The Humanitarian Hoax is a deliberate and deceitful tactic of presenting a destructive policy as altruistic. The humanitarian huckster presents himself as a compassionate advocate when in fact he is the disguised enemy.
A friend of mine from high school, a well-intentioned and impassioned gallerist in Washington, DC, sent out the following evite superimposed on an original oil painting depicting a pack of menacing rabid dogs: