Disinformation on epic scale needs exposure by BBC disinformation correspondent

It appears, somewhat ironically, that the BBC has a specialist disinformation correspondent. And if you don’t understand why that’s ironic you’ve a lot of catching up to do on the BBC’s complicity in disseminating Palestinian disinformation. Start by reading some of my earlier blogs.

Anyhow, she is called Marianna Spring, she is 29-years-old, and according to Wikipedia, she is the BBC’s “first specialist disinformation and social media reporter” whose appointment in 2020 followed the “establishment of similar roles at American news organisations such as CNN and NBC.”

So, I would like to challenge Ms Spring, the BBC’s first specialist disinformation correspondent to produce a segment for her employer, BBC News on Palestinian disinformation. Perhaps also an episode of her Podcast, “Marianna in Conspiracyland.”

This idea came to me after I watched the most recent video produced by “Oren the Tour guide”  who posts his fact-packed videos on Facebook and other social media platforms, as “Traveling Israel.”

His latest video is a detailed exposé of how Palestinian propagandists have been practising deception on an epic scale for years to hijack the narrative and make Israelis seem like child-killers when the deaths of children in Gaza is tragic but collateral – unlike the deliberate murder of Israeli babies and children on Oct 7 (and the murder of the Bibas babies while captive in Gaza).

So how does Hamas wriggle free of the wholly justified charge of baby-killers, while Israel has been tried and found guilty of the wholly erroneous charge in the court of Public Opinion?

Oren has the answer. He reveals with carefully-researched, forensic detail how fake videos are produced using AI. He also shows how, far more egregiously, images of starving children from Syria or Yemen have been misappropriated to make false claim that children in Gaza are dying of hunger. Or they use pictures of children with cancer or genetic diseases from Gaza to claim that these children have been injured or harmed by Israeli operations. As Oren says, it is tragic that children are suffering, but to claim Israel is responsible is a deliberate lie and an outrageous calumny that inflames Jew-hate.

These are not wild assertion from an angry Jew/Israeli that the BBC – or, indeed, anyone – can dismiss as “Jewish paranoia.”  This video reveals the deceptions by Palestinian propagandists designed to calculatedly and deliberately manipulate negative emotions towards Israel and to incite hatred towards Israel and Jews. It is a serious, well-researched  video-document that exposes the techniques by which Palestinian propagandists have been spreading disinformation on a terrifying scale since the first moment  Israel began defending itself from annihilation following the Oct 7 slaughter. As Oren says in another of his videos, he likes facts and uses them prolifically. “If you don’t like what I’m sayin, bring me facts to contradict my facts,” he says.

It seems to me, therefore, that this is a perfect topic for a piece by a “disinformation correspondent” at the BBC – and perhaps also by those at CNN, NBC and elsewhere. The millions of viewers and listeners to these news organisations deserve to be told that they have been duped and deceived on an epic scale. They deserve to be told that although Palestinians deserve sympathy, it is not because of their treatment by Israel, but because of how they have been used, exploited and radicalised over the decades by various puppet-masters and pay-masters pursuing their own geo-political or theo-political objectives.

Also, as the Jewish communities of the UK, US, Canada and many more nations, have suffered the fall-out from this widespread fakery and deception, the news organisations owe it to them to broadcast an itemt revealing the scale of the disinformation.

I even have some suggestions for a news-reader’s script: Big smile, shuffle papers; “And now,” they will say, “we go over to our disinformation correspondent for a chilling report that looks at how we have all been fooled by Palestinian duplicity and fakery, and how this has led to a surge in anti-Israelism and a rise in Jew-hate.”

Too much?