[Opinion] Pulling the Plug on the NGO Propaganda Industry
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In the ongoing plague of Jew-hatred and Israel derangement, the propaganda war led by powerful nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) plays a central role. Since the Oct. 7 Hamas atrocities, the multi-billion-dollar NGO industry has pumped out a continuous stream of false accusations (lies) accusing Israel of apartheid, starvation, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, etc.
In the past month, the superpowers — Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch (HRW), and Médecins Sans Frontièrs (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) issued hundreds of pages of bogus “reports” in the cynical campaign that weaponizes human rights to demonize Israel with the stamp of “genocide.” Oxfam joined with a scurrilous attack falsely claiming that Israel’s actions to prevent Hezbollah’s murderous strikes from Lebanon were also “war crimes.”
Following the standard pattern for over 25 years, the NGOs’ allies among mainstream journalists gave the propaganda major coverage – copied directly from the press releases, since almost no one reads the repetitive word salads and jargon in the actual reports. For example, a New York Times headline read: “Amnesty International Accuses Israel of Genocide in Gaza” and the CNN version (written by Nada Bashir) is “Amnesty International says there is ‘sufficient evidence’ to accuse Israel of genocide in Gaza.” The same is true for social media platforms and the anonymous editors of Wikipedia, who dictate the anti-Zionist narrative. The genocide inversion that labels the Jewish state as the equivalent of Nazi Germany ostensibly proven by these “highly respected” and “unbiased” organizations is then parroted by UN officials, politicians, and academics in frameworks claiming to focus on human rights and international law.
