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Source: https://www.jns.org/yes-the-whole-world-is-wrong-about-israel/
Yes, the Whole World Is Wrong about Israel
(JNS) Jonathan S. Tobin - The accumulated weight of nearly two years of media stories claiming that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza has had an impact on public opinion across the globe, as well as in the U.S. If you've grown up believing that what you've read in the New York Times or watched on CNN is true, then why question the assumptions about what's been happening in the conflict that are treated as accepted facts in those outlets. Even if you are willing to question individual stories that are largely the product of Hamas propaganda and spread by so-called journalists working in territory controlled by those Islamist terrorists, the sheer volume of reporting that bolsters these claims has established a baseline concerning assumptions about the war. The correlation between the shocking rise in hate crimes committed against Jews and the adoption by corporate media of these anti-Israel narratives is patently obvious. It may take more courage than many individuals possess to correctly identify the corporate media's conventional wisdom about Israel as blood libels that have led to the mainstreaming of antisemitism. Nevertheless, we must remind ourselves and others that just because what seems like the whole world is ready to buy into a lie, that doesn't make falsehoods true. The world is lying about Israel - and those who defend it are not.