The following is but one small example of how Zionists propagate lies to tarnish Palestinians and diminish their legitimate claims before the world. Lies and manufactured deceptive claims have always been the basis of the Zionist movement's dehumanization of the Palestinian people ever since the creation of the Jewish colony in Palestine known as Israel.
The history of this 75-year campaign is very rich. First, Zionists denied the existence of a Palestinian people to make the invasion, rape and theft of Palestine more acceptable to world opinion. According to the Zionists, Palestine was "a land without people for a people without land". One of the first prime ministers of the newly established Jewish colony in Palestine, the ugly Golda Meir, said "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people", after having ethnically cleansed and expelled the Palestinians into hundreds of refugee camps.
Then the Zionists shifted to the lie that those Palestinians whom they killed, expelled and ethnically cleansed were not indigenous inhabitants of Palestine. According to Zionist propaganda, Palestinians were actually squatters from neighboring Arab states - Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt - who illegally migrated to Israel. That is why the Zionists continue to promote the notion that they have every right to expel the Palestinians "back" to their native Arab countries. In fact, the Zionists rarely refer to Palestinians as Palestinians; they call them "Arabs" because this implies that the Palestinians should be able to live in any of the "Arab" countries around. Another way to deny the existence of a specific Palestinian national identity.
Later, in the 1960s, at the height of the Cold War when Communism was a dirty word for western audiences, the world was beginning to take stock of the magnitude of the Zionist rape of Palestine. The Palestinians meanwhile began to assert their existence as a nation and not as mere faceless refugees by establishing organizations and militant groups. In response, the Zionists started labeling the Palestinian liberation movements as anarchists, communists, left-wing terrorists, etc. to stir up western audiences against the legitimate national claims of the Palestinians.
Finally, with the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Zionist propaganda shifted to a strategy of associating the Palestinian national movement with Islamist ideology and terrorism.
In other words, ever since the Zionist movement embarked on its project to rape historic Palestine, expel or exterminate its people, and create the colonial state of Israel over its ashes, whatever the western world feared or hated at a given moment, the Zionists associated it with the Palestinians. In so doing, the Palestinians were always denied their rightful place among the nations.
Here is one example of the Zionists besmirching the Palestinians even as they are being killed or made to starve. The Zionists are accusing their own victims of faking their suffering. Anyone who believes this sort of propganada is a criminal idiot:
Gaza aid agencies targeted with baseless 'cigarette deliveries' claim
Footage of charity workers packing parcels for Gaza showed they contained food supplies, contrary to Facebook posts that accused them of sending cigarettes to the war-torn territory. The baseless claim appeared to play on a conspiracy theory accusing Palestinians of faking their suffering, as a humanitarian crisis triggered by Israel's war against Hamas deepened. A spokesman for the Al-Imdaad Foundation shared a photo with AFP that showed basic commodities such as flour and canned food in the packages.
"Trucks of cigarettes also entered Gaza last night. Are cigarettes a basic need? How long can the Palestinians fool the world?" read a Facebook post shared on April 19, 2024.
It featured a photo of trucks loaded with boxes at a warehouse.
Screenshot of the Zionist fake Facebook post, captured on April 20, 2024
The photo was shared in similar posts around the world, including Australia, Britain and Israel.
Israel's more than six-month long war against Gaza has triggered a humanitarian crisis, and it faces growing pressure to enable more aid deliveries as the United Nations warns famine is imminent.
The war began with Hamas's October 7 attack against Israeli targets, prompting a retaliatory offensive by Israel has killed more than 34,500 people in Gaza, mostly women and children. A very active Zionist propaganda has repeatedly accused ordinary Palestinians of, among other things, being "crisis actors" -- feigning injuries and deaths to garner sympathy. The very creative liars of the Zionist movement have even coined the term "Pallywood", a derogatory label blending "Palestine" with "Hollywood".
A reverse image search on Google found the photo of trucks posted on the Jordanian prime minister's Facebook and X accounts on April 7, 2024. According to the posts, the picture shows part of a convoy of 105 trucks "loaded with food supplies" in Jordan headed for Gaza as part of relief efforts organized by the Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization (JHCO).
"The Jordanian Hashemite Charitable Organization announced the dispatch of the largest land convoy to families in #Gaza today, Sunday, in cooperation with the Jordanian Armed Forces - the Arab Army," the posts read in Arabic.
Screenshot of the photo in an X post by the Jordanian prime minister, taken on April 30, 2024
The JHCO posted a video on Facebook that same day showing aid workers loading parcels onto the trucks. While the JHCO's logo is seen printed on the side of the trucks, the parcels themselves read "Al-Imdaad Foundation", referring to a relief organization that partners with the JHCO.
The video appears to show the same boxes and warehouse seen in the photo circulating on Facebook.
Screenshot comparison of corresponding elements in the falsely shared photo (left) and footage from the JHCO (right)
JHCO spokeswoman Shahd Anani said the claim the parcels contained cigarettes was "so far from the truth". "JHCO's aid trucks, in cooperation with many humanitarian organizations, are only loaded with food supplies, medical supplies and other relief items which are all backed up with loading lists to the last and smallest items," she told AFP on April 28.
The Associated Press (AP) news agency published footage on April 8 showing the convoy of trucks.
The Al-Imdaad Foundation posted videos on YouTube on April 7 showing aid workers packing parcels and on April 18 showing parcels arriving in Gaza. Al-Imdaad Foundation YouTube video from April 7, 2024 showing aid workers preparing food parcels for Gaza
The Al-Imdaad Foundation's country director for Jordan Zakaria Al-Sheikh confirmed the trucks in the photo circulating on Facebook belonged to the foundation and were part of a larger convoy sent from Jordan to Gaza on April 7.
"The aid packages shown in the posts are actually our food parcels boxes with AIF logos, each food parcel containing 20 items of the much needed basic food commodities in Gaza, such as rice, sugar, flour, oil etc. NOT cigarettes," he told AFP on April 23.
He dismissed social media posts as "deceptive and baseless".
Al-Sheikh provided AFP with a photo showing the contents of a package.
Photo of items included in food parcels sent to Gaza, provided by AIF
"The Al-Imdaad Foundation has never purchased cigarettes or any tobacco-related products in our 20-year history," he said.
He added that goods sent to Gaza undergo inspection by Jordanian authorities and other organizations before entering the territory.
"The notion that cigarettes would be admitted into Gaza by humanitarian NGOs is completely unfounded and beyond our belief."
Imagine the thousands of similar little propaganda lies that the Zionist machine disseminates to discredit the Palestinians and hurt them in their struggle.
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