Grant Arthur Gochin

Israel’s Betrayal by Global Lies

(Courtesy of author)
(Courtesy of author)

In an era where truth perishes first in the crucible of ideological warfare, Pallywood—Palestinian staging of fake injuries, deaths, and atrocities to demonize Israel—alongside the UN, NGOs, and authoritative bodies unleashes a relentless torrent of lies against Israel, demanding furious outrage. These calculated deceptions are intended to delegitimize Israel, ignite global hatred, and erode legitimate and civilized discourse.

Staged videos and genocide smears recycle discredited narratives without consequence; once exposed as frauds, the sources should lose all credibility forever, yet these liars pivot and spew venom anew, without shame. Their masks must be ripped away, and they must be held accountable for the bloodshed fueled by their mendacity.

This media assault constitutes the 8th front in the global war on Jews, battling for truth amid seven physical arenas: Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, West Bank, Syria, Iraq, and Iran—now joined by Türkiye’s severance of ties on August 29, 2025, as declared by Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan. Betrayal extends to proxies like South Africa, whose actions expose deep integration with Iran’s anti-Israel agenda.

Pallywood’s Fabrication Factory: Staging Victimhood to Incite Hate

At the heart of Pallywood lies the staging of phony scenes portraying Israel as a monstrous entity, a deadly tactic designed to fabricate victimhood and spark anti-Jewish violence. Notable examples include Hamas falsely blaming Israel for the Al-Ahli Hospital blast—a misfired Islamic Jihad rocket—exploiting media lags to spread lies.

AP and CNN amplify these falsehoods by parroting Hamas, inflating casualty figures while ignoring terrorism, a bias rooted in antisemitism that has consistently endangered Jews. As a singular example, a recent Facebook video provides visual evidence of Pallywood staging, showing actors simulating child injuries with props, further exposing this manipulative tactic to a global audience.

The world media eagerly consumed and inflated the lies of Green Beret Anthony Aguilar, a former US soldier who claimed to witness Israeli Defense Forces shooting at starving Palestinian crowds at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation aid hubs. His July 25, 2025, BBC interview alleging “brutality and indiscriminate force” against an “unarmed, starving population” was repeated ad nauseam by outlets like the Guardian and Al Jazeera, despite the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and IDF labeling his claims “categorically false” and citing his termination for misconduct. This fabricated narrative, amplified without scrutiny, morphed into de facto truth, amplifying the demonization of Israel and showcasing media’s willingness to prioritize sensationalism over fact-checking.

Photos of children with genetic disorders have been cynically repurposed by anti-Israel activists and media like Reuters and BBC to portray Israel as starving Gaza’s population. These images, stripped of medical context and circulated widely, exploit viewers’ emotions, turning a medical tragedy into a propaganda tool.

These fabrications thrive as global audiences crave anti-Israel sensationalism over factual reporting, weaponizing manipulation with devastating effect. The Palestinian “lie industry” persistently twists narratives, suppressing the truth. Discredited hoaxes demand permanent banishment, but the perpetrators resurface unaccountably. Today, almost the only reason to check mainstream news is to discern the precise ways people are being deceived.

UN: Laundering Lies, Masking Bias

The UN has become a conduit for laundering anti-Israel disinformation, violating its neutrality by endorsing biased Palestinian claims of Gaza famine and genocide—tactics reminiscent of the “big lie” strategy that fuels antisemitism.

In Melanie Phillips’ piece “The Indestructible Myth of Famine in Gaza,” she condemns the blind acceptance of the UN’s genocidal portrayal, arguing it ignores reality. The call to “Dismantle the United Nations” insists that such distortions necessitate a complete overhaul or dissolution.

Western governments recycle these UN-Hamas narratives, vilifying Israelis. Retracted reports and biased sourcing have permanently discredited the UN, yet it persists unabated in its deceitful campaign.

The UN’s declaration of a “man-made famine” in Gaza belies a deeper struggle for narrative control and aid dominance. In May 2024, Israel and the US launched the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) as an alternative to UNRWA, but the UN denounced it as “fake,” refusing cooperation and leaving food trucks stranded. The IPC, meanwhile, tweaked its famine criteria, adopting a MUAC shortcut and halving the child malnutrition threshold from 30% to 15%, a move that eases declarations amid restricted access and which critics attribute to political motives. Recent analysis by Israel’s Foreign Ministry exposes IPC falsifications, including 182 fabricated “virtual deaths,” misuse of prohibited MUAC data, cherry-picking from 7,519 of 15,749 surveyed children, and burying surveys showing no famine—proof of a deliberate agenda to demonize Israel. UN’s Tom Fletcher falsely claimed 14,000 child deaths in days, retracting the statement after 2.5 million views, though the damage was irreversible. This is a constant strategy to place lies into the public domain and generate hate and outrage against Israel. Facts be damned!

NGOs: Human Rights Weapons for Lawfare, BDS

European-funded NGOs amplify fabrications to fuel the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International propagate debunked claims deliberately overlooking rocket attacks and terrorism. Since October 7, they have inverted reality, accusing Israel of genocide to deflect from Hamas atrocities, while organizations like Defense for Children International spread known falsehoods online.

These NGOs weaponize rhetoric for International Criminal Court (ICC) lawfare, slapping apartheid labels via staged incidents and centralizing BDS with “collective punishment” lies, all funded by the EU and private foundations while omitting Israel’s right to self-defense. Phillips condemns this “unprecedented lie campaign demonizing Israel,” urging a robust counter-narrative.

ICC’s Khan: Biased Prosecutor with Personal Vendetta

The ICC feigns impartiality but succumbs to bias under Prosecutor Karim Khan, from a Muslim family with Islamic ties, who is accused of anti-Israel animus. Between May and November 2024, Khan issued warrants against Israeli leaders for Gaza “crimes,” a move reeking of prejudice, compounded by sexual misconduct claims where he invoked “Palestinian warrants” to silence accusers. His British-Pakistani background fuels suspicions of bias. By prioritizing anti-Israel narratives, he has shredded the ICC’s credibility.

South Africa-Iran Axis: Corruption-Fueled Betrayal

South Africa, steeped in epic corruption with bribery, embezzlement, and state capture by syndicates, sees its leadership loot billions amid crumbling infrastructure, poverty, and rampant crime, positioning it as a proxy for Iran in its assault on Israel. Ties deepen through military, nuclear, and economic channels, including refinery deals and fuel supply agreements. The US has raised alarms over Iran bribing South Africa for the ICJ genocide suit, with probes hinting at a $400 million payoff.

Evidence suggests South Africa had prior knowledge of the October 7 attacks through Hamas-Iran collaboration, hosting delegations beforehand. The term “genocide” was floated in discourse before October 7; South Africa filed with the ICJ on December 29, 2023—post-initial response, pre-full invasion—twisting facts and redefining terms under Iran’s influence. A BizNews article exposes this case as a total fraud, revealing it rests on fabricated evidence and unverified Hamas data, with South Africa’s legal team admitting reliance on “plausible narratives” rather than concrete proof. The article highlights how the case, built on sanctioned grounds and ignoring Israel’s self-defense, collapses under scrutiny, yet proceeds due to political pressure from Iran.

South Africa accepted Iran’s funds and instructions, engaging in military talks and tech transfers that defy the US. Both nations share an anti-USA stance. This alliance fuels the 8th front’s disinformation campaign.

ANC terror ties prompted the US to expel the South African Ambassador, LA Consul-General, and military attaché, rejecting a Special Envoy. The South Africa-Iran partnership, marked by joint terrorism and antisemitism, establishes them as rogue foes of the USA. Given the ANC Government’s repeated lies and fraud, the automatic default assumption must be deceit unless proven otherwise.

Scotland and Colonized Virtue-Signaling: A Cover for Chaos

Scotland’s recent anti-Israel posturing, exemplified by First Minister John Swinney’s display of a Palestinian flag and ban on arms firms supplying Israel on September 3, 2025, reeks of hypocritical virtue-signaling by a colonized entity desperate to deflect from its own rot. Similarly, nations like Ireland, with their own colonial histories, follow suit, weaponizing past oppression to attack Israel.

Countries recognizing Palestine and wielding the term “genocide” bear a profound responsibility to rescue those they define as victims. It is incumbent upon them to resettle every Palestinian “victim” on their own territory, yet they shirk this duty, exposing their posturing as a sham. This is a shameless cover-up, sacrificing Israel to polish their tarnished national images amid internal decay.

Twisted Sources: Wikipedia’s Distortion

Public information is increasingly corrupted, with Wikipedia at the forefront—House probes have uncovered foreign and US funds financing anti-Israel edits injecting antisemitism and misinformation. Bandler reveals editor groups coordinating bias, violating neutrality and turning the platform into a propaganda tool. Hostile actors distort content, and the foundation fails to override these manipulations, as an editor has admitted. Phillips argues that media lies equate Israeli defense with aggression, driven by a post-colonial lens. Haaretz caters to Jew-haters with “Israeli” libels, a point echoed by Uri Kurlianchik in an X post stating, “Reminder Haaretz exists for one purpose only: so that Jew-haters would have an ‘Israeli’ source to cite while spreading their libels,” while +972 Magazine mirrors this self-hating bias, validating lies from Israeli fringes.

Academic Eurocentrism filters histories through European expansion, misreading the Jewish return as colonial and erasing the Middle Eastern longue durée, invisibilizing Arab colonialism.

The “As a Jew” Betrayers: Weaponizing Identity Against Israel

Compounding this betrayal are the so-called “As a Jew” Jews, and “As a Rabbi” Rabbis—self-hating or anti-Zionist figures who echo every lie against Israel, leveraging their Jewish identity as a shield to amplify credibility and pathologize dissent within the community. They often dismiss Zionism as colonial or apartheid, proudly proclaiming shame in their heritage to criticize Israeli policies, positioning themselves as moral superiors while fueling antisemitic tropes through puritan self-flagellation and virtue signaling. Far from genuine self-criticism, this tactic—rooted in post-WWII identity politics—serves to delegitimize Israel, masking deeper self-hatred or assimilationist fears that ultimately harm Jewish unity and safety. These self-corrupting enemies within, driven by profit, self-aggrandizement, or the lure of a few clicks, sell out other Jews with reckless abandon, as seen in figures like those contributing to Haaretz or +972 Magazine, who trade integrity for fleeting relevance or financial gain, further fracturing the community from within.

Screenshot of X post – republished with permission of author.

Redefining to Convict: Genocide, Starvation Twisted

Language is assaulted as “genocide” and “starvation” are warped to target Israel, where truth proves insufficient. The UN labels Gaza warfare “consistent with genocide,” reinterpreting casualties and aid as extermination while ignoring Hamas’s role in shortages. Human Rights Watch claims “extermination/genocide” via starvation, disregarding deliveries, while Amnesty amends thresholds to fit the “starvation for genocide” narrative.

The lies collapse, yet the discredited press persists. Antizionist libel presumes guilt, demanding Jews disprove it—rejecting falsification and ignoring alternatives like Hamas’s mass martyrdom ideology. Genocide requires excluding other motives, but Hamas’s ideology of genocide, dehumanization, and mass martyrdom shifts the blame. Accusing Israel—forced into war after defensive conflicts since the 1948 UN sovereignty vote—of genocide is Streicherian, Goebbelsian libel. No tiny, resource-poor nation, facing terrorist and neighboring military might (FSU, Iran), has fought so hard to exist. Israel warns civilians, feeds them despite their support for corrupt leaders—yet faces excoriation, not praise. Unlike its neighbors, it shuns “pay to slay” programs, treats prisoners humanely (e.g., Yahya Sinwar’s tumor surgery pre-2011 Shalit exchange), and avoids raping or starving hostages—yet the lies amplify and endure.

IAGS Scandal: Lawfare and Coordinated Campaign

The IAGS (International Association of Genocide Scholars) scandal reveals a coordinated lawfare campaign, with members funded by Iran proxies to push anti-Israel resolutions, targeting ICC cases and BDS, amplifying the 8th front.

End the Cycle: No Impunity for Liars

Enough is enough—tear down the edifice of deceit, seize back the narrative, and let unassailable truth reign supreme. We stand at the epicenter of a global pogrom, a sinister transnational resurgence of antisemitism masquerading as righteous justice, twisting historical hatreds into a sanctimonious moral crusade. George Orwell’s most dystopian imagination pales before the orchestrated media war against Israel, a masterclass in manipulation where every lie is polished into propaganda, every distortion weaponized to vilify, and every shred of truth buried beneath a deluge of orchestrated falsehoods.

About the Author
Grant Arthur Gochin is a diplomat, journalist, and wealth advisor focused on historical accountability, Jewish continuity, and recognition doctrine. He serves as Honorary Consul for the Republic of Togo and is the Emeritus Special Envoy for Diaspora Affairs of the African Union, representing all fifty-five AU member states. He is also Emeritus Dean of the Los Angeles Consular Corps. Gochin is Advisor on Recognition Doctrine and Sovereignty to the Mthwakazi Republic Party, Office of the President, providing advisory guidance on international recognition, sovereignty theory, and comparative precedent relating to remedial self-determination. His philanthropic work in Togo led to his investiture as Chief of the Village of Babade. Over several decades, Gochin has documented and restored Jewish heritage in Lithuania, including leading the Maceva Project, which mapped and preserved dozens of abandoned and desecrated Jewish cemeteries. His work exposed state-sponsored Holocaust revisionism and contributed to international recognition of systematic manipulation of historical memory. Gochin is the author of *Malice, Murder and Manipulation* (2013), which traces the destruction of his family in Lithuania and examines postwar historical distortion. A consistent advocate against antisemitism, antizionism, and other forms of bigotry, he writes and speaks internationally on the political uses of history and the necessity of historical integrity for Jewish survival. His journalism confronts governmental misinformation and disinformation campaigns and maintains a firm position on Israel’s legitimacy and security grounded in historical evidence and collective survival. Professionally, Gochin is a Certified Financial Planner™ and wealth advisor based in California. He holds an MBA earned with academic distinction and leads Grant Arthur & Associates Wealth Services. He lives in Los Angeles with his husband, son, and dog, Kelev. https://www.grantgochin.com
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