Science Quote by Jack Schwartz

Schwartz’s line isn’t really about “propagandists” as a category; it’s a bid to disqualify a whole side’s narrative in advance. The key move is the absolutism: “can say and do anything,” “without concern,” “simply become the truth.” Those are totalizing claims that turn a messy information war into a morality play with one villain and one custodian of facts. As rhetoric, it’s efficient: if you accept the premise, you’re pre-approved to ignore not only specific statements but also any future evidence that might complicate your loyalties.

The scientist’s posture matters. By invoking “truth” as though it were a lab value, the quote borrows the authority of scientific empiricism while sidestepping the burdens that come with it: falsifiable claims, defined terms, and symmetrical skepticism. “Palestinian propagandists” is left deliberately broad, collapsing militants, officials, activists, journalists, and ordinary people into a single actor with a single intent. That vagueness is the point; it functions like a solvent, dissolving distinctions that might force moral or factual nuance.

Subtextually, it reframes the conflict as a battle between reality and fabrication, implying that Palestinian claims of harm, displacement, or rights are chiefly products of repetition rather than experience. It also echoes a familiar anxiety of the media age: that attention, virality, and repetition can manufacture “truth.” The irony is that the quote itself relies on repetition-friendly certainty. It’s a statement designed to travel, to inoculate, and to harden an audience against persuasion - which is, in its own way, propaganda technique dressed in the language of truth.