{"id":261544,"date":"2024-05-06T12:00:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261544"},"modified":"2024-05-02T08:41:45","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T07:41:45","slug":"cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN Compares Campus Protesters to Nazis in Stunning Propaganda Segment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_261545\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-german-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment.png\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-261545\" class=\"wp-image-261545\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-german-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment-1024x536.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-german-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment-1024x536.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-german-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment-300x157.png 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-german-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment-768x402.png 768w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-german-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment.png 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-261545\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From Caitlin Johnstone<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><em>Propaganda only works if you don\u2019t know it\u2019s happening to you, so hopefully they keep going mask-off like this for everyone to see. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>2 May 2024 <\/em>&#8211; In one of the most appalling propaganda segments I have ever seen in my life, CNN\u2019s Dana Bash launched into a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanaBashCNN\/status\/1785725450527842512\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">fire-and-brimstone sermon<\/a> on Wednesday comparing anti-genocide university protesters to the brownshirts of Nazi Germany\u200a\u2014\u200adoing so in defense of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanaBashCNN\/status\/1785725450527842512\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a fascistic police crackdown<\/a> against those very same protesters.<\/p>\n<p>After playing a clip of Zionist activist Eli Tsives theatrically claiming campus protesters at UCLA were blocking him from his classroom, Bash solemnly <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/ip\/date\/2024-05-01\/segment\/01\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">said<\/a>, \u201cAgain, what you just saw is 2024 in Los Angeles. Hearkening back to the 1930s in Europe, and I do not say that lightly. The fear among Jews in this country is palpable right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeremotographs\/status\/1784355997861150876\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According to<\/a> journalist Jeremy Lindenfeld\u200a\u2014\u200awho happens to be Jewish\u200a\u2014\u200aTsives wasn\u2019t even being denied access to his classroom, but was only being denied access to the protesters\u2019 encampment which he\u2019d conveniently decided he wanted to walk through in order to get there. Dana Bash makes no mention of this, framing this instead as a terrifying attack on Jews which could soon see them being loaded onto trains headed for extermination camps.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Today: Destruction, violence and hate overtake college campuses across the country with Jewish students feeling unsafe at their own schools. It is unacceptable, and harkening back to the 1930s in Europe. Our <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/InsidePolitics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@InsidePolitics<\/a> show open, here. <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RiPX0HZbUv\" >pic.twitter.com\/RiPX0HZbUv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dana Bash (@DanaBashCNN) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanaBashCNN\/status\/1785725450527842512?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Bash played a clip of New York City Mayor Eric Adams saying \u201cThere is a movement to radicalize young people, and I\u2019m not going to wait until it\u2019s done,\u201d as though preventing the spread of radical political opinions is something a mayor is elected to do in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re calling for a ceasefire,\u201d says Bash. \u201cWell, there was a ceasefire on October 6, the day before Hamas terrorists brutally murdered more than a thousand people inside Israel and took hundreds more as hostages.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a brazen propagandistic lie. Israeli forces <a href=\"https:\/\/threadreaderapp.com\/thread\/1766181245728292882.html\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">had been routinely murdering Palestinians<\/a> in Gaza and the West Bank in the weeks and months preceding the October 7 attack. On October 6 2023, The New Arab published an article titled \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newarab.com\/news\/2023-deadliest-year-child-occupied-west-bank\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2023 is \u2018deadliest year\u2019 for Palestinian children say human rights groups<\/a>,\u201d citing the Defence of Children International\u200a\u2014\u200aPalestine along with other sources.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis hour, I\u2019ll speak to an American Israeli family whose son is still held captive by Hamas since that horrifying day, that brought us to this moment,\u201d said Bash, adding, \u201cYou don\u2019t hear the pro-Palestinian protesters talking about that. We will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ah yes, such brave, up-punching journalistic integrity for you to talk about the Israeli hostages, Dana. Not like we haven\u2019t been hearing about them every single day from the imperial media for the last seven months while orders of magnitude more Palestinians are butchered by US-supplied war machinery.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">200+ pro-Israel counterprotestors are attacking the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UCLA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@UCLA<\/a> pro-Palestinian encampment. They started beating on one student and stomped another under a plywood board per <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/latimes?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@latimes<\/a> <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/safinazzal?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >@safinazzal<\/a> on the scene. Where is UCLA security? <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zjYNFWSK7r\" >pic.twitter.com\/zjYNFWSK7r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Teresa Watanabe (@TeresaWatanabe) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeresaWatanabe\/status\/1785575610469007471?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" >May 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt UCLA, pro-Israel and pro-Palestinian groups were attacking each other, hurling all kinds of objects, a wood pallet, fireworks, parking cones, even a scooter,\u201d Bash says.<\/p>\n<p>Another lie. The footage going around makes it abundantly clear the violence is being consistently instigated by Zionist counter-protesters, with videos of pro-Israel thugs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AssalRad\/status\/1785562525888917938\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">launching fireworks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PplsCityCouncil\/status\/1785575542999466149\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hurling bottles of chemicals<\/a> into the encampment, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeresaWatanabe\/status\/1785575610469007471\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ganging up on a protester<\/a> on the ground and beating him with sticks, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeresaWatanabe\/status\/1785580909795942766\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tearing down parts of the encampment<\/a> while screaming \u201cSecond Nakba!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later on in the same segment of Bash\u2019s own show, CNN\u2019s Stephanie Elam contradicts Bash\u2019s both-sides lie by <a href=\"https:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/show\/ip\/date\/2024-05-01\/segment\/01\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">commenting<\/a> on some of this footage, saying, \u201cAnd you can see that in the video, it looked like people from this side were breaking down the encampment from the pro-Palestinian side last night, throwing objects in there. As well as it looks like some sort of maybe pepper spray or something coming from the other side over here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It should here be noted that Dana Bash gets her surname from her first husband <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jeremy_Bash\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Jeremy Bash<\/a>, who went on to serve as the chief of staff for both the CIA and the Pentagon. The woman is pure swamp.<\/p>\n<p>It should also be noted that CNN\u2019s own staff recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/2024\/feb\/04\/cnn-staff-pro-israel-bias\"  target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">leaked to The Guardian<\/a> that they have been pressured to report on the Gaza onslaught with an extreme pro-Israel bias, attributing the pressure to the network\u2019s new CEO Mark Thompson.<\/p>\n<p>I for one think it\u2019s great that the imperial media are becoming so transparently obvious about their propagandistic nature, and I hope they keep exposing mainstream westerners to the fact that the primary purpose of these outlets is to promote the information interests of the US and its allies.<\/p>\n<p>Propaganda only works if you don\u2019t know it\u2019s happening to you, so hopefully they keep going mask-off like this for everyone to see.<\/p>\n<p>________________________________<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-180156\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Caitlin-Johnstone.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>Caitlin Johnstone is a rogue journalist, poet, and utopia prepper<\/em>. <em>Contact: <\/em><a href=\"..\/..\/..\/..\/TRANSCEND\/T%20M%20S\/TO%20POST\/A%20BYLINES\/admin@caitlinjohnstone.com\">admin@caitlinjohnstone.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/caitlinjohnstone.com.au\/2024\/05\/02\/cnn-compares-campus-protesters-to-nazis-in-stunning-propaganda-segment\/\" >Go to Original \u2013 caitlinjohnstone.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 May 2024 &#8211; Propaganda only works if you don\u2019t know it\u2019s happening to you, so hopefully they keep going mask-off like this for everyone to see. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":261545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[229,3194,2314,550,276,609,87,865,88,1855,1147,2571,427,372,1378,3294,70],"class_list":["post-261544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-activism","tag-cnn","tag-corporate-media","tag-corruption","tag-democracy","tag-demonstrations","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-nazism","tag-official-lies-and-narratives","tag-palestine","tag-propaganda","tag-protests","tag-students-anti-genocide-gaza","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=261544"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261546,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261544\/revisions\/261546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}