According to the ubiquitous Hasbara Brigade, if you criticise Israel, you’re an anti-Semite — and if you’re Jewish, you become a “self-hater”.
In this article from 2012, Dr Evan Jones looked at how apologists for Israel invoke the spectre of the Holocaust to deflect criticism of its actions in Palestine.
Source: The Hasbara cover for Israel’s crimes: FLASHBACK 2012
HAVE THE Israelites reached the Promised Land yet? Long in preparation, Operation Pillar of Cloud has followed Operation Cast Lead as the latest episode of the Israeli pastime of shooting Arab fish in a barrel, or rather in the world’s largest open-air prison. Iran is presently in the too-hard basket. Israel’s military and political “strategists” evidently know their Old Testament, even if their intelligence and humanity are seriously deficient.
But no worries. The Hasbara Brigade is ready to spring into action 24/7. Pencils are still sharp from the victory after Operation Cast Lead in converting the laboratory experiment with white phosphorus into a triumph of good over evil. On cue, courtesy of a media whose collective masthead is “Might is Right” (with marginal concessions to dissenters from the official script).
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