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by aaomidi 317 days ago
Anti Israel protests are the best opportunity for agent provocateurs.

Something we have evidence of Israel actually doing:

1. https://mondoweiss.net/2012/05/operation-glass-houses-idf-ag...

2. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/4/10/mustaribeen-israels...

Israel is probably the “strongest” nation in figuring out propaganda and mass disinformation campaigns. It is extremely easy to say an entire protest is invalid because of the actions of a few either legitimate or illegitimate protestors.

This is why this tactic is so easily deployed across any protest that seriously threatens states. We saw the US use this tactic in BLM protests of 2020.

Anyway these protests are legitimate despite the events that you’re mentioning happening. “Fed posting” is a thing people are slowly learning to spot.

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> “Fed posting” is a thing people are slowly learning to spot.

Are you accusing me? I waited patiently for years building a profile here, for this one moment, to derail this comment, yay!

> Anyway these protests are legitimate despite the events that you’re mentioning happening

And so is the violence I linked to. If you have ANY proof whatsoever that the lecture hall and the Jewish student were actually attacked by Jewish saboteurs - despite the identity of the people involved known - please post it.

Otherwise you are the one doing the shitposting here.

> Something we have evidence of Israel actually doing:

So now you can just tell everybody to ignore any and all events that don't fit your narrative? How convenient!

And by the way, those "protests" would gain a lot of credibility if they were also targeted against Hamas.

> Are you accusing me?

Not at all. I’m saying that it’s useless to measure a protest based off of an action of one or two individuals. Which is always just one or two individuals.

> Israel is probably the “strongest” nation in figuring out propaganda and mass disinformation campaigns.

Then you are vastly underestimating what CIA and FSB are capable of.

Or Meta, but they don't count as a state actor (yet).