Truth gets erased, right-wing PR firms hired to spin and spread falsehoods to justify occupation and genocide, the surveillance state expands
Israel recognizes that the international community, including hundreds of human rights organizations around the world, sees through the masquerade of its ‘right to defend’ itself. Rather than a politics of empathy and compassion, Israel chooses to maintain ethnonationalist supremacy and colonial occupation through violence and cover it up. And the US follows suit.
Gazans remain under attack. Israel has sabotaged the ceasefire. Aid continues to be inaccessible. Basic needs cannot be met. Israel’s war on Gaza has received broad international condemnation.
To win the hearts and minds of Israelis, Americans, and the international community during a genocide, Israel doubles down on a manipulation and propaganda campaign with the services of right-wing public relations firms in the US. The US no longer waits for Israel to practice its weapons on Palestinians. The US now uses them freely on immigrants and its own citizens.
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As with the rise of fascism, a politics of historical erasure unfolds. Attacks on DEI, critical race theory, the Smithsonian Institute, and education in general. While the US government seeks to rewrite and scrub its history clean of racism and violence, it covertly helps Israel do the same.
