The Israeli foreign ministry recently created a webpage to smear Amnesty International, the UK-based human rights group that last week issued a damning report titled “Israel’s apartheid against Palestinians: a cruel system of domination and a crime against humanity”.
The page, which sits on an official Israeli government URL and includes the foreign ministry’s branding, is a repository of links to media articles that accuse Amnesty of smearing Israel. It appears to be a hastily created attempt to sway international audiences and dampen the impact of Amnesty’s report. It is at the very least propaganda, and at worst disinformation.
Promoted via Google Ads and appearing at the top of search results when searching for Amnesty International, the page calls Amnesty a “radical organisation” whose report “ticks all the boxes of the definition of modern antisemitism against the State of Israel”.
Accusing anyone who criticises Israel of being antisemitic is a classic propaganda technique, one designed to induce guilt and to silence those calling out Israeli human rights
— source middleeasteye.net | Marc Owen Jones | 10 Feb 2022