This is a panic move. I predict that the Gaza genocide; the Iran War; along with allowing support for Israel to become a partisan issue, will go down as the biggest mistakes in Israeli history.
Even if you don’t care about dead Arabs, you can draw a direct line between Israel and $5 gas. American support for Israel is low and dropping. It’s not just the anti-Semites and far-left who oppose Israel anymore.
And I don’t think the war and $5 gas are fully reflected in these opinion surveys quite yet.
Israel was a fucking mistake. I’m not anti-semetic. I’m anti-Israel. I have no problem with Jews. I have a problem with a genocidal, land-stealing dictatorship mascarading as a cruisading democracy that has no value on human life. Fuck Israel.
Well it was such a great idea when puritans did it we thought “why the hell not?”
Ngl, Israeli propaganda used to be a lot more subtle. Now it’s like they don’t even bother trying. They’ve lost their way.
It’s like they’re hellbent on living out the antisemitic stereotypes. It’s getting difficult to fight antisemitism outside of Israel.
I don’t see a lot of anti-semitism aside from fringe internet forums. Anti Zionism is pretty popular though.
Remember how just like 3 years ago it was super rare to see videos of people being murdered in broad daylight on common social media platforms. ?
If you wanted to see that dark shit you had to go to dark places online to find it.
Now it’s every day I see a video on Instagram of someone murdered in broad daylight.
The u.s president even posted such a video.
But the videos I see every day…
Yeah Most of the time it is IDF killing a civilian.
Some innocent person. Sometimes a child.
No coming back from that. We all have seen it now.
We all know. We ain’t gonna un-know.
We commit genocide, but don’t worry, we are nice guys, our commercials say so!
Oh yeah, I totally see that working. People will immediately overlook the genocide because of a funny ad somewhere
Is this budget for convincing the general public to support them, or convincing US politicians? Because if it’s the former I don’t see it working or anyone believing the lies. Bloomberg tried something similar to get into the democratic primary and I’m pretty sure he failed spectacularly.
But I’d bet it’s the latter, and I let buying US politicians will continue to be successful. Because if both republicans and democrats support Israel, even if the public hates them who else is there to vote for?
It’s definitely for the former
$730 million for public diplomacy — the broad category known in Hebrew as hasbara — nearly five times the $150 million they allocated the year before.
Hasbara is about changing perception of the general public. The only reason we see some shift in government officials changing their course is because of how toxic support from Israel is seen (so much so that they can lose elections because of it).
So long as Israel can perform public advocacy to at least get to a place of neutral outlook (or become a sideline topic), then they’d have achieved their goals.
Israel’s current stated goal is to increase Arab-phobia and Islamophobia through populism and anti-immigration rhetoric to be greater than people’s disdain for Israel.
If your country has a budget for PR and it’s not for tourism……dude
Israel is a pariah terrorist state created out of thin air by the British which displaced 700,000 people who’d lived there for centuries
Nuh uh, god granted a piece of sun-blasted desert to special people then also created lush and verdant plains and forests elsewhere on the planet.
I will never understand the appeal that place has in religion. It’s such a boring ugly shit hole…
Religion is a mental illness.
If people know you’re a liar, lying more won’t help you.
Why would they say that? It’s been working for decades.
Probably because its still less than their genocide budget
Imagine how many more tweets like these they can afford now
I don’t think Israel can recover their reputation within foreseeable future. They’d need to completely reform everything.
No, but some folks will get rich off of United States tax payers
Social engineering is a helluva drug
