DECEIVED AUSTRALIANS MARCHING FOR HAMAS

This article is the best account I have read, of the insanity surrounding the “palestinian” hysteria. Thanks again to Kelleigh Nelson for sourcing this information. Australians seem to have abandoned logic and common sense, falling for a professionally choreographed fake news story about a fake “nation”. My monkey mind despairs for mankind, which is clearly “devolving” – instead of allegedly “evolving”. You can read the biographies of the authors by clicking on their names at the top of the article.

Gibber! Gibber!

Chugley

A brief summary of the contents:

Kelleigh Nelson

• On April 9, 2024, Tucker Carlson released an interview with Pastor Munther Isaac of the Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church with the supposed aim of answering the question, “How does the government of Israel treat Christians?” While a characteristically dead-eyed Carlson listened quietly and uncritically, Isaac proceeded to blame Israel, without any evidence, for a grim litany of Christian sufferings, when nearly all of those indignities are the fault of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority—which controls his native Bethlehem. What Carlson the “truth” man—let alone the “conservative”—never told his audience is that Isaac is actually an avowed Marxist who used a sermon at holy communion on October 8, 2023, to praise Hamas’s massacre of the previous day. His church even created a vile Christmas nativity scene depicting the baby Jesus draped in a terrorist kufiyah scarf amidst pieces of concrete rubble (the late Pope Francis unveiling and venerating a similar crèche at the Vatican a year later). As the Reverend Johnnie Moore of the Congress of Christian Leaders summed up Isaac, he “has long been the high priest of antisemitic Christianity,” a fact hardly surprising given Martin Luther’s own luridly anti-Semitic legacy. With all reasonable doubt washed away, Carlson’s actions caused Elie Mischel of Israel365 to conclude that “Tucker Carlson is officially an antisemite.”

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Subliminal Blood Libels: The Hamas Campaign to Destroy Christian Zionism

Ben Poser

Timothy L. Jackson, Ph.D.

August 18, 2025

Since Israel’s latest war began, Hamas and the global forces of anti-Semitism have engaged in a three-pronged propaganda campaign to cripple the Jews and Israel: (1) fool gullible leftists into supporting the victims of “genocide”; (2) rally Muslims throughout the West to terrorize Jews while pressuring supine governments; and (3) encourage Christians to withdraw their support for Zionism.

While many secularists have long ago discarded any sympathy for Jews or Israel—partly thanks to disinformation from the KGB in the last century and from the legacy media today—Hamas’s propagandists and their allies at The New York Times are well aware that the last major bastion of Western philo-Semitism is Christian Zionism. Therefore, they have embarked on a campaign to convince Christians that the Jews are the aggressors—even the persecutors of Christians themselves—in the cause of breaking the Christian-Jewish alliance.

In order to accomplish this rupture, Hamas propagandists and their mainstream media messengers have weaponized historical Christian prejudices, iconographic motifs, and sensitivities, some nearly 2,000-years-old. With many Western Christians on high alert against leftist assaults on their faith, especially since 2020, there has never been a more opportune time for Hamas-affiliated anti-Semites to plant seeds of doubt about Christian sympathy for Jews. And the enemies of Jews and Israel have had decades of practice, and success, on which to bank.

Pallywood

Nearly 25 years ago, arguably the most famous child on the planet was Muhammad al-Durah, a 12-year-old Palestinian boy reportedly shot to death by a hail of Israeli bullets in a cross-street gun battle on September 30, 2000. The riveting video, narrated by Charles Enderlin of France2, depicted a firefight near Netzarim Junction in Gaza, culminating in the child’s death, huddled behind his father Jamal. “Here Jamal and his son Muhammad are targets of gunfire from the Israeli position,” narrated Enderlin. “Muhammad is dead, and his father grievously wounded.”

The result was a rabid, international wildfire of anti-Semitism, producing some of the first riots in which “Death to the Jews!” could be heard shouted in the streets of post-war Europe—all with Muhammad al-Durah as their sacrilegious saint. Only 12 days after the incident, two Israeli reservists who had accidentally wandered into Ramallah were brutally lynched and ripped into pieces to chants of “Revenge for the blood of Muhammad al-Durah!” Usamah bin Laden even produced a recruiting video calling Muslims worldwide to jihad on behalf of the boy who “died at the hands of the Jews.”

Only later was it revealed that the video of Muhammad and his father, indeed much of the footage shot that day, was fake. Meticulous analysis of the raw tapes showed instance after instance of men spontaneously falling down “wounded” and then being hurled into waiting ambulances; likely uninjured youths dripping in fake blood; nonchalant bystanders watching the action—even a “dead” man lying in the gutter talking on his cellphone—just yards from where Muhammad was “killed.”

Historian Richard Landes, then a professor of medieval history at Boston University, coined the term “Pallywood” as a result of his groundbreaking investigations. His 2005 short film Muhammad al-Durah: Birth of an Icon makes clear what was again confirmed years later in a French court: that the tape not included in the France2 broadcast was indeed staged and showed a living child pretending to be dead. Landes later called the contrived image “the first blood(less) libel of the 21st century.”

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“Israel is losing me”

The al-Durah hoax was probably the most successful single piece of international war-time disinformation in history; but, outside the Muslim world and its immigrant enclaves abroad, especially in Europe, it mostly evoked anti-Jewish hatred from Western socialists keen on erasing generational shame over the Holocaust by replacing the Nazis with the Jews. It did not engender comparable Christian fury, and American Christian Zionism largely held steady throughout the first decade of the new century.

This war, however—the longest in Israel’s history, and with Arab Christian communities constantly in danger from Hamas using them as human shields during Israeli incursions—has proven different. On multiple occasions, Hamas operating in areas of Gaza containing churches has resulted in structural damage and the accidental deaths of Christian bystanders, beckoning medieval blood libel archetypes back into the open.

Never mentioned is the fact that the Arab Christian population of Hamas- and Palestinian Authority-ruled areas has shrunk by at least 80% from a century ago, and that Israel’s Christian population is steadily growing. The shock of Israelis (Jews) accidentally harming churches or killing Christians under any circumstances, let alone Christian suffering in the region of any kind, is the headline—and Christians notice. Just a few of many disturbing examples are sufficient:

• On October 19, 2023, a number of Christians were killed in an Israeli air strike on a building near the Greek Orthodox Church of Saint Porphyrius in Gaza. The church courtyard was a known site of past Hamas rocket-launching and Hamas was using a nearby building as a base, but some local Christians—including young family members of former congressman Justin Amash, an anti-Israel Palestinian Christian—died. In response, Christian anti-Semites with large social media followings like Jackson Hinkle, Candace Owens, and Lauren Witzke—even well-known conservatives like Charlie Kirk—expressed horror that Israel had “targeted,” even “destroyed,” the church. And many condemnatory posts were made days after it was revealed that the Israeli Air Force had not “targeted,” let alone “destroyed,” the church but had missed its mark slightly, damaging a nearby assembly hall within the church compound in which Christians had sheltered.

• On April 9, 2024, Tucker Carlson released an interview with Pastor Munther Isaac of the Bethlehem Evangelical Lutheran Christmas Church with the supposed aim of answering the question, “How does the government of Israel treat Christians?” While a characteristically dead-eyed Carlson listened quietly and uncritically, Isaac proceeded to blame Israel, without any evidence, for a grim litany of Christian sufferings, when nearly all of those indignities are the fault of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority—which controls his native Bethlehem. What Carlson the “truth” man—let alone the “conservative”—never told his audience is that Isaac is actually an avowed Marxist who used a sermon at holy communion on October 8, 2023, to praise Hamas’s massacre of the previous day. His church even created a vile Christmas nativity scene depicting the baby Jesus draped in a terrorist kufiyah scarf amidst pieces of concrete rubble (the late Pope Francis unveiling and venerating a similar crèche at the Vatican a year later). As the Reverend Johnnie Moore of the Congress of Christian Leaders summed up Isaac, he “has long been the high priest of antisemitic Christianity,” a fact hardly surprising given Martin Luther’s own luridly anti-Semitic legacy. With all reasonable doubt washed away, Carlson’s actions caused Elie Mischel of Israel365 to conclude that “Tucker Carlson is officially an antisemite.”

• On July 7, 2025, it was reported that “Jewish settlers” had deliberately set fire to the Arab Christian town of Taybeh, threatening its residents, ancient cemetery, and ruined Byzantine church. The Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the “attack,” and even U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee called the incident a “crime against humanity and God.” Later, however, it was discovered that the “settlers” seen in video of the blaze were probably involved in extinguishing a fire set by local Muslims, and the fire “damage” to the church and cemetery was negligible.

• On July 17, 2025, an Israeli drone strike on a Hamas target damaged the Catholic Holy Family Church in Gaza, killing three, for which Israel immediately apologized. The damage to the church was not severe and the civilian deaths a deeply regrettable consequence of a war against terrorists who hide amongst non-combatants; but many Christians—including Pope Leo XIV, who has never demanded the return of the hostages—somehow could not believe that the occurrence was an accident. Catholic conservative commentator Michael Knowles—like Kirk, a generally pro-Israel figure—reacted with cold rage: “Israel is losing me,” he said the day after. “You struck the church. Churches are pretty obvious targets. They are pretty obvious sites. The cross. Can you explain to me how this was an accident?” What conceivable benefit is there to Israel in deliberately targeting a church? The only explanation must be that Jews are evil, and want to inflict needless pain upon Christians—a basic element of the blood libel.

• On August 11, 2025, Tucker Carlson released a 91-minute interview with Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos—leftist ABC News host George Stephanopoulos’s sister—a Russian Orthodox nun who lives in “Palestine.” Carlson titled the interview “Here’s What It’s Really Like to Live as a Christian in the Holy Land,” with the description, “Self-described evangelicals like Ted Cruz and Mike Johnson have no interest in how Israel treats Christians. Mother Agapia Stephanopoulos has spent years living in the region. They should listen to her.” Agapia’s expertise, however, consisted entirely of reprising most of Pastor Isaac’s slanders, saying that “we have to battle AIPAC and the Christian Zionists,” mischaracterizing Israeli counter-terrorism measures as Christian persecution, and defending Hamas, which she called “a resistance movement, simply people fighting for their people.” Carlson and Agapia were suitably mocked for the mendacity of their surreal conversation, but the video of the interview received nearly 12 million views on X in one week.

Poisoned pietà

A quarter-century after Muhammad al-Durah, Hamas operatives superseded his image with that of an ever more graphic namesake. On July 25, 2025, the front page of The New York Times was dominated—rather conquered—by the shocking photograph of skeletal 18-month-old Mohammed Zakaria Ayyub al-Mutawaq cradled in the arms of his mother Hedaya. The headline below staff photographer Saher Alghorra’s haunting image read, “Young, Old and Sick Starve to Death in Gaza: ‘There is Nothing.’”

The Times has done similar things before, giving over its May 28, 2021, front page to a grid of 64 photographs supposedly of minors Israel had killed “indiscriminate[ly]” in that year’s war. “They Were Just Children,” the melodramatic headline bawled, above the epitaph that “They had wanted to be doctors, artists and leaders.” But the 2021 war only lasted 15 days and the world moved on to other things. More than four years later, however, there is total war, and total war calls for more sophisticated blood libels.

Naturally, the libel part emerged almost immediately.

Another, unpublished contemporary photograph showed Mohammed’s three-year-old brother Joud standing beside him and his mother—a child of perfectly normal weight. Researcher David Collier then obtained a medical report on Mohammed’s condition, showing that he is afflicted with cerebral palsy and congenital hypoxemia, not malnutrition. Pallywood once again.

Far too late, on July 29, the Times released a weak correction on its “Communications” X account—one with just shy of 90,000 followers compared to the 55.1 million of its main account. “Our reporters and photographers continue to report from Gaza,” the non-apology said, “bravely, sensitively, and at personal risk, so that readers can see firsthand the consequences of the war.”

It cannot be legally confirmed that the Times or any other outlet published photographs of the child knowing that he was not starving, or that Mohammed’s deceased father was far more likely a Hamas fighter than an innocent killed, as the Times claimed, while “he went to seek food.” But incidents like this—like the endless, false allegations of “famine”—only go one way. And, most egregiously, they contrive to conceal the fact that the only people truly starving in Gaza are the hostages; people whom every entity crying about “starvation”—the media, U.N., “humanitarian organizations,” and the Red Cross—have utterly abandoned.

they have embarked on a campaign to convince Christians that the Jews are the aggressors—even the persecutors of Christians themselves—in the cause of breaking the Christian-Jewish alliance.

But some watchful Jews noticed something else in this latest blood libel image. “Why has this deceptive image been pushed on social media and front pages?” wrote Rebecca Trenner on X in response to another picture of Mohammed from a different shoot by Ahmed Jihad Ibrahim al-Arini. “Because it is deliberately framed as a pieta. Mary cradling the dead christ [sic]. It is designed to push the antisemitic buttons of Christians.”

Indeed, the enveloping robe of the abayah and the hijab so like a hood strikingly yet subtly resemble the Marian veil so common to Christian art. In fact, Byzantine icons of the Virgin and child Jesus (the Theotokos) often depict Mary in a shade of burgundy similar to that of Hedaya al-Mutawaq’s garment.

“That’s why the now-notorious picture of the skeletal Gazan child, prominently displayed in The New York Times and countless other media outlets around the world as allegedly dying of starvation, packed the punch it did,” wrote Melanie Phillips. “It wasn’t merely that it was a dreadfully distressing picture of a dying child. It was that it was posed to call irresistibly to mind the original Madonna, the mother of Jesus, cradling him in her arms.”

From the masterpieces of Giotto and Simone Martini to Giovanni Bellini and Michelangelo, the drama of any image of the Madonna and Child is the tragic emotional interplay between any mother’s love for her son and the knowledge that this precious son, begotten by angelic miracle, will not just die but shall pre-decease his mother, and she shall weep over him. But not only shall the son die, he, some Christians still believe, will be tortured and murdered—at the behest of the Jews.

“…[W]hile the Enlightenment and the Age of Reason may have collectively abjured religion, the icon of mother and child remains fiercely resonant in the West,” wrote ISGAP scholar Naya Lekht. “Why is this image so powerful? What makes it endure so? Significantly, it is not just a child and a mother—it is a child martyred by an unseen prosecutor,” namely the Jews.

In her 1988 book The Devil at Isenheim: Reflections of Popular Belief in Grünewald’s Altarpiece, the late art historian Ruth Mellinkoff points out what many naïve viewers have failed to appreciate: that disgust for Jews and Judaism has often been hidden in the otherwise comforting and idyllic image of the Madonna. In the case of German painter Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim altarpiece (c. 1512–1516), this tremendously significant phenomenon is encapsulated in a small, inconspicuous, largely overlooked but vitally important detail. While invariably omitted from most close-up reproductions, in the panel depicting the nativity, a possibly used chamber pot sits in the foreground to the Virgin’s right; a chamber pot with fake Hebrew lettering around its rim.

Grünewald certainly did not know the “holy tongue”; what he painted was just a gobbledygook of “Hebraic” letters. But that was precisely his point: by means of this detail, easily overlooked by the conscious mind but a powerful subliminal suggestion to the Christian viewer, the coming of Christ renders the Hebrew texts in which the “Old Law” is proclaimed nothing less than polluting gibberish. As Mellinkoff observes, the chamber pot “alludes to the decay of the Old Law and the advent of the New.” It also “stands for the defilement of Synagoga [the feminine personification of Judaism]—a tradition of vilification that links the metaphors of pollution with unconverted Jews who stubbornly continue to reject Christ” (pp. 61–62). While this touch is unique to Grünewald, the artist was only interpolating widely held Christian beliefs.

In Grünewald’s Madonna, we see a radiant young mother tenderly adoring her baby boy; and yet we know that when the Man-God’s flesh is nailed to the cross, the same torn swaddling cloth will be wrapped around his loins, as is depicted in the corresponding crucifixion—one of the most gruesome in all of European art. And who is responsible? The perfidious Jews.

Yet, in their zeal, Hamas propagandists and their mainstream media allies have taken this argument a step further than orthodox Christian artists working in the Western tradition. Whereas the old masters were doctrinally forced to admit Jesus, his mother Mary (Mir’yam), Mary Magdalen (Mary “of the tower” [mig’dal]), and all Gospel protagonists except for the Romans a small measure of Jewishness, the al-Mutawaq photograph replaces the Jewish baby Jesus with an Arab Muslim child, and the Jewish Mary with a Shari‘ah-compliant Muslim woman. This is a substitution implying that the Jews of the Christian Bible were not the historically indigenous inhabitants of Israel, but, ex post facto, “settler colonists.” This de-Judaization of the Virgin and Child is tremendously significant because it activates another trope: that Jesus, his family, and followers were too good to be Jews and must have been of another ethnic group—perhaps Arabs (who actually invaded the region more than six centuries later).

Still, a perhaps even more disturbing artistic echo seems to resonate in the modern-day al-Mutawaq pietà. In the work of the great Bellini, Madonna after Madonna looks down solemnly at a baby who, unlike in Grünewald’s composition, is not bonny and awake but—joltingly—is sickly, sad, pale—even dead-looking. This again is a foreshadowing of the Virgin’s later lamentation over the dead Christ, and Bellini’s startling 1505 Madonna of the Meadow even includes the dead tree symbolizing Judaism supplanted by Jesus the “tree of life.”

But one of al-Arini’s photographs of Hedaya and Mohammed, the one published in the British Daily Express, is almost a venomous inversion of that foreshadowing. The pitiful, dying baby Mohammed looks out, awake, towards the viewer, begging for his life, while Hedaya (having replaced his diaper with a garbage bag) exhibits not a look of loving despair but what almost looks like a smirk. Malicious knowledge that the world will blame the Jews for the fate of her son, as it did for the crucifixion. The Pallywood version of Mel Gibson’s Passion in a single image. Indeed every instance of Pallywood is a blood libel, and every blood libel a bray for Jewish blood.

None of this to provably charge that any Arab Muslim photographer in the Middle East consciously knows any of this theological or artistic history. But university-educated employees of major news agencies publishing the pictures—The New York Times especially—very likely do. And these subliminal motifs—of natal bliss and messianic divinity threatened by Jewish evil—are buried so deeply in the modern world’s visual culture that twenty-first-century Christians in Europe and America will respond to them. With so many other successful endeavors to “push” age-old Christian anti-Jewish “buttons,” no wonder Israel’s enemies continue to try.

Then, as now, all these arguments combine “supersessionism,” the replacement of Judaism by Christianity as the true religion, with that of the ancient Jews by non-Jews, now, ironically Palestinians. The true purpose of these particular Pallywood screeds and images is to demonize Jews in the eyes of Christians, and irrevocably break the Judeo-Christian alliance at the heart of American support for Israel.

It is clear that the propagandists have not yet succeeded entirely, as a recent poll found that 90% of thoroughly Christian “MAGA” Republicans “remain united behind Israel,” and major social media Jew-haters like Carlson and Owens now loath President Trump for his Zionist sympathies; but such sentiments undoubtedly can change with enough lies.

To address those Pallywood lies, on August 10, 2025, Prime Minister Netanyahu gave a press conference in which he announced that “I’m looking right now into the possibility of a governmental suit against The New York Times, because this is outrageous.” These blood libels have been “propelled around the Earth almost [in] the [same] way that the Jewish people were maligned in the Middle Ages,” he said. “Every massacre of the Jewish people was preceded by massive vilification.… As these lies spread around the globe, they were followed by horrific, horrific massacres—pogroms, displacements—finally culminating in the worst massacre of them all: the Holocaust. Today, the Jewish state is being maligned in a similar way.”

Perhaps only the God of Israel said it better: “Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor” (Exodus 20:16).