Deputy director of the information department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ilan Sztulman Starosta: ''In Operation Cast Lead, we turned to Jewish communities abroad. And with their help, we recruited several thousand volunteers.'' In an interview, Sztulman, answered questions about a ''new professional team of comment writers'' who will flood websites around the world with pro-Israeli messages and participate in discussions about Israel on blogs, and social media. Twitter, in particular, would receive ''roundthe-clock activity.'' ''Our people won't say, 'Hello, I'm from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.' Nor will they necessarily identify themselves as Israelis. They will speak as citizens and write responses that will appear personal, but will be based on a pre-prepared list of messages compiled by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.''
In 2013, the prime minister's office would deploy so-called covert units of their own to Israeli universities, taking to Facebook and Twitter and also not disclosing that they were working for the government. These units would be set up in a ''semi-ilitary fashion'' with a student senior coordinator whose tuition would be covered in exchange for their participation. The other students working under them would also receive partial scholarships.
National Union of Israeli Students - A project initiated in 2011 by the National Union of Israeli Students has the stated goal to deepen and expand Hasbara, or state propaganda activities of students in the state of Israel. Under this program Israeli students are paid to "lead the battle against hostile websites." The students are tasked with what many are called shilling and trolling in online forums and social media. They are directed to create original content in the form of news reports and blogs, edit Wikipedia, inject pro Israel messages into discussions on social media, as well as to report and remove what they consider to be allegedly antisemitic content.
CAMERA - Another pro Israel organization that targets public information on the internet is CAMERA, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America. A 2008 expose revealed a CAMERA initiative to infiltrate Wikipedia in order to rewrite Palestinian history, pass of crude propaganda as fact, and take over Wikipedia administrative structure to ensure that these changes go either undetected or unchallenged. Leaked emails from CAMERA called for volunteers to secretly work on editing Wikipedia entries. They were instructed to "avoid, for obvious reasons, picking a username that is pro Israel, or that lets people know your real name." The emails emphasize that volunteers were to avoid editing Israel related articles for a short period of time after signing up as editors, to avoid arousing suspicion, and to always log in, because if you make changes while not logged in, Wikipedia will record your computers IP address.
Yesha Council - In 2010 the Yesha Council began offering community workshops on Zionist editing of Wikipedia entries, with the aim of making sure that information in the online encyclopedia reflects the world view of Zionist groups. The Yesha Council's director, former Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennet: ''The goal of today is to teach people how to edit in wikipedia, which is the number 1 source of information in the world. If someone searches the Gaza floatila, we wanna be the guys who influence what is written there, how it's and to ensure that it's balenced and zionist in nature.''
NGO Monitor - Again in 2013 there was evidence of pro Israel tampering when an employee of an Israeli institute called NGO Monitor edited articles about the Israeli Palestinian conflict in an allegedly biased manor. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Draiman concealed the facts that he was an employee of NGO Monitor, and that he was using a second username which is forbidden under Wikipedia's rules.
ACT.IL. - In 2017 another Israeli project was launched with the intention of controlling discourse and promoting a pro Israel narrative online, known as ACT.IL. The project uses a software application that leverages the power of communities that leverages communities to support Israel through online activity. The software is a joint venture of Israel's IDC university, the Israeli American council and another American group called the Maccabee Task Force, which was created to combat the international boycott of Israel over its human rights abuses, which it terms an antisemitic movement. The project is also supported by Israel's strategic affairs ministry, and Israel's intelligence community. It's CEO is an eight year veteran of Israeli intelligence named Yarden Ben Yosef. Israeli media, YNet News, reports that the Israeli military has begun scouring Jewish communities abroad for young computer prodigies to recruit for its ranks. Jewish news site, the Forward, calls ACT.IL, a new entry into the online propaganda war that has thousands of mostly U.S. based volunteers who can be directed from Israel into a social media swarm. It's worked to far offers a startling glimpse of how it could shape the online conversations about Israel without ever showing its hand. The forward article reports that the project recruits Jewish teens and adults and sometimes operates out of local Jewish community centers. They're referred to as media rooms, and there are at least five of them active in the United States, including one in Boston two in New Jersey, and one opening soon in New York. After being given ACT.IL advocacy training, the volunteers are instructed to complete missions which are assigned from a headquarters in Herzliya Israel. The forward reports that in November the Boston media room created a mission for the app that asked users to email a Boston area church to complain about a screening there of a documentary that is critical of Israel. The proposed text of the Email likened the screening of the film to a white supremacist riot. In reality, the film, Occupation of the American Mind, investigates Israel's PR war in the U.S., and was promoted by respected American progressives, including Democracy Now's Amy Goodman.
Sima Vaknin-Gil - Director general of Israel's ministry of strategic affairs Sima Vaknin-Gil told a forum of Israeli tech developers to quote "flood the internet" with pro Israel propaganda. When she was Israel's chief sensor she said, "we sensor information that is critical to our enemies, who have no capabilities like us, do not have a Jewish brain, and therefore our enemy relies to a large extent on open information." Her ministry has a budget of over seven million dollars to fight what it calls "a war on consciousness terrorism". To win it, she says, Israel must use tricks and craftiness.
Unit 8200 - Another Israeli entity that plays a role over internet activity is the Israeli military's high tech spy branch, Unit 8200. This Unit is composed of thousands of cyber warriors, primary of 18 to 21 years of age, some even younger. An article in the Jewish Press reports that Unit 8200 has developed a great reputation for effectiveness in intelligence gathering, including operating a massive global spy network. Numerous Israeli tech companies, many of them headed by former military intelligence officers, assist in these spying efforts, sometimes receiving Israeli government funding for digital initiatives aimed as gathering intelligence on activist groups and countering their efforts. To be clear, this is all part of an effort by an occupying government and its military, working covertly to achieve censorship of reporting on its atrocities.
Project Nimbus - Initiative by the American technology companies Google and Amazon providing the Israeli government with technology services including infrastructure for cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and other related services. Google and Amazon agreed to covert "winking mechanism" clauses in their Project Nimbus contract, alerting the Israeli government to data requests from foreign authorities using coded payments. The deal reportedly prevents the tech firms from suspending services to Israel.
Hasbarah Project - In 1983, Israel launched the Hasbarah Project, the aim of which was to ensure good press in the US media. The goal was to train Israeli diplomats and communications and public relations. For example, they trained press officers in Israeli consulates in the US to ensure American journalists would write stories favorable to Israel. As one of these press officers said, he had ''breakfast , lunch and dinner with journalists. A typical day began with calls to producers at news and talk shows...''
Talpiot Program - The Talpiot Program is an IDF brain trust which recruits individuals who demonstrate outstanding academic ability in exact sciences and leadership potential.
UNWRA Contingncy - The Israeli Foreign Ministry drafted a document detailing a three stage plan to push UNWRA out of Gaza. (Stage 1: Smear UNRWA; Stage 2: Reduce its operations in Gaza; Stage 3: Replace it completely to destroy Palestinians' right of return.) This coincided perfectly with the ICJ citing UNRWA as a source for the on-going genocide.
Team Jorge - Team Jorge is the name given to an outfit of Israeli contractors specialized in the use of malign cyber activities including hacking, sabotage, and bot farm-run social media disinformation campaigns to manipulate the outcomes of elections.
Shirion Collective - Shirion Collective is a pro-Israel disinformation network, seeking to shape public opinion about the Gaza conflict in the US, Australia and the UK. They once captioned images and videos of pro-Palestinian protesters taking a lesson in Haitian martial arts with the claim that they were “Practicing Slaughter Techniques on Jews”. Shirion's primary operator, Daniel Lindon makes money primarmily as an advisor for people trying to make money on OnlyFans.
Paliwood - X channel which posts videos of Jews pretending to be Arabs holding obvioulsy fake dolls with blood on them to give off the impression that Palestinians hoax atrocities done unto them.
Cam Higby - After losing a debate with Mike Peinovic, young pro Israel activist, Cam Higy could be seen in an X space with two Jews, a man and a woman, porbably in an operations room in Israel, who licked his wounds and strategized on how he could do better in the future. Cam Higby was later reveiled as a Prager U recruit.
Superbowl ads - #StandUpToJewishHate (2026): Backed by Robert Kraft's Foundation to Combat Antisemitism, this ad (often referred to by the Super Bowl LX Commercial #StandUpToJewishHate on YouTube) focused on raising awareness about modern antisemitism and encouraging bystanders to speak out.
Hostage Awareness Campaign (2024): During Super Bowl LVIII, the Israeli government purchased targeted ad spots that centered on the hostages taken by Hamas, specifically calling for fathers to be brought home.
The Blue Square Movement (2024–2026): Kraft's foundation has made the 🟦 emoji the centerpiece of its multi-million dollar media blitz during the big game, urging viewers to post it as a symbol against all forms of hate and antisemitism.
Social Media
Meta - Emmy Palmer (the former IDF Unit 8200 member) sits on Meta's 21 person oversight board.
Facebook - Facebook's head of policy in Israel, Jordana Cutler, had previously been employed for many years by the Israeli government. In 2016 Fortune Magazine reported that Facebook, Google and Youtube are complying with up to 95% of Israeli requests to delete content that the government says incites Palestinian violence.
X - In 2024, X mandated the use of a government ID-based account verification system for users that earn revenue on the platform – either for advertising or for paid subscriptions. To implement this system, X has partnered with Au10tix, an Israeli company known for its identity verification solutions. Users who opt to receive payouts on the platform will have to undergo a verification process with the company.
Tik Tok - Asaf Hackman (the former IDF Unit 8200 member) is Tik Tok's global head of product strategy and operations as of 2021.
During the congreessional hearing preceeding the Tik Tok ban in 2024, Ted Cruz grilled TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew, stating: ''...in the United States, you are promoting to kids, self harm videos... [long pause] and anti-Israel Propaganda.''
In May of 2024, during a forum with Antony Blinken, Mitt Romney admitted: ''If you look at the uh postings on Tik Tok and the number of mentions of Palestinians relative to other social media sites, it's overwhelmingly so among Tik Tok um uh broadcast.''
In 2026, Tik Tok was forcebly sold to a consortium of pro-Israel investors. According to the primary authors and sponsors of the bill requiring ByteDance to relinquish its ownership, the real reason Congress approved the bill was because Tik Tok wasn't censoring enough criticism of Israel. Tik Tok's Chinese owners clearly understood the real rationale behind the push to sell, when in July 2025 they hired, former IDF soldier, Erica Mindel as public policy manager to develop the company's censorship policies. But even this show of difference proved insufficient for the Zionist lobby. The primary investors in the deal included Oracle and Andreessen Horowitz. Oracle is Larry Ellison's company. Oracle is his company and Oracle's board includes people like Safra Catz, the company's former CEO, who in 2021 told Oracle employees: "I love my employees, and if they don't agree with our mission to support the state of Israel, then maybe we aren't the right company for them. Larry Ellison and I are publicly committed to Israel.'' The co-owner of Andreessen Horowitz, Ben Horowitz, is the son of infamous neo-conservative activist David Horowitz, considered one of the Bush era's most famous anti-Muslim activists, responsible for some of the earliest Zionist pressure campaigns targeting American universities for allowing criticism of Israel.
During a February 2025 panel at the Munich Security Conference, the Tik Tok bill's main author and sponsor, former Wisconsin Representative, and current Palantir executive, Mike Gallagher, told what he called the real story behind the Tik Tok bill, explaining that various members of Congress had been trying to pass a bill forcing Chinese divestment from Tik Tok for years, but the plan was dead in the water until US public opinion started to turn against Israel, a trend which officials blamed on Tik Tok's algorithm.
Youtube - Major internet companies have reportedly been cooperating with Israel. In 2015 Israel's deputy foreign minister visited Silicon Valley and met with Youtube's CEO and Google's director of public policy. Afterwards Israeli media reported that it was agreed that the companies would strengthen ties with the foreign ministry and build a regular mechanism of control to prevent the distribution of these incendiary material on the network.
Google - Among other things, Google said that it would increase the number of members of its trusted flagger program, which enables certain organizations and government agencies to report content. It also said it would increase support for NGO's and government organizations, working to present a corrective voice. One such trusted flagger is the Anti Defamation League, commonly known as the ADL, who's mission includes "standing up for Israel". The ADL considers criticism of Israel to be antisemitism. The ADL has created something it calls the Online Hate Index, aimed at recognizing what it considers, hate speech, and targeting it for censorship.
A leaked secret January 2017 ADL strategy paper, detailed how to counter the pro Palestine movement. Among its many strategies were some focused on the importance of efforts on cyberspace, the paper called for a mix of policy advocacy and industry engagement, with corporations such as Google Facebook and Twitter in a manor consistent with the ADL center for technology and society and its anti cyber hate working group. The detailed 32 page document reported that in recent years, a massive investment of resources and talent had been directed against the pro Palestine movement. One of the results, the paper said, was to create a world wide pro Israel network. It was this network that the report sought to mobilize.
Google agreed to covert "winking mechanism" clauses in their Project Nimbus contract, alerting the Israeli government to data requests from foreign authorities using coded payments. The deal reportedly prevents the tech firms from suspending services to Israel.
News Media
CNN - In an interview with Israeli i24 News, (((David Zaslav))), the CEO of CNN's parent company, praised the bombing of the King David Hotel in British Mandatory Palestine, which killed 91 people. Before becoming an anchor for CNN, Wolf Blitzer was the editor of AIPAC's in-house news publication, The Near East Report.
A 2023 memo from CNN's then CEO Mark Thompson instructed CNN staff to make sure that Hamas is always framed as the responsible party in any discussion of violence and that whenever they reference the wildly disproportionate civilian death figures being released by civil society groups in Gaza, they must always describe the group providing the numbers as Hamas controlled. Multiple journalists including Jasmine Hughes, Hassam Salm, Mark Lamont Hill, and Medi Hassan have been fired from the New York Times and CNN for voicing even mild criticism of Israeli policy or support for basic human rights for Palestinians.
Tal Heinrich, (the former IDF Unit 8200 member) is a producer for CNN's Jerusalem bureau.
The Atlantic - The editor-inchief of The Atlantic, Jeffrey Goldberg, who was one of the most voseiferous media cheerleaders for the Iraq War, served in the Israeli military and even volunteered to become a guard for the IDF's brutal prison camps for Palestinians during the first Inifada.
CBS - CBS's previous owner, Sher Redstone, is a committed Zionist who privately pressured CBS's news division to alter their coverage when she thought it wasn't sufficiently flattering towards Israel. The main investor who bought CBS in 2025, Larry Ellison, who, in 2014, gave Friends of the IDF $16.6, the largest donation in it's history to provide Israeli soldiers and their families extra benefits on top of their funding from US and Israeli taxpayers; he's also friends with Netenyahu. One of Ellison's first moves upon taking over CBS was to replace the editor and chief of its news division with Bari Weiss, someone with no backgroud as a journalist, who, despite making a career posing as a free speech warrior, spent her college years trying to get professors at her school fired for criticizing Israel. She fired veteran 60 Minutes anchor and correspondent Scott Pelley. A pending $110B Paramount-Warner Bros merger will position her as head of News operation of both CBS and CNN if it goes through.
Axios - Barack Ravid, (the former IDF Unit 8200 member) is the Axios reporter who engages in constant reputation management on behalf of the Israeli government.
NYT - The New York Times is owned by the Silver family, who have grandchildren in the IDF. The NYT's CEO, (((Meredith Copet Lavine))), is an alumni of BBYO (B'nai B'rith Youth Organization). At least until 2020, Lavine was serving on their women's leadership initiative advisory council. A leaked 2023 New York Times memo revealed that the company explicitly barred its reporters from using words such as genocide, ethnic cleansing, refugee camp, occupied territory, and even the word Palestine when discussing Israel's actions during their most recent war on the Palestinians.
AP - Associated Press reported Israeli deaths at a rate of 250% (5 headlines for 2 deaths) while reporting Palestinian deaths at a rate of 64%, (7 headlines for 11 deaths) despite the fact that the Israeli to Palestinian death ration in domestic attacks is about 2-10. They also erased a video of Israeli soldier shooting Palestinian boy.
ABC - ABC is owned by Disney, whose CEO, Bob Iger, announced on October 12th, 2023, that he would donate $2 million to humanitarian relief in Israel. This would have been 3 days after the human, animals, and no food, and no water announcement from Israel's defense minister, a donation that was matched by Michael Bloomberg.
Fox - Fox and ultimately the Wall Street Journal for that matter is owned by the staunchly pro-Israel Rupert Murdoch. Just in December 2024, Murdoch spoke to a congregation at Sydney Central Synagogue before Hanukkah, saying, "Israel in the last 4 years has been alone on the front line of Western democratic civilization,'' defending shared values with incredible resilience." as reported by the Jerusalem Post, expressing optimism about the future, Murdoch added, ''ith US President-elect Donald Trump returning to the White House, Israel won't be alone anymore.'' Following October 7th, Fox joined other mass media corporations in donating millions to Israel.
NBC - NBC is owned by Comcast, whose CEO Brian L. Robert proposed to his future wife in Israel. An avid squash player, he donated squash courts in Rahanana, Israel, he also supports the Israeli sports group Makabe USA and even hosted a party for athletes at Comcast's headquarters. He has a real strong affinity to Israel, said David Pudlin, a Philadelphia lawyer and Robert Squash partner. Comcast joined in donating money to relief efforts in Israel.
The Times - But perhaps the biggest conflict of interest can be seen in the Times Jerusalem correspondent Isabel Kersner. Her husband, Hersh Goodman, was a fellow at the Israeli Institute for National Security Studies, one of the most prominent national security think tanks in the country. She reportedly relied heavily on the think tank while reporting for the Times. Her husband also served in the IDF during the 1967 war. Additionally, their two sons served in the Israeli army.
The Washington Post - Despite open Israeli posturing prior to the war, the backlash to the UN's fact-finding mission report on Israel's 2008 war on Gaza was so great that it resulted in a recantation by its principal author, Richard Goldstone, in a Washington Post article.
The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos and the paper has experienced a widely reported shift toward the Trump administration. Bezos personally intervened to muzzle the editorial board, keeping them from making an endorsement for a presidential candidate in the 2024 election. According to the Washington Post themselves, since November 2023, the Post's chief executive has been William Lewis, who was formerly CEO of Dow Jones and Company and publisher of the Wall Street Journal. Though, as Al Jazera columnist Andrew Mutrovicha wrote in an opinion article, "The paper has long been hawkish." Ages before Bezos bought the flailing post, the English-speaking corporate outlets on both sides of the Atlantic have been faithful couriers to every foul aspect of the Israeli American axis and its calamitous conduct throughout the Middle East and of course Gaza and the occupied West Bank. Indeed, in 2007, Chris Matthews of NBC's Hardball called the post a neoconservative paper, evidenced by its voseiferous support for the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. In the 6 months leading up to the invasion, the Washington Post would editorialize in favor of the war at least 27 times. In August 2004, Howard Curts reported in the Post, "From August 2002 through the March 19th, 2003 launch of the war, the Post ran more than 140 front page stories that focused heavily on administration rhetoric against Iraq. Moreover, an examination of the paper's coverage and interviews with more than a dozen of the editors and reporters involved shows that the Post published a number of pieces challenging the White House, but rarely on the front page. The paper was not front paging stuff, said Pentagon correspondent Thomas Ricks. Administration assertions were on the front page. Things that challenged the administration were on A18 on Sunday or A24 on Monday. There was an attitude among editors, "Look, we're going to war. Why do we even worry about all this contrary stuff?" The Washington Post's pro-Israel bias provoked controversy in November 2024 when their editorial board decrieded the International Criminal Court for issuing arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former defense minister Yo Galan. The editorial stated Interelia, "To be sure, far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed, but Hamas is to blame for sheltering among civilians, but Israel, as a democratic country that is committed to human rights, must take responsibility for the civilian casualty toll." These claims are complicated by The Post's own reporting.
Media boycotts
After Israel invaded Ramallah, Bethlehem and Jenin in the West Bank during the Second Intifada, intense public reaction to coverage of the violence of the Middle East conflict has prompted unusually harsh attacks on several news media outlets and has led to boycotts of the NY Times the LA Times And The Washington Post.
Goldstone affair - Despite open Israeli posturing prior to the war, the backlash to the UN's fact-finding mission report on Israel's 2008 war on Gaza was so great that it resulted in a recantation by its principal author, Richard Goldstone, in a Washington Post article.
WBUR-FM boycott - In consequence, to unfavorable reporting on Israel, WBUR-FM in Boston said it lost more than $1M in underwritings and pledges in 2024, nearly 4% of its annual budget.
CNN boycott - In consequence, to unfavorable reporting on Israel, CNN Chief news executive een Jordan said he could find up to 6,000 email messages protesting coverage in his inbox in a single day.
'The Lobby' takedown - Al Jazeera's 'The Lobby' was pulled and later leaked online. The version on the lobby in the UK is still up, but the 8 part addition focusing on America is still only available as an archive. In 2018, heavy diplomatic pressure was applied against the Qatari government to prevent airing of the British version, which contained hidden camera footage recorded by a young Oxford grad named Anthony Kleinfeld during several months he spent working for the Israel lobby in Washington. Kleinfeld's contacts told him they were spying on US citizens with the help of Israel's Ministry of Strategic Affairs, founded in 2006, which reports directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. One official said: "We're a different government working on foreign soil, so we have to be very, very cautious."
Track AIPAC boycott - In April 2024, two anonymous individuals started a Twitter account called Track AIPAC, which simply published infographics based on publicly available information showing the total amount of donations that specific candidates had received from AIPAC and affiliated groups. In response, AIPAC first doxed the owners of the account and then coordinated a smear and harassment campaign against one of their employers, which ultimately resulted in the account's co-owner losing his job.
Tik Tok - During the congreessional hearing preceeding the Tik Tok ban in 2024, Ted Cruz grilled TikTok's CEO Shou Zi Chew, stating: ''...in the United States, you are promoting to kids, self harm videos... [long pause] and anti-Israel Propaganda.''
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