And the dandelion does not stop growing, because it is told it is a weed…
–B. Atkinson
Israeli apartheid oppression against the Palestinians over the last 76 years has primarily been sustained on two fronts: violent armed aggression, including indiscriminate destruction of property and propaganda.
Both have been relatively successful since the unlawful inception of the Jewish ethnostate in thwarting Palestinian resistance, and keeping the world in ignorance. However, Israel has been unable to perpetuate its propaganda campaign since October 7th, 2023, when Hamas launched a violent counter-insurgency into Israel in resistance to the oppression.
With military and diplomatic help from a hypocritical Western world, Israel has since that fateful day ramped up its violent military aggression to levels that are being appropriately described as genocidal. Meanwhile, their, at times comically insane attempts at spinning their repression and absurd efforts at propaganda have not been in sync with their depravity.
While Israel’s official propaganda apparatus was strenuously at work trying to gaslight an increasingly aware international community, their soldiers were effectively rubbishing those attempts by posting their depraved behaviour on social media while engaged in ground offensives inside Gaza. The various spokesmen employed by the state also did them no favours by constantly being caught lying and spreading misinformation and disinformation.
Probably their most significant effort at propaganda was the weaponising of antisemitism.
Through lobby organizations like AIPAC, ADL and the organs of the British and American governments themselves, the Israeli propaganda lobby tried foolishly to equate any and all criticism of Israel and Zionism with antisemitism. It was of course an abject failure.
Years of unimaginative state propaganda, which had up to this point managed to fool the world into fearing being called antisemitic, was now losing its tenuous grip. While antisemitism is a real and valid problem, the Israeli attempts to weaponize it to provide a smokescreen for their morally bankrupt behaviour and ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, have become a dismal failure.
Comedian Sammy Obeid recently exposed some of the hypocrisy around antisemitism in one of his shows. It boggles the mind how Israel still expects the world to believe that its own settler population is somehow more Semitic than the Palestinians themselves. It has now become more common knowledge than it used to be, that the word Semitic was coined to differentiate people of Middle Eastern origin with people of Aryan origin, and shockingly, it is racist of itself.
The world is now awake to Israel’s deceptions.
Meanwhile, the US, the principal ally of Israel, has under both Democratic and Republican governments, shown its complete willingness to disregard both International humanitarian laws, and its own, to provide unprincipled support to them. The US has intensified its attacks on free speech and the right to protest since October 2023. It does so in collusion with social media outlets and the treacherous Western media. Just recently, the US government arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian campus activist and student protest organizer, threatening to deport him.
The Israel lobby has also been actively trying to influence foreign governments into providing support for their vicious pogrom against Palestinians in Gaza. Chinese YouTuber Zhang Sheng reports in an episode of Transnational Institute that Israel’s hasbara has failed spectacularly to impress the Chinese public. Instead, Chinese social media users have taken to calling the Palestinians dandelions in a poetic reference to their resilience in the face of Israeli oppression.
Currently, with a severely damaged ceasefire in place, following a failed military and propaganda campaign, Israel is desperately attempting to starve the Palestinians into submission. It won’t work.
Dandelions may bend, sway in the breeze and scatter their seeds, but like Palestinians, they are proving more challenging to break than both Israel and the West ever dreamed.
lenny unencumbered 