A Tragic Outcome of Misinformation, Disinformation, Malinformation And Propaganda in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Why Telling Information from Misinformation Matters in Our Daily Lives
Yesterday, a 71-year-old individual in the US visited a house he had rented to a Palestinian family and attempted to murder the family members. Inside the house were a mother and her child. The person killed the six-year-old child with a knife and injured the mother. He was stabbed over 20 times.
According to the Huffington Post:
“‘Detectives were able to determine that both victims in this brutal attack were targeted by the suspect due to them being Muslim and the ongoing Middle Eastern conflict involving Hamas and the Israelis,’ the Plainfield Township homicide department said in a statement.”
I won’t delve deeper into this topic or expand on it further. Instead, my focus will shift to defining several crucial terms that hold significant importance in our current era of information overload. Understanding these terms is vital in our collective effort to curb the recurrence of such events and to halt the proliferation of hate and hypocrisy.
People around the world may have limited information about the Palestinian-Israeli…
