Dexter Van Zile (is Christian media analyst for the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA)) évoque la supercherie à la base de la propagande pro-palestinienne - que est en fait anti-israélienne - et revient sur le cas d'école qu'est l'affaire al-Durah qui a
"fourni à tous ceux, et aux Européens en particulier, l'excuse dont ils avaient besoin pour croire que les Israéliens sont des nazis tueurs d'enfants qui n'avaient plus droit à la moindre sympathie du fait de la Shoah". Mais ces grands "magiciens" de l'information ont de plus en plus de mal à faire passer leur message. Un nombre croissant d'Européens ne font plus confiance aux médias (
77% des Français ne font pas confiance aux médias) et aux multiples spécialistes. Leurs efforts pour créer une nouvelle icône capable de susciter l'indignation (sélective, cela va sans dire) ont échoué - notamment celui pendant la visite du Pape. Le mot
"Pallywood" fait maintenant partie du lexique mondial et se décline en toutes les langues. Ce que les gens comprennent de mieux en mieux est que les élites palestiniennes sont corrompues et que les enfants sont endoctrinés depuis leur plus jeune âge à détester les Juifs.
Have Palestinian propagandists lost their magic touch?
A decade ago they pulled off one of the greatest swindles of the modern era. They convinced a lot of otherwise reasonable people that the Second Intifada was all Israel’s fault and that Palestinian anti-Semitism was a response to – and not a cause of – the suffering they endured.
They accomplished this swindle, in part, by broadcasting the image of
Mohammad Al Durah, a young Palestinian boy who was reportedly killed during a gunfight between Israelis and Palestinians in 2000. Video purportedly showing Al Durah’s death, which Palestinians said was the fault of the IDF, gave people, Europeans especially, the excuse they needed to believe that Israelis were baby-killing Nazis who were no longer entitled to the world’s sympathy after the Holocaust. (It’s no coincidence that France, where the Al Durah video got heavy play, is now witnessing an exodus of its Jews intent on fleeing the anti-Semitic hate that is overtaking that country.)
Eventually, the story surrounding Al Durah’s death began to unravel when it became clear that it was highly unlikely, if not impossible that a shot capable of killing the boy came from Israeli positions on the day of the fighting. It didn’t help that the footage used to blame Israel for Al Dura’s death showed the young boy lifting his head off the ground to see what was happening after he had “died.”
Eventually, people started to learn about how Palestinian “journalists” broadcast images of staged gunfights and mock funerals to their colleagues throughout the world as part of their campaign to demonize Israel.
“Pallywood” it was called. One place to learn about it is
Richard Landes’ blog, Second Draft. Another place is The Al Durah Project.
Philipe Karsenty has devoted his life to exposing the hoax.
Now that Pallywood is part of the global lexicon, recent attempts by Palestinian intellectuals to generate sympathy for their cause have had a tougher time getting traction. Palestinian propagandists are doing everything they can to manufacture an icon of outrage that shows the world just how terrible the Palestinians are suffering and how evil the Israelis are. For the most part, their efforts have come up short.