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JOHNSTONE — Dissecting An "Antisemitism" Psyop. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Dissecting and anti-semitism psi-up. I recently watched a Sky News segment on the need to ban pro-Palestine marches, which nicely illustrates the way the mass media have been working to manipulate the public into believing these demonstrations are causing anti-Semitic attacks. Reporting on British Prime Minister Kier Starmars recent assertion that the repeat nature and cumulative effect of pro-Palestine marches may necessitate a ban on some protests following the golders green stabbing. Reporter Molly Malone repeatedly told the audience of Sky News that the marches are happening in the context of anti-Semitic incidents and against the backdrop of attacks on Jewish people. There is no evidence whatsoever for the claim that pro-Palestine marches have anything at all to do with anti-Semitic attacks. Now watch how this Sky News propagandist marries the two in the minds of her viewers by repeatedly mentioning them in the same breath and connecting them with words like context
and backdrop. Malone said, The Prime Minister has gone somewhat further than he has previously in discussing and commenting on how to approach and manage these protests, which we've seen for a long time now, but clearly they now come against the backdrop of increased attacks on our Jewish communities, most recently, of course, on Wednesday, where two Jewish men were stabbed in golders green. Malone made the obligatory appeal to emotion by talking about the feelings of British Jews by saying that anti-Semitic attacks are adding to fears among Jewish people and then said, It's in that context that these pro-Palestine marches are being discussed. I could make the exact same type of argument to suggest that the faint humming sound from my refrigerator is causing the pain in my ankle. I could say I'm experiencing ankle soreness, and the soreness is making my feelings feel
very upset, and it is in this context and against this backdrop that the buzzing from the refrigerator is happening. At no point am I actually presenting evidence that the soreness in my ankle has anything to do with the faint buzzing sound. I'm just using fallacious associations and appeals to emotion to get you to think of them as having a causal relationship. Malone uncritically quoted the UK's independent reviewer of terrorism legislation Jonathan Hall asserting on no basis whatsoever that pro-Palestine marches, quote, Incubate anti-Semitism, then repeated the bogus Haspera talking point that the phrase globalize the antifada is seen to incite violence toward Jewish people. The context here is everything Malone concluded after a few minutes of pro-Palestine activist rebuttals to provide the illusion of impartiality. As the British political media class have been doing for days when discussing the Goulders
Green Stabbings, Malone neglects to mention that a third man who was not Jewish was also attacked in the same incident, and that the assailant had recently emerged from the care of a psychiatric hospital. You might think that perpetrator's extensive history of mental health struggles, combined with the fact that he did not solely target Jewish people, would dissuade serious news reporters from framing this as an act motivated by hateful ideology. But British news media employees are not serious news reporters. They are propagandists. This frenzied propaganda push to stomp out pro-Palestine protests across the Western world has nothing to do with protecting Jewish people from anti-Semitic attacks. It's about protecting the interests of Israel and the murderous Western governments with whom it is aligned. And nothing else.
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