Thread by @marcowenjones

🧵1/10 "The killing of Abu Akleh prompted a flood of disinformation and propaganda from the Israeli state, which has sought to undermine and steer criticism of Israel by casting doubt on who was responsible for her death. " #ShireenAbuAqla english.alaraby.co.uk/analysis/shire…

2/10 "These practices often exploit professional media standards, as well as Western media and political fears of being labelled anti-Semitic. This is no accident but rather the result of a common propaganda playbook, which works as follows." #ShireenAbuAqla

3/10 "First. Have your propaganda ready as soon as possible. When news broke of Shireen’s killing, the Israeli state narrative was already ready, muddying the waters of the event....."

4/10 "Second. Minimise objective or plausible reality by creating false parity and equal probability between two sets of events, despite the presence of journalist eyewitnesses who contradict this..."

5/10 "Third. Discredit Palestinians. Israeli PM Naftali Bennet accused Palestinians of initiating the violence, a tactic designed to reduce their credibility in the eyes of the public by framing them as uncivilised, while at the same time, presenting Israeli forces as civilised."

6/10 "Four. Insert clear falsehoods into the information space. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs posted a video allegedly showing Palestinian gunmen firing relatively blindly into an alley."

7/10 "Fifth. Call for an investigation, but make sure you hold all the cards. By doing this, it gives the illusion of compassion and a regard for truth."

8/10 "In other words, disingenuous calls for investigations are a means of trying to censor outrage by deferring immediate grief to a later date, when it has subsided and is less likely to be politically volatile and harmful to the Israeli state."

9/10 "The killing of Abu Akleh, and subsequent obfuscation of truth, are eerily reminiscent of the killing of Muhammad al-Durrah in 2000.A lesson was clearly learned by Israel. Blame Palestinians first, and attempt to prove it later if you want to keep the media on your side."

10/10 "...After all, a chief success of propaganda in many ways is agonising over the proximate cause of Shireen’s death, i.e. who fired the bullet.

Ultimately, though, it is the root cause - the Israeli occupation - that is responsible." #ShireenAbuAqla english.alaraby.co.uk/analysis/shire…