WCNSF; & the Israeli/NYTimes propaganda on Hamas committing sexual violence
*WCNSF: The Most Haunting Acronym the World Has Produced* The flour massacre, mass starvation, the orphaning of thousands of children. All of it was done on the back of a propaganda campaign of dehumanization. by Ryan Grim, Intercept, March 2 https://theintercept.com/2024/03/02/gaza-flour-massacre-propaganda/ . . . In late November, as the civilian death toll in Gaza climbed, Israel was struggling to retain its dominance of the narrative. Global demands for a ceasefire were mounting, and even some of Israel’s allies were expressing horror at the indiscriminate killing of women and children and the worsening humanitarian catastrophe. . . . It was at this moment that the Israeli government decided it needed to remind the world of Israel’s victimhood and launched a new phase of the hasbara campaign. It began accusing the international community of standing silent in the face of what Israeli officials described as a widespread campaign of rape and sexual violence aimed at Jewish women and orchestrated by Hamas on October 7. By early December, the issue had become a major focus of conservative media and Israel’s allies. . . . I’d encourage you to read the full story if you haven’t yet.: *“Between the Hammer and the Anvil”The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé* https://theintercept.com/2024/02/28/new-york-times-anat-schwartz-october-7/ . . . Those questions were challenging to answer, she [***] said: “One of the questions you get asked — and it’s the hardest ones to not be able to answer — if this has happened in so many places, how can it be that there is no forensic evidence? How can it be that there is no documentation? How can it be that there are no records? A report? ... . . . One Times reporter said colleagues are wondering what a balanced approach might look like: “I am waiting to see if the paper will report in depth, deploying the same kind of resources and means, on the United Nations’ report that documented the horrors committed against Palestinian women.” # # # [*** "she" is Anat Schwartz: "The Israeli filmmaker and former air force intelligence official had been assigned by the New York Times to work with her partner’s nephew Adam Sella and veteran Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman on an investigation into sexual violence by Hamas on October 7 that could reshape the way the world understood Israel’s ongoing war in the Gaza Strip."] On Sat, Mar 2, 2024 at 3:28 PM Dennis Brasky <[email protected]> wrote: > What the New York Times did was bad. Why they did it was worse. >> WCNSF – the most haunting acronym the world has produced >> <https://join.theintercept.com/go/75605?t=23&akid=8823%2E13502%2EKuENxF> >> > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29226): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29226 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104693871/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
