The Israel lobby is engaged in an orchestrated pile-on against independent MP Iqbal Mohamed, following an article in the far-right Telegraph. The right-wing rag has announced a parliamentary investigation into Mohamed for his supposedly incorrect claim that Israel killed the Bibas family. The Bibases were taken captive by Palestinian militia on 7 October 2023. With two red-headed children, they have been relentlessly pushed as the encapsulation of ‘Hamas’ brutality after they were killed.
But Iqbal Mis 100% right; the ‘Torygraph’ and the Israel lobby are 100% wrong. And, at least in the case of the Israel lobby, it knows it’s wrong. The Telegraph might just be lazy and shoddy. That won’t — of course — stop the lobby using a completely false narrative to attack an anti-genocide MP.
Alex Hearn, a director of notorious and misnamed Israel agitator group ‘Labour against Antisemitism’ (LAAS) couldn’t resist a bit of referring to himself in the third person — supposedly a sign of clinical narcissism — to condemn Mohamed’s ‘atrocity denial’:
Hearn doesn’t make clear that the ‘atrocity denial’ claim in the ‘Torygraph’ is from him. So is the ludicrous but predictable claim that Iqbal Mohamed saying the IDF killed the Bibases is ‘victim-blaming’. Israel always claims to be the victim, regardless of how many people it kills.
Iqbal Mohamed is right
The Bibases, particularly the children, were victims of the IDF’s murderousness and, specifically, its well-documented ‘Hannibal’ doctrine of killing Israelis rather than let them be captives. So were most of those killed on 7 October 2023, as Israel’s military, its then-‘defense’ minister, and its media have long admitted but UK media, politicians and the Israel lobby conveniently continue to ignore:
Numerous similar lobby accounts made similar claims to Hearn’s, with some even going as far as to claim that ‘prison is not enough’ for the MP — an incitement to violence if ever there was one.
Hearn, for his part, couldn’t resist trying to polish the turd a bit further, attributing the Bibases’ deaths to ‘Hamas’:
But Israel has already admitted months ago that ‘Hamas’ did not take Shiri Bibas and her children . Israeli media have even acknowledged that the IDF asked Hamas to help it locate them, as Skwawkbox covered.
Tragically, they had been long dead, killed along with their captors who belonged to a different militia group. Israeli spokespeople and lobbyists tried last year to claim that they had recently been killed, even though their deaths had been on record months earlier. The occupation regime claimed, though no evidence was ever published, that they had been ‘strangled with bare hands’ — but the father of the family, who survived captivity, said publicly that they had died in an Israeli bombing. Yarden Bibas also begged the Netanyahu regime to accept an offer to release the bodies so he could bury them, but his plea was ignored.
So outraged were the victims’ relatives that they refused to allow Israeli PM Netanyahu or any of his representatives to attend the funeral.
Israel lobby narrative
The Israel lobby’s narrative has been escalating for weeks, ironically because Mohamed shared Skwawkbox’s factually accurate and thoroughly sourced article:
And Hearn is far from the only lobby member pushing the false narrative in the current push to oust Mohamed. The UK subsidiary of “Orwellian-named” US Israel propaganda outfit ‘CAMERA’ pushed hard too:
And the US Israel lobby joined in directly, too, like registered Israeli foreign agent Eyal Yakoby:
The pro-Israel far-right, too. ‘Middle East 24’, an op of the extremist, pro-Israel, nazi-supporting fake-news outlet ‘Visegrad 24’, for example:
That the UK’s uniformly pro-Israel media should misrepresent the situation as the Telegraph has done is no surprise. Tragically for British democracy, neither is the fact that the parliamentary standards office is ‘investigating’ a Muslim MP for saying something demonstrably true.
The truth needs to be louder and go wider. Much louder and much wider.
Featured image via Middle East Eye
By Skwawkbox
This post was originally published on Canary.