Wafa is the official news agency of the Palestinian Liberation Organization established in 1972, a few months before the group killed Israeli athletes at the Summer Olympics in Munich. The agency has a mission “to influence the public opinion at the local and international levels,” to advance its cause to “ensure an appropriate information environment for decision makers to take informed decisions.”

The PLO does this by manipulating adjectives and nouns throughout its story-telling of current events.

An example can be seen in an event on August 1, 2023, when a 20-year old Palestinian Arab terrorist shot and wounded six Jewish civilians in a mall in Ma’ale Adumim, who was subsequently shot and killed. Wafa reported on the event with the headline “Palestinian youth shot and killed in an illegal Israeli settlement east of Jerusalem.”

While news agencies like AP News reported that “Palestinian opens fire in West Bank settlement, wounding 6 people before being killed,” properly reporting on the events in sequence, Wafa sought to inflame local and world opinion that Israelis are “illegal” and out-of-control, arbitrarily killing Palestinian children.

And it is effective.

When Tor Wennesland, Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process addressed the United Nations Security Council last week, he said that “children must never be the target of violence, used or put in harm’s way,” never questioning the Palestinians’ mislabeling youth nor condemning Palestinian society for the prevalent recruiting, training and arming of Arabs under 18 years old. Six countries reacted to Wennesland’s report condemning the targeting of children, placing the blame on Israel.

Palestinian propaganda has deeply infiltrated the United Nations, inverting case and effect, and whitewashed Palestinian crimes against both Israel and its own children.

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Palestinian propaganda has deeply infiltrated the United Nations, inverting cause and effect, whitewashing Palestinian crimes against both Israel and its own people, in recruiting and arming children under 18 to kill Jews, and mislabeling those over 18 as ‘youths’

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