Israel has tried to escalate its propaganda attack on the humanitarian Global Sumud Flotilla (GSF) of volunteer-crewed boats heading with vital aid to Gaza, with a deranged smear claiming to “prove Hamas’s direct involvement in the funding and execution of the “Sumud” flotilla to Gaza”.

Those who read on are then taken down a twisting path of almost-certainly faked ‘documents’ that then lead to a destination that would be hilarious were the Zionist regime not trying to use it to justify physically attacking the peaceful volunteers – and has indeed already started doing so:

The regime that has lied about bombing hospitals, lied about murdering journalists, lied about the deaths of its own people that it killed in ‘immense’ numbers on 7 October 2023, lied about the UN, lied about rapes, lied about baked and beheaded babies – lied about everything, non-stop, for the last two years – asks us to believe that it “discovered” “Hamas documents” proving a link between the so-called “Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad” and Hamas.

Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad literally doesn’t exist

Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad has no website, no Wikipedia entry and, judging by a complete absence of mentions on Google before the current propaganda campaign, seems to be an entity that only exists in Israel’s fevered ‘hasbara’ and only even that in the last few weeks, according to Google. The older links that come up supposedly quoting the ‘organisation’s name on the search engine don’t in fact mention it – and any mentions that do pop up are quotes in new comments about Israel’s claim.

From that bizarre starting point, we’re then meant to believe that a ‘letter’ from assassinated Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh asking Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad to unite with Hamas is evidence that it’s part of Hamas – and that another ‘document’ lists the non-existent group’s ‘operatives’, who conveniently include leading GSF figures Zaher Birawi and ‘Saif Abukashk’, apparently a reference to well-known Sumud March organiser Saif Abukeshek.

When they joined the non-existent group isn’t made clear, but the allegation was immediately added to the flotilla’s Wikipedia page – by an Israeli user account set up some years ago that has made anti-Palestinian edits on a number of other pages that have been picked up and corrected by Wikipedia editors.

From that, we’re then asked to believe the unreferenced assertion that Abu Keshek runs a company that owns many of the flotilla boats – and that “Thus![!] the company is “secretly owned by Hamas”.

From hasbara to farce

But now we descend from the usual baseless ‘hasbara’ (pro-Israel propaganda) into outright farce – because the Israel foreign ministry then provides images it claims prove the links to Hamas by showing the flotilla’s Birawi with Hamas leaders.

But it’s not him in the photo with the Hamas figures.

Not only is it not him, but it’s George Galloway, a politician well known to the British people and many internationally, not only for being a seven-times elected member of Parliament but as a participant in a notorious season of TV’s Big Brother.

And the two don’t even look alike:

Zaher Birawi, circled by Israel. George Galloway, circled by Israel.

Israel’s propaganda is famously shoddy, but this is plumbing new depths. As a self-own it’s hilarious and highly revealing about its methods and arrogance – not just Galloway, but also when it comes to the non-existent Palestinian Conference for Palestinians Abroad.

As a threat to peaceful people trying to stop babies and others from being starved to death by Israel, it’s grotesque, sinister, evil. It needs to be widely circulated as well as heavily mocked and condemned.

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