Thursday, February 15, 2024
Elder of Ziyon
He's at it again, with a bizarre Super Bowl conspiracy theory.
This year’s Super Bowl was a weapon of mass distraction. If there’s any justice, future generations will remember the game not for Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce, or Taylor Swift but for the US-funded attacks on Palestinian civilians that occurred while so many Americans were glued to their TVs. During the game, watched by well over 100 million people in the United States, Israel launched a bombing raid of Rafah in the Gaza Strip, the most densely populated area on earth.Meanwhile, CBS granted the Israeli government space for an ad about the 130 hostages left in Gaza. This ad, meant to build public support and justify the slaughter of nearly 30,000 civilians in Gaza, spurred 10,000 people to register complaints with the FCC, because the commercial did not disclose that a foreign government had paid for it. Coupled with the Rafah raid, this looks more like military synergy than happenstance.
Dave Zirin is a deranged liar.
Here's the ad, which only true antisemites could claim "justifies slaughter."
The "Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee" set up a webpage urging people to complain about the ad. Practically none of them actually saw the ad during the game. That's because the ad was only shown on smart TVs tuned to the game through Paramount+, not CBS, where the vast majority of people watched the game.
It was not a "Super Bowl ad."
No one could possibly think that tens of thousands of people angrily wrote to the FCC because it didn't disclose who paid for it. If anyone complained, it is because they support the war crime of taking hostages - a war crime whether it is done to civilians or soldiers.
Oh, and the ad clearly said it was sponsored by the State of Israel!
But the layers of lies don't end there.
The FCC doesn't regulate streaming or online services like Paramount+, only over the air broadcasts. It makes no sense to complain to the FCC.
The entire point of this campaign is virtue signaling, to show anger that anyone might be sympathetic to Jews.
And what kind of "virtue" are these antisemites signaling?
The ad was against Hamas and only against Hamas. It urged action to bring the hostages home. Anyone complaining about this message is, by definition, pro-Hamas, since Hamas and its allies are the only parties against releasing the hostages unconditionally. Anyone who actually complained (and the 10,000 number is highly suspect) want Hamas to continue to murder and rape Israelis. And they want that so much that they take actions to support Hamas. Not Palestinians - Hamas.
Modern Jew-haters don't just lie. They couch their lies in layers of other lies. This supposed "FCC complaint" has layers of lies behind it. All to support war criminals: terrorists, rapists, murderers and kidnappers.
This strategy of layering lies is effective. CBS News Miami believed the antisemites and falsely reported that this was a $7 million Super Bowl ad. It didn't do any research, and uncritically platformed similar lies by "Jewish Voice for Peace."
Dave Zirin goes even beyond the insanity of effectively supporting Hamas rapists. He is claiming that the ad was timed to air at the very moment of the raid to rescue hostages, because the rescuing hostages itself was really not the point - Israel just wanted to slaughter Palestinians. (Note that he claims that every single Gaza death is a civilian. Not one Hamas terrorist has died!)
According to this conspiracy theory, Israel wrote, produced, directed and paid for a Super Bowl ad - a process that takes weeks at least - because it planned a series of airstrikes on Rafah and wanted to "distract" people.
The Super Bowl isn't enough of a distraction - according to this genius, Israel needed to bring people's attention to Gaza to distract them from things happening in, um, Gaza.
Zirin is not only against this ad. He also wrote a full article criticizing the real Super Bowl ad against antisemitism, claiming that New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft is himself the real antisemite. Before he even saw the ad, he wrote, "The ad’s goal is to create a propaganda campaign to counter the reports and images from Gaza that young people are consuming on social media."
Here's the ad. Spot the reference to Gaza that only exists in the minds of deranged antisemites.
Zirin's ever-growing conspiracy theory culminates with this:
We don’t know if the White House gave the go-ahead for what has now been dubbed “the Super Bowl massacre,” but if you launch an attack during the biggest TV event of the year—blunting an emergency response by US demonstrators and hoping that everyone will be too hung over, drunk on commercialism, and gambling apps to give a damn—it doesn’t take a poli-sci major to see how Biden benefits.
Huh? Israel haters won't bother protesting on the Monday after the game? Biden is now part of the conspiracy as well? He benefits from dead Palestinians? And all of this is obvious?
As I've noted before, when anti-Israel rhetoric crosses the line into conspiracy theories, that is when you know they are antisemitic. Dave Zirin is a full-blown conspiracy theorist who hides behind his "as-a-Jew" credentials to publish his bizarre theories that could just as easily have been penned by the Goyim Defense League.
|
Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! |
|
