How You're Being Manipulated
Hamas has been providing the world with a master class in how to manipulate public opinion. Here are some of its strategies:
Outright Lies that the Press Repeats
Hamas has embraced the concept of the BIG LIE. Tell a story often enough and you can get the press to repeat it.
Here's an example: Hamas hid tons of baby food formula to damage Israel with claims that it was starving children.
Here's an example: Hamas hid tons of baby food formula to damage Israel with claims that it was starving children.
GazaWood
Many videos coming out of Gaza are staged propaganda. They also cynically exploit and abuse children to achieve their goals. Children are forced to cry on camera, walk barefoot in the cold, carry weapons, and even have stones dropped near them to mimic shelling (see first video). All of this stems from the indoctrination system built around UNRWA.
Gazawood has revealed much of the truth behind these manipulations:
1. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gazawood4/reel/DRAa8rqjeWi/
2. Instagram (Visegrad): https://www.instagram.com/visegrad.24/reel/DRKMtNjiEgB/
3. X: https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1989800900626432293
4. X: https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1990497743350214963
5. X: https://x.com/wolfejosh/status/1990268245841170517
6. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gazawood_o-god-let-liberation-come-at-the-hands-activity-7395567065018908673-I7lU
7. Threads: https://www.threads.com/@gazawood4/post/DRCX8ehEVEq?xmt=AQF0HvitWGtRPEqSlaafRBof13ISQ65AAtX3ud8ea5Zt3w
Gazawood has revealed much of the truth behind these manipulations:
1. Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gazawood4/reel/DRAa8rqjeWi/
2. Instagram (Visegrad): https://www.instagram.com/visegrad.24/reel/DRKMtNjiEgB/
3. X: https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1989800900626432293
4. X: https://x.com/GAZAWOOD1/status/1990497743350214963
5. X: https://x.com/wolfejosh/status/1990268245841170517
6. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/gazawood_o-god-let-liberation-come-at-the-hands-activity-7395567065018908673-I7lU
7. Threads: https://www.threads.com/@gazawood4/post/DRCX8ehEVEq?xmt=AQF0HvitWGtRPEqSlaafRBof13ISQ65AAtX3ud8ea5Zt3w
The Use of Bots
On November 23, 2025, X started revealing the actual locations of active accounts. Here are some of the results:
📍Tens of thousands of accounts from Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and more were revealed as fake profiles pretending to be suffering Gazans, “West Bank Palestinians,” or even white Westerners who supposedly hate Jews and oppose every value of Western culture.
📍"Gazan journalists" were revealed to be tweeting from Europe.
A massive propaganda network funded by Qatar, Iran, and Russia has been seeding anti-Western and anti-Israel narratives for years through soft-power manipulation and identity fraud.
📍Tens of thousands of accounts from Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and more were revealed as fake profiles pretending to be suffering Gazans, “West Bank Palestinians,” or even white Westerners who supposedly hate Jews and oppose every value of Western culture.
📍"Gazan journalists" were revealed to be tweeting from Europe.
A massive propaganda network funded by Qatar, Iran, and Russia has been seeding anti-Western and anti-Israel narratives for years through soft-power manipulation and identity fraud.
The Manipulation of Standard Reference Sources
For example, The New York Times published an exposè on the sexual assaults of October 7 as acts of terror. Wikipedia added it as an entry, but framed it as Israeli propaganda.
English Wikipedia is no longer a neutral facts platform - it has long been taken over by hostile actors, working from within to weaken the West.
Larry Sanger, Wikipedia’s founder (who now speaks out against it), shared WikiBias’s post on the matter.
1. Sanger’s share: https://x.com/lsanger/status/1996232567876362371
2. Exposed entry: https://x.com/lsanger/status/1996232567876362371
The Geneva-based Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor, identified by watchdog groups and the Israeli government as a Hamas front organization, officially opened registration for a training course teaching participants how to edit Wikipedia articles about the Israel-Hamas War.
And it's not just Israel that is the subject of these manipulations, lies, and distortions.
Influencing the Herd Behavior of Crowds
There’s a well known book called Influence by Robert Cialdini.
It explains the six psychological principles that drive human persuasion and mass behavior.
What most people don’t realize is this:
The pro Palestine movement has almost perfectly implemented all six principles.
Let’s break it down.
👉 Authority
The pro Palestine camp engineers and amplifies voices the public instinctively trusts.
Holocaust survivors, Judges, Lawyers, Doctors, Journalists, UN staff, Human rights NGOs, Academics.
When these figures repeat accusations like “genocide” or “war crimes,” most people stop questioning and start accepting, even though no one to date, even Israel’s biggest critics, has been able to concretely prove that there’s a genocide going on.
👉 Liking
We trust people we like. We copy people we admire. So the movement pushes:
* Celebrities wearing Gaza pins on red carpets
* Influencers posting about Gaza
* Athletes speaking for Gaza
* Pop culture speaking for Gaza
People mirror messages given to them by people they like and admire.
👉 Urgency and Scarcity
Fear and time pressure shut down rational thinking.
Typical messaging:
* “Every day Israel kills 20 more children”
* “If you don’t act now, genocide continues”
* Endless emergency language
* Graphic imagery designed to bypass logic
Our brains are wired to prioritize speed over accuracy when we perceive danger.
Threat messaging pushes people into reflex mode, not reasoning mode.
👉 Consistency and Commitment
Once people take small actions, they psychologically commit to the narrative.
It starts small:
* Put a Palestine flag emoji in your bio
* Share a post
* Wear a pin
* Donate $5
* Attend one rally
Soon your identity becomes attached to the position.
Common sense begins to bend under the weight of self consistency.
The mind struggles to reconcile that those you believed were “good” committed very real atrocities on October 7th.
So instead of updating beliefs, denial becomes easier.
👉 Social Proof
Humans assume that if many people believe something, it must be true.
So the movement amplifies:
* Massive street protests
* Viral hashtags
* University mobs
* Media repetition
* Algorithmic amplification
In other words, it’s the herd mentality. You believe something because millions believe it too, not because it’s necessarily factual.
👉 Reciprocity
When someone gives you something emotionally, you feel obligated to give back.
The movement offers:
* Emotional validation
* Moral superiority
* Belonging
* A sense of righteousness
* A heroic identity
In return, people feel obligated to defend the narrative, attack dissenters, and spread the message.
People will hold on to this narrative even though it collapses under basic facts:
👉 Gaza’s population has grown in recent years. That alone contradicts the claim of genocide.
👉 Israel accepted multiple peace offers. Palestinian leadership rejected every one.
👉 Israel signed peace agreements with UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco in 2020. That is not a society seeking eternal war.
👉 Until October 7th, Israel was reducing military burden, shortening service, lowering defense spending as a share of GDP, and investing mainly in defensive systems.
👉 The Zionists purchased land and got the rest of it winning a war it didn’t start. They didn’t “steal the land”
👉 The land is abundant with rich ancient Jewish history. Ancient winepresses, Jewish purity baths, ancient Hebrew coins, 2,000 year old Hebrew scrolls. Every year there are new archeological discoveries strengthening the Jewish connection to this land.
👉 Before Zionism, the land was neglected, sparsely populated, largely empty, swampy, filled with malaria - not some kind of indigenous paradise.
Once you understand the psychology, you can be immune to it.
It explains the six psychological principles that drive human persuasion and mass behavior.
What most people don’t realize is this:
The pro Palestine movement has almost perfectly implemented all six principles.
Let’s break it down.
👉 Authority
The pro Palestine camp engineers and amplifies voices the public instinctively trusts.
Holocaust survivors, Judges, Lawyers, Doctors, Journalists, UN staff, Human rights NGOs, Academics.
When these figures repeat accusations like “genocide” or “war crimes,” most people stop questioning and start accepting, even though no one to date, even Israel’s biggest critics, has been able to concretely prove that there’s a genocide going on.
👉 Liking
We trust people we like. We copy people we admire. So the movement pushes:
* Celebrities wearing Gaza pins on red carpets
* Influencers posting about Gaza
* Athletes speaking for Gaza
* Pop culture speaking for Gaza
People mirror messages given to them by people they like and admire.
👉 Urgency and Scarcity
Fear and time pressure shut down rational thinking.
Typical messaging:
* “Every day Israel kills 20 more children”
* “If you don’t act now, genocide continues”
* Endless emergency language
* Graphic imagery designed to bypass logic
Our brains are wired to prioritize speed over accuracy when we perceive danger.
Threat messaging pushes people into reflex mode, not reasoning mode.
👉 Consistency and Commitment
Once people take small actions, they psychologically commit to the narrative.
It starts small:
* Put a Palestine flag emoji in your bio
* Share a post
* Wear a pin
* Donate $5
* Attend one rally
Soon your identity becomes attached to the position.
Common sense begins to bend under the weight of self consistency.
The mind struggles to reconcile that those you believed were “good” committed very real atrocities on October 7th.
So instead of updating beliefs, denial becomes easier.
👉 Social Proof
Humans assume that if many people believe something, it must be true.
So the movement amplifies:
* Massive street protests
* Viral hashtags
* University mobs
* Media repetition
* Algorithmic amplification
In other words, it’s the herd mentality. You believe something because millions believe it too, not because it’s necessarily factual.
👉 Reciprocity
When someone gives you something emotionally, you feel obligated to give back.
The movement offers:
* Emotional validation
* Moral superiority
* Belonging
* A sense of righteousness
* A heroic identity
In return, people feel obligated to defend the narrative, attack dissenters, and spread the message.
People will hold on to this narrative even though it collapses under basic facts:
👉 Gaza’s population has grown in recent years. That alone contradicts the claim of genocide.
👉 Israel accepted multiple peace offers. Palestinian leadership rejected every one.
👉 Israel signed peace agreements with UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco in 2020. That is not a society seeking eternal war.
👉 Until October 7th, Israel was reducing military burden, shortening service, lowering defense spending as a share of GDP, and investing mainly in defensive systems.
👉 The Zionists purchased land and got the rest of it winning a war it didn’t start. They didn’t “steal the land”
👉 The land is abundant with rich ancient Jewish history. Ancient winepresses, Jewish purity baths, ancient Hebrew coins, 2,000 year old Hebrew scrolls. Every year there are new archeological discoveries strengthening the Jewish connection to this land.
👉 Before Zionism, the land was neglected, sparsely populated, largely empty, swampy, filled with malaria - not some kind of indigenous paradise.
Once you understand the psychology, you can be immune to it.
