The following clip, supposedly of JFK, has been doing the rounds on social media.
🚨 Never-before-seen clip of John F. Kennedy talking about disagreeing with Israeli policy.
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“I have made it clear to the Israeli leadership that I do not support their expansionist ideas. The indigenous people of that land have rights that cannot be ignored. We must find a fair solution, not one dictated by any single group.”
Most, if not all, of those sharing it are implying or explicitly accusing Israel of being behind his assassination.
This video has the hallmarks of being fake.
Let’s start by just thinking logically. Surely if it was authentic, such a controversial speech would have been documented somewhere. Alas, it has appeared out of nowhere.
Not only that, but it is completely at odds with his well-documented support of the Jewish state. For instance, he is on record as saying:
When the first Zionist conference met in 1897, Palestine was a neglected wasteland. A few scattered Jewish colonies had resettled there, but they had come to die in the Holy Land, rather than to make it live again in greatness. Most of the governments of the world were indifferent.
But now all is changed. Israel became a triumphant and enduring reality exactly 50 years after Theodore Herzl, the prophet of Zionism, had proclaimed the ideal of nationhood. It was the classic case of an ancient dream finding a young leader, for Herzl was then only 37 years of age. Perhaps I may be allowed the observation that the Jewish people – ever since David slew Goliath – have never considered youth as a barrier to leadership, or measured experience and maturity by mere length of days.
I first saw Palestine in 1939. There the neglect and ruin left by centuries of Ottoman misrule were slowly being transformed by miracles of labor and sacrifice. But Palestine was still a land of promise in 1939, rather than a land of fulfillment. I returned in 1951 to see the grandeur of Israel. In 3 years this new state had opened its doors to 600,000 immigrants and refugees. Even while fighting for its own survival, Israel had given new hope to the persecuted and new dignity to the pattern of Jewish life. I left with the conviction that the United Nations may have conferred on Israel the credentials of nationhood; but its own idealism and courage, its own sacrifice and generosity, had earned the credentials of immortality.
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Time will judge whether Israel will continue to exist. But I wish I could be as sure of all my prophecies as I am of my flat prediction that Israel is here to stay.
For Israel was not created in order to disappear – Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom; and no area of the world has ever had an overabundance of democracy and freedom.
This was from 1960. Granted, he could have changed his tune in the subsequent few years, but it would have been highly unlikely, especially since his speech above pretty much acknowledges the Jews as indigenous to the land.
But these are all indications of the video’s inauthenticity. More compellingly, there are receipts of it.
The website Full Fact has already analyzed it, and they found it likely to be AI:
Dr Siwei Lyu, an expert in digital media forensics at University at Buffalo, State University of New York, told Full Fact his analysis showed the video was “likely AI-generated”.
He pointed to several visual clues including a dark ‘masking halo’ on the cheek which he said reveals a visible seam where the AI lip-synced movements failed to blend with the rest of the face, as well as an error near the tie, which shifts unnaturally in sync with jaw movement. Dr Lyu also highlighted how the torso is completely static in the clip while the face moves, which he said is “inconsistent with natural human speech”.
We contacted the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum about this clip and they told us they were not familiar with the video and could not find any audio or transcripts that specifically contained those remarks about Israel.
We also sent the clip to the human rights non-profit WITNESS’s Deepfake Rapid Response Force, which had three media forensics teams analyse the visual elements, with one team additionally analysing the audio. All three concluded the video was “likely manipulated”.
One of the teams, Recod.ai, analysed the video using a tool that, given an image of a face, simultaneously learns to decide whether it has been manipulated and to indicate where the manipulation occurred. They divided the video into 92 frames, most of which they said had a high probability of being fake.
Another team, Cauth AI, said there was “a noticeable disconnect between physical cadence and the phrasing of the synthetic audio”, noting that “natural speech involves coordinated body language; [but] here, the physical movements and the audio are completely divorced”. They also said that the lip movements are slightly out of sync with the audio, and the texture of the manipulated mouth area appears unnaturally smooth and blurred.
The verdict, then, is unambiguous. This video is almost certainly a fabrication – and a sloppy one at that, for those who know where to look.
But the sloppiness is almost beside the point. These clips are not necessarily designed to survive forensic scrutiny. They are designed to be shared before anyone applies it. By the time the debunking arrives, the lie has already lapped it several times around the internet.
