DISINFO: Protests in Israel are colour revolution attempt similar to Belarus in 2020
SUMMARY
Protests in Israel are similar to the events in Belarus in 2020. The actual reason is not a reform of the judicial system; this is just an excuse for protesters. It is also no coincidence that the protests in Israel and France came at about the same time; and a serious domestic tension in the US is about to begin. The events in Israel are yet another example of a colour revolution.
RESPONSE
Framing all popular protests as foreign-led ‘colour revolutions’ is a recurring pro-Kremlin disinformation narrative. The mass protests in Israel in March-April 2023 are connected with the government’s judicial overhaul plans and there is no evidence that they are linked to the protests in France.
Pro-Kremlin media frequently falsely portray popular protests around the world as instigated from abroad, often by the US and the West. The disinformation narrative has been applied, among others, to reports about protests in Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Slovakia, Hong Kong and elsewhere, with the aim of portraying protest movements as aggressive actors who constantly prepare new coups.
The protests in Belarus referred to in the article were also not a ‘colour revolution’. They erupted to contest the results of the presidential election on 9 August 2020, which were not monitored by independent experts, and are largely considered fraudulent by both international observers and a big part of the Belarusian society. On 19 August 2020, the European Council called Belarusian elections neither free nor fair.
See earlier disinformation cases alleging that London-based headquarters organise colour revolutions in Belarus, Myanmar, Russia, and the US, that the West’s main activity in the post-Soviet states is organising revolutions, that Protests in Kazakhstan are a new Western attempt to organise a colour revolution, and that CIA and MI6 changed power in Armenia in order to oust Russia from the region.