Can we trust the CIA? – The fount of disinformation shared via Mockingbird agencies.

Brennan was to all intents and purposes, Guccifer 2.0. The State Elections board hacks in 5 states was traced to DHS (https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-12-14/georgia-confirms-homeland-security-attempted-hack-election-database-10-separate-time).

CIA has meddled, destabilized and helped destroy 81 countries (http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-us-intervention-foreign-elections-20161213-story.html). Can we say with certainty that the U.S. has the moral authority here? Who are we supposed to “believe”?

When is it time to fight back?

The time for compromise with mindless thugs is over….

The New York Times describes hasbara as public diplomacy. But it’s often concerted propaganda efforts on behalf of the Israeli government– and the word and its cynical meaning deserve to be in the American language, just like those other imports, schadenfreude, chutzpah and apartheid.

In the print edition of the New York Times today, Robert Mackey writes about a global twitter campaign undertaken by Israelis to highlight the case of the three teens who disappeared in the West Bank last week and are thought to have been abducted:

a group of Israelis trained to promote their country online started a#BringBackOurBoys campaign last week after three teenagers disappeared on their way home from religious schools in the occupied West Bank…

#BringBackOurBoys was started by graduates of the University of Haifa’s Ambassadors Online program, which was set up to train students to use the web for “hasbara,” a Hebrew term for public diplomacy. Part of their instruction, The Jerusalem Post reported in 2012, was learning how best “to use social networking sites to defend government policies” and “utilize online platforms to convey a pro-Israel message.”

Robert Mackey is an excellent reporter, but his definition of hasbara is incomplete. “Public diplomacy” makes it sound like Israelis are just encouraged to defend their country overseas– engage, speak out, advocate. Like Avi Mayer, who likes to say: “Just some guy living in Israel, trying to help advance the Jewish people and repair the world. No big whoop.”

But there’s a lot more to hasbara than that, and the practice deserves to be scrutinized. Hasbara, which comes from Hebrew for “explaining,” has come to mean chiefly propaganda: concerted and tireless efforts to pressure newspapers and governments whenever they say a word in favor of Palestinians or Arabs, efforts to swarm websites that make the same mistake. The activity is concerted, organized, and subsidized; and the organized component is partly concealed. Anyone who’s seen the regular shift changes in commenters at this site knows what I’m talking about.

New York Times readers are apparently not aware of this term, and they should be. Thanks to Mackey, we want Americans to start using the word hasbara with all its cynical implications. After all, other foreign words have entered our language because we need them– schadenfreude, apartheid, chutzpah, glasnost, to name a few. We need hasbara too. It describes a concerted form of propaganda that no one word in English captures.

Everytime Americans read a pro-Israel comment, we want them to think this might not just be some innocent soul moved to comment– though yes it may be that– but it could well be part of a propaganda campaign on behalf of the Israeli government.

Source: Make ‘hasbara’ a household word

Introduction by Gilad Atzmon: We are all aware of the Hasbara trolls, the Wikipedia Jews and the Israeli Neocon smear outlets. In the following important piece internet expert Jonathon Blakeley explores the vile and destructive impact of Sayanim and Hasbara agents  on the social networks. What we really see is a surge of Zio-centric anti- social behaviour in our midst. They are united against humanity, humanism, pluralism, freedom of expression and tolerance basically all those things that are precious to the rest of us.

 

http://www.zimoz.co.uk/

http://www.zimoz.co.uk/news/elite/a-guide-to-hasbara-trolls/

by Jonathon Blakeley

Hasbara is an Hebrew word defined as explanation. The purpose of Hasbara is to explain and educate western people about the Israeli mission. Hasbara can take many forms, adverts, websites, comments on blogs, letter writing, protests and so on. For a fuller idea of the depth of Habsara check this tool-kit from the We Believe in Israel Website. (made by BICOM). The difference between propaganda and hasbara? I would say Hasbara is more of a soft sell at first, it seeks to inform, influence and educate the ignorant to the Israeli cause. The narrative of Hasbara has a victimized quality underpinning it, a very passive-aggressive approach, Israel is always defending not attacking. They play the mis-understood victim and invite their critics to attack them. The sub-current being that Israel’s message is not understood. Israel views that the reason for this is either lack of education or stupidity. So the Hasbara agents explain until they realise that they are getting nowhere and then respond with disdain and disgust.

Social Strategies

Key individuals are identified, some support Israel others oppose. These are the influencers, on Twitter they are people with over 1 000 followers and over 1 000 tweets. By seeking to influence and control these key individuals, Hasbara agents can influence many many more. Hasbara trolls on twitter try to act as shepherds for the tweeps, making them go this way or that. A troll traditionally on the Internet is someone indulges in off-topic abuse.

1. a troll is someone who posts inflammatory
2. extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as an online discussion forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response
3. or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.

I believe that calling someone – anti-semite or neo-nazi or racist is inflammatory, unless that is their actual beliefs.

Hasbara Tactics

By controlling information one can control people and the social networks. Hasbara volunteers help to police social networks for Israel. The big media are dealt with through BICOM and AIPAC, whilst the social media are policed unofficially by the Hasbara troll brigade. Priority is to stop influencers being compromised by anti-Israel sentiment.

Hasbara Troll brigade

Hasbara Trolls are generally quite polite at first. They pop up when someone is critical of Israel and it’s policies or interests. They target, write, engage, educate and insult. From my research it seems that there is some kind of hierarchy of trolls, they have leaders who tell them targets and guide them with their spin. Most work voluntarily but some are paid for by wealthy sponsors. They track topical keywords and persons using public websites such as topsy.com. Problems arise if one rejects the explanations being offered by the trolls, then their troll nature becomes apparent very quickly as they resort to smears and abuse.

Hasbara Troll attributes

1. Supreme point of view
2. The Hasbara troll knows best
3. Condescending & Patronising
4. Socialist (Smart and ‘caring’)
5. Do not have to be Jewish but Pro-Israel
6. Internet experts
7. Narcissistic
8. Provocative
9. Dis-ruptive
10. Like to ask the questions, not answer questions
11. Control freaks
12. Inflamed by anyone being critical of Israel
13. ‘Moral’ Guardians
14. Classic insults: Anti-semite, Neo- Nazi, White Supremacist, Holocaust denier
15. Adept with social networks well trained on IT

Hasbara trolls use internet alerts to warn them when hot keywords are mentioned. Keywords such as Israel, Jewish, Judaism etc. When those words are mentioned they are alerted and they go to investigate who is talking about what. I have seen this happen many times with Gilad Atzmon, someone will post something from Gilad, shortly afterwards they are bombarded by hasbara trolls. Initially they explain where they had gone wrong and try to ‘educate’ people with their ideology. Usually they say something like

Do you know Gilad Atzmon is a notorious… anti-semite? neo-nazi, holocaust denier. etc.. etc.

The way to spot the troll is the inflammatory language. If Gilad was a anti-semite it should be self evident but he says quite clearly in his book “the Wandering Who” .

“In this book i will try to untangle the knot. I will present a harsh criticsm of Jewish politics and identity. Yet it is crucial to mention at this early stage that there will be not a single reference to Jews as ethnicity or race. In my writing, I differentiate between Jews (the people), Judaism (the religion) and Jewish-ness (the ideology). This book does not deal with Jews as a people or ethnicity. If anything, my studies of this issue suggest that Jews do not form any kind of racial continuum. In short, those who are searching for blood or race-related interpretation on Zionism will have to look for it in someone else’s work.” Gilad Atzmon P15 Chapter 1 -The Wandering Who.

Types of Jewishness

1. Jews (the people) – born a jew, being jewish.
2. Judaism (the religion) – Jewish beliefs.
3. Jewish-ness (the ideology) – Jewish ideas

Despite Gilad Atzmon making a clear and unequivocal point above, it has not stopped many zombie zionist hasbara trolls from accusing him time and time again and many others of anti-semitism or being a neo-nazi. What is wrong with these pathetic and misguided people? Can’t they read, or have their brains just curdled in their own cranium. The truth is they choose not to read or listen or debate.

I would actually say, those people who advocate every interventionalist war in the name of freedom of speech, democracy and pluralism, are operating in the west as gatekeepers, censors and resent any form of intellectual debate – Gilad Atzmon

These people are the new Book burners, those that oppose freedom in all its forms. These Hasbaratrolls oppose free speech and try to suppress open and free debate and instead replace it with their own hasbara wash & spin. It is astonishing the amount of times I have seen trolls warning people not to read this book or that book. Why do we have all these twitter trolls trying to influence what people choose to read?

Are they the people of the anti book?- Gilad Atzmon

We must unite to name and shame these despicable individuals as they try to suppress free and open debate. These people pose a great threat to our political systems and must be identified to stop them spreading their vile mis-information far and wide.

Zionists

Trolls

Here are some of the most active hasbara trolls.

Luther Blissetts

 

Jeffrey Goldberg

Adam Holland

Nick Lowles

BobfromBrockley

 

Troll techniques

1. Turn up randomly asking question about Israel, trying to engage/educate.
2. Guilt by association, they point to some source your are linked to as being anti-semitic or neo-nazi.
3. Opportunity to redeem – the offer chance to recant from your naive ways.
4. Smears and insults – if the top 3 fail then it’s just character assassination.
5. Name bombing – using seo in blackhat ways to denounce and smear people. ie website with 37 mentions of someones name will prob get a Page one on Google.
6. Hasbara trolls generally follow the rules of social networks, because they want to continue to influence people and subvert open and free debate.

After repeated attempts to indoctrinate you, I mean educate you, the Hasbara trolls then resort to name bombing. Mentioning a persons name as many times as possible on social network sites to create negative report with strong SEO. Basically using the internet to smear people to the maximum. Hasbara Trolls are well organised and have links they point to to prove their flaky points. Although the links these trolls cite are often from their own hasbara chums and the blogs they reference do not have original source material just second hand re-cobbled quotes.

Gilad Atzmon is not an anti-semite or a Holocaust denier

but there are many who would like us to think so. The question is why? To dis-credit him and his ideas. But it is not just Gilad Atzmon who is the target of the Hasbaratrolls the list is long and growing. To the right are a series of tweets from #Joe86pw, I have observed him part-time trolling on many occasions. Here he spots that Tom Watson famous Labour MP is thinking of buying a new book by Mearsheimer. – “Why leaders Lie” . Joe spots this tweet and shortly after is tweeting a helpful warning to Tom Watson MP (Hackgate MP) about that dangerous book. In these following tweets we see the “Emma Rosenthal” guiding a troll. @johne326 got upset when I placed him on my troll list. I asked him why he was trolling GiladAtzmon and he responded to me that it was clear to him that Gilad Atzmon is an anti-semite. All I want to say is this John, ” look up the definition of trolling”. I have never been into politics but sure enough the lovely open-minded “Emma Rosenthal” wastes no time at all in denouncing me as a “White supremacist”.

emma_rosenthal 2:09pm via Web .@jonathonblakele @johne326 by trolling they mean disagreeing, adding to the discourse? oooh wow sensitive white supremacists aren’t they? emma_rosenthal 2:11pm via Web .@johne326 you don’t get it. it’s ruder to actually oppose racism than to advocate it. don’t be so sensitive!

Just mentioning Gilad Atzmon on twitter is sufficient to attract the Hasbara vermin within a very short time. They all know each other as well and they enjoy bullying dissenters with their chums. Really it is just like being back at school being bullied by the school gang. Usually the lead bully goes into to attack whilst others stand by making encouraging noises. We are ‘told’ that we live in a free society, but we don’t! Free speech and debate are being squashed by the likes of BICOM, AIPAC and a small army of annoying Hasbara trolls. We must work together to stop them. From Truth comes Peace. #FromTruthcomesPeace 

Because most never heard about it or were misinformed

by Grant Smith Posted on May 30, 2018

Most Americans would oppose any Trump Administration support for an International Criminal Court investigation  into Israel’s use of lethal force against Palestinian protesters on May  14. This is because they either never heard about the massacre or  received slanted coverage.

Thousands  of Palestinian protesters in Gaza gathered in May near a “no-go” zone  along an Israeli-built separation fence. They protested the 70thanniversary  of the “Nakba” – or expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians in 1948  from what is now Israel. Throughout “March of Return” protests Israeli  snipers shot, killed and severely wounded protesters from behind the  safety of protective berms. Palestinian casualties peaked the day Trump  administration and Israeli officials celebrated recent U.S. recognition  of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital by opening a brand-new US embassy in  the contested city on May 14.

Palestine, a non-member observer to the U.N. since 2012, submitted a referral to the ICC calling  on prosecutors to open an investigation into Israeli crimes in the  occupied Palestinian territories. The Trump administration opposes all  such investigations, having returned to the “no daylight”  stance preferred by Israel and its US lobby under which administration  policies are indistinguishable from policies advanced by the Israeli  Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley  claimed Israel acted “with restraint” in Gaza. The US and Israeli  governments, neither a signatory to the Rome Statute of the ICC, have  repeatedly blocked such UN accountability measures. When polled, a  majority of Americans also oppose any ICC investigation into the  massacre.

Question: Should  the US support an International Criminal Court investigation into the  May 14 deaths of more than 60 Palestinian protesters and the wounding of  another 2,771 in Gaza?

<figure> Source: IRmep poll of 1,504 US adults through Google Surveys May 23-25,
RMSE 5.5%. Raw data and demographic filters at Google. </figure>

What  accounts for the lack of popular American support for an investigation  into the shootings? The Israel lobby’s quest for unconditional US  government support has been well-funded and ably pursued – through licit and illicit means –  since long before Israel was established in 1948. Today the Israel  lobby’s campaign finance network instantly imperils the career of any  American politician who fails to parrot pro-Israel talking points and  Israeli government positions. Clandestine cutouts conduct  espionage and covert operations with utter impunity against US  industries, associations and activists who meaningfully challenge  harmful Israeli actions.

The Israel lobby’s long-term media manipulation has  been particularly effective. A groundbreaking four-country poll  revealed in 2016 that a plurality of US adults, unlike the citizens of  the U.K., Canada and Mexico, believe Palestinians occupy Israeli land, rather than the reverse. Though methodologically flawed and overstated, mainstream polls accurately reveal higher American sympathy for Israelis relative to Palestinians.  Many Americans are reflexively pro-Israel when asked about grisly  occurrences such as the Gaza massacre because Israel media pressure  groups and pro-Israel media outlets suppress coverage, or when that  fails, blame the victims. Both impact reporting and public opinion  during a crisis such as Gaza, and the most important single factor  influencing lack of support for an investigation was that a stunning  81.5% of Americans say they never heard about the massacre through any  channel.

Question: Have  you received any mainstream, alternative or social media reports about  the May 14 deaths of more than 60 Palestinian protesters and the  wounding of another 2,771 in Gaza?

<figure> Source: IRmep poll of 1,506 US adults through Google Surveys May 25-27,
RMSE 4.1%. Raw data and demographic filters at Google </figure>

Another  way to measure the saturation level and intensity of Gaza massacre  media coverage is to compare the level of “follow up” search engine  activity of internet users in the US seeking additional information  after hearing about it. Interest in Gaza increased, but never garnered  more than 9% of the volume search activity of the Santa Fe school shooting,  despite having a much higher casualty rate and occurring just a few  days earlier. (Numbers on the chart below represent Google search  interest relative to the highest point on the chart for the US over  time. A value of 100 is the peak search popularity for the term. A value  of 50 means that the term was only half as popular.)

<figure> Source: Google Trends keyword search for “santa fe” vs “gaza”
(Results downloaded May 27, 2018) </figure>

The “angle” or “slant” of the limited Gaza news coverage also matters. Leading news organizations such as the Washington Post, CNN and Fox  News all freely headlined Santa Fe as a “massacre” in their saturation  coverage, with abundant on-the-scene reporter interviews of victims and  their families. What little reporting mainstream media performed about  Gaza was so compromised and one-sided in support of Israel that some  readers sarcastically responded to passive-tense headlines appearing in  such outlets as the New York Times by inquiring precisely how “Palestinians died” in the reported “clashes” and whether it was perhaps the result of old age.

<figure> Source: Twitter </figure>

It  may seem American popular opposition to an ICC investigation of Israel  is yet another stunning defeat for those working against the deadly and  damaging results of unconditional US support for Israel. However, what  the poll numbers actually reveal is quite different. Despite being  purposefully underinformed and misinformed about a major news story,  40.7% of Americans nevertheless still want Israel’s massacre of  Palestinians in Gaza to be investigated by the International Criminal  Court. If Americans continue to transcend the Israel lobby’s intense  and well-funded new initiatives to undermine free speech, popular support for meaningful accountability – such as severing unconditional US aid to Israel – will continue to grow.

Note about the wording of the IRmep polls: The  questions created by IRmep and fielded through Google Surveys have  similar “lack of agency” and “passive tense” attributes that plagued US  mainstream media reporting. That is because under rigorously enforced  guidelines, Google will not field surveys about war or violence, most  especially questions that clearly assign blame for violent actions, such  as one group “killing and maiming” another group. According to Google  Surveys feedback on drafts of IRmep survey questions, this is because  “gruesome actions cited in the survey [drafts], some users and sites  that run surveys might be offended by this kind of content. Regardless  if it’s currently happening or a hypothetical event, the act itself is  gruesome.”

Source: Americans Oppose Investigating the Gaza Massacre | Ry Dawson on Patreon

By Ryan Dawson

Forewarned is Forearmed!

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Bolton advocates ‘ruinous attack’ crippling Syrian infrastructure

Jason Ditz Posted onApril 13, 2018  CategoriesNewsTagsJohn Bolton, Mattis, Syria, Trump

Source: Trump Pushes Military to Accept ‘Sweeping’ Strike Against Syria – News From Antiwar.com