Palestinian summarises Israel’s genocide-apologist ‘hasbara’ and some facts that destroy them
Israel’s ‘hasbarists’ – official and unofficial genocide apologists – continue to spout lies to try to excuse Israel’s slaughter of approaching half a million people in Gaza, almost nine out of ten of them civilians and half of them children.
But Palestinian radio journalist Nader has put together some of the key hasbara talking points used by Israel and its mouthpieces to try to excuse the colonisers’ crimes or demonise their victims. The rebuttals cover everything from international law to history, from debunking pure propaganda to exposing Israel’s lies about its starvation of Gaza and its sham ‘democracy’ as an outright apartheid system:
One thing that Nader’s thread did not cover was the fact – long acknowledged in the Israeli media and quietly admitted by Israel’s military shortly after it happened – that Israel killed many, and probably most, of the Israeli victims of 7 October 2023 through its deliberate ‘Hannibal directive’ policy of slaughtering its own people rather than allow them to be taken prisoner, a directive that was issued roughly every twenty minutes from early in the morning to late evening – a frequency that then-Israeli defence minister Yoav Gallant said he wished had been greater.
But some of his readers did, like Frank O’Callaghan:
The reality of Israel’s Hannibal on 7 October is common knowledge in Israeli and some international media, but entirely ignored by the UK press and broadcasters, who are all too eager to keep parroting Israeli lies, from non-existent beheaded babies to ‘rapes’ that UN investigators said didn’t happen. It would be too disruptive to the state, establishment and Israel lobby narrative to admit that truth.
What else did Nader miss? Have your say in the comments.
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“What else did Nader miss? Have your say in the comments.”
Leaving aside Starmer’s war on UK citizens’ freedoms of thought and speech for a moment, at least 240 Palestinian journalists have been killed in Gaza by Israel since October 7, 2023. This death toll exceeds the combined number of journalists killed in major conflicts since the US Civil War, including both World Wars, the Vietnam War, the Korean War, the Yugoslav Wars, and the Afghanistan War, according to reports by Brown University’s Costs of War Project.
The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) and Reporters Without Borders have described the situation as unprecedented, with journalists facing systematic targeting, including in so-called “double-tap” strikes on hospitals and press locations.
https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
https://aljazeera.com/news/2025/8/11/here-are-the-names-of-the-journalists-israel-killed-in-gaza
Thank you SteveH. Here is their Gaza: The Deadliest Conflict for Journalists in Modern History report https://insuranceforgroup.com/en_gb/gaza-2025-journalism-under-fire-the-deadliest-conflict-for-reporters-in-modern-history/
The one area of information missing from the opening graphics in that Watson School link is the amount of money spent by the successive UK Government’s (the previous Establishment Oligarchy’s first and current second eleven) on actively aiding, abetting, supporting and covering for the Genocide in Gaza?
Given that Skwawkbox is a UK site rather than a US one, it would seem reasonable to anticipate that this oversight will be rectified in the not too distent future?
Unless, of course, there is some sort of reason for such an oversight?
Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East?
Try standing for election in Israel on a policy of a One State Solution for Palestine. It is deemed illegal there.
Some democracy!
A restricted democracy to favour the settler colonialists.
On the ‘There’s No Such Thing as Palestine’ then maybe the Zionists could answer why Theodor Herzl, the founder of Political Zionism, in his founding booklet mused as to whether they could colonise Argentina or Palestine. If there was no Palestine why did he mention it by name.
On the Arabs rejecting partition so did the Zionists. From the moment the UN adopted Resolution 181 they began to expel the Arabs within the borders of their proposed state and any others outside it. It is a myth they accepted it. They accepted the idea of a Jewish state but not its borders.
What they mean is that the Palestinians didn’t accept being ethnically cleansed.
Telling the truth is NOT a “blood libel”
(And libel is just libel, no embellishment for effect required)
“we have provided x million meals”
Given that gaza’s population is, or rather >i>was around 2.1m (at least 10% less when the rays cut off the aid and finally ‘replaced the distribution with ghf) then bragging about “distributing ‘x’ million meals since may” still falls woefully short of the three daily meals people should be eating.
And (barely) surviving on cooking oil, flour and dried noodles, is supposedly keeping the enemy FED???
GTF israeli & ‘murrican pondlife.
(Slightly) off-topic.
Well now!! It appears the #noshittaking mp and most definitely NOT casual racist (because she only knows what that means when it suits) stella greasy has had the rank hypocrisy called out – again.
https://youtu.be/LbnQq71LN4I?si=i5vdeXxrXflxMgBW
But she had a baby a couple of years back, so….