"[R]ather than face the fact that German and Western publics express revulsion at the death and destruction in Gaza, their political classes have decided that the medium and not the message is the problem. Social media is to blame, we hear. It’s because China and Qatar control the algorithm of TikTok that teenagers are seeing “walls of dead children.” Their solution is to change the ownership of TikTok so that pro-Israel messages flood their phones instead.
The political and media classes have reason to be apprehensive. Were it not for the independent journalist with her phone in Amsterdam, who filmed Israeli soccer fans running amok against Dutch citizens, we would have been stuck with the lie propagated by the mainstream media that a “pogrom” against the Israeli fans in Amsterdam had been perpetrated by those very victims of those soccer fans. Only once this journalist placed her footage online were mainstream stations compelled to correct their coverage.
Yet Western governments and media have offered justification or trivialization of these claims in the same breath. Can they be surprised by the crisis of confidence in the media, evidenced by academic studies, and that people are turning to alternative sources and political parties?
All that separates us from the world predicted by George Orwell are independent sources of information and the healthy instincts of publics who have drawn a universal lesson from the Nazi past, namely that the near-total destruction of a region like Gaza is illegitimate, criminal, unacceptable: even in the face of the deplorable Hamas-led attack on Israeli settlements more than two years ago."
https://thediasporist.de/is-holocaust-memory-over/
#Germany #Holocaust #Palestine #Gaza #Israel #Disinformation #Propaganda
Miguel Afonso Caetano
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