Propaganda

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

The suspect allegedly assisted fictitious Hamas profiles throughout the world spread false information online, in order to sow fear among Israeli society.

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

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to international media on the Gaza war, in Jerusalem, August 10, 2025

To win the next war, Israel must master the media battlefield - opinion


Hamas invested heavily in propaganda - will the death of Abu Obeida be a game changer? - analysis

An estimate says that 200 Hamas operatives in the terror group's propaganda arm have been eliminated; however, 1,000 may still remain.

 Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida delivers a speech following a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, January 19, 2025

Explaining Israel's actions in Gaza is pointless - this is why - opinion

Hasbara is reactive: If Israel does something and the world criticizes it, the government’s response is to counter with effective hasbara.

Foreign Minister Gideon Sa'ar holds a press conference in Jerusalem, July 16, 2025

Zionists must get up and defeat the ‘silent intifada’ - opinion

Instead of wallowing in self-pity, Zionists should reconceptualize their approach.

PRO-ISRAEL counter-demonstrators gather amid protesters in support of Palestinians on the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus last year. Let’s learn from Zionism and US Jewish history, reframing and transcending, urges the writer.

Israel will always be in a never-ending PR battle - opinion

Public diplomacy in Israel has been an issue that no one has known how to handle successfully.

A GIRL holds a hand fan that reads ‘Free Palestine’ during a recent protest in Valletta, Malta.

Gaza aid distribution site photos are staged for emotional effect, German media reports claim

The BILD report focuses on a widely circulated photo of desperate Gazan women and children holding pots and pans in front of a food distribution site.

(Illustrative) Palestinians climb onto a truck as they seek aid supplies in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, August 4, 2025.

'Never again is today': We must not allow the world to forget starving hostages - editorial

Human rights activism can indeed be a wonderful thing. But when it’s selective, it’s not worth the megaphone the slogans are being shouted through.

Israeli hostage Evyatar David as he appears in a Hamas propaganda video, August 2, 2025.

Iran’s theater of victimhood: How the Islamic Republic poisons minds and nations - opinion

The Iranian regime is not content to manipulate its own people; its ambitions extend to beguiling the West with a narrative of victimhood.

A MEMORIAL rally for Iranian military commanders and scientists killed in the war with Israel takes place in Tehran this week. The mullahs demand obedience and complicity, says the writer.

From naivety to hatred: How misinformation is fueling antisemitism in America - opinion

Fine and meaningful distinctions between opposition to Israeli policies and actions, anti-Zionism, and Jew-hatred are lost on the mobs in America and around the world who glide from one to the other.

A person shouts an anti-Israeli slogans as people participate in a "March to Gaza" protest during the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in New York City, U.S., June 21, 2025.

AI and antisemitism: A new challenge we can’t ignore - opinion

AI inherits the prejudices in the data from which it learns, making this a human problem.

Artificial intelligence

GHF updates on aid distribution success, debunks Hamas propaganda

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation gave an operational update while also reiterating that Hamas reports of casualties near the sites were false.

 The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation distributes aid to Gazans in Tel Sultan, Gaza, June 2, 2025.

Israelis, cherish your lives and stay away from the cult organization 'Falun Gong' - opinion

“Falun Gong” has also peddled deception around the world through its so-called “Shen Yun” performances, falsely claiming to represent the Chinese culture.

 Falun Gong Exhibition against Organ Harvesting