Brazilian radio host Marcos Susskind (photo), a resident of Tel Aviv, questioned the proHamas bias of the website ICL Notícias during a live broadcast. When asked what he had seen since the attacks of Saturday the 7th, he replied: “What is happening is a terrorist action on the part of Hamas.” In fact, as I listened to you, I didn’t understand why The word “terrorist” was not used once. That surprised me. He spoke of Hezbollah and he spoke of Hamas, and he did not use the word “terrorist” to describe two groups known internationally as terrorists that do not respect martial law“.
Susskind further criticized the use of the term genocide to describe the Palestinians’ situation. “Another word I heard there that really caught my attention was the genocide of the Palestinian people. I am the grandson of people who were murdered by the Nazis in World War II. Unfortunately, I didn’t know my grandparents. My father had seven brothers, I didn’t know them. They were all murdered by the Nazi machine. Before the Second World War, the Jewish people numbered 18 million people. 77 years later… 78 years after the end of the war, there are still 15 million of us. To date, we have not managed to restore the number of Jews in the world as in 1939. This is genocide. The Palestinian people left Israel with 750,000 people. Today there are 4.540 million. What kind of genocide is it when a nation grows from 750,000 to 4 million people in 75 years? Is this genocide? You use absurd words. Sorry, before I talk about the situation, I have to say this. They are making propaganda and this propaganda is wrong. We have to tell the truth. Journalism is based on truth. Journalism is not based on propaganda“.
One of the journalists in the ICL Notícias studio interrupted him: “You won’t shout here. Quiet. You don’t win by screaming.”
The moderator then abruptly ended the conversation: “You don’t know our work and we say goodbye.”
ICL Notícias, short for Instituto Knowledge Liberta, is a YouTube channel of the economist and former banker Eduardo Moreira, who launched the “Somos 70%” campaign in 2020. The population wanted neither Lula nor Bolsonaro. The businessman then joined the PT camp.