{"id":5564,"date":"2019-02-02T17:32:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-02T17:32:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/arielsheen.com\/?p=5564"},"modified":"2019-04-03T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-03T18:23:13","slug":"telesur-or-tellaslur-anti-zionist-news-anti-semitic-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arielsheen.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/02\/telesur-or-tellaslur-anti-zionist-news-anti-semitic-coordinated-inauthentic-behavior\/","title":{"rendered":"TeleSUR or TellaSLUR?: Anti-Zionist News, Anti-Semitic Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A visitor to TeleSUR\u2019s website can quickly see Israel holds a special place in TeleSUR\u2019s news coverage. Despite the rest of the countries following an alphabetical organization, Israel is the first country listed.<\/p>\n

While this could be just an instance of poor design which that made its past the eyes of everyone involved in the construction and user testing of its website \u2014 this isn\u2019t the case.<\/p>\n

As you\u2019ll learn after reading the below, this little aesthetic glitch is anything but a mistake. It\u2019s a not so sly code, which will be illustrated in detail below, that TeleSUR is a media company oriented towards helping Venezuela\u2019s PSUV achieve the political goals stated in their Plan de Patria related to Israel rather than applying professional journalism standards.<\/p>\n

What does this mean for their brand? Well, when it comes to international news reporting, truth-telling takes a back seat to the desire to delegitimize America by working to malign by any means necessary<\/em>its ally Israel.<\/p>\n

The official news organization along with its media partners \u2014 a mix of private and state media companies as well as contractors \u2014 collaborate on projects that go far beyond anything that could be called principled anti-Zionism. Instead, TeleSUR consistently publishes in a false light; while their partners share a variety of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on Facebook and the web.<\/p>\n

TeleSUR Reports Fake News of Child Abduction<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 2010 the Anti-Defamation League<\/a>published Anti-Semitism in Venezuela: In the Wake of the Gaza Flotilla which contained extensive documentation of anti-Semitic views being expressed in various media outlets and by various members of the Venezuela government \u2014 including false accusations<\/a>that Israeli doctors had stolen human organs from Haitians affected by the 2010 earthquake.<\/p>\n

Nicolas Maduro, the president of TeleSUR, was cited as describing a situation wherein any potential attack could be ascribed to Mossad \u2014 \u201ca conspiracy theory similar to one typically used by anti-Semites who claim Jews and Israel were behind terrorist attacks such as the 1994 AMIA attack in Buenos Aires or 9\/11.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the whole publication is worth reading \u2014 especially for the connections it draws between Venezuela and their state news media\u2019s coverage of international affairs \u2014 this article focuses solely on the past five years. Between 2010 and 2015 the Venezuelan state and its media apparatus, TeleSUR, learned to be overt about it\u2019s anti-Zionism and use covert means to spread anti-Semitism in order to achieve political goals.<\/p>\n

In May of 2015, for instance, TeleSUR<\/a>and their partner HispanTV, the Iranian\u2019s Spanish-language news service, were both sharply criticized by the Wiesenthal Center<\/a> and the International Center for Countering Anti-Semitism<\/a>after both of them falsely reported that \u201cIsrael used humanitarian aid to Nepal in order to disguise the smuggling of 25 infants.\u201d<\/p>\n

The article, which is still hosted on TeleSUR\u2019s website, cites unidentified non-governmental organizations and falsely claims that these 25 infants were whisked away by the Israeli adoption agency Tammuz. Adding an extra element sure to inflame people with conservative and traditional religious belief, they also note that \u201cthe Tammuz clients include a number of homosexuals\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sergio Widder, head of the Simon Wiesenthal Center\u2019s Latin America Desk, stated on record that \u201cHispanTV and Telesur Channels are behaving as the successors of the Nazi propaganda newspaper Der St\u00fcrmer. The editor of Der St\u00fcrmer, Julius Streicher, would have been certainly proud of such a dark and vile legacy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Worth noting is that this isn\u2019t the first time that these news sources fabricated news of an anti-Semitic nature.<\/p>\n

TeleSUR and Holocaust Denial Light\u2122<\/strong><\/canvas><\/p>\n

In 2017 TeleSUR again published two articles of anti-Semitic Light\u2122 content in Spanish, this time to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day<\/a>. Apparently having learned from the backlash received the first time around they didn\u2019t publish outright fabrications, but instead chose to present the Holocaust in a false light.<\/p>\n

One doesn\u2019t need to be a subject area specialist in order to understand ASININE such a comparison is. Let\u2019s look solely at the images above.<\/p>\n

I make a point of going into the math here not to make the case that Palestinians have such a quantitatively far smaller life debt that comparing the Israel state is just fundamentally unsound comparative political analysis \u2014 using the number of dead to measure the analogy, according to TeleSUR\u2019s own reporting, the 10,000 dead divided by 7,000,000 dead =\u00a0.001428571429 or\u00a0.015% \u2014 but as it provides a means for applying pressure counter-point to TeleSUR\u2019s reporting on their partner, Russia.<\/p>\n

10,000 Palestinians killed, is roughly the same number of people that died fighting in the Russian invasion of the Donbass region. Given the timeline for this violence compared to the decades of Israel\u2019s border consolidation, wouldn\u2019t that then make Russia, using the same logic exhibited by this narrative, SuperNazis?<\/p>\n

While the first article equated the Israeli government with that of Nazi Germany; the other informs about five other mass killing events that were \u201cless known about than the Holocaust\u201d. This unto itself isn\u2019t problematic, but the framing within the text is. Specifically, by intimating that Jewish people are evil for having taken steps to ensure their collective survival by forming a state misrepresents the will of those other groups.<\/p>\n

No TeleSUR reporter asked any high ranking member of political or cultural leaders from the groups that they named in the article if they wished they had a state organization and military capacity to ensure something like what happened before never did again.<\/p>\n

And yet look to the news and you will see the groups mentioned therein working towards exactly that.<\/p>\n

But does TeleSUR report this? No. Instead they publish stories in a false light using yet another false analogy<\/a>. This time the narrative is \u201cJews have become Nazis\u201d.<\/p>\n

A pattern of Misrepresenting History Matches PSUV\u2019s Plan de\u00a0Patria<\/canvas><\/h3>\n
Misrepresenting history through\u00a0maps.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What\u2019s missing from TeleSUR\u2019s coverage regarding similar conflicts as that which occur within Israel is as telling as what is there.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s no similar coverage of conflicts which have far higher casualty counts in the Philippines, India, Java, etc.The indigenous dispossession engaged in by TeleSUR\u2019s current and former media partners \u2014 Ecuador<\/a>, Nicaragua<\/a>, and Peru<\/a>etc. \u2014 so that those government-supported resource extraction; intensive agriculture; and transportation infrastructure development projects can proceed \u2014 isn\u2019t something that\u2019s discussed. Given TeleSUR\u2019s claim that they represent and speak for \u201cThe South\u201d, this is quite puzzling.<\/p>\n

When one considers that this is because such coverage aligns with the PSUV\u2019s Plan de Patria, however, it makes sense. Venezuela abstains from truth-telling about what\u2019s going on in their partner countries so as to stay on the \u201cgood side\u201d of the politicians there.<\/strong><\/p>\n

While Nicolas Maduro, the Ministry of Popular Power and Information and Patricia Villegas \u2014 TeleSUR\u2019s executive core \u2014 officially only promote crude anti-Zionism, their \u201coff-brand\u201d media partners produce and share media conspiratorial anti-Semitic content. The insulation that they believed to have from such content is, however, easy to take apart following some investigation.<\/p>\n

Cynthia McKinney\u2019s Anti-Jewish Conspiracy Theories<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney ran for president on the Green Party ticket in 2008. Her campaign imploded and political career fell apart, however, after her father expressed a number of anti-Semitic views. Following her fall from grace she reinvented herself as a journalist. She blogged for TeleSUR, gave interviews to RT, wrote a series of books based upon her experience in war zones, and obtained a doctorate of Philosophy in Leadership and Change from Antioch University.<\/p>\n

Her Ph.D. thesis, titled \u201cEl No Murio, El Se Multiplico!\u201d Hugo Ch\u00e1vez: The Leadership and the Legacy on Race\u201d, a stylistically appalling but at times insightful reflection on issues related to race, leadership, and statecraft. Less worthy are Cynthia McKinney\u2019s Tweets related to such issues.<\/p>\n

The first screenshot about ZioCon\u2019s \u2014 which I presume means either Zionist Conservative or Zionist NeoConservative \u2014 represents a misinterpretation of the relationship between marketing and production companies and consumer. Seemingly a variation of the Cultural Marxism conspiracy, it suggests that there is a vast conspiracy by American Jews seek to destroy the black community through music.<\/p>\n

Cynthia McKinney\u2019sre-Tweet about Ethiopian Jews stem from Lizard-People-Rule-the-World conspiracy theorist David Icke. Like Janus, there\u2019s two faces to what the Tweet claims.<\/p>\n

The first claim is that Ethiopian Jews \u2014 aka Beta Israel \u2014 are \u201cthe Real Jews\u201d and that those the settled in Israel and those who live in the Diaspora aren\u2019t.<\/p>\n

The Invention of Ethiopian Jews<\/em>by Steven Kaplen is published in a peer-reviewed academic journal and shows how this claim is incorrect. After extensively documented primary research and numerous interviews with members of the Ethiopian Jewish community, he comes to the conclusion that:<\/p>\n

\u201cBoth the Beta Israel\u2019s oral traditions and the testimony of their literature offer strong evidence that crucial components of their religions system developed no earlier than the fourteenth of fifteenth century. Beta Israel accounts of their history trace virtually all major elements of their religion to the influence of the originally Christian monks, Abba Sabra and Sagga Amlak.\u201d<\/p>\n

A list of websites too long too name \u2014 without sources, without real author attribution, with clear intent to slur a whole group of people as Satanic \u2014 states otherwise.<\/canvas><\/p>\n

The second face of the claim is that the \u201cfake Jews\u201d are actually part of a giant, murderous, secret criminal empire which practices worships the Devil and practices their black magic order to gain power and profit.<\/p>\n

I haven\u2019t reviewed every article writing about it online, but all that I did either were anonymous; the author listed on it didn\u2019t appear to exist anywhere else; had no sources; or sources that were easily shown to be fake following a Google search.<\/p>\n

To give an idea of the sophistication of such a views I\u2019ll share an excerpt. Following a history that lays, basically, every mass tragedy in European and American history at the feet of the \u201cfake Jew\u201d Khazarians, of which the RothschildFamily is one \u201ctentacle,\u201d this group takes over America from behind the scenes. Following this they then start to practice their \u201csocial manipulations\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Rothschild Khazarian Mafia decided to gain complete control over all public education by setting up the Department of Education and creating globalist and socialist curriculums based on political correctness, diversity and \u201cperversion is normal\u201d teachings. Fluoride is added to the public water and toothpaste, and dentists are mind-kontrolled to believe that fluoride prevents cavities, and is not harmful to brain function or thyroid function, which it is.<\/p>\n

The addition of fluoride to the public water supply and to toothpaste is to dumb-down Americans by on average lowering the operational IQ and making folks much more docile than they would normally be. Programs to develop and deploy vaccinations to dumb-down children and create huge numbers of future chronic health problems were initiated. Doctors have been mind-kontrolled and misled by biased research that was cherry-picked, ignoring any studies that were negative \u2014 and that included most of them. All vaccine cell lines are contaminated with SV- 40, a known carcinogenic slow-acting virus.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Khazarian Mafia conspiracy theory is largely a remix of claims made previously by the John Birch Society, however it also samples from others. According to this conspiracy theory, the Khazarians \u201ccontinue their Satanic child blood and sacrifice rituals, and trust Baal to give them the whole world and all its riches, as they claimed he had promised them, as long as they kept bleeding out and sacrificing children and infants for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is what\u2019s referred to as the Blood Libel \u2014 or the idea that Jews sacrifice Christian children as part of their religious ceremonies \u2014 and it\u2019s a claim that has long been connected to pogroms that lead to the dispossession and death of Jewish people.<\/p>\n

Following TeleSUR\u2019s Unpublishing; Anti-Semitic blogs Signal Boost About\u00a0It<\/h3>\n

TeleSUR\u2019s brief unpublishing caused a flurry of reports decrying censorship by the news channels of TeleSUR\u2019s media partners. The comments sections of Sputnik and RT, as I documented elsewhere, were filled with more conspiracy theories about the motives behind it.<\/p>\n

These, however, were not the only outlets that sought to draw attention to TeleSUR. Several anti-Semitic blogs also started to publish content filled with outrage that such an event would happen. The websites are typical examples of the sort of fake backlinking networks, as I documeted elsewhere, that TeleSUR, RT, Sputnik, WSWS, RealNewsNetwork and MintPressNews, use. Drawing connections between them and TeleSUR beyond this would require more investigation.<\/p>\n

TeleSUR Content Hosted by Anti-Semites on The Pirate\u00a0Bay<\/h3>\n
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While investigating for this article, I thought I decided to do some unconventional reporting and decided to see if TeleSUR had any content on The Pirate Bay. Sure enough they did!<\/p>\n

One of the people seeding TeleSUR content is Joseph Blauman, aka joeblowman, the host of the The Joe Blow Conspiracy Show<\/a>. Given the date that he uploaded the TeleSUR interview of Noam Chomsky and the rest of his digital footprint it\u2019s unlikely that he\u2019s connected with the organization.<\/p>\n

The other account, roflcopter2110, also has a large number of anti-Semitic documentaries and is harder to determine.<\/p>\n

To be clear I have no evidence that TeleSUR operates this accounts to spread anti-Semitism \u2014 but there is clearly a connection between those who tend to believe that the earth is flat, that vaccinations are bad, that fluoride in water destroys your precious bodily essence, and that Jewish people actually worship the devil and sacrifice babies and those that have an affinity for TeleSUR.<\/p>\n

Anti-Semitism Spread on Leftist Facebook\u00a0Groups<\/h3>\n
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On Facebook there\u2019s so much A<\/strong>nti-S<\/strong>emitism-I<\/strong>n-the-N<\/strong>ame-of-IN<\/strong>ternational-E<\/strong>xtremism content isn\u2019t not just ridiculous it\u2019s ASININE<\/strong>. The bread of the photo sandwich above gives just a small hint at the amount of Rothschild conspiracy content that gets shared online in photos and posts.<\/p>\n

Accounts with photos of Che with names in different alphabets \u2014 a simple way to determine which Facebook accounts are part of Venezuela\u2019s coordinated inauthentic behavior network \u2014 repeat the same sort of nonsense the Cynthia McKinney does along with narratives of far greater absurdity.<\/p>\n

What \u2014 you ask \u2014 could be more absurd then a make believe international criminal conspiracy like the Khazarians? One of the far-out-there claims I\u2019ve seen posted in such groups as the ones shown above states that Osama Bin-Laden was both a Mossad agent AND a Jew and that he is still secretly alive and well and occasionally socializes with Bill and Hillary Clinton.<\/p>\n

While the title of the Facebook group in the center of the photo is cut off, it\u2019s full title is NUEVO GRUPO CON MADURO. As in Nicolas Maduro. Notable is that the person sharing this image within a Spanish language group has an Arabic name.<\/p>\n

Showing that the point of this coordinated inauthentic behavior network is simply to spread disinformation, misinformation and thereby increase political polarization is evident in the fact that a website like rightoftheright.com would be posted in a group called ALL COMMUNISTS.<\/p>\n

Anti-Semitic Sock Puppet Harassment on\u00a0Facebook<\/h3>\n
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After I saw one the accounts I identified as connected to TeleSUR\u2019s Coordinated, Inauthentic Behavior Network post an article that denied that the Nazis burned ever destroyed the Torah I wrote a reply to their post stating that it was fake news and linked to a credible source which showed this. As is evident by the screenshot of my Facebook notifications in the center of the above picture, this did not please the operator of the sock puppet account.<\/p>\n

He proceeded to tell me that he could tell I was Jewish by my nose and by my name \u2014 which I am, though I never heard people tell me that I have a \u201cJewish nose\u201d.<\/p>\n

After I posted a comment about how amused I was that even in the face of peer-reviewed scholarship and primary documents that showed he was spreading fake news, he then tagged me in a Facebook story and four posts which had images or text that were textbook antisemitism. I included the one about Kevin Bacon movies as while the \u201cJews Killed Jesus\u201d comment is poor taste \u2014 especially in the context of a vast coordinated inauthentic behavior network promoting anti-Semitic anti-Capitalism \u2014 the meme by itself is funny.<\/p>\n

And really, after doing this research and discovering that there\u2019s a large scale, well-funded ongoing online campaign to spread the same sort of lies that lead to much of my family being killed in concentration camps in Ukraine a laugh is just what\u2019s needed to help me from falling into a crushing sense of hopelessness about humankind\u2019s ability to learn from the past by refraining from spreading bald-faced lies for political purposes no matter how just they think their cause is.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/strong><\/p>\n

Steven Kaplan\u00a0<\/strong>The Invention of Ethiopian Jews\u00a0: Three Models.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Preston James, Ph.D -The Hidden History of the Incredibly Evil Khazarian Mafia (Updated)<\/p>\n

Anti-Defamation League.\u00a0Anti-Semitism in Venezuela IN THE WAKE OF THE GAZA FLOTILLA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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