DARVO

It takes work to write this. But over the last two-plus years, I have become very good at spotting Russian propaganda. Once I started following the Middle East closer, as a Jew, you quite never stop following, it was striking. Hamas uses the same propaganda techniques deployed by the Russian Federation. If anything, they are more prominent. One is called DARVO, an acronym for Deny, Attack, Reverse, Victim, Offender.

The meme below came from the Hamas-Israeli conflict; it is a good summary of this dynamic. We have nothing like this from the Russia-Ukraine War. This came up on social media. I have yet to learn who the…