Google running paid Israeli government ads smearing the Hind Rajab Foundation

The Hind Rajab Foundation is a justice organisation set up to pursue Israeli war criminals legally in the name of Hind Rajab, the five-year-old girl murdered along with her family by 355 bullets from an Israeli tank at point blank range. It has lodged criminal complaints with local governments against a number of alleged war criminals sheltering in countries outside Israel.

The regular breaking news of these pursuits of justice against alleged mass murderers means that many people around the world will be looking for information on the Hind Rajab Foundation every day – but US search engine Google, the world’s biggest, is running paid ads linking to a page on the Israeli government’s website that smears the Hind Rajab Foundation as a ‘dangerous’ and ‘disturbing’.

And because such ‘sponsored’ posts always appear at the top of Google’s search results, they appear first – above the human rights organisation’s actual, authentic website:

Google pushing Israeli propaganda against the Hind Rajab Foundation

Anyone clicking through to the government page are assaulted by typical Israeli propaganda that treats perpetrators as victims and those fighting for justice as terrorists. The Hind Rajab Foundation is, we are asked to believe, a “facade” [sic] for a “disturbing reality” of “deep connections to extremist ideologies and terrorist organisations”, and a group that – oh the horror – “actively gathers and disseminates information on IDF soldiers living abroad, aiming to subject them to legal harassment and potentially jeopardise their safety”.

Poor lambs. Always the victims, even as they slaughter.

Google has long been accused, even by its own employees, of promoting Zionist interests and ‘downranking’ Palestinian and anti-Zionist sites so that they appear many pages deep in search results, as well as of profiting from Israel’s oppression of the Palestinian people and its rampant illegal seizure of Palestinian land and homes.

Israel, Google’s client in its assault on the Hind Rajab Foundation, is now reported to be planning harm to its chair Dyab Abou Jahjah and his family.

Featured image via the Canary