“Gaslighting on steroids”

“One of the most pernicious effects of the Soviet system of mind control was
what’s called today “gaslighting,” the belief that you are guilty of the insanely
preposterous things of which you are being accused but of which you are in
fact innocent.”

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One of the most pernicious effects of the Soviet system of mind control was
what’s called today “gaslighting,
” the belief that you are guilty of the insanely
preposterous things of which you are being accused but of which you are in
fact innocent.
In the Soviet-style war of defamation that’s been waged against Israel ever
since the Hamas-led attacks on October 7, 2023, the Jewish people have been
relentlessly gaslighted.
Israel has been systematically demonised with falsehoods that are patently
ludicrous. But the fact that this has been perpetrated across the board by the
intelligentsia, mainstream media and global institutions purporting to
represent justice, law and human rights has caused many Jews to ask
themselves, “Is it possible that the entire world is wrong, and we alone are
right?”
To which the answer is “yes;” and currently this is being proved.

The claim that Israel has committed genocide in Gaza — the mind-bending
accusation that’s powered this whole obscene onslaught and which now trips
off the tongues of countless numbers of people who clearly have absolutely no
idea what the word even means — has now fallen apart.
It’s been totally disproved by statistics produced by Gaza’s own Hamas-led
institutions. These record that, in a population of about 2 million, around
74,000 deaths were caused by the war (failing implausibly to note one single
terrorist among that number). Yet during this period, they also record that
some 121,000 babies have been born.
Since genocide means the intended destruction of a people in whole or in
part, the fact that Gaza’s people produced a net gain for humanity of nearly
50,000 souls during this period of Israeli bombardment — not to mention
Israel’s facilitation of repeated polio vaccinations to around 600,000 Gazan
children — demonstrates that the genocide claim was ridiculous.

The related libel that Israel was starving Gaza and causing imminent famine
has also been shown to be totally untrue. A newly released UN-led nutrition
survey of Gaza’s children has found that acute malnutrition, which ranged
from 0.2 pr cent to 0.8 pr cent, was lower than it was before the war when the
rate stood at 0.8 per cent. It was also well below the acute malnutrition rates
reported in nearby countries such as Egypt (2.9 per cent) or Jordan (2.0per
cent).
Then there were the repeated claims that Israel was killing Gazan health
workers and journalists. Yet over the past few weeks, more and more of these
have been shown to have been combatants.
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have named and celebrated as “martyrs”
dozens of “healthcare workers” whom they have identified as military
commanders and terrorist operatives who used hospitals as command
centres. Far from selflessly treating the sick and injured under bombardment,

these “healthcare workers” were using them as cannon fodder while duping
the credulous West.
As for the “journalists” who were killed, far from bringing truth to the world
many of these were delivering lies designed to sanitise their true aim of
exterminating Israel and murdering Jews.
Bit by bit, Western organisations purporting to speak on behalf of media
operatives have been revealed as hopelessly complicit in this.
Last month, The Washington Free Beacon reported that between June 21 and
July 9 the world’s largest advocacy group for reporters, the International
Federation of Journalists, had quietly removed eight terrorists from its widely
cited list of journalists killed in Gaza.
In June, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists announced
that it would be conducting an audit of its own database, because terrorist

organizations had been publishing obituaries exposing individuals on that
database as their operatives. The CPC has already removed eight names
because of their involvement in hostilities, and seven more for not meeting
the definition of a journalist.
The media monitoring group HonestReporting says Reporters Without
Borders “stealth edited” at least two Hamas and PIJ terrorists from its own
database of Gaza “journalists” killed by the Israel Defence Forces.
Yet Reporters Without Borders has filed complaints to the International
Criminal Court alleging that Israel was responsible for the murder of a
number of “journalists” subsequently shown to have terrorist connections,
including one of the two whose names it has now withdrawn from its
database.
HonestReporting says that almost 27 per cent of the 67 “journalists” who
remain listed on its database as having been killed in Gaza had terrorism ties.

None of this — not the collapse of the genocide and starvation libels, nor the
remorseless revelations of health workers and journalists’ terrorist affiliations
— has been acknowledged by the United Nations, NGOs or mainstream
Western media outlets that transmitted these libels and poisoned the West
against Israel and the Jews.
Even now, they’re continuing to promote the same lies as if they are
unchallengeable truths.
The reason isn’t just that their reputations would be shredded and their
organisations discredited if they admitted how they had misled the public. It’s
that they are wholly committed to that process of misleading.
That’s because the nightmarish fact is that the extermination of Israel is now
equated with conscience itself. The lies can’t be acknowledged because they
are driven by the incontrovertible if insane belief that Israel is a unique force
for evil in the world.

Exposure of these lies can therefore be safely ignored as the product of
Zionist partisans. “Zionists” has become a synonym for Jews, both as a way of
sanitising Jew-hatred and because of the belief that all Jews must be assumed
to support Israel.
Since Zionism is framed as racist, destructive and positively demonic, all Jews
are now held to be positively demonic. The result is Jews across Europe and
elsewhere in the West being abused, insulted, screamed at, spat at, threatened
with murder and physically attacked.
This gaslighting on steroids has produced an alarming response among some
American Jews. Instead of fighting back, they are deliberately avoiding any
reference to Zionism.
A poll taken last February by the Jewish Federations of North America found
that only 37 per cent of American Jews describe themselves as Zionists, even
though 88 per cent said Israel had the right to exist as a Jewish, democratic

state. The study said respondents were either unclear about what Zionism
was or else they thought it implied blanket support for Israeli government
policies and actions with which they disagreed.
Some badly gaslighted American Jews are now even saying that the words
“Zionism” and “Zionists” should no longer be used. The existence of Israel,
they say, means these terms are outdated; and since they’re now associated
with racism and killing, they should be junked.
This is a catastrophically wrong conclusion. Words matter. They shape the
way people see the world. When the United Nations passed its infamous 1975
resolution declaring “Zionism is racism,
” it lit the fires of Jew-hatred across
the world.
Language has been hijacked to turn words into weapons to destroy Israel and
the Jews.

Zionism has been cast as an evil doctrine to detach Israel from Judaism. But
the land of Israel is an essential part of Judaism. That’s why anti-Zionism is an
existential attack on Judaism itself.
“Genocide” is another word that’s been hijacked as a weapon for Israel’s
destruction. To deal with the patent absurdity of describing as a “genocide”
Israel’s totally justified war of self-defence, in which it has gone to
unprecedented lengths to avoid killing civilians as far as possible, Israel’s foes
have changed the meaning of the word.
According to them, genocide now means merely killing any Palestinian Arabs,
or — even more imbecilically — just destroying Gaza’s buildings.
Jews should absolutely not be aiding the intended dismemberment of Judaism
by helping remove “Zionism” from the lexicon and from the world.

Jews should be asserting that the land of Israel is inseparable from Judaism,
that the Palestinian Arabs are ethnic cleansers and that Zionism was the
greatest anti-colonialist liberation movement of the 20th century.
The proper response to a malevolent narrative of lies is not to shuffle away for
cover. It is to get up off your knees and fight back with pride.

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