A Company Called Show Faith By Works, (Funded By The Israeli Government) Based In California, Has Registered Under FARA To Execute The “Largest Geofencing And Targeted Christian Digital Campaign Ever.”
The project will send what it calls a mobile “October 7th Experience” across the country, strapping thousands of American Christians into VR goggles to relive the Israeli rendition of Hamas’s attack.
As part of the Israeli government sponsored geofencing and hasbara campaign, the Pro-Israel group will target “every major church” not just in California but in Arizona, Nevada, and Colorado as well as “all Christian colleges” during worship hours; their FARA forms outline a plan to target millions of Christians in the United States. The outreach initiative debuts on the two-year anniversary of October 7.
Americans who miss the Israeli government–sponsored VR tour can have the same “October 7 experience” by turning on the new Hollywood dramatization of the Hamas attack, streaming on the media conglomerate Paramount+ owned by David Ellison, son of the pro-Israel tycoon Larry Ellison. It’s hardly the only one; October 7th films are now so numerous on Apple TV, Amazon, and other platforms that the Jerusalem Post recently declared, “the tragedy of Oct. 7 has become its own cinematic sub-genre.”
New legislation in congress would further cement the Israeli government’s October 7th narrative into American mass consciousness. Congress will soon consider a bill from Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) to require “October 7th Remembrance Curriculum” in public schools. The October 7th Remembrance Education Act “will instruct the American Holocaust Memorial Museum to build a model curriculum for schools to teach the heinous and brutal attacks committed on October 7th, the history of antisemitism and how it played a role in the attacks.” “Denial and distortion” of the Israeli government’s official October 7th claims are “a form of antisemitism,” reads Gottheimer’s press release for the legislation.
But even as Americans are spoonfed the state narrative about October 7th, Israelis themselves continue to question their own government’s official story.
Families of those killed or taken hostage have demanded a state inquiry, accusing the Netanyahu government of burying critical evidence and suppressing testimony. Haaretz and Channel 12 have published reports detailing how the Hannibal Directive—a standing order authorizing soldiers to kill Israeli citizens in certain contexts—was invoked across the south on October 7th. Footage, survivor accounts, and IDF testimony suggest that many of the burned cars and destroyed homes Israel attributed to Hamas were in fact destroyed by Israeli helicopter and tank fire. Even stranger, Israeli soldiers report receiving unusual orders to stand down on the morning of October 7th, allowing the Hamas attack to unfold.
It is unclear why Israeli soldiers were told to abandon their posts, or how many of the 1,200 victims were killed by Israel rather than Hamas. Few in Western corporate media have shown any interest in finding out; the Washington Post interviewed “experts” who labeled such lines of questioning “conspiracy theories.” Questioning the official Israeli government narrative around October 7th is “worrisome to Jewish leaders and researchers who see ties to Holocaust denial.”
In place of journalistic inquiry and skepticism, Western corporate media outlets have helped to launder many of Israel’s most sensationalistic and provocative hoaxes about what happened that day. The source for thoroughly debunked claims of “beheaded babies”—the Israeli first responders group United Hatzalah and its founder Eli Beer—appeared on CNN’s Jake Tapper to describe “the mutilations, the burnings, the beheaded corpses.”
Then, in November, 2023 Dr. Chen Kugel, Israel’s chief forensic pathologist at the Abu Kabir Forensic Institute who performed autopsies on October 7th victims, told the Economist that he had seen “the burnt headless bodies of babies.” Joe Biden, frequently repeated the same claim.
But Haaretz reported in December 2023 that no babies were beheaded and no babies were burned alive. As the Israeli newspaper explained, “on October 7 one [emphasis added] baby was murdered, 10-month old Mila Cohen.”
That is not to say that babies have not been beheaded and burned alive in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. They have. But those victims have not been Israeli babies but Palestinian ones. In 2015, Israeli settlers firebombed a Palestinian home in the occupied West bank village of Duma, burning alive Saad and Riham Dawabsha and their 18-month-old son Ali. A few months later, Israel’s Channel 10 revealed how Orthodox Jewish Israelis celebrated the Palestinian baby’s murder, airing videos of Israeli youth dancing with guns and knives, with some stabbing pictures of the deceased 18-month old baby. More recently a Palestinian baby was beheaded by one of Israel’s numerous airstrikes on the UNRWA clinic at the Jabalia refugee camp, though that incident barely registered in the Western corporate press.
The effects of the dogmatic narrative are pervasive at the highest levels of American government. When asked last month why he had done nothing to force Israel to end its bombing of Gaza, Trump explained it was because he “had seen the tapes of babies chopped up to pieces,” on October 7th. Steve Witkoff, who recently told Tucker Carlson that he had seen similar “tapes” of “beheadings,” and “mass rapes,” explained how watching those Israeli government produced videos “can taint the way you are going to feel about” Palestinians.
“That film is a reality and we cannot ignore the reality of what happened on October 7,” said the United States’ senior negotiator in the Middle East.
That the Israeli government’s own manufactured, emotionally manipulative imagery not only saturates corporate media and Hollywood, but guides the decisions of our president and his peace negotiators should be concerning. But this is the power and legacy of the October 7th industry: the loose network of politicians, Zionist billionaires, lobby groups, and media outlets that have transformed a single day’s violence into a permanent instrument for Israeli power. The October 7 industry exploits Jewish suffering to deflect criticism of Israel, justify its wars, and silence its critics. The phrase “the deadliest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust” has become central, lifting Israel’s actions above moral or political scrutiny and into the realm of myth.
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