WHY JEWS AND ISRAEL ARE EVIL — Part 1
I will begin at the end….
Jews and Israel are Evil because we have all been trained to believe that Jews and Israel are Evil through a concentrated, systematic, and coordinated effort stemming back four decades.
This is not to defend Israel. Israel has done deplorable things. But it is to say that BOTH SIDES have done deplorable things.
But these concentrated efforts are not presenting both sides. These concentrated efforts are overtly and purposefully one-sided and biased and are aimed at undermining liberal democracies around the world. These concentrated efforts have eroded any chance of meaningful coexistence between Israel and Palestinians.
The ramifications are extremely dangerous:
- Dooming the Palestinian citizens in Gaza to continued oppression
- Promoting Violence and Destroying any chance of coexistence in the Middle East
- Dehumanizing Jews and rampant unfounded antisemitism
- Eroding liberal democracies
In this four part series we will explore various dimensions of this — Social Media, Academia, Traditional News, and the dangers of all three.
I encourage you to read below with an open mind — all the way to the end — because this affects all of us and it is important to understand what has been going on behind the scenes for 40 years, how it has led up to what we are seeing today, and how it will destroy any path toward peace in the future.
In February Microsoft dropped two extensively researched reports on: “Iran surges cyber-enabled influence operations in support of Hamas”.
The must-read reports give explicit details, timelines, and examples of how Iranian actors, and their network of global supports, have been conducting coordinated “influence operations” for years.
The preferred methods of operation for Iran and its operatives are as follows:
Cyber-enabled influence operations
Operations which combine offensive computer network operations with messaging and amplification in a coordinated and manipulative fashion to shift perceptions, behaviors, or decisions by target audiences to further a group or a nation’s interests and objectives.Cyber persona
A manufactured public-facing group or individual that takes responsibility for a cyber operation while providing plausible deniability for the underlying group or nation responsible.Sockpuppet
A false online persona employing fictitious or stolen identities for the purpose of deception.
In other words, Iran, and it’s operatives, have been running a massive, global misinformation campaigned utilizing fake profiles, stolen profiles, doctored images, fabricated information, and so forth.
For example, this handle is actually Iran:
According to Microsoft, the goal of this massive, global operation is simple:
Iran’s operations worked toward four broad objectives: destabilization, retaliation, intimidation, and undermining international support for Israel. All four of these objectives also seek to undermine Israel and its supporters’ information environments to create general confusion and lack of trust.”
Irani-backed disinformation campaigns against Jews, Israel, and the West have been going on for years, but efforts greatly ramped up and become more streamlined since October 7th:
The Microsoft reports are notable by the fact that it is Microsoft.
Massive global corporations have extremely stringent protocols for anything that is released for public consumption. For Microsoft to publish something like this, on this topic and at this time, means that the report went through the wringer of legal and regulatory compliance. It is as credible as it gets.
Other multinationals have also sounded the alarm, like TikTok. In addition, there have been a number of 3rd party reports and analyses about rampant “influence operations” to discredit Israel and skew public perception against Jews and the the West (Wired, Forbes, Rolling Stone, CNN, NewsGaurd, CyberWell, Cyabra, Coalition for a Safer Web, and dozens more).
Like Microsoft, these reports give countless examples of fabrications, disinformation, and flagrant lies utilizing fake personas, doctored images, and more, working in concerted and coordinated efforts to reach the widest possible audience across the globe:
The coordinated online disinformation campaigns against Jews and Israel has been going on for years. In 2014 Hamas even issued instructions for prospective supports on their official website, Twitter, and Facebook pages:
Anyone killed or martyred is to be called a civilian from Gaza or Palestine, before we talk about his status in jihad or his military rank. Don’t forget to always add ‘innocent civilian’ or ‘innocent citizen’ in your description of those killed in Israeli attacks on Gaza.
Begin [your reports of] news of resistance actions with the phrase ‘In response to the cruel Israeli attack,’ and conclude with the phrase ‘This many people have been martyred since Israel launched its aggression against Gaza.’ Be sure to always perpetuate the principle of ‘the role of the occupation is attack, and we in Palestine are fulfilling [the role of] the reaction.
Since then, dissemination of biased misinformation has increased exponentially in line with the rise of social media consumption. Today, the web of misinformation and Anti-Jew/Israel bias has global scope, driven by countless online personas that promote doctored, fabricated, one-sided, and biased content.
These fabrications traverse the globe in nanoseconds, with negligible oversight. Many are picked up by celebrities who willingly promote the content on their own social channels, further expanding the influence of the Anti-Jew and Anti-Israel bias.
Gigi Hadid, for example, has frequently come under the microscope for her biased disinformation, and recently gave a public apology for sharing on her social media that “Israel is the only country in the world keeping children as prisoners of war” — a flagrant lie. Bella Hadid, Gigi’s sister, was similarly outed recently for promoting disinformation:
Jews and Israel are just the tip of the iceberg. Palestine is just a cause celebre for Iran and their proxies; an effective platform for undermining the liberal democratic world.
Targeted and systematic disinformation campaigns against the Western liberal democracies have been ravaging social media for years, utilizing much of the same playbook highlighted in the Microsoft report.
Vahid Beheshti, Iranian journalist and human rights activists, recently leaked a confidential letter signed by Brigadier General Majid Kazemi, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRCG) Intelligence Security Organization.
The letter and subsequent promotional video highlights Iran’s plans to “Disrupting the public order in Europe, USA, Australia and Asia all under the pretext of supporting Palestinians”. As Beheshti states:
This is a political movement intended to cause as much chaos and instability as possible, which are the exact goals of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The regime of the Islamic Republic has on multiple occasions, stated clearly that their goal is to destroy the modern society and build a global Islamic state.
The important part to note about this rampant activity on social media is that none of it promotes bilateral understanding, two-sided empathy, or rational approaches to co-existence.
The only purpose of these coordinated efforts are to delegitimize Israel, dehumanize Jews, and undermine Western liberal democracies.
Imagine the effect on society as a whole if Twitter, TikTok, and Instagram were filled with calls for peace and understanding instead of hate.
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