How worrying numbers of young people are falling for Hamas's dirty tricks in the propaganda war, writes AMI H ORKABY
By AMI H. ORKABY
PUBLISHED: 21:38, 23 November 2023 | UPDATED: 22:03, 23 November 2023

A week and a half ago, a Hamas rocket fired from Gaza — one of 10,500 launched at Israel since the current conflict began — scored a direct hit on a house less than 300 yards from my own in the outskirts of Tel Aviv.

Fortunately, the inhabitants had headed for their air-raid shelter as soon as the sirens sounded and escaped unscathed. But it was a salutary reminder of our vulnerability.

Living, as we do, six miles from Ben Gurion Airport — one of the key targets of the Palestinian terrorists — we have grown accustomed to the daily wail of the air-raid sirens as incoming missiles are detected and the deafening sound of explosions as Israel's Iron Dome air defence system is activated.

I have three daughters, the youngest of whom is ten, and my wife and I lead them to our shelter — every new house in Israel has to have one by law — once, if not twice, a day.

Apart from the sense of trauma that this creates, they are getting no schooling to speak of as their teachers are called up for reserve duty.


An AI-generated image is being shared in relation to the Israel-Hamas conflict, depicting a boy covered in dust and blood standing next to his dead mother

Seeing my girls put through such an ordeal only fuels my anger about the way so many people in the West, particularly among the younger generation, have taken up the Palestinian cause and view Israel with such unfounded animosity.

The situation is all the more tragic because so much of this venom is born of ignorance.

This was vividly illustrated recently by an exercise carried out by the Jewish-American comedian Mikey Greenblatt on the streets of New York.

He accosted people at random with a request to sign a petition in support of Hamas and freeing Palestine.

Once they agreed, he insisted on quoting them the small print, which included the slaughter of every Jew, Christian and non-Muslim in the world, making homosexuality a capital offence, and the implementation of a system of sharia law that would ban women from showing their knees or hair, playing sports in public, or travelling without a man's permission.

Naturally, all his would-be backers responded by performing abrupt U-turns.

But this grotesque level of ignorance about the true nature of Hamas means that many in the West are susceptible to the terrorists' propaganda.

The truth is that, for all its economic might and social sophistication, as well as the support of the leaders of the free world, Israel is losing the battle for hearts and minds on the street.


Another AI generated image depicts a baby trapped in rubble amid a multimedia campaign based on a combination of fake news and bogus images

And this is down, in large part, to a multimedia campaign based on a combination of fake news, bogus images and a sinister manipulation of social media.

When it comes to propagandising online, Hamas has a massive inbuilt advantage. While the world's Jewish population is 15.3 million — 0.2 per cent of the global total — there are no fewer than 1.9 billion Muslims — 24 per cent.

Clearly, not every Muslim is a supporter of the psychopathic Hamas but many are broadly sympathetic to the Palestinian cause, often because they are not familiar with the history of the conflict.

This means that Israeli influencers face an uphill struggle to make headway on sites such as TikTok.

In the final week of October, the hashtag #standwithpalestine had 251 million views on the video-hosting site, while #standwithisrael had just 65 million.


This is an AI generated image showing a toddler standing in rubble witnessing a fiery explosion from aerial bombing

Not content with this numerical advantage, Hamas and its proxies, probably funded by Iran, resort to increasingly sophisticated dirty tricks to press home their advantage. Cyber companies are hired to use bots — automated software programs — to bombard pro-Israeli posts with hundreds of pro-Palestinian messages.

Bots are also used to submit fake reports to Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram and TikTok moderators in a bid to get accounts suspended or deactivated by alleging they are in breach of guidelines relating to anything from hateful or abusive content to suicide or self-harming.

If a moderator receives 500 reports in a matter of minutes or hours, they may well take the line of least resistance and suspend the targeted account indefinitely.

Another danger of social media is that it is actually designed to be an echo chamber. Users who view or search a particular topic are then offered more of the same sort of content, a process that only serves to confirm their prejudices.

And there is plenty of content out there. Since the advent of the smartphone, everyone is now a photographer and, thanks to Photoshop, a special effects expert too. One digitally doctored picture of a giant Palestinian flag unfurled at a football match has been viewed millions of times.


Israeli influencers face an uphill struggle to make headway on sites such as TikTok

That said, in the age of AI (artificial intelligence), there is no need to even go to the trouble of taking a photograph. AI tools such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion are capable of creating uncannily realistic images based on textual descriptions.

As Israel's largest news website reported earlier this month: 'Anyone can write a line such as 'Two Palestinian children covered in blood standing amid the rubble of a building in the Gaza Strip next to their mother's body' and the generator will do whatever they wish.'

But the misinformation is not confined to the online world. Mainstream media is also culpable and, yes, BBC I am talking about you.

Hamas's talent for malicious fabrication has rarely been utilised to more malign effect than in the now notorious case of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital bombing.


It is now widely acknowledged that the bombing of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital was caused by a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad that fell short

The terrorists' claim that the medical facility in Gaza City had been bombed by the Israelis, killing 500 Palestinians, was swallowed whole by the BBC.

But it is now widely acknowledged that it was caused by a rocket launched by Islamic Jihad that fell short.

Another example of BBC bias came only last week when its international editor, Jeremy Bowen, refused to accept that a cache of Kalashnikovs seized by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) at Gaza's al-Shifa Hospital amounted to convincing evidence that Hamas had a base there. He even suggested the weapons could belong to the 'security department', an absurd contention that directly echoed the words of a senior Hamas terrorist on Al Jazeera two days earlier.

The relentless barrage of anti-Israeli propaganda has had a horrifying effect on environments such as university campuses. When I studied in Britain in the mid-1990s, I was met with nothing but friendliness and had no fear in letting it be known that I was an Israeli.

But times have clearly changed. At the end of last month, the Jewish peer Lord Wolfson told the House of Lords that he was more concerned about the safety of his daughter wearing a Star of David in London than that of his son, who is in the IDF.


BBC's International editor, Jeremy Bowen, refused to accept that a cache of Kalashnikovs seized by the IDF at al-Shifa Hospital amounted to evidence that Hamas had a base there

A generation of young people has been brainwashed by a specific narrative, which is reinforced by an endless round of demonstrations.

In this looking-glass world, where truth and falsehood are increasingly indistinguishable, it's never been more important for media outlets to exercise the utmost rigour in defence of the values and principles treasured by freedom-loving peoples the world over.

Ami H. Orkaby is a leading lawyer and former senior adviser to the Israeli prime minister's office.

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How worrying numbers of young people are falling for Hamas's dirty tricks in the propaganda war.

OLAADEGBU:


How worrying numbers of young people are falling for Hamas's dirty tricks in the propaganda war.

I am not surprised, Jewish media done use their machinery infiltrate Nairaland.

Fear any Oyibo Person way tell you say em come from Palestine.

Unreliable Sources
Tom Stiglich October 23, 2023


The mainstream media ran with stories about 500+ babies, patients and doctors being killed at a hospital that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. Their source: Hamas. Just hours later we find out that it was Islamic militants who launched the rocket that hit a hospital parking lot (not the actual hospital), and that the building was not destroyed.

We’ve seen this time and again: when a story fits the left's narrative, it is told whether verified or not. When a story goes against their narrative, it likely won't be told at all – regardless of verification upon verification.

It's all just propaganda.

Commentary by Editor-in-Chief R. Mitchell. Editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich

OLAADEGBU:
Unreliable Sources
Tom Stiglich October 23, 2023


The mainstream media ran with stories about 500+ babies, patients and doctors being killed at a hospital that was destroyed by an Israeli airstrike. Their source: Hamas. Just hours later we find out that it was Islamic militants who launched the rocket that hit a hospital parking lot (not the actual hospital), and that the building was not destroyed.

We’ve seen this time and again: when a story fits the left's narrative, it is told whether verified or not. When a story goes against their narrative, it likely won't be told at all – regardless of verification upon verification.

It's all just propaganda.

Commentary by Editor-in-Chief R. Mitchell. Editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich

It's there mandate from the other side.
We need to pray more for Nigeria, US and Europeans now.
Bombs and killings won't stop it.
It's more of spiritual thing than physical.
The anti Christ wants to take over now, but by His Grace it won't happen.
Not on our watch in Jesus name

Hamas mean no good. The Palestinian gaza citizens are not just being scripted into their game they are also used as a willing tool. Ruling a place for over 20years and all you think is war no development project. In all the video of dead people you never see dead hamas fighters all you see is civilians and children. This is more of a media war

madone:
Hamas mean no good. The Palestinian gaza citizens are not just being scripted into their game they are also used as a willing tool. Ruling a place for over 20years and all you think is war no development project. In all the video of dead people you never see dead hamas fighters all you see is civilians and children. This is more of a media war

Israel could have shown us any dead hamas if they have killed any , it's their duty to show the terrorist they have killed,while the human right watch and the world population will show pictures of any wrong doings during the war , Israel has the right to defend it self on social media also

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OLAADEGBU:


How worrying numbers of young people are falling for Hamas's dirty tricks in the propaganda war.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12785455/young-people-Hamas-dirty-tricks-propaganda-war-AMI-H-ORKABY.html

Deep fakes and AI-generated contents will continue to be an albatross for mankind in the years to come except readily available means or tools exist to counter and detect these distortions of history! There are just too many people who believe things without due diligence.

Righteousness2:
So many ignorant people worldwide fell for the game of pallywood/ hamas terrorists.
More than 65% of all the shouts of this and that were fake and pallywood lies.

Many of the so called Pics of babies killed were doll toy babies made up by pallywood Hamas people.
Many were AI generated.
Many were from kids killed in Syria.

The truth is that 95% of people screaming Palestine this and have no love for the gazans or Palestines.
Their noises were all about Hate for ISRAEL.

The people who have love for the ordinary gazans is ISRAEL.

And people just wake up one day and began to hate Israel?

As a Nigerian or African what is happening in Palestine can happen to us. If African Americans start coming back to Africa and start displacing us claiming they came from here and it was slavery that took them away for 500 years and they are now back to claim what is theirs and they go about killing us, dispossessing us of lands and properties , pushing us into refugee camps and generally taking away our dignity with active connivance of the US and EU who see them as a threat and are only too glad they were returning to Africa...
My brother you will pick up arms against them. That's exactly what Palestinians are going through

Fake pastor.
Yet you worship a 4 time indicted criminal defendant who call people vermins as the son of dog.
The same criminal who called hamas very smart and said Israel was a failure.

You got no moral ground. Fake pastor.

Obrigardo:
Fake pastor.
Yet you worship a 4 time indicted criminal defendant who call people vermins as the son of dog.
The same criminal who called hamas very smart and said Israel was a failure.

You got no moral ground. Fake pastor.

Calm down young man. Don’t let bitterness eat you up. Get an afterlife!

OLAADEGBU:


Calm down young man. Don’t let bitterness eat you up. Get an afterlife!

Is this your defense? Weak man.
You've been called out for supporting hate, fake pastor.

ichuka:


It's there mandate from the other side.
We need to pray more for Nigeria, US and Europeans now.
Bombs and killings won't stop it.
It's more of spiritual thing than physical.
The anti Christ wants to take over now, but by His Grace it won't happen.
Not on our watch in Jesus name

Amen!

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Today's cover: Columbia President Minouche Shafik sets deadline for anti-Israel protesters to reach agreement to dismantle encampment https://trib.al/ecD8tDW

Jews are liars.

The ongoing protests are not in support of Hamas but against the ongoing genocidal war being waged by Israel on Palestinian civilians.

Historically, the term antisemite was used to describe people who hate Jews but in today's corrupted Jew world, antisemite now means anyone that the Jew hates for speaking the truth on their crimes against humanity.

When ANTIFA and BLM , which are both sponsored by the Jew, George Soros were burning down cities across the US, the US authorities did nothing to end their reign of anarchy and some democrats and Jews in the media and in political positions openly sided with the anarchists and even ordered the police to stand down. Now that a peaceful protest , which the US Constitution protects is being carried out on campuses across America over the Israeli government and Biden administration ongoing genocide of civilians in Gaza , American politicians and Jewish rats are now calling for a clampdown.

America has truly fallen due to the corruption of the Jew .

This is same America which their Congress passed a military aid package to fund the Jew's genocidal war in both Ukraine and Gaza but did not even consider a penny to protect their own borders from illegal migrants streaming into their country with the conivance of Jewish groups.

A wise man once said "a nation deserves the Jews it has". That man was Adolf Hitler. You can not take a snake from the cold, nurse it back to life in the warmth of your hands and expect it not to strike you when it is revived.


There is a reason why these people have been so reviled throughout history in any country they settle in.

The author of this stupid article is a Jew based in Israel .

So no surprises there.

Righteousness2:
So many ignorant people worldwide fell for the game of pallywood/ hamas terrorists.
More than 65% of all the shouts of this and that were fake and pallywood lies.

Many of the so called Pics of babies killed were doll toy babies made up by pallywood Hamas people.
Many were AI generated.
Many were from kids killed in Syria.

The truth is that 95% of people screaming Palestine this and have no love for the gazans or Palestines.
Their noises were all about Hate for ISRAEL.

The people who have love for the ordinary gazans is ISRAEL.

You will rot in hell for eternity for your rubbishing of Christianity


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Biden Paid Them, Now HE Owns What they Do
Michael Ramirez April 25, 2024



.@JoeBiden cannot give #Iran billions of dollars then criticize the horrific acts the Mullahs do with that money.

Editorial cartoon by Michael Ramirez. Commentary by R. Mitchell, Editor-in-chief.