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"Israel's place in 'global public space.'"

"Israel's place in 'global public space.'"

The Zionist state, like the U.S., can't survive in it.

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‘Hague Schmague.’ Ben–Givr making a subtle point. (Global Bridge.)

10 FEBRUARY—At writing, it emerges that Israeli propagandists spun of whole cloth the tales that Hamas militias engaged in “systematic” rape and sexual violence when they breached the border between Gaza and southern Israel four months ago this week. Many of these accounts were preposterously implausible, but never mind: Many Western media reported on Hamas’s “weaponization” of sexual violence. The phenomenon now gets its own acronym. Those who accept this stuff as credible now take to calling it CRSV, conflict-related sexual violence.

It is enough to put you off acronyms altogether.

There have been powerful, persuasive exposés of this assembly line—Israeli propaganda productions to Western correspondents to the eyes, ears, and minds of their readers and viewers. Here I should single out the work of Mondoweiss, which covers developments in Israel and Palestine, and The Grayzone, which covers Israel, Palestine, and a great deal more. Let us rotate this phenomenon such that we see it from another perspective. Let us then ask, to what extent does Israel pollute what I will call global public space in the cause of its survival? Follow-on question: Can Israel survive in global public space?

The International Court of Justice’s recent ruling on genocide in Gaza is a usefully revealing place to begin seeking our answers.

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