How to do effective hasbara

Kids, how would you like for adults to not just allow, but encourage you to call people names on-line? You can even use bad words! All you have to do is post some mindless memes and cut and paste some statements defending an apartheid military regime in the Middle East that’s been occupying and ethnicaly cleansing the indigenous people for decades. Doesn’t that sound fun?

What’s that? This is unethical? Stupid? You’re telling your mommy?

You anti-Semitic twats, you’re all Muslims aren’t you?

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On Anti-Semitism

Anti-Zionism is the “new anti-Semitism,” “BDS is anti-Semitic,” “yo mama is so anti-Semitic that when the waiter asked if she wanted any juice, she said “I hate the juice!” This is stuff you hear quite often(and also the reason it was so hard to have a juice bar in Nazi Germany). Is there any truth to any of this and what is anti-Semitism?

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Debunking hasbara: part 1 – the debunkathon commences

Hasbara! Hasbara! Hasbara! It’s stupid, it’s dumb, it’s everywhere.

One need only to cough a word like “Israel“, “Palestine”, “hummus” and hasbara will appear faster than a spambot selling “1OO L3g1T V11^GR^ 4 0nl1 $19.99!” to tell you how wonderful Israel is and how terrible Palestinians are.

I thought it would be nice to go through some of the more annoying claims one is likely to encounter.

“We have a right to self-determination like anyone else” Self-determination means, in Zio-talk, an ethnically homogeneous state. Where is this right to an ethnically homogeneous state exactly? It doesn’t exist, quite the opposite. Everyone else has a right to such a state? No they don’t.  This is just a way to frame racism as something acceptable and normative, it isn’t, there’s no such right and no other state claims such a right.

If we had a state for every single ethnic/religious/racial/national group out there, we would have thousands if not tens of thousands of states, and a complete mess of territorial boundaries (and probably a nuclear war or 10). Imagine separating America into people groups and assigning each a state.. now imagine that worldwide. We should be striving for greater acceptance of diversity, not indulging in Hitler’s wet dream.

There is no “right to self-determination” the way Israel phrases it, as an ethnically-pure state for one people. Israel is denying the Palestinians their rights of self-determination.

“We have an [Palestinian] Arab on the Supreme Court” – Yes, there is one, the second in the entire history of the existence of the Supreme Court (the other one served a whopping 9 months) this totally eliminates the existence of racism and apartheid, just like electing Obama ended racism in the United States once and for all. There are also Palestinian Israelis in the Knesset, and due to the nature and racism of the Knesset, they have never been invited to be part of any coalition government which means they exist only as token figures with no real power.

“There has been a [2,000/3,000/4,000/We circumcised the dinosaurs] uninterrupted Jewish presence in Palestine.” Yes, some Jews have lived in the area that is known as Palestine for a long time. They lived there along with other groups, they intermarried, some converted to Christianity and Islam and other religions. None of that gives you a right to kick out people who were living on that land because you want an ethnically pure state and they interfere with that.

We aren’t ethnically cleansing people to revive the Roman empire, the Mongolian empire or any other empire.

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“Living in equality = genocide” – This is an exceedingly dumb claim that is constantly put out by Zionists and White Genocide morons. Yes, living in a multicultural society where everyone has the same rights regardless of race/ethnicity/religion/sexual orientation/gender = genocide. With Zionists, it’s usually “They’re going to throw all the Jews in the sea!!!!!!!!!!”

OK, first, many Palestinians have not even had any access to the sea, I wager the first thing they will do when they can access the sea is go for a swim themselves. Second, “Jews” you mean all the Jews who don’t live in Israel are going to be magnetically pulled there and thrown into the sea? No, you mean Israelis, some of whom have been complicit in occupation for decades, who aren’t going to be thrown into the sea but may face tribunals for war crimes that they have committed(teh horrorz!!!).

There is no reason Palestinians and Israeli Jews cannot live side by side. They did so for centuries. Yes, decades of occupation will breed some hostility. No, you don’t get to claim “Jew hatred” for people being pissed at how you’ve treated them.

Racism is bad. You don’t have a right to a racist state. Get over it.

Oh and the notion that Jews are some special sort of human that can’t coexist with other groups is racist as hell and channels the worst anti-Semitic tropes of the last few centuries.

“Israelis invent lots of stuff” – 1. This claim is completely exaggerated. 2. If I invent something, is it OK for me to move into your house and shoot you and your family if you object? No? Why are you trying to delegitimise me? There is nothing about ending the occupation that would preclude Israeli Jews from continuing to invent stuff (unless it is war stuff and they’d like to test that war stuff on Palestinians before marketing it to violent regimes, in which case, I think we’re better off without it).

This is but a small sampling of what you may encounter in HasbaraWorld. Please stay tuned for more instalments where we will cover such gems as “Israel needs to torture teenagers for self-defence” and “Islam: it has nothing to do with the land dispute in Palestine but lets bring up bigoted stereotypes anyway.”

A test

 

Answer this question. You have 20 minutes. Spelling counts. Failure is not an option, objections will be entertained as long as they are entertaining and….GO!

Spock and Kirk first were around the area of 123 Enterprise Lane as children. It was a park back then. Kirk used to play in the sandbox while Spock liked to colour with crayons at the benches. When they became teenagers, someone bought the park and started to develop it. Kirk used to bring his dates to the lot while Spock used to go practise Vulcan Mind Arts with his friends there.

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Christmastime

It’s Christmastime and what a cheer,

Trees and lights and reindeer and shopping malls full of people,

We support big corporations and yell at people who don’t wish us “Merry Christmas”

That’s what Christmas is about.

There was a Palestinian family,

They had no money so they got to stay in a barn,

And had a little boy  right among the animals,

He grew up an activist, that boy

He preached non-violence and helped his fellow man,

It didn’t matter. His existence was violence to the state,

When he was 33 the state killed him.

He stood against occupation, for equality.

He had to die.

His mother wept as she saw his body.

Tortured, a reminder to all those who resist oppression.

I digress.

Don’t know what that has to do with Christmas.

Merry Christmas

Poem: Mothers of the Undisposessed

Mommy, have you seen my soul? I think I lost it

I was playing soldier and my friend was playing Arab and I shot him dead with my toy gun

BANG BANG BANG

Afterwards you told me I was a good boy and that Arabs want to kill me so I have to kill them.

I was so afraid I put my toy gun under my pillow, I think my soul dropped somewhere.

I know you’re busy but if you see my soul, let me know? I think I need it.

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The Case for Burglary

This is a guest post by Phil Oni. Phil has been an armed robber, burglar and con artist for over two decades. He has won several accolades for his work in breaking into houses and terrorising the residents inside. He is the author of several books including “Breaking up is hard to do: A modern tribute to the crowbar” and “How much is that dog in the window? Who cares?”

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The cruel savagery of Israel’s hidden violence.

My grandmother passed recently. I remember being viscerally angry as the undertakers carried her coffin. She wasn’t theirs to handle. She was my family. They didn’t know her. They just cared about the profit. She was my family, my memories. Mine. All I wanted at that moment was to get their hands off her coffin. Were it not for my tears I would have ripped them off of her. They were not her family, they did not know her, they did not grow up with her. They had no right.

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The Dissection of a Hasbara Manual

Dissect? Did you say dissect? You want to dissect Jews. You said so right in the title. DISSECTION. You are just like the Nazis. You want to bring about another Holocaust. You hate Jews, admit it! Admit it! Confess! Confess!

Unlike the Spanish Inquisition, this one's rather unfunny.

Unlike the Spanish Inquisition, this one’s rather unfunny.

Well I didn’t expect the Spanish Inquisition.. or em, the Zionist one. I know, I know, no one expects the Spanish Inquisition, but the Zionist one? It’s pretty damn predictable. In fact anyone saying something on-line or in the media about Israel is likely to get the full weight of the Israeli paid propaganda machine, known as hasbara, thrown at them.

Yes folks, Israel pays people to troll and spread lies about itself. If you find that to be sad and gross, well, that’s Israel for you.

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