David Mencer is Israel’s chief international propagandist. In an interview with Nick Robinson of BBC Radio 4’s Today program, Mencer expressed the repugnant claim that the picture of a starving child in Gaza, a 6 month old baby called Siwar Ashour, is “a political PR tool of Hamas.”
To all right thinking people, Mencer is morally unfit.
The comments on just one of Mencer’s videos at his YouTube channel demonstrate this with universal clarity. Viewers see him as a grotesque Zionist mouthpiece, deflecting and lying to Robinson, one of Britain’s most respected radio broadcasters.
W hen I visited the video page, Mencer’s interview with Robinson had nearly as many comments (901 ) as subscribers to his YouTube channel (954). The present a powerful and unanimous expression of public outrage and revulsion, not just at Mencer’s callous disregard for Palestinian life, but his dedication to lying about the live-streamed genocide he is propagandizing.
In nearly all his encounters with journalists, particularly those who are good at their job, Mencer quickly unravels, resorting to overt deflection, evasion, demonisation of Hamas and Palestinians, bullying, Holocaust exceptionalism, and pleas of Jewish victim hood.
In one interview with Yama Wolasmal, Mencer visibly crumbles under the pressure of honest questioning, responding to Wolasmal with ad hominem and a stuttering indignation at the impertinence of being asked such questions. To get through it all, as Alexei Sayle so wonderfully puts it, he just lies, and he lies and he lies and he lies…