Has Palestinian Propaganda Become Too Wacky and Over-the-Top to Have an Impact?

Dexter Van Zile--great name, BTW--says it has:

These days, Palestinian anti-Israel messaging doesn’t resonate like it used to. Part of it is that other crises – such as Assad’s gas attacks in Syria, the kidnapping of 300 young girls by Boko Haram in Nigeria and Putin’s misadventures in the Ukraine – have captured peoples’ attention. 

The notion that the Palestinians are the hobbits of the Middle East whose suffering represents a great insuperable wound on humanity’s conscience is simply no longer tenable. 

Another factor is that a growing number of people are starting to realize that Palestinian suffering is largely self-inflicted.

That doesn't mean, though, that the "old" propaganda has failed:

Ongoing attacks on Jews in Europe is the harvest of the hate broadcast by Palestinian elites before, during and after the Second Intifada. The fire that was started by Palestinian propagandists the last decade continues to burn, and spread, with lethal consequences.

To be sure Palestinian propagandists from the West Bank had their helpers in the West. For example, Charles Enderlin, the man who helped broadcast the Al Durah video to French viewers in 2000, has a lot to answer for. Jews are fleeing the hate he helped promote.

And, as per usual, the Jew-hate has a devastating effect on the haters:

But nowhere is this harvest of hate more evident than in Palestinian society itself. In lying to the world about the cause of their suffering, Palestinian elites are lying to themselves and the people they lead.

A far superior, more nuanced form of propaganda was on display over the weekend in Toronto. If you can stick to the "but what about the suffering chilllldddrennnn?" trope, and do so in posh surroundings, your message has a better chance of hitting home.