Disordered publics

How Hamas infiltrated the minds of West

A British police officer is in hospital with significant injuries. A protester against the war in Gaza threw a glass bottle and hit the police officer in the face. How did we reach a point in our society where someone is willing to face four years in prison on behalf of a genocidal terror group in a country 2,000 miles away?

Be in no doubt. They might portray themselves as “peace marches”, but they are directly supporting the war aims of Hamas. Their only objective in this conflict is survival and they aim to do that by leveraging international pressure to force Israel to the ceasefire negotiating table. Their means of doing this are through outrage farming: making civilian collateral damage inevitable, then weaponising the images of that damage to generate outrage in the West. This post explores the disinformation and manipulation techniques on display and their KGB origins.