journo and sworn enemy of the Hasbarati; in a long-term dysfunctional relationship with my comment section
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Being a Hasbarist really does seem like the most boring job in the whole world. You wake up, open social media, and like a robot you have to regurgitate the same exact mindless tripe as all the other Hasbara soldiers.
This one must be especially painful cause you have to pretend want Arabs to vote (though the comment section is doing a great job of revealing the truth.)
I do want to shout out two men who managed to put their own unique twist on the standard script:
- Hillel Fuld who cut out the middle man and just went straight to “There is no apartheid but I wish there was”
- Ambassador Huckabee with “There is no apartheid except I apartheid-ed them in my post.”
Also: one man’s Hasbara is another man’s scare tactic
Netanyahu rails nonstop against alleged high Arab turnout, calls it 'emergency' haaretz.com/israel-news/elec…
There’s always two phases of Hasbara - the ones who create it and the ones who share it. Looking over this list, it’s a lot of phase 1ers - those who know that a) the apartheid accusation refers to Palestinians living under occupation in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, b) the Knesset voted to ban all Arab parties c) Arab Israelis are subject to plenty of discrimination both systematic and societal.
As soon as your Aunt Phyllis posts it on Facebook, that’s how you know we’re in phase 2.
This is Netanyahu mouthpiece Amit Segal’s favorite type of pseudo-journalism. Sew just enough doubt so as not to accuse outright and let the base take it from there.
By the way, answers his own question twenty minutes later but that’s of course not the message being pass around Bibi supporter WhatsApp groups.
Let me sum up the entire comment section for you:
75%: “Because of October 7 we should definitely keep doing the exact same thing we were doing before, on, and after October 7! It hasn’t worked until now which is how we know we have no choice but to continue doing it!”
25%: “Only more so.”
Voted with my soul and my brain. Zero regrets.
Moshe Fieglin, leader of the Identity Party, has said many times he believes all babies in Gaza should die. And that soldiers should refuse orders to distribute humanitarian aid.
But people are freaking out because he wants to close the airport on Shabbat.
Many many many dead babies in Gaza…. I get that this is good.”
In an interview with Channel 12 on Wednesday, far-Right lawmaker Moshe Feiglin, doubled down on comments he made after October 7, 2023 saying “I didn’t see the Americans leaving any sort of humanitarian corridor in Nagasaki and Hiroshima.”
Feiglin is the head of Israel’s Identity party which recently merged with Bezalel Smotritch’s Religious Zionism party ahead of the upcoming election. The two will use each other to drag themselves over the electoral threshold needed to qualify. Feiglin also has big plans to be made Minister of Defense.
While they wait for the polls to close, the two men can swap arrest stories. In 1997, Feiglin was arrested and convicted of sedition for his anti-Oslo Accord activism. (Today, he’d probably be honored in the Knesset.) while Smotrich was arrested in 2005 after he and a group of fellow settlers were found with 185 gallons of fuel and oil which they allegedly planned to use to blow up parts of Ayalon Highway in protest of Israel’s disengagement from Gaza.
Later in the interview, when asked whether he believed in LGBTQ rights, Feiglin replied with the classic, “What about rights for straight people?”
Sometimes there’s a nuanced argument to be had about someone legacy, about the timing of honest critique versus letting their loved ones mourn.
Not today though.
Today the world is just a little less racist, a little less cruel.
Increase that amount by doing something kind for someone who doesn’t look like you, whose life is harder than you can possibly imagine. Someone the world and the system have been impossibly unfair to. Do it in Sheffi’s name.
Because she would have hated that.
One of the things the Hasbarati LOVE to do is take a cause they do not support, and in fact actively campaign against, and co-opt it for their own agenda.
This rally was held by hostages and and victims of Oct. 7 and their families. For three years, they have been demanding a general commission of inquiry to investigate the failures of October 7, which the government refuses to do because they do not want the truth to come out.
There are literally dozens of influencers in Israel right now, not a single one showed up. Nor are any of them posting anything about it other than “Look at our democracy! We win again.”
The second the hostages came home and could no longer be used to defend Israel’s actions in Gaza or accuse anyone and everyone of antisemitism , the Hasbarists completely stopped talking about them.
Occasionally, when something good happens like a wedding or a birth, they will dust them off again for their “Am Yisrael Chai! This is what victory looks like!” propaganda.
But actually amplifying their pleas for answers? Acknowledging the families who feel deserted by their own government, both then and now?
Literally never.
Today, activists from Tzav 9 once again tried to block humanitarian aid from getting into Gaza.
I know that this doesn’t even come close to the actual bombs, especially since it is entirely symbolic. And yet I have always found it a uniquely horrifying act.
I cannot help but think about the mothers there, dressed in religious garb, who hours earlier packed up their diaper bags with the water bottle and the extra snacks and buckled their babies safely into their car seats. “Come on, little one, it’s time to make sure other children can’t have these same things.”
I think about them bringing their toddlers into the street to sit down in front of the trucks. Are they confused? Do they wonder why no one is yanking them back from the curb this time? Why they are not only allowed to play in the road, but their mommies seem to want them to?
And I think about my own kids. How difficult it is to navigate the enormous parental burden of instilling in them our values. How I never feel like I know the right thing to say, the best answer to give.
Still, I’m not sure I understand how you can have a child and also wish suffering on someone else’s.
Respectfully,
Kindly f*cking spare me with your anger over Brad Lander and the IMMEDIATELY debunked lie that they needed a permit to be there.
One day.
Jewish settlers beat the sh*t out of a journalist, a handful of Palestinians no one is talking about, and some diplomats and they were under arrest for one day.
And a bunch of “proud Jewish Zionists” I know have decided to divvy up their rage in the following way:
100% for Brad Lander taking a selfie while he was detained.
0% for the Jewish terrorists using the Torah to justify breaking a sixty three year old woman’s ribs and almost ripping her finger off. On Shabbat.
🚨Hasbara Warning🚨
“We were just lynched.”
Yeah, so I would be more inclined to take you seriously if 30 seconds after it happened you weren’t setting your “terrorist attack” to music and posting it in multiple reels.
“I’m just a regular person that was visiting “
No you’re not. You are full-time influencers who went on an organized trip with Regavim, the pro-settlement movement founded by Bezalel Smotrich and Yehuda Eliahu, hoping to get the exact experience you are now filming.
“I can’t really focus or be a person right now.”
But not to worry, I managed to pull myself together in order to churn out the content I came here for - the big “gotcha” of showing nice homes in Turmus Ayya, which somehow makes it okay that settlers beat the shit out of elderly Palestinian women because other Palestinians have two story houses.
1. The Bat Signal has definitely gone up because the Hasbaratti are pouring into Israel right now. (For the elections, possibly?) 😭
2. Which means we can expect lots of “Look, an Arab person literally allowed to exist! Apartheid accusation DESTROYED!!!” content in the coming days. 🙄
3. This woman definitely said to her friends, “Oh my God, look! Black people! I have to get a photo.” 😩
4. The fact that seasoned international war journalists are still not allowed into Gaza because it’s “too dangerous,” but the Real Housewives of Hasbara are being given the guided tour simply defies comprehension. 🤯
When it comes to the Hasbara talking points that get repeated over and over again, there are basically two types of people who regurgitate them.
The first group absolutely knows that what they are saying is Hasbara. They know what is an out-and-out lie, which facts they are leaving out, and which phrases they are manipulating to bend the truth. But they also know they have an audience that is desperate to be told they aren’t the bad guys, and they are more than happy to oblige.
That audience is the second group, the ones who consume the Hasbara and then pass it along. They are just so relieved to read something – anything – that will quell the nagging feeling that they might be on the very wrong side of things. (Social scientists call this motivated reasoning.)
Amit Segal is obviously in the first group – sourced up and completely aware of exactly how all of this works, but willing to debase himself for some of that sweet, sweet speaking engagement cash.
I do often wonder if he ever wishes he could be an actual journalist instead.
Lizzy Savetsky celebrating her birthday by joking she is the female version of Itamar Ben-Gvir. (Bat-Gvir - feminized version of Ben-Gvir)
Hundreds of thousands of social media followers. Lauded by the Israeli government and mainstream Jewish organizations alike. Awards. Paid appearances. Devoted followers thanking her profusely for her “Jewish heroism”
I wish that each and every person could represent themselves and only themselves but that’s not how the world works. This woman told the entire planet she speaks on behalf of the Jewish people and they believed her. Because barely anyone came forward to say, “no she doesn’t.”
Please stop wondering how things got this bad.
Please stop believing the Hasbarists who MAKE THEIR MONEY by convincing the rest of us that the world hates us for no reason while simultaneously giving them unending reasons to hate us.
