‘… Hasbara and Israeli official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel is now ahistoric’ ~ilana
The reaction to “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History,” an address I delivered at the Revisionist History of War Conference, in Auburn, Alabama, for the Mises Institute, was humbling and overwhelming: cheers, tears and responsorial calls, like in a Church.
https://rumble.com/v6toq73-the-real-israel-vs.-hasbara-history.html
UPDATE (5/27/2025): The written address is up in full on IlanaMercer.com. When excerpting, remember to cite the source, myself, and link back to “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History: WATCH, READ” by ©2025 By ilana mercer, May 16, 2025.
I shared this deeply moving experience with my beloved girlfriend—a soulmate. And a Muslim. “In Islam we call what you did a summons to The Truth; an invitation to walk in truth,” she explained.
My invitation was graciously accepted.
Other than one individual—a medic, a healer, if you can believe it—who rushed me screaming “terrorist”; the lecture given at the invitation of our beloved Lew Rockwell and my longtime good friend Dr. Tom DiLorenzo, president of the Mises Institute, was met with solidarity.
Excerpt from “The Real Israel Vs Hasbara History” WATCH, READ:
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Plainly put: Our Deep Tech overlords, YouTube in this case, prohibit high-minded, first-principles based, precisely worded, anti-genocide Truths, unless finessed.
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Excerpt:
When America’s regime historians reflect on history’s tragedies and travesties, they always praise Pax Americana. That is the idea that American hegemony brought peace to the world.
Conveniently, they leave out the horrors of it.
Naturally, regime historians, the ones we are here (at the Mises Institute’s Revisionist History of War Conference, in Auburn, Alabama) to counter, speak a lot about Hitler, but hardly ever mention Hiroshima.
Likewise has Israel shaped its past, mixing some history with myth, to render a myth-history. The propaganda sustaining Israel’s counterfeit history is called Hasbara, explanation in Hebrew.
Hasbara constructs serve to coat Israel’s real crimes against humanity with ideological respectability, to give these some imagined purity of purpose. Think of Hasbara as the steady supply of bogus, artificial constructs to rape reality.
Undeniably, American foreign policy has a certain narrative talent. The injustices of imperial power, notwithstanding, people are persuaded by the strut of it. Less obvious is the appeal of Israeli Hasbara and the Jewish supremacy that goes with it—and has seduced many Christians into ignoring Christ’s core teachings.
Christ commands care, not for the oppressor and the predator, but for the poor and the oppressed.
Hasbara and official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel is now ahistoric.
Shortly after October 7, with the commencement, in Gaza, of Israel’s “Operation Swords of Iron,” certain self-evident truths became crystal clear.
By late October, Israel’s actions within and without Gaza had shown the world the absolute depravity of Israel, state and civil society. One such emerged reality is that, Palestinians, not Israeli Jews, as Hasbara teaches, are the most imperiled people in the world; Israelis the most perilous.
Another is that Israel, with overwhelming support from the Jewish-Israeli public, has gleefully engaged in methodical, indiscriminate, industrial-scale murder and ethnic cleansing ongoing.
The Israel Defense Forces, IDF, were allowed to obliterate all the fundamentals of physical, national and economic life in Gaza, turning it into an uninhabitable “post-apocalyptic wasteland.” The Strip has been reduced to its sub-soil particulate elements, only badly soiled.
Gaza is now a mass grave along a small stretch of the Mediterranean Sea, where living ghosts wander.
Gaza’s soil is soaked through with a mix of millions of tons of building debris, the decaying bodies of tens-of-thousands of human beings, their pets, livestock; fauna, flora all gone—an inferno of garbage, open sewage, and the byproducts and contaminants of munitions, like unexploded ordnance.
Said a scholar of the architecture of Occupation: Israel has “stolen” from Gaza’s Palestinians “the very ability to produce food.” Or, receive it. Or use means of exchange to get it. Banking was dismantled.
Believe it or not, but under years of a medieval blockade, Gaza’s farmers had, before October 7, fed a third of their people.
Indeed, Israel has systemized the mass murder and displacement of innocent Palestinian civilians, targeting them and their habitat for Total Warfare.
Since war against civilians is a war on civilization; Israel, by extension, is an enemy of civilization.
Our ally Israel is a country in which genocide, snuff films, extra-judicial assassinations, rape, robbery, torture and starvation of Palestinians are de facto legal. Israel is thus a criminal entity, and a threat to the comity of nations.
The indictment against Israel ought to be hermetically sealed. Israel’s ethnocide and domicide in Gaza is in violation of most systems of ethics known to man over intellectual history—it is in violation of God’s law, the Ten Commandments. These command not to covet, steal or murder. It is in violation of libertarian law (the axiom of non-aggression). It is in violation of natural justice, the laws of war (although genocide is not war), as well as humanitarian law.
And it is in violation of the systems of law within which the above is subsumed: The natural law and the positive law. …©2025 By ilana mercer
Thank you,
In solidarity,
ilana
https://www.ilanamercer.com/category/gaza/
UPDATE (5/24/2025):
https://x.com/jeremyrhammond/status/1926094827516547420
What a decent man-–a scientist and reporter, is Jeremy Hammond:
https://x.com/jeremyrhammond/status/1926094827516547420
“Israel has played its genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza to a packed house to the world. Israeli Jews don’t lack for facts, but most appear without the analytical and ethical faculties to examine their actions. They lead the unexamined lives of self-anointed, superior beings. … “The US regime has been a worshipful partner in Israel’s vice.” “The evidence is conclusive. IDF shoot, loot, and bomb for fun. No doubt, the Israeli state is genocidal. But by the numbers and by their statements, Israeli society is as sociopathic.” “While American foreign policy is a museum of horrors, Gaza is now the main exhibit.” This is an absolutely essential talk by @IlanaMercer at the @mises Institute #MisesInstitute. I cannot recommend it highly enough. TRUTH, WISDOM, and COURAGE!
And, Stephen Carson:
https://x.com/RadicalLib/status/1925927063812227455
“Sects of Christianity can no longer distinguish Satan from God… They favor AIPAC’s edicts over the commandment of the Prince of Peace.” –@IlanaMercer
I highly recommend this speech she just gave @mises, which was kicked off YouTube.
And Do Not Analyze:
Watch how cowards melt on Facebook, Comments. Watch how it’s done. Take the time:
Are you not yet ashamed to parade as a man who promotes genocide—an onslaught by cowards?? To be the worst of men, without the proverbial male bits?! Castrati! To be have the mentation of a filthy organism squirming in a petri dish? Stay away from this space, human effluent.
(With apologies to petri-dish organisms.)
UPDATE 5/25: Israelis, speaking in near unanimity, murdered Gaza. The initial cheers of the world have subsided and grown softer. A disgustingly immoral West has come up sharp against the consequences of its crimes ongoing. Western commentators, politicians, public figures—now that Israel’s mission has been completed—wish to salvage their standing in the world. “I was wrong,” say crooked opportunists like Piers Morgan and other genocidal British public figures, including politicians such as Tory MP Mark Pritchard, and Piers Morgan, who, on May 21, 2025, long after Gaza’s destruction, decided to divest from genocide. Ditto echo the editorials in leading newspapers. Worldwide, the boos increase daily. Genocidal criminals—vicariously involved or on active duty—want to salvage their reputations. Don’t let them.
Here they are in action:
“As Gaza Deaths Mount and Soldiers Burn Out, an Israeli Anti-war Movement Is a Matter of Time.”
At the eleventh hour, Germany, Israel’s second largest supplier of baby-busting munitions, is worried about optics. And, it’s safe to protest. The genocide has been accomplished. So, 19 months into the genocide of the Palestinians of Gaza, here’s a whimper from the Teutons:
“Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merzagain criticized Israel’s policy in Gaza, saying that Israel’s operations “no longer appears to me as strictly necessary for defending Israel’s right to exist and for combating Hamas terrorism.”
