they can promote certain perspectives while downplaying others
Exactly, and they have the reach to be very effective at controlling the narrative.
“What is taking place is a systematic effort to distort the image of Palestinian journalists as being incapable of trustworthiness and integrity, simply because we cover the human rights violations that the Palestinian people undergo on a daily basis at hands of the Israeli army,” Salem wrote today on Facebook and Twitter, in a thread that has been widely retweeted, 5000 times this morning.
The case stands in stark contrast to the three Jewish reporters, Ethan Bronner, Isabel Kershner, and David Brooks, who carried on writing about the issue for the New York Times even when their children were enlisted in the Israeli Defense Forces.
The Israel lobby is massively invested in propaganda, like NGO monitor and the above linked "organization Honest Reporting, which exists to attack the Palestinian narrative in the west". Not to mention ads on google, youtube, controlling the narrative on facebook, google again, twitter.... the list goes on. And yeah, there's app for that.
And it's not the first time NYT has run a direct propaganda piece. They have to do this once in a while for the Israeli government to reassert its hegemony over the narrative.
Yes, I know mediabiasfactcheck.com says NYT is excellent but that's just a reflection on mediabiasfactcheck.com.
I know they were funded in part by Israel to destroy Palestinian unity and give Israel an excuse to kill more Palestinians and take their land, but was Hamas really created by Israel?
What's the credibility of mediabiasfactcheck.com?
Did you read that page yet?
Israelis domestically and abroad have primarily called for the return of hostages held by Hamas.
Some of the protests were
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Protest against humanitarian aid
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Pro-war protests
Nothing remotely about peace or anti-genocide, or even to protest against what Israel is doing in Gaza, in fact:
On 9 November, Israeli police arrested former MK Mohammad Barakeh in Nazareth for attempting to organize an anti-war protest.[53]
The reason you have not seen "Israelis who have the courage to protest against what Israel is doing in Gaza" in the news is that it's not happening.
Jews, on the other hand, have been getting locked up in droves (and since the beginning of the latest offensive) protesting Israel's actions.
Did you read that page? Some of the protests were
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Protest against humanitarian aid
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Pro-war protests
The rest were to get the hostages back. Nothing remotely about peace or anti-genocide.
allowing the scraping and evading X's own anti-scraping technology.
I wonder why evading anti-scraping technology is not treated like bypassing DRM or the DMCAs anti-circumvention rules.
Not only do they make Hamas look like the good guys, Israel has put the world into a position where Iran, a nation run by theocratic despots who brutalize women and sponsor terror, is the calmer actor in international missle attacks!
Zionists are using Jews as human shields. Actual Judeophobic incidents have increased in the past half year solely because of Israel's actions, and I realized this when I saw a headline about a man that raped a Jewish woman "to avenge Palestine". Also the agent provocateurs that the Israel lobby has been sending to college campuses create distrust among student groups, especially toward Jewish members. It's a very sick act. Some groups that counter that negative force, though, are If Not Now and Jewish Voices for Peace.
Btw, it's refreshing to read some sane, reality-based takes, so thank you guys for that.
Lol yea, but do you see the contradiction between
In those 75 years, many Israeli people were born on this land, and it really is their home.
and a state being established through the ethnic cleansing of Palestine? Israel spends a lot of money on PR to whitewash that.
Apparently if you think the murder of a boy from hundreds of yards away is wrong, you're "pro-Hamas". They're really working hard to make Hamas look like the good guys.
It's kind of eerie how none of the protester's demands address the genocide of Palestinians.
So you're saying that Israel has no right to exist?
Since the offer for a free personal subscription to Ubuntu Pro when doing apt update. That's the terminal equivalent of going to a microbrewery and seeing they only sell $8 IPAs.
"Israel has not shared complete information to verify whether U.S. defense articles covered under NSM-20 were specifically used in actions that have been alleged as violations of IHL or IHRL in Gaza, or in the West Bank and East Jerusalem during the period of the report," it said.
Because of that, the administration said it still finds credible Israel's assurances that it is using U.S. weapons in accordance with international law.
The perpetrator didn't tell us what happened so we find their written assurance of innocence still valid.
When will they realize that labelling human rights supporters "anti-semitic" is really not doing Judaism or Jews any favors, especially when a good number of those supporters are Jewish?
expected the US to cut funding to the United Nations and its institutions, in accordance with American law.
Which law is this?
That's the UN charter, not the UN partition plan for mandatory Palestine. Israel was established through military aggression, which is what Russia is currently trying to do in Ukraine.
This article is not from Israel's current assault on Gaza but from the one in 2021. Hasbara is an important topic, though, because it is creeping into Lemmy more and more.
Hasbara can be defined as
> Israel's efforts to communicate directly with citizens of other nations to inform and influence their perceptions, with the aim of garnering support or tolerance for the Israeli government's strategic objectives.
and this takes the form of people trying to manipulate the public discourse to suit a political agenda, often done on social media.
In the current western political climate, hasbara is used to minimize and / or justify Israel's occupation and genocide in Palestine, and to excuse or ignore Israel's blatant and egregious violations of human rights and international law.
Some examples from social media platforms:
Massive (and distasteful) ad campaign on X and YouTube
Hasbara is used not only on the platform level, but also in person-to-person online communication. Hasbara is a form of propaganda, so logical consistency is not required, as you can see in this recent example of someone arguing in the style of hasbara right here on Lemmy:
> I would personally reject this deal.
> The Palestinian people do not deserve to live under the rule of Hamas. In 19 years of living under Hamas, after all the money given to them by the US, France, the UK, Qatar, Iran, and even Israel, the only thing they built for the Palestinian people has been tunnels to commit terrorism from.
then when people pointed out the complete inaccuracy of the statement, the commenter pivoted to
> Building tunnels as the sole piece of infrastructure for your people is the sole response to a 30 year genocide?
> I don’t think that is true, and I don’t believe you think that is true either. It sounded good when you said it though, and I’m sure it felt even better.
Here we can see several hasbara strategies- the commenter feigns concern for Palestine (deception), uses bad faith arguments which are completely made up, moves the goalposts, projects, contradicts themselves, and then tries to gaslight the other person when they get called out.
A hasbara agent tries to keep the other commenter(s) busy defending themselves or correcting the hasbara agent's ridiculous statements and accusations, so that the original point is forgotten and the hasbara agent's own dishonest (and often narcissistic) behviour is never addressed.
Some manipulation tactics that are characteristic of hasbara are
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bad faith arguments
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false accusations
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straw man fallacy
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moving goal posts
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deceptive distraction (answering an honest question with a loaded question)
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hypocrisy (especially accusing people of putting words in their mouth, being dishonest, or using any of these listed manipulation tactics while accusing the other party of doing so)
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victimization
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aggression
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projecting
Hasbara in it's current form is a method of psychological manipulation ranging from propaganda to historical denialism to calls to violence against obstacles to the Israeli government's strategic objectives (e.g. "there are no innocents in Gaza").
Fortunately Lemmy users are usually smart enough to downvote hasbara posts and comments to signal their falsehood, but since hasbara comments spread misinformation, aid human rights violations, and attempt to radicalize people, they should be treated as the abuse they are and reported, blocked, downvoted etc.
Although hasbara actors are a very small, yet very aggressive, minority here, let's keep Lemmy a safe, fact-based place to exchange knowledge, culture, and opinions.
Reading about the current events got me looking into the history of Palestine and Israel, and I noticed a lot of Israel's politicians (like Yitzhak Shamir, Menachem Begin, and Ariel Sharon to name a few) were Zionist terrorists (using the word literally, not subjectively) since before the establishment of Israel. The groups they belonged to, like Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi have been designated terrorist organizations by the United Nations, British, and United States governments, and
> Albert Einstein, in a letter to The New York Times in 1948, compared Irgun and its successor Herut party to "Nazi and Fascist parties" and described it as a "terrorist, right wing, chauvinist organization".
The Zionists have explained their view as follows:
> Neither Jewish ethics nor Jewish tradition can disqualify terrorism as a means of combat. We are very far from having any moral qualms as far as our national war goes. We have before us the command of the Torah, whose morality surpasses that of any other body of laws in the world: "Ye shall blot them out to the last man."
and
> Late in 1940, Lehi, having identified a common interest between the intentions of the new German order and Jewish national aspirations, proposed forming an alliance in World War II with Nazi Germany.[22] The organization offered cooperation in the following terms: Lehi would rebel against the British, while Germany would recognize an independent Jewish state in Palestine/Eretz Israel, and all Jews leaving their homes in Europe, by their own will or because of government injunctions, could enter Palestine with no restriction of numbers.[32] Late in 1940, Lehi representative Naftali Lubenchik went to Beirut to meet German official Werner Otto von Hentig. The Lehi documents outlined that its rule would be authoritarian and indicated similarities between the organization and Nazis.
It just gets worse the more you look into it, but it does give important context to the current genocide in Gaza, and to the decades old conflict in general.
I just tried osmand. It took forever to locate me and then the map would freeze for minutes, then the blue arrow would finally jump to my location. It seems useless for real time navigation, is that normal? Google maps works fine on the phone (Android) so it's not the hardware. Is there maybe some setting I haven't found?
Edit: nevermind, my phone is just on the fritz. Location doesn't work at all anymore :/
I know about Clonezilla and copy pasting partitions with gparted, but can I just use dd to copy a partition with batocera to a USB stick and will it then boot from the stick? Do I have to set the boot flag or take any other steps?
Thank you for any tips.
We know what happens with peaceful protests, elections, and foreign interference (and more foreign interference), so how can Palestine gain it's freedom? Any positive ideas are welcome, because this situation is already a humanitarian crisis and is looking bleaker by the day.
Historical references are also valuable in this discussion, like slave revolts or the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, although hopefully in the case of Palestine a peaceful and successful outcome can be achieved, as opposed to some of the historical events above.
For example that red "no person" symbol. I've seen another one that looks like a redish pinkish "no message" icon. What do they mean and are there more symbols like that on Jerboa?
EDIT: While I do appreciate the input, it's surprising that there is no authoritative answer. The git also doesn't specify what these icons mean.
I'm using Jerboa and I sometimes see symbols next to peoples' username. One looks like a "no message" symbol, and the other looks like a "no person" symbol in red. What do they mean? Are there more symbols?
I've tried a web search but I only found results related to Motorhead and some kind of desert rodent.
Also, is it possible to search the content of posts on Lemmy? At least in Jerboa the search function seems to be only to search for communities by name. Surely someone has asked this before but I couldn't figure out how to search posts.
Thanks!
Edit: added an example of the "no person" icon
![](https://suppo.fi/pictrs/image/6e9f6b39-915c-4078-9e8d-a9d82af662cc.webm
Hi Linux- how important is it to install, say Debian, the version that is specifically made for your hardware? For example, if I have a Rock64 SBC, do I have to install Debian-rock64.img or can I just go with Debian-arm64.img? Will I lose performance/features if using generic arm64 image, or conversely, will I gain performance/features if using the image made for my specific SBC? Is the generic image even compatible with all hardwares?
Thank you.