WHO’S MANIPULATING U.S. MEDIA COVERAGE?

ARE YEMEN & HEZBOLLAH REALLY IRANIAN PAWNS?

Bats Courtesy Kevin Barrett, Ph.D.

The Washington Post—again!  On June 23, 2024, the Washington Post, ever the tool of a corrupt U.S. government and its Zebrew masters, reported:  Houthis maintain Red Sea Menace.  The subtitle ran:  Dogged Assault on Key Shipping Lanes.

Oh, my.  The richest country in the world fears the poorest.  The richest country has run a proxy war against the poorest by using Saudi and Emirati pawns—for the past 10 years.  The richest country has waged war directly against the poorest country—for the past eight months.

Yemen Today

But the Post and the Jews running it never bother to explain why poor (in all senses of the word) Yemen is a Red Sea Menace.  They purposefully ignore Yemen’s support of Occupied Palestine’s efforts to free itself from the Zionist yoke.  They purposefully omit the proper name of the Yemeni fighters.  They purposefully insist that the United States has a duty to protect the world from the consequences of Israeli savagery.  They purposefully claim that Iran is circumventing the tight blockade around Yemen, a blockade maintained by the United States, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.  (But they never explain how those dastardly Iranians get men, missiles, and money past this barrier!)

And the Next Day!  The Post’s headline ran:  Fears of all-out war in Mideast.  The Apartheid Entity’s “Defense” Minister Yoav Gallant arrived in Washington on June 23 for meetings with U.S. officials about “growing fears that border clashes between Israel and the Lebanese militant [!] group Hezbollah could escalate into all-out war.”  Yet, the bat-brains at the Post never link Israeli actions, Israeli attacks , Israeli provocations with the prospects of causing all-out war in the region.

And the paper keeps linking the AnsarAllah (Support of God) in devastated Yemen and Hezbollah (Party of God) in bleeding Lebanon to Iran and the Shii version of Islam.  (There is the belief, constantly promoted, that the Shii are fanatics, and the Sunni are eminently sensible.) Washington’s “paper of record” bleats about fears of conflict because Seyed Hasan Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, told Israel that if it starts a war with Lebanon, the Zionists will enter a hell from which there is no return.  Israel may threaten Lebanon but when Lebanon states a material fact—THAT is an Iranian provocation.  The Post comes closest to the mark when it writes that war would threaten major Israeli cities.  Worse, the rag asserted how offensive it was for Hezbollah to publish videos of Israeli ports and military installations.

Hasan Nasrallah

It's the old Story—Israeli Money Has Great Influence.  Gag on this!  June 24’s The Cradle printed:

Israel is covertly funding a massive propaganda campaign to target the US public, including through the passage of legislation to restrict US citizens’ right to free speech when criticizing Israel and its ongoing war on Gaza, The Guardian reported on 24 June.

The UK newspaper reported that there are 80 programs already underway as part of the massive propaganda campaign known as the “Voices of Israel.”

The program is funded and run by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, led by M [Member of] K [the Knesset] Amichai Chikli.

The program was designed to carry out what Israel calls “mass consciousness activities” targeting the US and European public.

Voices of Israel is part of the “latest incarnation” of a “sometimes covert operation” by the Israeli ministry to censor students, human rights organizations, and other critics of Israel.

Known previously as “Concert” and before that, “Kela Shlomo,” the campaign previously spearheaded efforts to pass so-called “anti-BDS” state laws that penalize Americans for engaging in boycotts or other non-violent protests of Israel.

Voices of Israel works through non-profits and other entities that often do not disclose donor information. From October through May, the campaign spent about $8.6 million to target US citizens with pro-Israel propaganda.

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) is one such organization receiving funding through the Israeli program.

Continuing, The Cradle went on to say:

The ISGAP lobbies governments to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which equates criticism of Israel as a ‘racist endeavor’ and anti-Zionism with antisemitism.

“We shifted the focus to work at the local level,” said Brig Gen Sima Vaknin-Gill, a former intelligence officer now managing director of the ISGAP.

“We’ve found that mayors and states – it’s much easier to work with them and actually make the definition into something real.”

Another US group tied to Voices of Israel and the Ministry of Diaspora Affairs campaign is CyberWell, a pro-Israel “anti-disinformation” group led by former Israeli military intelligence and Voices officials. CyberWell established itself as an official “trusted partner” to TikTok and Meta, allowing it to help screen and edit content.

A recent CyberWell report called for Meta [Facebook] to suppress the popular slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

The Guardian notes, “One struggles to find a parallel in terms of a foreign country’s influence over American political debate.”

US-based organizations producing propaganda or lobbying to influence US citizens are required by law to register as foreign agents.

However, none of the groups identified in The Guardian’s report have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

Drafted by Emmanuel Celler, N.Y. Jewish Member of the House of Representatives

“There’s a built-in assumption that there’s nothing at all weird about viewing the US as sort of an open field for Israel to operate in, that there are no limitations,” said Lara Friedman, president of the Foundation for Middle East Peace.”  [According to its website, The Foundation for Middle East Peace was created in 1979 by Merle Thorpe, Jr., a Washington-based lawyer and philanthropist, to promote a just resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ]

COMMENT.  It’s absolutely terrible when the Russian Federation requires alien organizations to register as foreign agents.  But the United States permits enemy associations to control information given to its citizens. This not only includes the organizations listed above, but the long-time, extremist Israeli lobbies, AIPAC (America-Israel Public Affairs Committe) and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), definitely not a civil rights society.

J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat, with postings to Germany, India, and Saudi Arabia. He previously authored, Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked the World: An Insider’s View, recounting how the U.S. created and used Islamic Terrorism. Additionally, he penned Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos?  Merkel’s Migrant Bomb, an analysis of the alien wave sweeping the Continent. He currently practices law in the Washington D.C. Area.  Internationally recognized as a knowledgeable pundit, he is a frequent commentator on Arab, Iranian, and Russian news programs.

Blacklisted by the US news media, he is also on the Ukraine’s “Enemies List”, having questioned, inter alia, that country’s refusal to honor the Minsk Accords and for stating that its government is Nazified.