Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Elder of Ziyon
Originally titled "Expel Israel From FIFA", its subhead shows that the authors support BDS.
The article itself is insane, hateful propaganda. It even celebrates harassing Israeli soccer players.
Scottish protesters harassed the Israeli squad from the moment it landed in Glasgow, posting social media videos of the players in IDF uniforms during their military service, demonstrating outside the team’s hotel, and preventing them training in the stadium. The Israeli players could hear the shouts of the protesters from outside the ground in the silent stadium.“We had to scream the national anthem because the Scots didn’t play it on the stadium loudspeaker,” one Israeli player told Haaretz.The Glasgow Euro 2025 qualifier match demonstrated that continuing to defer action on Israel could pose a growing risk of disruption for global soccer—and showed that fans possess a form of leverage that may be more effective than formal pleas to the FIFA council.
Notice that the article supports disrupting the normal lives of Israeli athletes, and also argues that the Israeli teams should be banned because they are the source of the disruptions. It is an argument for mob rule.
The article is a classic case of the propaganda technique of "thinking past the sale" - treating lies as settled fact and making people think more about what the consequences should be for Israel doing horrible things rather than proving that Israel does those awful things tgo begin with.
In this article alone, it is stated as fact that Israel is a genocidal regime hell-bent on destroying the Palestinian people, that it is an apartheid regime comparable to South Africa, that it is a settler-colonialist state, that it illegally occupies Palestinian territory, and that it employs starvation as a weapon of war. These are all disgusting lies and libels that cannot stand scrutiny. But the propaganda technique sneaks these lies past the reader's defenses by changing the argument from evidence for those slanders to asking how Israel must be penalized for doing things it has never done.
The same technique is used in movies and novels that frame monstrous Israeli actions that never happen as everyday occurrences. It sneaks in the antisemitic lies straight to the reader's and viewer's subconsciousness.
There is not a word about Hamas' attack on October 7, not a word about Hamas using civilians as human shields, not a word about Hamas promises to continue its own explicitly genocidal campaign against Jews. Israel is framed as having started the war. Foreign Policy should be ashamed to publish such unabashed propaganda as an opinion piece.
J-Street claims to be against BDS and pro-Israel. They have a FAQ defending previous statements by Levy, defending him as a Zionist. And although it is not clear that Levy is still part of their advisory council, they still link to even his more recent articles as representing their viewpoint.
Because J-Street is not a pro-Israel organization. It is a gateway drug to BDS and rabid hate for the Jewish state.
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