Friday, May 10, 2019

The Cleverest Kind of Lie: Accusing Israel of Future Crimes

by Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: One tool of verbal demonization that is extremely difficult for Israel to combat is accusations of crimes it supposedly will commit in the future. These are far more difficult to contest than outright lies about current events. An example of this kind of manipulative lie is a remark in an interview by the outgoing French ambassador to the US, Gérard Araud, in which he said that Israel will officially be an apartheid state in the future.

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