{"id":261589,"date":"2024-05-06T12:00:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-06T11:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=261589"},"modified":"2024-07-02T08:49:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T07:49:34","slug":"official-lies-and-narratives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/05\/official-lies-and-narratives\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Lies and Narratives"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">2 May 2024 &#8211;<\/span><\/strong><em><strong><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\"> On tonight&#8217;s <\/span><\/strong><\/em><strong><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">BBC News at Ten<\/span><\/strong><em><strong><span class=\"css-1qaijid r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0 r-poiln3\">, the narrative about the campus protests moved even deeper into the realms of mendacious fiction.<\/span><\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On tonight&#39;s BBC News at Ten, the narrative about the campus protests moved even deeper into the realms of mendacious fiction.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day the BBC led with a fake headline \u2013 &quot;Rival protesters clashed&quot; \u2013 even though the footage clearly shows outside pro-Israel agitators\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Jonathan_K_Cook\/status\/1785810216728039649?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>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>___________________________________________<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jonathan-Cook2-100x100-1.jpg\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-234337\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Jonathan-Cook2-100x100-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001. He is the author of: <\/em>Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish State<em> (2006); <\/em>Israel and the Clash of Civilisations: Iraq, Iran and the Plan to Remake the Middle East<em> (2008); and <\/em>Disappearing Palestine: Israel\u2019s Experiments in Human Despair<em> (2008). In 2011 he was awarded the <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathan-cook.net\/martha-gellhorn-award\/\" ><em>Martha Gellhorn Special Prize<\/em><\/a><em> for Journalism. The same year, <\/em><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.projectcensored.org\/top-stories\/articles\/9-human-rights-abuses-continue-in-palestine\/\" ><em>Project Censored<\/em><\/a><em> voted one of Jonathan\u2019s reports, \u201cIsrael brings Gaza entry restrictions to West Bank\u201d, the ninth most important story censored in 2009-10.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong><em>Join the BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS campaign<\/em><\/strong><\/span> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/strong> <strong>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/strong> <strong>BARCODE STARTS WITH<\/strong> <strong>729<\/strong>, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <strong>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 May 2024 &#8211; On tonight&#8217;s &#8216;BBC News at Ten,&#8217; the narrative about the campus protests moved even deeper into the realms of mendacious fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":234337,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[867,532,1854,276,609,2898,1199,2242,2376,87,865,1643,1029,1966,1644,88,2416,715,427,1378,3294,124,70,965,1025,886],"class_list":["post-261589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-anglo-america","tag-colonialism","tag-crimes-against-humanity","tag-democracy","tag-demonstrations","tag-ecocide","tag-ethnic-cleansing","tag-famine","tag-freedom-of-speech","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-genocide-convention","tag-hamas","tag-hunger","tag-international-court-of-justice-icj","tag-israel","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-massacre","tag-palestine","tag-protests","tag-students-anti-genocide-gaza","tag-united-nations","tag-usa","tag-war-crimes","tag-west-bank","tag-zionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261589","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=261589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261591,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261589\/revisions\/261591"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}