Disgraceful smear tactics

Israel's megaphones abroad are becoming increasingly desperate in their tactics to defend the indefensible, even resorting to attacking Holocaust survivors. It's a new form of denial.
The megaphones have launched an extremely aggressive propaganda campaign whose goal is to counteract the decline in support for Israel.
A telling characteristic of these campaigns is that they by and large do not focus on attempting to justify Israel’s behaviour. Instead, the focus has shifted to attempting to shut down criticism of Israel by targeting the most outspoken critics with crude smear tactics and outright censorship.
One has to assume that the architects of the propaganda efforts realize that it is no longer possible to explain Israeli abuses in a way that the international public will accept.
Instead, the focus has shifted to attempting to shut down criticism of Israel by targeting the most outspoken critics with crude smear tactics and outright censorship.
There is an attempt to silence criticism of Israel by labelling all such criticism as “anti-Semitism” and therefore as hate speech. This tactic has a triple purpose: to suppress public awareness of what Israel is doing; to discredit critics by smearing them as “anti-Semitic”, and to keep Jews onside by frightening them with the spectre of anti-Semitism.
By labelling it as “anti-Semitism” this should also be recognized as a tactic of desperation, a tactic that has become necessary because of the ever-growing opposition among Jews to Israeli policies.