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Rabbi Menachem Levine's avatar

https://substack.com/@thinktorah/note/c-138600957

"Consider the press as a powerful instrument that the government can manipulate," proclaimed Joseph Goebbels, the notorious Nazi propaganda chief.

In today's landscape, many media organizations are uncritically repeating Hamas's narrative, employing tactics reminiscent of those used by the Nazis. Goebbels also famously stated, "If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it," and this deceitful strategy is being wielded with alarming effectiveness.

Hamas alleges food shortages, yet aid convoys are discovered hidden in their warehouses. They concoct exaggerated civilian casualty figures, claim false hospital bombings, and devise false "peace" plans—all while brutally targeting their people who seek assistance, laying the blame squarely on Israel.

Disturbingly, numerous Western media outlets irresponsibly circulate these unverified claims from Hamas as if they were undeniable truths. It is deeply troubling that a significant segment of the liberal media is complicit in perpetuating Hamas's terrorism.

In light of history, these actions are nothing short of modern-day blood libels, watering the seeds of anti-Semitism and enabling Hamas's evil actions.

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Rabbi Menachem Levine's avatar

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7354258625147625472/

It is deeply troubling that a significant segment of the liberal media is complicit in perpetuating Hamas's terrorism. In light of history, these actions are nothing short of modern-day blood libels, watering the seeds of anti-Semitism and enabling Hamas's evil actions.

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Susan Sullivan's avatar

I agree! The acceptance at face value that these people are helpless journalists is unbelievable!! As is the acceptance of the Hamas death figures. You will be vindicated in the end!

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Steven Brizel's avatar

There are no helpless journalists in Gaza

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Mark Moulton's avatar

Thank you.

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David Bergsland's avatar

I'm praying for Bibi, the government, and the IDF that the Lord will give them the wisdom to expose Hamas' sinister plan. Better yet, that G-d Himself exposes them for who they are.

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Emmanuel arina's avatar

yes oo they will be exposed

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Steven Brizel's avatar

There is massive evidence of reporters for the mainstream media serving as propagandists for Hamas , and participating in 10/7

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

I'm constantly wondering how the modern journalist imagines themselves as avatars of such exalted and unimpeachable moral authority. It seems like the moment they receive a diploma it gets folded into a priest's collar and suddenly a sheltered post-adolescent who's spent most of his/her life on the phone is bragging about their "moral clarity" and pronouncing Thou Shalt! and Thou Shalt Not! from a pulpit.

I think that our virtual phone-based world has severed morals and ethics (along with just about everything else) from the realm of action and moved them entirely into the realm of the ideal. Thus faking prophetic status is as easy as any other forgery or AI-produced term paper: Just take the reigning ideology and its precepts, find an issue that will raise your profile and start issuing thundering denunciations of your political opponents. (Most modern journalism is more or less Mad Libs with the blanks filled in by Critical Studies jargon.)

And thus we arrive at the degraded state of debate about Israel, where whoever can shout Think of the Children! and cry crocodile tears for the poor oppressed Palestinians gets to preen as champion of the downtrodden and denounce anyone who disagrees as a heartless child killer—"How dare you provide context and historical background, when their are children starving, you monster!"

Modern Western journalists (along with their cousins in academia) have given themselves an ideological lobotomy and now live drooling inside a fantasy world where they are saints who've fallen to earth and everyone else is in desperate need of their guidance. And there is no chance they're going to let any facts or reality (or even principles like fairness or neutrality) get in the way of their fantasy crusades. And they already have a handy excuse when people are killed from their lies: The Jews had it coming anyway! Everyone I know agrees!

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Jan Jackson's avatar

Not only did journalists accompany Hamas on 10/7, they won Pulitzer prizes for their reporting! It's beyond the pale.

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Richard Baker's avatar

Reporting can be quite dangerous. I remember during Vietnam where Errol Flynn's son Sean, who was a reporter/photo journalist, just disappeared in the late '60's and I don't think he was shilling for the VC or North Vietnamese like so many now are doing for Hamas, Hezbollah, or the sundry of other Islamic killers.

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Puck's avatar

"When journalists die in war, it is tragic, as is every civilian death. "

When journalists aid or abet the enemy, they lose their protected civilian status. Their deaths are as tragic as the deaths of terrorists hiding among the civilian population.

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Adina Kaplan-Klee's avatar

There is no such thing as a journalist in Gaza. Journalists must adhere to ethical standards which prevent their reporting from being propaganda. Those who have tried to report according to such ethical standards have been silenced by Hamas. International press agencies can't be so blind and stupid that they don't know this. When the President of the Foreign Press Association unashamedly declares that he"doesn't care" if journalists are members of Hamas, we have a big problem regarding journalistic integrity worldwide.

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blackdog1955's avatar

"A medicinal dose of clear thinking is needed." Nice try with that one. Never gonna happen.

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Gail's avatar

Was one of them an AP “ journalist”? AP hasn’t changed over the years, it’s gotten worse. From abetting the European Nazis to abetting the IslamoNazis .

It’s quite fitting that the most prolific Dhimmicrat donors are Soros,Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation , JP Morgan Chase ,IBM and Palestinian/Qatari/Iranian terror sponsors. - ie Pierre Omidyar,CAIR,SJP,Palestinian Legal, Al Aqsa,Hatem Bazian-All of whom collaborated with the Nazis.

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Sky Fisher's avatar

This is a poorly written, self-indulgent soliloquy that contradicts not only itself, but international law and journalistic ethics in every other sentence. What a pathetic word salad to publish. Is the Future Jewish lacking good writers at the moment?

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Peter Kay's avatar

A string of highly questionable statements without authority, explanation or context doesn't add much to the conversation except, perhaps, that pro-terrorist arguments are built on treacherous ground.

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Richard Baker's avatar

Boo.

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