Media Lies About October 7 Helped Create Support For Genocide

 

Canadian media outlets spread the lie that Hamas beheaded babies, and most have failed to correct their errors.

Today is the first anniversary of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood, a Hamas-led cross-border assault that marked a new stage in Palestinian resistance. 

In the hours and days after the operation commenced, sensationalist stories spread about actions Hamas fighters allegedly committed. Perhaps the most shocking of these was that members of the group had decapitated and/or burned alive up to 40 Israeli babies.

Those critical of Israel immediately doubted the claim for a variety of reasons. As it became increasingly clear that the story was a hoax, those who had initially believed it protested that it didn’t exactly matter if the babies were beheaded or burned alive, because they had been killed anyways (though this would also end up being proven false, with one baby, not 40, included among lists of those killed that day). 

Yet many on both sides agreed on something: Wasn’t the Hamas operation deadly enough on its own without adding such a sensational claim?

More critical observers, however, accurately predicted that whatever brutality Israel had planned needed something particularly egregious to help justify it. The supposed murder of babies in such a gruesome way served exactly that purpose, and played a key role in helping to drum up support for what has turned into a genocide in Gaza.  (more...)

Media Lies About October 7 Helped Create Support For Genocide

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