Yes to that slogan...and also yes to to the slogan Adam Louis-Klein and others have been using & encouraging, "antizionism is a hate movement". Btw, it's "caught on", not "catched on"😊
The war of truth is, I believe, a virtually impossible war to win. The misuse of words like apartheid and genocide by politicians, media outlets and world organisations only serves to demonise Israel and the Jewish people. The perpetual centuries old virus of despising Jews continues with the belief that in 1948, European Jews took over a country called Palestine.
With Jewish brains and resources, both in the diaspora and Israel, a concerted PR Campaign should be launched to try and educate the misinformed. An uphill task but worth the effort.
Israel, with its passionate, proud and highly competent people, deserves to be seen as the beacon of creativity and brilliance that is its hallmark in its young 78 year rebirth.
Knowledge is power! So here’s some book recommendations for everyone to inoculate yourself and your family against the lies of the Great Genocide Blood Libel coming out the UN and moronic governments like those in Ireland, Spain and Norway:
• Never Again: How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself by Jake Wallis Simons
• Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What to Do About It by Jake Wallis Simons
• Hostage by Eli Sharabi
• Israel: A History by Martin Gilbert
• The October 7 War: Israel’s Battle for Security in Gaza by Seth J. Frantzman
• Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 by Hillel Cohen
• Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 by Benny Morris
• 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
• 1949: The First Israelis by Tom Segev
• Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
• The Israelis: Founders and Sons by Amos Elon
• The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
You’re absolutely 100% right, Daniel! We must repeat The Great Genocide Blood Libel over and over until the end of time! The charge Israel has committed genocide is a blatant lie not based in actual fact at all. But the pro-Israel movement must have a catchy, simple slogan to get people hooked in as Boris Johnson did with Get Brexit Done, which can unite a wide range of people. This is the one I’d say. Some will never change their mind. But the general public’s mind can be changed if we get this phrase out there. The Great Genocide Blood Libel is no different from the 1892 Dreyfus Affair, the lies that triggered the 1929 Hebron Massacre, the propaganda of the Nazis, or the lies that Hamas spews about the war everyday. It’s yet another slur against the Jewish people that sadly, even some Jews have been hypnotized into believing. By the way, just do we’re clear, antizionism is antisemitism. It is absolutely bigoted to believe Jews shouldn’t be able to have a state just like anyone else. I wonder why there was no Great Genocide Blood Libel against Saudi Arabia in Yemen or Sudan in South Sudan even though they were committing actual genocides?
I wonder why the United States was never accused of genocide in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya? How come China isn’t accused of genocide in its fifty year occupation of Tibet? Oh that’s right, because no Jews, no news. Only when Jews defend themselves does it constitute genocide. But Egypt can kill Coptic Christians and Turkey can massacre the Kurds all the live long day and no one cares. The Saudis can bomb Yemeni schools, hospitals and homes into oblivion and the UN will say diddly squat. ISIS can kill and enslave Yazidis to their hearts content, Ireland and Spain are mum’s the word. But yet Israel fights a war of self-defense against Islamist Nazis and everyone throws a fit. Curious how that works isn’t it? The Great Genocide Blood Libel continues on. Thus why this piece must be spread far and wide!
DCS, you are brilliant, knowledgeable and a very talented writer and essayist. A reader of your posts can always learn something new and something he should remember. I especially love your Tolstoyian turn of phrase that you use as your nom de guerre. Clever!
So, I regret my need to disagree with your suggestion for a hasbarah-ish phrase to counter the ditties of the antisemites and terrorists. 1. Though accurate, your phrase is too long. Five words are too many for ignoramuses to remember. 2. “Great” generally connotes something good. “The movie was ‘great.’” Abe Lincoln was a “great President.” “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” 3. Most college students don’t know what “genocide” means - other than it’s a bad thing which the Yahud do to oppressed Muslims, who wear keffiyot and ride camels in races. 4. “Blood” obviously connotes race and the Yahudi are, “of course,” racists. Why include this word? 5. Students in high school, college, and grad school and their professors (other than lawyers) have no idea what “libel” means. Good or bad? And in UK: “bloody good game, aye mate!?!” 6. You and your readers know the history of “blood libels” against Europe’s Jews over the centuries. I bet the majority of Jews (in the U.S.) -and of course non-Jews- don’t have a clue what this phrase refers to. Beilis or Leo Frank cases, anyone? 7. I’m not good at creating short, pithy ad phrases or copy. [Though I, not my Pub., did come up with the title “Separated Together” for my non-fiction “Holocaust bio]. Perhaps you could open up your site to reader suggestions for the perfect phrase? Short and pithy or longish and memorable? What do you think?
This is great! I would add that when we discuss antisemitsim, we should always add the word genocidal. Genocidal Antisemitism.
It has the benefit of being historically true. Romans, the crusaders, the Inquisition, Chemelnitzky, pogroms, Shoah, Gaza. Antisemitism inexorably leads to Jewish genocide. We can repeat this as often as Great Genocide Blood LIbel.
As an aside, I've been using both, and the commenters lose their shit! Its great.
You are making an implicit assumption that peple know, or will correctly infer, what a blood libel is. I don't think we can rely on that, so i will use "the false genocide blood libel, replacing great with false. Will you consider making that change?
Great article Daniel. The "Palestinians" keep repeating a lie for so long that it becomes truth for them.
Yes to that slogan...and also yes to to the slogan Adam Louis-Klein and others have been using & encouraging, "antizionism is a hate movement". Btw, it's "caught on", not "catched on"😊
The war of truth is, I believe, a virtually impossible war to win. The misuse of words like apartheid and genocide by politicians, media outlets and world organisations only serves to demonise Israel and the Jewish people. The perpetual centuries old virus of despising Jews continues with the belief that in 1948, European Jews took over a country called Palestine.
With Jewish brains and resources, both in the diaspora and Israel, a concerted PR Campaign should be launched to try and educate the misinformed. An uphill task but worth the effort.
Israel, with its passionate, proud and highly competent people, deserves to be seen as the beacon of creativity and brilliance that is its hallmark in its young 78 year rebirth.
Knowledge is power! So here’s some book recommendations for everyone to inoculate yourself and your family against the lies of the Great Genocide Blood Libel coming out the UN and moronic governments like those in Ireland, Spain and Norway:
• Never Again: How the West Betrayed the Jews and Itself by Jake Wallis Simons
• Israelophobia: The Newest Version of the Oldest Hatred and What to Do About It by Jake Wallis Simons
• Hostage by Eli Sharabi
• Israel: A History by Martin Gilbert
• The October 7 War: Israel’s Battle for Security in Gaza by Seth J. Frantzman
• Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict 1929 by Hillel Cohen
• Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001 by Benny Morris
• 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War by Benny Morris
• 1949: The First Israelis by Tom Segev
• Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East by Michael B. Oren
• The Israelis: Founders and Sons by Amos Elon
• The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World by Avi Shlaim
You’re absolutely 100% right, Daniel! We must repeat The Great Genocide Blood Libel over and over until the end of time! The charge Israel has committed genocide is a blatant lie not based in actual fact at all. But the pro-Israel movement must have a catchy, simple slogan to get people hooked in as Boris Johnson did with Get Brexit Done, which can unite a wide range of people. This is the one I’d say. Some will never change their mind. But the general public’s mind can be changed if we get this phrase out there. The Great Genocide Blood Libel is no different from the 1892 Dreyfus Affair, the lies that triggered the 1929 Hebron Massacre, the propaganda of the Nazis, or the lies that Hamas spews about the war everyday. It’s yet another slur against the Jewish people that sadly, even some Jews have been hypnotized into believing. By the way, just do we’re clear, antizionism is antisemitism. It is absolutely bigoted to believe Jews shouldn’t be able to have a state just like anyone else. I wonder why there was no Great Genocide Blood Libel against Saudi Arabia in Yemen or Sudan in South Sudan even though they were committing actual genocides?
I wonder why the United States was never accused of genocide in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya? How come China isn’t accused of genocide in its fifty year occupation of Tibet? Oh that’s right, because no Jews, no news. Only when Jews defend themselves does it constitute genocide. But Egypt can kill Coptic Christians and Turkey can massacre the Kurds all the live long day and no one cares. The Saudis can bomb Yemeni schools, hospitals and homes into oblivion and the UN will say diddly squat. ISIS can kill and enslave Yazidis to their hearts content, Ireland and Spain are mum’s the word. But yet Israel fights a war of self-defense against Islamist Nazis and everyone throws a fit. Curious how that works isn’t it? The Great Genocide Blood Libel continues on. Thus why this piece must be spread far and wide!
DCS, you are brilliant, knowledgeable and a very talented writer and essayist. A reader of your posts can always learn something new and something he should remember. I especially love your Tolstoyian turn of phrase that you use as your nom de guerre. Clever!
So, I regret my need to disagree with your suggestion for a hasbarah-ish phrase to counter the ditties of the antisemites and terrorists. 1. Though accurate, your phrase is too long. Five words are too many for ignoramuses to remember. 2. “Great” generally connotes something good. “The movie was ‘great.’” Abe Lincoln was a “great President.” “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” 3. Most college students don’t know what “genocide” means - other than it’s a bad thing which the Yahud do to oppressed Muslims, who wear keffiyot and ride camels in races. 4. “Blood” obviously connotes race and the Yahudi are, “of course,” racists. Why include this word? 5. Students in high school, college, and grad school and their professors (other than lawyers) have no idea what “libel” means. Good or bad? And in UK: “bloody good game, aye mate!?!” 6. You and your readers know the history of “blood libels” against Europe’s Jews over the centuries. I bet the majority of Jews (in the U.S.) -and of course non-Jews- don’t have a clue what this phrase refers to. Beilis or Leo Frank cases, anyone? 7. I’m not good at creating short, pithy ad phrases or copy. [Though I, not my Pub., did come up with the title “Separated Together” for my non-fiction “Holocaust bio]. Perhaps you could open up your site to reader suggestions for the perfect phrase? Short and pithy or longish and memorable? What do you think?
Thanks for your feedback and kind words Ken. I will consider your advice.
I prefer “genocide hoax”. Catchier and avoids the antisemitism allegation that gives the other side ammo to rebut.
This is great! I would add that when we discuss antisemitsim, we should always add the word genocidal. Genocidal Antisemitism.
It has the benefit of being historically true. Romans, the crusaders, the Inquisition, Chemelnitzky, pogroms, Shoah, Gaza. Antisemitism inexorably leads to Jewish genocide. We can repeat this as often as Great Genocide Blood LIbel.
As an aside, I've been using both, and the commenters lose their shit! Its great.
You are making an implicit assumption that peple know, or will correctly infer, what a blood libel is. I don't think we can rely on that, so i will use "the false genocide blood libel, replacing great with false. Will you consider making that change?
Thanks for your feedback and kind words Sharon. I will consider your advice.