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Watch: Debunking Israel's "Mass Rape" Propaganda
Ali Abunimah
06 Dec 2023
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Screenshot of Electronic Intifada video

 

Originally published in The Electronic Intifada.

This is a deceptive campaign based not on evidence but an appeal to racist notions that Palestinians are inherently violent and cruel.

Israel and its proxies have launched a new media blitz, reviving unverified claims that Hamas fighters perpetrated mass rapes of Israeli women during its 7 October military operation.
Despite blanket coverage, Israel does not claim to have identified any specific victim of such crimes, nor produced any videos or forensic evidence corroborating that they took place.

On The Electronic Intifada livestream we dissected this propaganda campaign and showed how it is being fronted by operatives close to the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Watch the video above.

We explain how this is a deceptive campaign based not on evidence but emotional manipulation, outlandish claims, distortion and an appeal to racist notions that Palestinians are inherently violent and cruel.

It fits in with a long history of colonizers portraying colonized or enslaved people as savage brutes predisposed to sexual violence against white or settler women.

As the Jim Crow Museum observes, the longstanding ā€œbrute caricature portrays Black men as innately savage, animalistic, destructive and criminal – deserving punishment, maybe death.ā€

ā€œThe ā€˜terrible crime’ most often mentioned in connection with the Black brute was rape, specifically the rape of a white woman,ā€ the museum adds. ā€œAt the beginning of the 20th century, much of the virulent, anti-Black propaganda that found its way into scientific journals, local newspapers and best-selling novels focused on the stereotype of the Black rapist.ā€

These stereotypes justified state violence against, and control of, Black people and ā€œsoothed white consciences.ā€

There’s a similar and equally sinister dynamic to Israeli propaganda now targeting Palestinians. Its purpose is to demonize them and soften up public opinion to tolerate or support Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

On Monday, Hamas condemned Western media for going along with ā€œmisleading Zionist campaigns that promote lies and baseless allegationsā€ including the claims of rape and sexual assault by its fighters.ā€

The resistance group added that the latest campaign is ā€œpart of a series of lies propagated by the Zionist propaganda machineā€ which has consistently made false claims such as ā€œthe beheading of children, the targeting of revelers at the concert in the settlement of Re’im and not the least of which is the lie of using al-Shifa hospital for military purposes.ā€

 

Ali Abunimah is the Co-founder of The Electronic Intifada and author of The Battle for Justice in Palestine and One Country: A Bold-Proposal to End the Israeli-Palestinian Impasse.

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