{"id":67314,"date":"2021-05-30T13:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-05-30T17:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67314"},"modified":"2021-05-30T13:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-05-30T17:00:19","slug":"israel-getting-more-desperate-than-ever-after-slaughter-of-palestinians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67314","title":{"rendered":"Israel Getting More Desperate Than Ever After Slaughter of Palestinians"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Israel narrative management is getting incredibly desperate and brazen<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_67315\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-67315\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/60b25be420302763296cab64.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" class=\"size-full wp-image-67315\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/60b25be420302763296cab64.jpg 768w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/60b25be420302763296cab64-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-67315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE PHOTO. Israeli police violently disperse a Palestinian protest against Israeli actions in Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip, in the northern coastal city of Haifa on Tuesday, 11 May, 2021. \u00a9 Getty Images \/ Mati Milstein<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>By Caitlin Johnstone, an independent journalist based in Melbourne, Australia.<br \/>\nRT.com<\/p>\n<p>More people are becoming conscious of the Palestine issue and politicians and pundits can no longer get away with painting themselves as progressive-minded humanists without acknowledging the brutal nature of Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0National Director Emeritus for the Anti-Defamation League has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxmanAbraham\/status\/1398316595722735628?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">announced on Twitter<\/a>\u00a0that he is cancelling his subscription to\u00a0<em>The New York Times<\/em>, claiming that a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/meslackman\/status\/1398235330613059586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">front-page story<\/a>\u00a0featuring the photos of children killed in Israel\u2019s assault on Gaza this month constitutes \u201c<em>blood libel<\/em>\u201d against Jews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>I am cancelling my subscription to NYTimes<\/em>,\u201d tweeted Abraham Foxman. \u201c<em>I grew up in America on the NYT &#8211; I delivered the NYT to my classmates &#8211; I learned civics &#8211; democracy and all the news \u2018fit to print\u2019 for 65 years but no more. Today\u2019s blood libel of Israel and the Jewish people on the front page is enough.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Foxman\u2019s statement drew criticism from all corners, including from loyal establishment pundits like\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jonathanchait\/status\/1398376489150824459\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jonathan Chait<\/a>, for his ridiculous assertion that merely humanizing Palestinian children killed by Israel is the same as promoting the ancient antisemitic canard known as\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Blood_libel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blood libel<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?creatorScreenName=RT_com&amp;dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=eyJ0ZndfZXhwZXJpbWVudHNfY29va2llX2V4cGlyYXRpb24iOnsiYnVja2V0IjoxMjA5NjAwLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X2hvcml6b25fdHdlZXRfZW1iZWRfOTU1NSI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJodGUiLCJ2ZXJzaW9uIjpudWxsfSwidGZ3X3R3ZWV0X2VtYmVkX2NsaWNrYWJpbGl0eV8xMjEwMiI6eyJidWNrZXQiOiJjb250cm9sIiwidmVyc2lvbiI6bnVsbH19&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1398375676688879616&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rt.com%2Fop-ed%2F525165-israel-narrative-management-palestinian%2F&amp;sessionId=fa19f38ca627e27394d2bc42c543d4245e2210a8&amp;siteScreenName=RT_com&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=82e1070%3A1619632193066&amp;width=550px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1398375676688879616\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Supporters of Israeli apartheid and mass murder are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.substack.com\/p\/the-israel-narrative-is-crumbling\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">losing control of the narrative<\/a>, which has led to redoubled perception-management efforts, ranging from the cringey to the iron-fisted. In the former category we\u2019re seeing them pen\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/spectator.us\/topic\/seth-rogen-jewish-problem-zionism-eve-barlow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">entire articles attacking Seth Rogen<\/a>\u00a0for tweeting a fart emoji at virulent Israel apologist Eve Barlow and claiming that putting \u201cfart\u201d in Barlow\u2019s name is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tabletmag.com\/sections\/news\/articles\/the-social-media-pogrom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the same as a literal pogrom<\/a>. In the latter category they\u2019re blowing up entire press offices and arresting Palestinian journalists. This is narrative management at its least subtle.<\/p>\n<p>From a new statement titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/israel-now-holding-13-palestinian-journalists\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-href=\"https:\/\/rsf.org\/en\/news\/israel-now-holding-13-palestinian-journalists\">Israel now holding 13 Palestinian journalists<\/a>\u201d by Reporters Without Borders:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Two Palestinian journalists were arrested by Israeli security forces in Jerusalem yesterday and were placed in administrative detention today, bringing the total now held administratively by the Israelis to 13. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Israel\u2019s misuse of administrative detention to hound Palestinian reporters<\/em>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<em>Administrative detention<\/em>\u201d is one of the many apartheid abuses which Israel has come under criticism for employing, as Israel-based\u00a0<em>+972 Magazine<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/shin-bet-administrative-detention-torture-protest\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">explained last year<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>According to human rights group\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.btselem.org\/administrative_detention\/statistics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">B\u2019Tselem<\/a>, as of September 2020, Israel is holding 376 Palestinians, including two minors, in administrative detention. Israel uses\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.972mag.com\/administrative-detention-explained\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">administrative detention<\/a>\u00a0to indefinitely detain Palestinians (and on extremely rare occasions Jewish extremists) without charge or trial. Administrative detention orders, handed down by the IDF commander in charge of the occupied West Bank, are reviewed every six months, but the detainees are not told what crimes they are being accused of, nor shown the evidence against them.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to lawyers who defend Palestinian detainees, administrative detentions are almost always based on \u201cconfidential material\u201d handed over\u00a0ex parte\u00a0to the courts by the Shin Bet, to which the detainees themselves and their lawyers have no access. As a result, it is virtually impossible to defend oneself against an administrative detention order.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Before the Gaza ceasefire last week Israel managed to deliberately blow up\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/05\/18\/gaza-journalists-israel-palestine-attacks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">over 20 offices for Palestinian media outlets<\/a>, as well as the tower hosting the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/gaza-tower-housing-ap-al-jazeera-collapses-after-missile-strike-witness-2021-05-15\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">international outlets AP and\u00a0<em>Al Jazeera<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>The world will know less about what is happening in Gaza because of what happened today<\/em>,\u201d AP president and CEO Gary Pruitt\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-middle-east-business-israel-palestinian-conflict-f595d0ea0a7e21a4e4974ae55e00024d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said in a statement<\/a>\u00a0after the building was destroyed.<\/p>\n<p>Which, of course, is the whole idea: for the world to know less about what happens in Gaza. The Israeli government has a decades-long history of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/YWoPt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatening<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1985\/03\/23\/world\/israel-defends-action-involving-cbs.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">targeting<\/a>\u00a0journalists in order to exert control over the public narrative about what happens under its rule, and as that narrative slips from its grip we are seeing this pattern ramp up with greater and greater aggression.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Rather than reduce the cruelty, the Israeli government keeps trying to reduce accurate news coverage,<\/em>\u201d author and activist Norman Solomon\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/original.antiwar.com\/solomon\/2021\/05\/20\/why-israel-blows-up-media-offices-and-targets-journalists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes<\/a>. \u201c<em>The approach is a mix of deception and brutality. Blow up the cameras so the world won\u2019t see as many pictures of the atrocities.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Alan MacLeod\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mintpressnews.com\/why-overton-window-suddenly-shifted-israel-palestine\/277338\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wrote in\u00a0<em>Mintpress News<\/em><\/a>, the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caityjohnstone.medium.com\/the-incredible-shrinking-overton-window-67fff49f3846\">Overton window<\/a>\u00a0has shifted on Palestine. During 2014\u2019s far more deadly Israeli attack on Gaza we saw a low-level local Democratic official sparking outrage and scandal by merely\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theintercept.com\/2021\/05\/14\/israel-palestine-congress-criticism-democrats\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posting\u00a0\u201cPalestine &lt;3\u201d on Facebook<\/a>, now you have words like \u201capartheid\u201d being routinely used by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/opinion\/saying-israel-guilty-apartheid-isn-t-antisemitic-just-ask-these-n1268785\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mainstream media outlets<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/rashida-tlaib-ayanna-pressley-call-israel-situation-apartheid-funded-us-1591566\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">national US political figures<\/a>\u00a0to describe Israeli abuses of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>People are simply becoming too conscious of the Palestine issue to tolerate its existence as a taboo subject anymore, even in the most mainstream circles of discussion. The old tactics of silencing and marginalizing Palestinian rights advocates simply do not work anymore, and politicians and pundits can no longer get away with painting themselves as progressive-minded humanists without acknowledging the brutal and unjust nature of Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n<p>Palestine is simply not a third rail anymore, and it\u2019s been this way for a while now. By the time I started doing commentary in late 2016 people were still saying you\u2019ll be smeared as an antisemite and dragged through the mud if you criticize Israel, but my experience this entire time has been that I get a lot more vitriol and attacks coming my way by criticizing US imperialist agendas toward nations like Russia, China, Syria and Venezuela than by criticizing the Israeli government. There\u2019s pushback to be sure, but it\u2019s not nearly as vituperative as what I\u2019m used to.<\/p>\n<p>This last attack on Gaza was just the ignition of a powder keg in shifting public sentiment that had been building for several years, and it hasn\u2019t been due to any top-down effort at perception-steering by the establishment narrative managers, but by ordinary people sharing ideas and information and moving the Overton window of acceptable debate through sheer force of will.<\/p>\n<p>The fact that this can be done makes one wonder in what other ways we can collectively move the narrative in a way that benefits ordinary people instead of the oligarchic empire of the US and its allies. This is an exciting time to be alive.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/525165-israel-narrative-management-palestinian\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/op-ed\/525165-israel-narrative-management-palestinian\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel narrative management is getting incredibly desperate and brazen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}