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Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/21/hamas-attack-october-7-conspiracy-israel/
Growing Oct. 7 "Truther" Groups Deny Hamas Massacre
(Washington Post) Elizabeth Dwoskin - According to Uncensored Truths, a Telegram group with 3,000 subscribers active on foreign policy, Israel was behind the Oct. 7 massacre. The Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack is among the most well-documented in history. A crush of evidence from smartphone cameras and GoPros captured Hamas' deadly onslaught. But a growing group denies the basic facts of the attacks, minimizing the violence or disputing its origins. Some argue the ambush was staged by the Israeli military to justify an invasion of Gaza. Others say the 240 hostages Hamas took into Gaza were actually kidnapped by Israel. Some contend the U.S. is behind the plot. The phenomenon is worrisome to Jewish leaders and researchers who see ties to Holocaust denial, the attempt to undermine the genocide that killed 6 million Jews during World War II. "There's a built-in audience that wants to deny that Jews are the victims of atrocity and furthers the notion that Jews are secretly behind everything," said Joel Finkelstein, chief science officer at the Network Contagion Research Institute, a nonprofit tracking disinformation.