Two prominent pro-Israel lobby groups are holding private briefings in New York City to coach elected officials and well-known figures on how to influence public opinion in favor of the Israeli military’s rampage in Gaza, The Grayzone can reveal. These PR sessions, convened by the UJA-Federation and Jewish Community Relations Council, rely on data collected by Frank Luntz, a veteran Republican pollster and pundit.
The Luntz-tested presentations on the war in Gaza urge politicians to avoid trumpeting America’s supposedly shared democratic values with Israel, and focus instead on deploying “The Language of War with Hamas.” According to this framing, they must deploy incendiary language painting Hamas as a “brutal and savage…organization of hate” which has “raped women,” while insisting Israel is engaged in “a war for humanity.”
In one focus group, Luntz asked participants to state which alleged act by Hamas on October 7 “bothers you more.” After being presented with a laundry list of alleged atrocities, a majority declared that they were most upset by the claim that Hamas “raped civilians” – 19 percent than those who expressed outrage that Hamas supposedly “exterminated civilians.”
Data like this apparently influenced the Israeli government to launch an obsessive but still unsuccessful campaign to prove that Hamas carried out sexual assault on a systematic basis on October 7. Initiated at Israel’s United Nations mission in December 2023 with speeches by neoliberal tech oligarch Sheryl Sandberg and former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, a recipient of hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and speaking fees from Israel lobby organizations, Tel Aviv’s propaganda blitz has yet to produce a single self-identified victim of sexual assault by Hamas. A March 5 report by UN Special Representative on Sexual Violence Pramila Patten did not contain one direct testimony of sexual assault on October 7. What’s more, Patten’s team said they found “no digital evidence specifically depicting acts of sexual violence.”
The UN interviewed multiple eyewitnesses to the rape of Israeli civilians and captives.
Get fucked zionist. Maybe someone at Reddit will believe your babyish claims.
Who am i kidding? You’re probably got reddit up on the other tab
Oh look, zionist bots on the move again.
So you do believe what the UN says? So you do believe that Israel is genociding Palestinians.
Do you believe a terrorist organisation like Hamas raping someone gives a valid justification for a nation-state to commit ethnic cleansing?
“We are particularly distressed by reports that Palestinian women and girls in detention have also been subjected to multiple forms of sexual assault, such as being stripped naked and searched by male Israeli army officers. At least two female Palestinian detainees were reportedly raped while others were reportedly threatened with rape and sexual violence,” the experts said. They also noted that photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances were also reportedly taken by the Israeli army and uploaded online.
Israeli rhetoric is more see-through than the shitty attempts at lies by 5-year olds caught with their hand in the cookiejar.
Don’t talk to these clowns man, even that is more respect then they deserve.
Insult them or silently block them. Let them post their hate into the void, unknowing
Yet you replied to me. You don’t seem to trust your own advice
The UN said a Gaza genocide Is plausible and a very real threat, and I believe that.
No, rape obviously does not justify war crimes. At the same time, sympathy for Gazans does not justify ignoring rape. Both sides in this conflict must be held accountable.
You imply we’re to believe UN when an IDF soldier invents tall tales, but you don’t think that there is a genocide going on?
You just think there’s a “a potential” for it, meaning it isn’t happening?
On a tangent, how do you feel when you see holocaust-deniers?
“Both sides must be held accountable”
So your criteria for the behaviour of Israel is that of Hamas, meaning that you don’t expect Israel to act like a civilised nation state, but like an international terrorist organisation? That is what Israel is doing, yes.
This isn’t a war between two states. It’s Israel ethnically cleansing Palestinians with garbage excuses.
Israel is actively and willfully committing genocide. That’s an irrefutable fact.
I never said Hamas is an international terrorist organization. They are the government of Gaza, to be held to the same standards as other governments.
The UN said genocide is plausible, meaning possibly happening. I defer to their expertise in this matter.
On a tangent, I condemn holocaust-deniers, and so does the UN.
These guys just can’t stop themselves from going full Nazi, including using the same style of propaganda as Goebbels.
New York Times writer Michael Fridman likened the Arab middle eastern Countries to insects, inclduing “parasitic wasps” and suggested to “burn down the jungle” as a means to solve the conflict with Israel. This was published by the New York Times.
It is quite literally the same language that Goebbels used, likening the Jews to rats and calling them parasites.
Can you give a source? I think he likened the Iran islamic extremists to wasps, not ‘countries’ as in implying normal people
Journalists have two duties these days. Make stories out of some Twitter users, and repeat police press releases verbatim without doing their own research. This is the second one, but with a countries propaganda organization instead of just the police.
I’ve gone into echo-chambers of pro-Israeli subs and the hypocrites often say there’s an emotional argument behind the civilian casualties in Gaza and there’s no merit. Yet it was Israel who harnessed the brutality of the October 7th attack as a rallying cry… Literally inviting journalists to a movie theater to watch the atrocities for no other reason but emotional appeal.
Israel pointed the gun at Hamas and said, “brutally rape and murder our children”.
Sure thing friend, hope the Russians pay you well, but I suspect you do this for free.
What in the ever-living fuck are you talking about?
Just saw a post on Lemmy a few days ago about Hamas raping people.
For anyone sick of NYT, CNN, etc acting “neutral” or even “left leaning” while clearly carrying water for conservative politics, check out Medias Touch Network YouTube and podcasts.
Mueller She Wrote media is another good source for political news.
Hamas does rape people. Kills them too. Forces children to fight for them, labor for them and be human shields for them. Any act of brutality you can imagine they have done it and worse. Why is this such a difficult fact to accept?
Yeah, I’m a bit confused on this too. I don’t support the actions of Israel or the IDF but Hamas aren’t angels either. It seems like both sides of this are conflating Hamas and the Palestinian people.
There is still no evidence of Hamas raping anyone. The UN report is just the NYT article copy pasted.
Israel refused to let the UN do forensic investigations on the bodies. They said that the UN had to believe them at their word else they are anti Semitic.
The report was made by a UN office which just writes down stories to make victims feel validated. It was not Investigative.
That UN employee (Pramilla) also refused to appoint Hamas or anyone else as a rapist. Which is why israel is currently really mad at her and she’s somehow still anti Semitic for not groveling hard enough. This is because there is zero video, photo of forensic evidence of rape happening on Oct7.
But our media made sure to put it in the headlines like israel wants. In reality not a shred of evidence was found for any rape happening.
Reminder that TheGrayzone was one of the first that exposed the fraudulent NYT rape article, which article of written by an ex-IDF soldier without journalistic experience.
More fun leaked slides from the article about the Hasbara language for our politicians and “journalists”:
Every war is a war of propaganda.
Some propaganda is true, while some is a complete fucking lie manufactured by criminal psychopaths.
The thing I struggle with is, is it moral to use true propaganda to meet your ends?
You mean information?
This isn’t a war. It’s a genocide.
Every war is also a genocide imho.
That makes about as much sense as saying “every day is also a year”
The words you use do have definitions you know. And not nearly all military conflicts rise to the level of genocide.
And this isn’t even a military conflict. It’s the IDF genociding Palestinians in an open air prison with little to no resistance.
Something tells me that Israel isn’t going to start “leading with the facts” now, out of the blue. The facts do not make them look good at all. Any reporter who uses that line should be dismissed as fake news. Are we allowed to sue newspapers for lying?
Are we allowed to sue newspapers for lying?
Yes. But your pockets aren’t as deep as a media giant’s is, so expect a small settlement instead.
Let’s start with the facts, Israel is committing genocide.
This is Palestinians holocaust.
Israel/US are working together to commit a war that rapes and kills babies and toddlers.
Remember Israel is committing barbaric atrocities.
Everything after October 7th: Brutal, Savage, Inhumane.
Everything before as well. Israel started this conflict a long time ago, not on oct 7th.
You type like a Facebook boomer
Theyre quoting the list above and modifying the language to reflect Israels crimes.
What’s crazy is that this media blitz is working.
I had my conservative coworkers tell me that they’d do the same to Hamas if they raped and cooked their family. They were even saying how it’s not really even a genocide…
