“In a confounding phenomenon that George Orwell made famous as «doublethink» in his novel 1984, people routinely accept versions of reality that defy logic and their lived experience. For example, many accept that the United States has always been a democracy, despite its long history of slavery, disenfranchisement of women, genocide of Native Americans and theft of their lands, Jim Crow laws, and an electoral college that can produce a «winner» who has actually lost the majority vote. Many believe that certain groups or persons are «terrorists» and others are not, even when their behaviours are identical.”

(Harriet Malinowitz, Selling Israel: Zionism, Propaganda, and the Uses of Hasbara, Olive Branch Press/Interlink 2025, 1).