On today’s episode of The Editors, National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke reflected on the sheer effectiveness of Hamas’s propaganda in Western media.
“They are aware,” he said, “of the internal political dynamics in the West, and they use them to great effect. They’re not alone in this. China is extremely good at using our internal politics against us.”
Cooke pointed to the recent censorship of an anti-Hamas cartoon at the Washington Post as an example of this in action: “The forces in Gaza are so good at it that when the Washington Post runs cartoons making fun of the means by which the propaganda is achieved . . . the people that they’re trying to manipulate go to the Washington Post editorial board and complain so loudly that the Washington Post takes it down.”
“The propaganda works,” he said. “I think it’s as simple as that. . . . Not only is the propaganda working, but literally a cartoon pointing out the propaganda is removed by the people who are susceptible to the propaganda. You just cannot get more on the nose than that. I cannot help but think of the famous phrase, ‘useful idiots.’”
Cooke drew distinctions between different camps of Israel’s critics, saying, “There’s a very big difference between thinking that Israel’s particular tactics ought to be changed and buying into some of the nonsense that we have seen over the last month.” But he added that “I’m afraid that far too many people who consider themselves to be smart and learned and switched-on have done that.”
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Cooke: Face It, Hamas’s Propaganda Works
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14.11.2023
On today’s episode of The Editors, National Review senior editor Charles C. W. Cooke reflected on the sheer effectiveness of Hamas’s propaganda in Western media.
“They are aware,” he said, “of the internal political dynamics in the West, and they use them to great effect. They’re not alone in this. China is extremely good at using our internal politics against us.”
Cooke pointed to the recent........
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