It's called "Atrocity Propaganda" and it is used by colonisers in every conflict they provoke to portray themselves as victims and justify their subsequent aggression.

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David Hundeyin

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It's called "Atrocity Propaganda" and it is used by colonisers in every conflict they provoke to portray themselves as victims and justify their subsequent aggression. Same thing was done in 1991 when the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US was coached to testify before US Congress that Saddam's guards took babies out of incubators and killed them with bayonets. Then the whole story was later retracted quietly. Same thing was done in 2011 when western media began reporting that Gadaffi was a rapist who kidnapped young girls off the street and their parents never saw them again, and that he distributed Viagra to his armies of black mercenaries from Sub Saharan Africa so they could rape Libyans as punishment for rising against him. Same thing was done a few weeks ago when western media uniformly began reporting that "Iran killed 30,000 protesters". That too is being quietly retracted. Whoever repeats these lies is not doing so out of ignorance, because this has happened so many times.

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Mar 23

The defence editor at @TheEconomist admits the 'beheaded babies' story he promoted, and which was widely used to justify Israel's atrocities against Palestine, was fraudulent. Are our journalist class just credulous little babies, or do they lie to order for Israel? #ItWasAScam

10:45 PM · Mar 23, 2026

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