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Monday, December 26, 2022

Lying is part and parcel of Palestinian NGOs

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights called on the international community and humanitarian organizations to intervene immediately to stop Israel from opening up nonexistent dams that are being blamed for flooding Gaza during torrential rains.It would be easy to dismiss the hysterical lies of a tiny NGO in Gaza. Like many Palestinian NGOs, ...

Palestinians still repeating the "flood libel"

In 2015, mainstream media did what it does best - parrot ridiculous Palestinian claims without checking - and reported that Israel opened dams to flood Gaza. Social media user made fun of AFP for being so stupid, and for once, AFP actually checked the facts and retracted its story, acknowledging that there were no "dams" in the Negev that Israel could open up to...

The "flood libel" returns for this year's rainy season in Gaza

It's been raining heavily in the Levant, causing some localized flooding throughout the region.And, like every year, Gaza officials are blaming their own flooding on Israel opening up non-existent dams.The Nusseirat Municipality in the central Gaza Strip "confirmed" that the "Israeli occupation" opened the dams around of Wadi Beit Hanoun, threatening an environmental catastrophe,...

Iranian media and BDS activists repeat the Flood Libel

Iranian media has nicely translated the Palestinian flood libel to English:Mother of Terrorism: Zionist regime floods Palestinian farmlands in Gaza with RainwaterAhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): Not even an inch in Occupied Palestine isn’t subjected to the apartheid entity’s terrorism.Large swaths of farmland in the besieged Gaza Strip have been flooded after “Israeli” officials...

The Palestinian Flood Libel returns (update)

It's raining and snowing in Israel, which means that there are floods in Gaza. And whenever that happens, the Gaza authorities claim Israel is opening dams to cause the floods.The Gaza agriculture ministry issued a statement blaming Israel for the flooding:The spokesman for the Ministry of Agriculture in Gaza, M. Adham Al-Bassiouni, said Thursday that hundreds of dunams of...

I can't wait for the flood libel to reach Iran

Palestinian media are reporting that for the third time this week, Israel opened up some (nonexistent) dams to flood farmland where Gaza farmers planted wheat, barley, legumes and other crops. Quds News Network, which recently was honored by Google and the news NGOs, said: Abdellatif Qannou’, a spokesperson for Hamas, said that the Israeli ongoing assaults on farmers...

Official Palestinian media now pushes "flood libel" after a pause of five years

Old libels against Israel never die. They always come back, zombie-like. The lie that Israel steals the organs of Palestinians has returned in recent weeks and has been published in a few Arab media outlets, including in English. And the lie that Israel has dams in the Negev which are opened to flood Gaza has been re-appearing in Muslim media as well. It appears to have...