Abe Greenwald writes Commentary’s daily newsletter. I think readers can subscribe for free here. Today Greenwald argues the proposition that “Israel is the weapon.” He writes:
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There’s a pervasive misconception about the so-called information war that erupted after the Hamas massacre of October 7, 2023. The misconception is that Israel constitutes one of the war’s two fighting sides.
The truth is that anti-Semites launched the information war as an attack on global Jewry and settled on Israel as their weapon of choice.
Once you understand that, much else becomes clear. You can look back on the past two and a half years and discern exactly how the propaganda campaign achieved its aims. What began merely as supposed criticism of the Jewish state has arrived at a very different place. Those who’ve been captured have largely shifted their focus from Israel to Jews—along with Jewish history, Jewish belief, and Jewish organizations.
The anti-Semites waging the information war advanced provably false claims of Israeli war crimes, from forced starvation to targeting civilians to genocide. On the left, this set in motion a ...
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