Showing posts with label disinformation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label disinformation. Show all posts

Thursday, October 15, 2015

Disinformation: How Palestinians Became the 'Victims' - Chris Mitchell, CBN News Jerusalem

Disinformation: How Palestinians Became the 'Victims'


JERUSALEM, Israel -- The Security Cabinet met in an emergency session Tuesday evening to decide on additional counterterrorism measures in the wake of Palestinian violence.


Terrorists killed three Israelis and wounded 20 during their "Day of Rage," but Palestinian social media is making it look like Israelis are the aggressors.


In one attack caught by a surveillance camera, a Palestinian rammed his car into a bus stop, then got out and hacked 60-year-old Rabbi Isaiah Krishevsky to death with a meat cleaver before attacking 78-year-old Haviv Hamim. Finally, a nearby security guard stopped him.


Despite clear evidence and security camera footage of many of these attacks, Palestinian social media is accusing Israeli police of executing the attackers.


Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat is even calling on the International Criminal Court at The Hague to investigate Israel.


A case in point: Israeli police confronted a Palestinian woman brandishing a knife. When she refused to drop the knife, they shot her in the legs. Yet the picture implies police shot her for no reason.


This depiction and others like it fail to show the attacks themselves, just the aftermath.


Michael Widlanski, author of Battle for our Minds, says disinformation is an old trick.


"Mahmoud Abbas studied disinformation techniques when he was a student in the Soviet Union at the Patrice Lamumba University with the KGB. He studied this and it is always to invent an atrocity story," Widlanksi told CBN News.


"You send out somebody to kill a Jew. He kills a Jew or three Jews or five Jews and then he gets killed, and then you claim he was murdered by the Israeli police," he said. "It's a bunch of baloney."


Palestinians say what's driving many of them to kill is the need to protect the al-Aksa Mosque on the Temple Mount.


"One thing you should know about the Palestinian Arab leadership. They use the formula every time. When they get into trouble, they say the Jews are coming to attack. They're coming to attack the Temple Mount," he continued.


"That's what they did in 1921, 1922 [and] 1929. [It's] what Arafat did in 2000. Mahmoud Abbas did the same thing this year. They even use the same Arabic term, which means 'they're attacking al-Aksa,'" Widlanski explained.


In order to protect the al-Aksa, one imam in Gaza called on West Bank Palestinians to impose what he called "a curfew of stabbing" to keep Israelis terrorized so they'll stay inside.




Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat says this kind of incitement kills.

"Those incitements are sending people to kill innocent people," Barkat said at the scene of Tuesday's bus attack. "We've just seen in the past few days children, high school children, that are incited, that go and try and terrorize and kill policemen. They don't return home. They themselves get killed. Incitement kills on both sides."

Watch the report here: CBN News report

Wednesday, February 26, 2014

'Indivisible' Film Tackles Crusade to Destroy Israel - Laurie Cardozza Moore

'Indivisible' Film Tackles 

Crusade to Destroy Israel

 Chris Mitchell ARIEL, Israel -- Does the modern State of Israel have a right to the land on which it exists? Do the Palestinians? A new documentary tackles those questions and the longest-running conflict in the Middle East.

"Israel Indivisible: A Case for the Ancient Homeland" highlights Israel's latest challenge.

"Today the world media has joined the Islamic campaign to extinguish Jewish history as part of their effort to delegitimize and destroy the Jewish state," producer Laurie Cardozza Moore told CBN News.


The film lays out a compelling and comprehensive case for Israel's right to the land.

"The evidence for Israel is overwhelming," Cardoza continued. "From archeological science to historical record to biblical scriptures to political resolutions and laws, there should be no dispute to the rights of the Jewish people to all the land the Roman Empire called Palestine."

The producers chose to premier the film in a symbolic site -- Ariel, the center of Israel's biblical heartland. At the premier, the film's producers shared what motivated them.

"The goal is to educate Christians to bring this message because this message is being distorted, and there are lies being propagated about Israel and this whole Middle East conflict," Moore explained.

"I feel what we're doing at PJTN is just coming alongside God's biblical narrative and telling a story that nobody seems to want to tell and then using the film, using the program, to mobilize Christians to action to stand with our Jewish brethren."

Many Jews believe disinformation is one of the main weapons used against the Jewish state.

"The first step in -- God forbid -- the physical destruction of the State of Israel is the intellectual destruction undermining the whole reason for being of the Jewish state of legitimacy," Rabbi Ken Spiro said.

The film unmasks some common misconceptions in this disinformation campaign, such as the term, "West Bank."

"Why is it called the West Bank?" filmmaker Stan Moore asks. "It's called the West Bank because when Jordan, basically in 1948, when they took it over they called it the West Bank of their country, the West Bank of the Jordan River. They named it the West Bank. You know for centuries, forever, it's [this area] been called Judea and Samaria."

1948 Independence Hall in Tel Aviv

Many see the film as a tool to give Israel's supporters the facts they need in this battle.

"And if they don't have the facts at hand, they become apologetic. The minute they become apologetic, they lose the argument," Dr. Shmuel Katz explained. "They need to be knowledgeable. Once they are knowledgeable, they can stand up for what's right."

Rabbi Spiro sees the information as the first line of defense not only for Israel, but also for the West.

"It's not only threatening Israel. [It's threatening] the whole foundation of Western civilization," he warned. "So movies like this -- that present information and facts -- are the most basic and powerful tool we have. Not just the case for Israel, but for the case for truth."

Watch here: CBN News video