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


'Russian propaganda': Ukraine warns Israelis of fake news on planned Uman attack

The Ukrainian Embassy in Israel also took this as an opportunity to take aim at Israel for its recent filmmaking agreement with Russia.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish pilgrims pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah holiday, the Jewish New Year, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Uman, Ukraine September 25, 2022. A sign reads: “We pray for peace in Ukraine”

Poland: Jewish director's film on migrant crisis is Nazi propaganda

The film’s social media pages have since been swarmed with antisemitic trolls, according to its sales agent.

A MAN looks at a Nazi propaganda poster at Yad Vashem.

STRATCOM invited an Iranian propagandist. Now Congress wants answers - opinion

Far from encouraging a nuanced dialogue, STRATCOM’s invitation to Hussein Mousavian only served to legitimize him and the Iranian regime he represents.

 THEN-IRANIAN chief delegate Hussein Mousavian briefs the media after an International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, in 2004.

Asylum seekers' riot in Israel was funded by the Mossad, Eritrea claims

African nation's Information Ministry: "The futile acts of subversion in essence sponsored by major intelligence agencies, including the Mossad."

Police guard while Eritrean asylum seekers who oppose the regime in Eritrea protest outside a conference of regime supporters in south Tel Aviv, September 2, 2023

Meta pins pro-China influence campaign on Chinese law enforcement

"This operation was large and noisy, but it struggled to reach beyond its own fake echo chamber," said Meta's Global Threat Intelligence Lead Ben Nimmo.

 Facebook's new rebrand logo Meta is seen on smartpone in front of displayed logo of Facebook, Messenger, Intagram, Whatsapp and Oculus in this illustration picture taken October 28, 2021

Can Iran learn to tame its diplomatic arrogance? - opinion

There’s an Iranian arrogance in global interactions, and an uncivil rhetoric devoid of diplomatic fundamentals is employed to convey Iran’s political stances.

 SAUDI CROWN Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomes Kuwait’s Crown Prince Sheikh Meshal al-Ahmad al-Jaber al-Sabah at a Gulf summit with Central Asian countries, in Jeddah, last month.

Haifa residents receive pamphlets blaming LGBTQ+ community for rise of Nazism

The pamphlet, which was distributed in mailboxes on Berl Katznelson Street in Haifa, blames the LGBTQ+ community for the Holocaust and calls for the community to be outlawed by society.

 THE ANNUAL Pride Parade in Tel Aviv, internationally acclaimed as one of the most proud and gay-friendly cities in the world.

Poland detains Russian spies spreading Wagner group propaganda

Wagner soldiers have also begun training with the Belarus army, and are being moved close to NATO's eastern flank to destabilize the military alliance.

Fighters of Wagner private mercenary group stand on a tank outside a local circus near the headquarters of the Southern Military District in the city of Rostov-on-Don, Russia, June 24, 2023

Iran claims to arrest Zionist-linked Baháʼí 'spy network'

An Iranian publication claims that those arrested “were directly and indirectly related to a Zionist center.” Iran’s religious regime has persecuted Baháʼís for decades.

 Iran's police forces stand on a street in Tehran, Iran, April 15, 2023

China warns foreign embassies against 'propaganda,' flying Ukraine flags

Several foreign missions in China raised the Ukrainian flag, or displayed its image in posters and lights, following the February 2022 invasion.

 Police officers raise Chinese and Hong Kong flags during a ceremony to mark the Chinese National Day in Hong Kong, China October 1, 2022.