www.jns.org By Jonathan S. Tobin
The death of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and other Palestinians who also falsely claimed to be journalists is being portrayed in much of the international media as just the latest in a long list of atrocities committed by Israel. It’s not as important a talking point in the arsenal of the Jewish state’s foes as their claims that Israel deliberately starves Palestinian civilians. But the assertion that the Israel Defense Force targets journalists to silence coverage of their wrongdoing is nonetheless an essential part of their argument that a “genocide” is being perpetrated in the Gaza Strip.
That’s why the debate about al-Sharif, whose membership in Hamas’s military forces was amply documented in files captured by the IDF during the war in Gaza, is about more than just the question of whether he was a legitimate target. Nor is it confined to the related yet separate issue of Israel’s decision not to allow the foreign press free access to the war zone.
Falling for the ‘genocide’ big lie
Instead, the main point is that the sort of journalism practiced by this particular Al Jazeera employee and many others working in the Strip for that and many Western outlets is part of one of the most successful propaganda campaigns in memory. Indeed, so decisive is the victory of those working to spread the big lie about Israeli genocide that some Jews, including prominent Israelis like author David Grossman, have repeated it. To illustrate just how much the Hamas line has become embedded in the thinking of “critics” of the Jewish state, the leftist Jewish newspaper, The Forward, which, like Haaretz, has become as much a disseminator of anti-Israel misinformation as Al Jazeera, published a piece this week comparing the debunking of the blood libel about an Israeli-manufactured famine to Holocaust denial…
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