A video of Chinese university dean Yan Xuetong giving an Israeli military propagandist a figurative spanking at a ‘top-level forum’ in China has gone viral after it was posted on X by a popular French political observer.

Yan Xuetong destroying an Israeli propagandist’s argument

Arnaud Bertrand posted the attempt of Israeli military spokesman Elad Shoshan to justify Israel’s mass murder of Palestinians based on a few ‘hostages’ being held in Gaza – many of whom have been killed by Israel’s bombing, shot by occupation soldiers or suffocated in Israeli gas attacks – and the astonishingly frank response, given China’s usually circumspect approach, of Yan Xuetong, who asks Shoshan whether, if robbers were holding up a bank, he’d kill all the customers and staff in the bank to get the robbers.

Bertrand explained:

Absolutely extraordinary exchange between Israel and China  I’ve never seen such a heated exchange come out of top-level forum in China (this is from the 12th Beijing Xiangshan Forum that started yesterday), this normally never happens.

The guy speaking is Yan Xuetong, the dean of the Institute of International Relations at Tsinghua University, the most prestigious university in China.

Speaking for Israel is a military officer apparently called Elad Shoshan.

Yan Xuetong truly doesn’t hold back:

– When the Israeli officer tries to bullshit him around how Israel supposedly protects civilians in Gaza, he replies: “You killed more than 70,000 civilians!… The fact is not decided by you… It is not decided by your government. Your government has no legitimacy or the right to decide or defend what is fact”

– And when told that the war will end when Hamas release hostages he replies: “No, this kind of propaganda have too many. No one believe it! Too many! Too much! No one believe it, except a few Israelis”

The post has been shared more than 33,000 times and viewed almost 5,000,000. Russell Dobular of the Due Dissidence podcast commented that the death count mentioned by Yan is a massive underestimate – experts have calculated a conservative toll of almost 700,000 killed by direct violence or else by hunger and disease – then went on to describe the video as:

the best thing you’re going to see all week… that was really amazing, when he says “Yeah no one believes you [but] a few Israelis”.

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By Skwawkbox

This post was originally published on Canary.