False Flag: Registry Fake Says Ukraine Jewish Advocacy Group
h/t Gates of Vienna
Hours after the Israeli media, dutifully echoed by USA Today, reported on leaflets demanding the registration of Jews in Ukraine -- harking back to similar moves during the Nazi era -- deputy director of the National Conference Supporting Jews (NCSJ), responsible for efforts in Russia, Ukraine, and the Baltic States, pronounced the leaflet bogus.
"It's a fake flyer," the deputy director, Lesley Weiss, told The Daily Dot. "It's not true that they have to register or be deported," he said after talking with Denis Pushilin, chairman of the pro-Russian Donetsk People's Government.
The corporate media in the United States had insinuated the leaflets were distributed by pro-Russians in Donetsk, this feeding into hysterical propaganda warning of an imminent invasion by Russia of eastern Ukraine. The specter of anti-Semitism conjured the appropriate Nazi imagery of Kristallnacht and gas chambers at Auschwitz. It would have dovetailed nicely with the media campaign portraying Russian leader Vladimir Putin as Adolf Hitler.
Weiss said the flyers were designed to create anxiety among the city's Jewish population that would be subsequently exploited in the West to portray pro-Russians as anti-Semitic. The Jewish community has dismissed the operation as a provocation, although it is uncertain who is responsible.
Now who'd think of such a thing as a media trick?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-04-19 |