One of the most depressing facts I have had to come to terms with is that even obvious propaganda campaigns work as long as you can keep the chanting going.
All you need to do is hijack trusted institutions, keep repeating whatever falsehood you like, and vast numbers of people will over time believe that the most insane things are common sense.
It worked during COVID, and there are still vast numbers of people who have yet to be deprogrammed. And it has worked during the Israel/Gaza war.
In the space of about two years, the left managed to convince people that the Hamas terrorists who committed horrific atrocities on innocent concertgoers and peace activists were the good guys, despite all the video evidence and the fact that they held hostages, including children, for well over a year.
All it took was some obviously fake videos, staged photo ops, UN propaganda, and enough liberals to hop on the bandwagon, and suddenly a good chunk of the Western world is rooting for evil.
Just as troubling, as the dust settles from the chaos of war and all the evidence that the propaganda campaign was built on lies, the power of the propaganda hasn't diminished. Reality doesn't matter.
Who’s sending their kids to Hamas Camp for the summer? These parents are. Child abuse. pic.twitter.com/askEgRSRjc
— Buzz Patterson (@BuzzPatterson) July 10, 2026
The "genocide" and "famine" myths were among the most damaging, and anybody who bothered to look into the claims had ample evidence they were false. But aid organizations and the United Nations backed the claims up for a long time, and are finally being forced to admit that perhaps it was Hamas who was at fault.
When we warned about aid diversion, anti-Israel fanatics cried “but the UN says it's not the case”, and “Israel is starving Gaza”.
— Ambassador Yechiel (Michael) Leiter (@yechielleiter) July 14, 2026
Now, the @UN admits to what we've all known for so long — Hamas is obstructing aid distribution. They are literally stealing food from the people… https://t.co/DTjMGqL5s0
The UNRWA has suspended 100 employees for directly participating in the October 7th massacres, and thousands more are associated with Hamas. Yet we are still told that the organization is great and totally reliable.
The UN runs most of the schools in Gaza, and those schools train children to become terrorists and soldiers, which they in fact do.
Evidence that Hamas uses child soldiers has been around for decades, yet every statistic that shows a teenager who died is considered proof that Israel is targeting children.
Be honest, who knew that Hamas summer camps in the Gaza Strip for 13-17 year olds was about using real AK47s with real bullets and real military training, to attack Israelis?
— James J. Marlow (@James_J_Marlow) July 2, 2026
Who knew, besides UNRWA? pic.twitter.com/Ptbe3zDIMN
Gaza hospitals were terrorist havens. Hospitals were held there. Hamas commanders worked in the hospitals, and doctors who have become rock stars for the global left are now being revealed to be top Hamas commanders.
Gaza 'doctor' who slammed Israel in NY Times op-eds is in fact Hamas colonel https://t.co/VO1dAzTfGr
— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) July 11, 2026
It was never hard to find these things out. The reason most people don't know that is that the media and many Hamas sympathizers in NGOs find it useful to turn monsters into martyrs for the cause.
In fact, it's Hamas itself that is exposing the lies. Now that the war is basically over, it is publishing eulogies to its "martyrs," and many of the people that Western institutions and the media have lionized are celebrated by Hamas as top leaders who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Claim: Israel targeted Gaza’s healthcare workers
— Aizenberg (@Aizenberg55) July 12, 2026
Reality: Hamas & PIJ confirm that dozens of healthcare workers at its medical facilities were military commanders
24 examples below, many more to add to this thread https://t.co/YwHYz3Bzz8
Lots of honest people pointed out the facts, and I suspect that most of the authorities who told us that Israel was committing atrocities knew exactly what they were doing.
Any claim otherwise is crap. It's as credible as Ro Khanna claiming there were no signs that Graham Platner was a bad guy, or media folks acting shocked that Joe Biden was well into the dementia phase of life.
They knew. They just lied about it.
"I saw with my own eyes that the hospitals were used to hide Hamas leaders....We saw and even spoke with them."
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) July 10, 2026
That's what a Kurdish doctor said after volunteering at the Kamal Adwan Military Medical Complex run by Hamas colonel Hussam Abu Safiya in 2024pic.twitter.com/GHHYntnAEp
There is a massive campaign to get Israel to release a top Hamas commander who happens to have been a doctor. He has become a cause célèbre. The goal is to make Israel look horrible by appropriating the respect we have for doctors and turning it into a weapon. If you spend any time on X you will see constant posts about how he is being starved to death, is illegally detained, and that this is yet another example of how evil Israel is.
.@BrianCox_RLTW BELOW
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) July 9, 2026
Dr Hussam Abu Safiya is being held by Israel effectively as a hostage in breach of Geneva Convention because
1. He’s a doctor
2. He was taken against his will
3. He’s not been charged
4. He has no effective legal rights
Furthermore he’s been tortured https://t.co/Af2t40jQlm
He's a Hamas Colonel. A top figure in the organization, and one of the key figures who made it possible to turn hospitals into centers of Hamas terrorism planning.
Everybody knows, but the propaganda works on the unwary.
The New York Times buried it deep, but even they admitted that Hamas is using hospitals and schools in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/qjQoqbY5FY
— Eyal Yakoby (@EYakoby) July 14, 2026
The propaganda works because our most trusted institutions help it to.
If you follow the facts and not just the news, a flood of information is bubbling out—mostly due to Hamas' bragging—vindicating Israel's claims.
Unfortunately, most people will never see or hear about it.
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