Relatively few people alive would have experienced the rise of fascism in the early C20 but most people understand the crucial role that manipulation of information played in the ascent to power in what were democratic’ countries. Mussolini evolved from a journalist/publishing background; Goebbels and ‘the big lie’ trope are a frequently quoted feature of the rise of the Nazis.

Italy and Germany were civilised, first-world countries with sophisticated societies. Their economic and strategic conditions were outcomes of WWI; these became fodder for the propaganda that was the baseload power for the rise of the fascist masters.

The Holocaust is indelibly attached to the rise of modern fascism; it is a specific example of Genocide. Executing Genocide demands complicity by a significant force, which requires a mind-set amongst at least the operatives that the victims warrant the action. In a democracy, a majority of citizens must accept the proffered reasons.

Genocide by purported democracies requires the majority of the electoral body to suspend any humane inhibitions and become sociopaths. Today, while the channels of information can differ from those of 100 years ago, it is information/misinformation that is the preeminent driver of opinion in societies.

Exhibit A: The address recently by Dr. Gabor Mate to an Israeli audience, a definitive, concise and passionate expose of just how effective misinformation and the shaping of ‘the story’ is in creating the prosecution of genocide. He is but one of the very many rational people of Jewish ethnicity who try to counter the mass support of the (international) Zionist genocidal machine.

The schism between ‘progressive’ Jews everywhere and the Zionist machine worldwide must be pervasively highlighted if we are ever to see progress in stopping Zionist imperialism and genocidal activity.

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