No Hostage Left Behind Letter:

As a signatory to the sensationalist "No Hostage Left Behind" open letter addressed to President Joe Biden in October 2023, they amplified since-refuted but still actively heinous, destructive, and dehumanizing lies about Palestinians, including claims that Palestinians "beheaded over 40 babies" and committed other bouts of misinformation that formed part of a broader Zionist atrocity propaganda campaign designed to justify Israel's genocidal response.

The letter focused exclusively on demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages while remaining completely silent on the thousands of innocent Palestinian hostages — including hundreds of children — kidnapped and held by Israel both before and after that date. Many of these Palestinian hostages endured documented assault, torture, sexual abuse, and forced starvation despite facing no charges. This selective framing served to completely absolve Israel of any accountability for the suffering of Palestinians under 77+ years of Zionist terrorism, the ethnic cleansing that began in the early 1900s and continues through the Nakba's legacy, the illegal occupation, apartheid, and the current genocide across Palestine.

By endorsing the letter, they helped shift all blame onto Palestinian resistance and obscured the root causes of the violence: Israel's role as the active settler-colonial oppressor that systematically displaces indigenous Palestinians through the racist "Aaliyah" project, which steals their land and provides it to any Jewish individual willing to colonize it. The letter ignored well-documented evidence that Israel's Hannibal Directive overwhelmingly contributed to many of the casualties on October 7, including those charred beyond recognition inside kibbutzim and other sites, as Israeli forces applied policies that prioritized preventing captures even at the cost of their own civilians' lives.

Instead, the signatory's action perpetuated a narrative that whitewashed these realities and portrayed Palestinian actions in isolation from the decades-long context of dispossession and violence. This behaviour contributes directly to the dehumanization of Palestinians, the manufacturing of public consent for Israel's ongoing occupation, genocide, and ethnic cleansing across Palestine, and the shielding of the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) from international accountability. In fact, signing such a dehumanising and atrocity-filled letter represents a pattern of complicity through selective outrage that betrays Palestinian liberation and upholds the structures of settler-colonialism and apartheid.

Dehumanization of Palestinians:

The systematic erasure of Palestinian history and culture is a well-documented effort that has been ongoing since the early 1900s. This erasure has taken many forms, including the destruction of physical records and infrastructure, the suppression of Palestinian voices and narratives, the appropriation of Palestinian cultural heritage and most visibly, the dehumanization of the Palestinian populace.

From the late 19th century to the mid-20th century, Palestinian records, literature, and cultural heritage faced deliberate and concerted efforts to obliterate their existence and narrative. This deliberate "archival silencing" has made reconstructing this period in Palestinian history incredibly challenging, yet the truths that remain paint a horrifying picture of the deliberate erasure and destruction of an entire population and its culture.

The dehumanization of Palestinians has been a deliberate policy, perpetuated through military operations, discriminatory laws, Israeli education and a pervasive culture that fosters prejudice. Dehumanising rhetoric, portraying Palestinians as "roaches" and "rats," lays the foundation for atrocities by stripping away their humanity in the eyes of the oppressor.

Widespread media narratives also project institutional biases ranging from depicting Palestinians solely as militants or desperate victims and erasing their normal daily life to embedding language biases around land, protests and resistance tactics. These patterns collectively indicate how public discourse within segments of Israeli society systematically dehumanize Palestinians while entrenching prejudices against them.

Amplified Zionist Lies:

This individual has used their voice and platform to echo and amplify egregious Zionist lies but also perpetuate the subjugation, torture, brutalisation and murder inflicted by the Israeli-occupation of Palestinian and its attempts to erase Palestinian identity, culture, heritage and statehood. [1] [2] [3] [4]

These egregious and dangerous lies MAY include but are not limited to: [5]

• Palestinians beheading babies [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11]
• Hamas Headquarters under Hospitals [12] [] [13] [14] [15]
• All Palestinians killed are terrorists [16] [17] [18]
• Israel didn’t kill its own citizens on October 7th [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24]
• Israel would never bomb hospitals (it ravaged almost all of them) [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30]
• Israel is the 'only democratic state in the Middle East' [31] [32] [33] [34]

Spreading misinformation and hateful propaganda against Palestinians is a deplorable act of dehumanization that directly enables human rights abuses, ethnic cleansing and violence against the Palestinian people. [35] [36] [37] [38]

By employing such malicious tactics to deny Palestinian realities and whitewash war crimes, home demolitions and the systematic deprivation of human rights under military occupation, this individual has provided racist cover for 75+ years of subjugation. [39] [[40]] (https://www.un.org/unispal/document/human-rights-situation-in-opt-unohchr-23feb-2024/)

This misinformation doesn't just distort the truth, it actively endangers Palestinian lives and inflames hatred, justifies atrocities like the active genocide and obstructs any path to justice through the wilful erasure of the Palestinian lived experience. [41] [42] [43]

For more information about amplified Zionist lies, please visit:

• Databases for Palestine
• Pali Answers
• October 7th Fact Check