Propaganda

Terrorists use social media to slander; let’s not do the same - opinion

The method represents something far more dangerous than a single smear campaign. It’s a weaponized assault on truth itself.

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A child wears a Hamas head banner after Friday prayers in Gaza City.

Israeli woman indicted for working with Hamas, spreading false terror information online

A detail from Arthur Szyk's “They Too Have a Right to Live,”  which first appeared in the May 12, 1943 issue of The New York Times and was presumably sponsored by the Emergency Committee to Save the Jewish People of Europe, an organization founded by Zionist activist Peter Bergson in 1943.

This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered 

A DRONE VIEW shows destruction in Gaza City last week. In a poll conducted in May 2024, some 70% of Gazans approved of Hamas’s onslaught on October 7, 2023. One year later, that support had shrunk to 38%, the writer notes.

A narrow set of choices for Gaza: What’s the future for Hamas? - opinion


Man sentenced to 20 years for attempting to provide material support to ISIS

The man extensively distributed ISIS propaganda, including his weekly newsletter that celebrated the deaths of American soldiers, glorified suicide bombers, and called for war against the US.

 A young man captivated by social media

Brazil deports Palestinian man, accuses him of being a Hamas spokesperson

Brazilian police sources said Muslim Abuumar was not coming for a visit but to stay in Brazil and become a spokesman for Hamas.

 A Qatar Airways Airbus A350-900 aircraft takes off in Colomiers near Toulouse, France, October 19, 2017

Hamas launches new psychological warfare attempt alleging Israel killed three hostages - report

"In exchange for them [the four Israeli hostages], your own army killed three of your own captives in the same attack; one of them holds a US citizenship," the Hamas statement said.

 Scene from a Hamas Propaganda video claiming that three hostages were killed in the Israeli rescue operation in Gaza, June 9, 2024.

'More than a million' children indoctrinated in Houthi summer camps

Fear and coercion drive hundreds of thousands of children annually to the Houthi camps, where they are exposed to extremist propaganda and military recruitment.

 Protesters, largely Houthi supporters, rally to show solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Sanaa, Yemen May 31, 2024.

The digital battleground of social media: Embracing cyber advocacy for Israel’s defense - opinion

ProjectTruthIsrael.com, a new AI-powered app aims to challenge misconceptions about Israel and defend the Jewish state on the modern digital battleground.

 Students at Hebrew University in Jerusalem attend a rally in support of the IDF and the defense and security of Israel, as well as protest against a Hebrew U professor who had created a petition against Israel and minimized and denied the horrors of the October 7 massacre by Hamas. March 17, 2024.

October 7 victims sue SJP, AMP for serving as Hamas propaganda arm

“It is time that Hamas and all of its agents, like AMP and NSJP, be held responsible for their horrific actions,” the victims said in a joint statement on Wednesday.“

 HATEM BAZIAN, chairman of American Muslims for Palestine, speaks in 2013 alongside one of the organization’s advertisements at a train station in New York City, accusing Israel of apartheid and calling for a stop to US aid.

Hamas claims IDF fire on Gaza killed seven hostages in psychological terror

According to a statement published by the Israeli government’s Hostages Directorate, the families of all the hostages mentioned in Hamas’s video were contacted.

 A demonstrator carries an Israeli flag as he walks through fields to avoid a check-point and reach a protest against the delivery of humanitarian aid to Gaza and demanding the immediate release of Israeli hostages kidnapped in the deadly October 7 attack, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel an

Al Jazeera: A genocidal anti-Israel propaganda machine - opinion

A determined Israeli takedown of Al Jazeera should also serve as a clarion call to leaders in Washington and elsewhere to finally act decisively in their domiciles against the dangerous network.

 AL JAZEERA headquarters in Doha, Qatar.

How does Hamas use psychological warfare to enhance its position?

Experts say Hamas hostage videos and propaganda aim to push Israelis to urge the gov't for a cease-fire in return for the hostages, and to increase pressure on Israel to cease Gaza operations.

 Iraqis students gather during a protest in support of Palestinians in Gaza as the conflict between Israel and Hamas continues, in Baghdad, Iraq, October 18

Iran regime media faked photo with rabbi to justify killing - analysis

The report Iran then created fake images of the victim with a rabbi to justify his killing appears to illustrate Iran’s regime lurching into antisemitic conspiracy theories.

A man holds up a poster of the late Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani next to a burning Israeli flag as Iranians attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022