How the blood libel works: a thread.

[Mosby]

(THIS IS THE JEWISH GROUP)

How the blood libel works: a thread.

Yesterday we saw how the blood libel works like lightening in the social media age, fed by corrupt organisations, amplified by politicians and reported on by credulous reporters.
The lie started with the UN’s emergency coordinator Tom Fletcher who told journalists that 14,000 babies would die in the next 48 hours unless Israel allowed sufficient aid into Gaza.

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[stopdiggin]

1. the '14,000' was manipulation and a bold faced lie - and the 'blood libel' conflation was

manipulation, hype and propaganda counter-thrust

[Mosby]

3. This OP is about antisemitism.

Nt.

[stopdiggin]

4. and my post about misinformation, propaganda and spin -(nt)-

[yardwork]

5. A "bold-faced lie" accusing Jews of murdering children is blood libel.

You can't have it both ways.

I'm opposed to Israel's siege. Full stop.

Trump's sudden defunding of USAID has killed thousands of babies in Africa. Two wrongs don't make it right, but may I ask why we hear so much about Israel and so little about Africa here?

[Richard D]

7. If it's not Jews, it's not news.

[yardwork]

9. Seems that way to this gentile.

The hypocrisy seems obvious to me.

[Richard D]

10. Thank you

From my heart.

[yardwork]

12. The very LEAST I can do is witness the truth as I see it.

I'm shocked and disappointed that so few are doing this. Shocked to my core.

[JustAnotherGen]

2. They'll never admit they were wrong

That they are lying/being lied to.

The default setting is Anti-Semitism and too many people across the world start from there.

[yardwork]

8. We keep hearing that "the UN says it's true."

There are about 50 Muslim majority nations in the world, and only one that is Jewish majority.

The population of Israel is about 10 million, of which 75% are Jewish and another 20% are Muslim. Israel is one of the only democracies in the entire Middle East.

Reading posts here I would think that Israel is the wealthiest, most powerful nation on earth, instead of, say, Saudi Arabia, a monarchy.

[JustAnotherGen]

13. Boom!

That's it exactly.

I believe a lot of the Pro Palestinian folks will only be happy when every single Jewish person has been removed . . . from the planet.

[Richard D]

15. Belief not required!

Many state this as their goal with zero ambiguity.

[Richard D]

6. Thank you for posting this!

I was working on something similar.

Antisemitism is so deeply ingrained in our world, and the antisemetic tropes run so deep, that it's part of the collective unconscious mind. People will believe Hamas propaganda instantly--along with the outrage and virtue signaling that it is designed, yes, designed to cause. There is no rational thinking, no discernment, and no common sense. If it's anti-Israel, it's automatically true.

OTOH, anything that attempts to bring the lies into the light is instantly labeled as "zionist propaganda", or some variation thereof, often accompanied by slurs against Israel and Netanyahu.

I have to conclude that many are so ignorantly imbued with confirmation bias that their common sense is out the window. For some reason I do not understand, the left, long a friend of the Jewish nation, has swallowed the hook, line, and sinker of antisemitism. Of course, calling it antizionism instead, as it is somewhat more socially acceptable.

[Richard D]

11. From Hillel Fuld

Hillel Fuld
@HilzFuld

You think there's a genocide in Gaza? (There isn't)

You want it to stop?

Tell Hamas to end it by releasing the hostages and laying down their weapons.

If you're not doing that and you're blaming Israel, you're not a human rights activist.

You're just a plain old antisemite.

[Richard D]

14. Not to mention . . .

. . . the horrific photos used (at least) by the BBC were not of children in Gaza, but of starving children in Yemen (and no one is talking about that actual genocide).

[yardwork]

16. Especially disgraceful journalistic malpractice.

[madaboutharry]

17. I'm surprised the BBC didn't find a photo of a mass grave at Auschwitz at run with that.

BBC providing the world with another example of its irresponsible and deceitful journalism.

[Richard D]

18. This is a clear and important essay

The dirty politics of antisemitism:

https://open.substack.com/pub/futureofjewish/p/the-dirty-politics-of-antisemitism

[Richard D]

19. And . . .

. . . I know I may have overposted on your thread, but it is a really important point that should not go unspoken:

This is very, very, very far from the only lie that has been told about Israel and this war. Pallywood is real and they are great at lying. So is the seeming international public relations campaign and meme generation factory.

[Mosby]

20. I like what Lee Kern said on X.

People aren’t just willing to believe the worst about Jews, they WANT to believe the worst about us. This is how every conspiracy about us lives - no matter how outlandish - from drinking the blood of non-Jewish babies to controlling the world. It’s also why so-called smart people abandon every journalistic safety check, and every protocol of acquiring evidence, to broadcast unquestioningly every single lie said about Israel by a terrorist group whose stated goal is to exterminate Jews. They simply want the lies to be true. Yesterdays lie pushed by the UN and repeated by the worlds media - that 14,000 Gazan babies were about to die - is an intersection of the classic libel that we take the blood of non-Jewish babies and this modern news cycle in which pogrom-inducing rumours about Jews are spread as shiny facts rather than the hate-filled gossip of xenophobic racists living near some Jews.

Spot on.

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