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Google accused of relaying Israeli propaganda in full genocide in Gaza
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The contract, signed in June, clearly defines these campaigns as Hasbara, a Hebrew term designating official propaganda of the state. This media offensive occurs while the UN formally recognized the existence of a famine in Gaza, a direct consequence of the total blockade imposed by Israel. “Completely provoked by man,” insists the UN, this famine is added to the massacres which have already cost the lives of tens of thousands of Palestinians. Meanwhile, videos sponsored by Israel, given millions of times, dare to say that “there is food in Gaza” and that “any other version is a lie”.
Far from being isolated, this campaign is part of a global strategy aimed at denying the current genocide and discrediting international organizations, in the forefront of which UNRWA. In addition to Google, other platforms like X (old Twitter) and Outbrain/Teads also take millions of dollars to relay Tel Aviv propaganda. Worse, several Israeli officials have publicly assumed famine as a weapon of war. The Minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich said that it was necessary to “besieged Gaza” until its inhabitants “die of hunger or surrender”. The Minister of Heritage Amichay Eliyahu for his part hammered that “the Palestinians must be hungry” and encouraged their forced exile.
These revelations ask a burning question: by agreeing to orchestrate and monetize Israeli propaganda, did Google become an active accomplice of a genocide, in the same way as the leaders who execute it? For many human rights defenders, the response is no longer in doubt. The Google case glaringly illustrates the growing collusion between large technological companies and political powers leading colonial wars. By lending its infrastructure and media power to the Israeli propaganda apparatus, the Californian firm does not just “disseminate advertisements”: it participates in the manufacture of a false story intended to invisible the reality of a genocide. This digital instrumentalization confirms that the battle for truth and justice in Gaza is also played in the field of information, where the silence or the complicity of the web giants can cost lives.