(pic: What is Netanyahu aide Guy Seemann's role in the anti-flotilla pinkwashing hoax, asks Max Blumenthal)
It's now official: the Israeli government are a bunch of liars. Read on
Did the Prime Minister’s office distribute a fake anti-flotilla video? This is exactly what some American bloggers have been claiming, after probing a video that was uploaded to YouTube on Sunday.
The video, nearly three minutes long, featured a young man who called himself Marc and claimed to be a gay and human rights activist. The man recounted a story in which he asked the organizers of the upcoming Gaza flotilla to join their mission, and claimed that his request was allegedly denied on the grounds that participation of the gay and lesbian group with which he was affiliated would not serve the flotilla’s “interests.”
“Marc” explained in the video that he understood why his request was denied only after he researched the people organizing the aid flotilla and found that they had strong ties to Hamas, “whose foreign minister has called homosexuals a minority of perverts, mentally and morally sick,” he said in the video.
Following the YouTube video’s release, U.S. blogger Max Blumenthal found that the recording, which was distributed by Israeli government employee Neil Lazarus on his Facebook page, was a hoax, and that the man who appears in it was actually an Israeli entrepreneur and public relations expert named Omer Gershon.
The video was also tweeted later by Guy Seeman, who was apparently working as an intern in the prime minister’s office.
The premier’s office refused to comment about Seeman’s employment.
You can watch the fake video here and Max's original story can be found at the following link:
Anti-Flotilla video fraud linked to PM Netanyahu’s office, official Israeli hasbara agents (Updated)
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