Israeli Apartheid Week

Israeli Apartheid Week and hasbara rejoinders

by: shergald

Fri Mar 06, 2009 at 20:21

Thanks to Phillip Weiss of Mondoweiss for drawing attention to the following contrasting videos about Israeli Apartheid Week and the many educational videos that are being used to defend Israel's actions not only in Gaza, but over the past 60 years. Hasbara means "explanation," but when used in most critical settings, "propaganda" is its intended meaning.

There is even a site, Hasbara-Org, where one can go to obtain "explanations" from the Israeli side of the universe. For example, the settlement building that has been going on in the West Bank and East Jerusalem for 40 years, is not what we think it is. But first, the Palestinian view.

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