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


Netanyahu slammed for using gov't vaccination slogan in Likud campaign

"Netanyahu and his party members are exploiting tangible and intangible assets of the health system in favor of the Likud's election campaign."

Janet Lavie-Azoulay, the five millionth Israeli to receive the coronavirus vaccine, meets with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyhau and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, March 8, 2020

Pfizer CEO postpones Israel visit due to 'COVID-19 restrictions'

Bourla was set to land in Israel on Monday for a series of meetings, only 15 days before Israel's next election, which prompted many to criticize the visit as election propaganda.

Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla introduces US President Joe Biden as the president toured a Pfizer manufacturing plant producing the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine in Kalamazoo, Michigan, US, February 19, 2021.

Israel Elections: Rise in empty propaganda indicates worrisome trend

Electoral slogans are empty propaganda, often merely arguing that opponents are “leftists” or that politicians need to put their “egos” to the side.

All parties voters can vote for at the ballot in Israel's March 23 election.

Turkey’s regime seeks to isolate Israel using phony ‘reconciliation’

Ankara hopes to play ‘good cop’ for incoming Biden administration.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during a protest against the recent killings of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza-Israel border and the US embassy move to Jerusalem, in Istanbul, Turkey May 18, 2018

North Korean army 'fully ready' for action over South Korean propaganda

"Our army will rapidly and thoroughly implement any decisions and orders of the Party and government," the KPA said in a statement carried by the official KCNA news agency.

A South Korean soldier stands guard in the truce village of Panmunjom inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the two Koreas, South Korea, August 28, 2019

Viral image shared by celebrities comparing Trump to Hitler was faked

While a photograph of Trump posing with a Bible was real, a similar image of Hitler holding a book turned out to have been doctored to look similar.

US President Donald Trump holds up a Bible in front of St. John's Episcopal Church, June 1, 2020.

Fatah links popular parkour athlete to terror promotion publicity campaign

The signature of professional freerunner Lynn Jung appeared on six mocked-up banknotes alongside images of Palestinian leaders and terrorists.

FATAH GUNMEN hold rifles during a demonstration in the West Bank.

China mocks US coronavirus response in Lego-like animation

The short, titled 'Once Upon a Virus', is part of a war of words between the US and China over the disease's origins, which emerged in the Chinese city of Wuhan and has grown into a global pandemic.

US President Donald Trump and China's President Xi Jinping arrive at state dinner, Great Hall of the People, Beijing, 2017.

Online lessons for Palestinian children still teaching hate

A lesson on Newtonian physics used the Palestinian fighters using slingshots to target IDF soldiers as an example of elastic energy.

Palestinian children holding textbooks showing the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

Organizer of Holocaust-denying cartoon comp has new theme: coronavirus

Iranian propagandist Masoud Shojaei-Tabatabaei, who has previously organized two competitions mocking the Holocaust, has launched another peddling coronavirus conspiracy theories.

A medical team sprays disinfectant to sanitize Imam Reza's holy shrine, following the coronavirus outbreak, in Mashhad, Iran