The international management of public opinion is a major factor in war – particularly when waging a campaign of #Genocide .

What we are witnessing, in increasing levels and on a global scale, is a series of orchestrated diversions and distractions. The cumulative impact is designed to change and divert the focus away from the genocidal slaughter in Gaza, allowing Israel and its allies to bomb, murder and ethnically cleanse without scrutiny.

Home front

The diversion and distraction is being played out at home as well.

Sinn Fein’s self-interest, and its kowtowing to the White House, led it to reject calls for the exclusion of the Israeli ambassador, arguing instead that its contacts on the ground were advising against it. They weren’t.  It was Sinn Fein’s way of ducking their political responsibilities, shifting the focus and diverting attention.

The DUP are publicly criticising the BDS boycott campaign, the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions movement( BDS) which works to end international support for Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and pressure Israel to comply with international law. BDS is very similar to the Anti-Apartheid boycott of South African  goods, and equally as legitimate.

The DUP has now branded BDS as ‘focussed on Jewish people’ and  ‘inherently anti-Semitic’ . Of course, it is not but it allows the DUP to shift the focus away from the genocide in Gaza and present the Israeli government as the victim rather than the perpetrator.

Houthi attacks

Relying on an incredibly compliant and unquestioning international media, the United States the UK, and several other fringe countries, have successfully moved the spotlight away from Palestine to the Red Sea and Yemen.

The airstrikes against Houthi bases in Yemen are dominating headlines at home and abroad. In the past three months Israel has dropped over 29,000 bombs on Gaza killing more than 23,000 Palestinian men , women and children. The Israeli blockade has also restricted supplies of food, fuel and medicine, creating what the United Nations describes as a humanitarian catastrophe.

By comparison, Houthi militias have launched a limited number of attacks on shipping in the Red Sea area. Almost all were intercepted and neutralised. In total they have staged only three major attacks. Although suffering casualties themselves, the Houthi attacks have resulted in no deaths.

Diversion and distraction work. That’s what they are meant to do.

As protests continue, at home and abroad, it is more important than ever that we all keep focussed on Gaza and keep focussed on the Genocide.

Read more about Genocide: https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

Read more about Genocide https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

Israel’s genocidal war against the Palestinians continues. Israel’s assault on
the Gaza Strip has been characterised by widespread and large-scale attacks
on civilian infrastructure as the Israeli state continues to target civilians in their ongoing criminal campaign to eradicate the Palestinian people.

Israeli forces, using prohibited weapons, attack women, children and the elderly, mothers with their newborn babies, extremely ill hospital patients, including patients on dialysis, refugee columns, doctors and medical personnel, journalists and TV crews on assignments, farmers and civilians fleeing their homes in pursuit of safety.

Israel has decimated residential neighbourhoods, hospitals, schools,universities, mosques, churches and cultural and historic relics. It has systematically destroyed facilities for electrical generation, hospital equipment, power and water and sanitation installations, causing widespread humanitarian catastrophe.

The civilian population is deprived of food, water and shelter in a barbaric assault designed to destroy a people and eradicate their rights and culture As the Israeli army continues its genocidal war on Gaza, and as the Israeli occupation forces and settler militias carry out ethnic cleansing in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the people of the world protest and join in solidarity with their Palestinian brothers and sisters. Meanwhile, the US, EU and Britain – together with the other global puppets of the US – repeat weasel words and remain complicit in these war crimes against the Palestinian people.

Permanent Ceasefire
An immediate and permanent ceasefire is necessary. It must be the starting point to address the underlying causes of the problems of the region, including decades of military occupation and a system of oppression against

the Palestinian people that is considered internationally to meet the legal definition of apartheid. The British government must end its complicity in Israel’s crimes, starting by joining the call for the immediate cessation of the killing of civilians. There must be an end to businesses and banks trading and profiting from Israel’s military occupation, illegal settlements and violations of Palestinian rights.

Crimes Against Humanity
The Workers Party demands an immediate permanent ceasefire; an end to the blockade of Gaza; a full investigation into Israel’s war crimes and crimes against humanity; an end to the Israeli occupation and apartheid; recognition of the fundamental rights of the Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality; a guarantee of the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolutions; the release of all Palestinian prisoners held by Israel and the full recognition of an independent sovereign state of Palestine.