6,000,000.
Yeah, that six million minus three million staying the same?
Germans were the real victims! /s
False flag attacks against USA synagogues in three…..two……one…….
Day of rage!
Yep.
The game board is all set up now for a REAL mass attack on usa, yet our pols are completely worthless.
All going according to the plan. One ring to rule them all.
Nothing says CENSORSHIP better than Off-Guardian in the
goddamned United Kingdom.
Screw Off-Guardian.
MOU
Guardian. Not Off-Guardian. Two different sites.
I thought that $hit Nightly wrote for Off-Guardian as I recall
being censored by that site a few years ago when I figured a
visit to UK news sites was warranted during the Pentagon
led bioweapons campaign for Sars-2-nCoV-19.
Is he writing for The Guardian now?
MOU
WHAT IS THE SHOCK ?
IT IS A HUMAN SACRIFICE – JUST LIKE IN THE TIMES OF THE 1ST TEMPLE !
BABIES,JEWS AND AMERICANS ARE SACRIFICED FOR A GREATER ISRAEL !
WHAT IS THE SURPRISE IN THIS ?
ISRAELIS DO NOT GET 1 THING !
HAMAS IS NOT ISIS !
ISIS WAS MOSSAD AND CIA OPERATION ! SO IT WAS CONTROLLED AND VANISHED !
HAMAS = IRAN + SYRIA + TURKEY + RUSSSIA + CHINA + POSSIBLY QATAR
WHO IS THE LEADER IN THE WORLD IN CYBER/AI/SURVEILLANCE/PEGASUS/BORDER SECURITY…………………..
ISRAEL !
WHO COULD HAVE BLINDED ISRAEL ?
ISRAEL ?
OR THE BUYERS OF THE TECH ?
EGYPT ? CHINA ???????????????
TOWNS OF JEWS NEAR THE BORDER HAD NO DRONES ????? DRONES DID NOT RELAY TO IDF BASES AND DID NOT TRACE THE TRAIL OF THE HAMAS JEEPS WHICH TOOK THE HOSTAGES TO GAZA ?
TO PINPOINT THEIR LOCATIONS AND DO A SPECIAL FORCES RAID !
WHO IS BUYING THIS ? dindooohindoo