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This is a lengthy piece rebutting pro-Israel misinformation – you can review the intro / tl;dr if you just want a quick summary. If you only read one section in detail, the most important is Section 4 on “human shields” as this is the biggest unchallenged repeated lie. I would also recommend reviewing Section 2 […]

#Current Affairs Debunking Beheaded Babies, Concert Rapes, And Human Shields: Hasbara Words That Work For Israeli War Crimes, Apartheid, And Genocide <img alt='' src='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d0cea6c68b7ec8f08095955a9cdc06cc873ac832acc56dc9b98f1ac3a49ba453?s=46&d=mm&r=g' srcset='https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/d0cea6c68b7ec8f08095955a9cdc06cc873ac832acc56dc9b98f1ac3a49ba453?s=92&d=mm&r=g 2x' class='avatar avatar-46 photo' height='46' width='46' decoding='async'/> Published October 19, 2023 By Siraaj Muhammad <img width="2560" height="1706" src="https://c7c8edde.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/attackongaza-scaled.jpeg" class="attachment- size- wp-post-image" alt="Israel Palestine" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://c7c8edde.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/attackongaza-scaled.jpeg 2560w, https://c7c8edde.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/attackongaza-300x200.jpeg 300w, https://c7c8edde.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/attackongaza-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https://c7c8edde.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/attackongaza-768x512.jpeg 768w, https://c7c8edde.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/attackongaza-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://c7c8edde.delivery.rocketcdn.me/wp-content/uploads/attackongaza-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px" /> This is a lengthy piece rebutting pro-Israel misinformation – you can review the intro / tl;dr if you just want a quick summary. If you only read one section in detail, the most important is Section 4 on “human shields” as this is the biggest unchallenged repeated lie. I would also recommend reviewing Section 2 on how pro-Israel talking points were created, and how they are deployed to frame arguments – this will teach you both how they think about issues as well as learn what they know are their own weaknesses and try to avoid. Contents hide 1 Introduction and tl;dr 2 The Beginnings of “Words that Work” for Israeli State Terror 2.1 Frank Luntz: “Words that Work” and “Words that don’t Work” 2.2 Luntz Created the Hasbara Manual to Manipulate What Americans Hear 2.3 Newsweek Calls Out Luntz’s Hasbara Manual on Illegal Israel Settlements 2.4 The Independent Calls Out the Hasbara Manual on Media Manipulation 2.5 Israel’s Biggest Public Weakness and Luntz’s Recommendation: Say “Terror, Not Territory” 3 Did Hamas Behead 40 Babies or Rape Women? 3.1 Terror, not Territory Revisited 4 Does Hamas Use Civilians as Human Shields? 4.1 The IDF Uses Palestinians as Human Shields 4.2 Israel is Still Using Palestinians as Human Shields in 2023 4.3 Netanyahu’s Endgame – Apartheid, Genocide, and Annexation 5 What Can Be Done to Push Back? Introduction and tl;dr Many of you wonder with justified horror at how the American media consistently favors the Israeli narrative of their victimhood vs the Palestinian case. You look at international media and don’t see the same blackout of Palestinian voices, counterpoints, and humanizing stories. Much of this can be attributed to the organizing power of the Israel Lobby (many of you will think AIPAC, but it is more sophisticated than this and space doesn’t allow for further discussion) and its connections within media, government, and industry (especially the military industrial complex). The following piece will focus on rhetoric and messaging used by these lobby groups and those they have influence over in government and media, specifically the calculated nature of the words and framing of issues to divert from speaking of Israel’s problems and instead inventing or exaggerating problems on the Palestinian side that are in reality magnitudes of order far worse on the Israeli side. Specifically, we will look at the following: The Global Language Dictionary aka the Hasbara Manual created by pollster Dr. Frank Luntz and commissioned by “The Israeli Project” media relations lobby and the impact this has had on messaging and framing issues for the American public. We’re providing the full pdf to download and encourage readers to review it (it’s about 116 pages, but it isn’t dense reading). We will examine claims of beheaded babies and raped women, and whether they have been substantiated (tl;dr they haven’t been, and you can skip to section 2 that provides media coverage on this). We will examine claims that Hamas is using their people as human shields (they’re not, check out section 4), and show that not only is Israeli army, the IDF, guilty of doing this openly in the past, they have been told to stop by their own high court and continue to do so even now. While conclusively rebutting these unsubstantiated talking points that go completely unchecked, we will examine the impact and recommendations the Hasbara manual provides either directly or indirectly to monopolize the narrative. We conclude with recommendations for how to deal with the Hasbara manual and use its findings to our advantage, both in the short-term and long-term, in order to chal...