4/24/17 Yakov Hirsch on the wall of propaganda preventing Americans from learning the truth about Israel

4/24/17 Yakov Hirsch on the wall of propaganda preventing Americans from learning the truth about Israel

Yakov Hirsch, a writer for Mondoweiss.net, discusses how “hasbara culture” has infected the minds of Israelis with a “macho victimhood” ideology and tilted media coverage (led by Jeffrey Goldberg, the “most toxic person in American culture”) so Americans are misled into thinking Palestinians are the aggressive occupiers of Israeli land, instead of the other way around.

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