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


Keyboard warriors: Fighting for Israel's digital story

The FM’s David Saranga and Sapir Levi tell The Media Line how Israelis are working to spread the message and combat misinformation, where there is much negativity, but also hope.

 A caricature of Iran controlling Hamas as part of an Israeli campaign on social media.

Generative AI sees spike in extremists propaganda use amidst Israel-Hamas war

Adam Hadley, the executive director of Tech Against Terrorism explained that there has been a sudden surge in such AI generated content, particularly surrounding the Israel-Hamas War since October 7.

 Artificial Intelligence illustrative.

US officials: Hamas pushes misinformation to play the victim

False information is being spread in part because the media and UNRWA, the UN agency responsible for Palestinian refugees, parrot Hamas lies and distortions, Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing told

 A child holds a sign depicting the Israeli flag with a swastika and bloody hand prints, as Pro-Palestinian demonstrators take part in a protest against U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Turkey, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, in Istanbu

UNRWA school celebrates Hamas's 'jihad warriors' in Gaza - report

An UNRWA school in the West Bank posted a video of students celebrating Jihad against Jews, as several October 7 terrorists were found to have graduated from UNRWA schools in Gaza.

 Palestinian schoolgirls read books in a library at school run by UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) in Silwan in east Jerusalem October 10, 2018.

After an enquiry by the Post: Zoom cancels Hamas webinar

The webinar featured Hossam Badran, identified as a senior Hamas official, and aimed at disseminating the group's propaganda to Western audiences.

 A man walks past a temporary show room of Zoom on the Promenade road during the World Economic Forum (WEF) 2023, in the Alpine resort of Davos, Switzerland, January 16, 2023.

'We will repeat October 7 again and again' - Hamas official

Last week, Hamad stormed out of an interview with the BBC after he was asked about the terrorist group’s massacre of civilians in Israel on October 7.

 A damaged and blood-stained kindergarten is seen following a deadly infiltration by Hamas gunmen from the Gaza Strip, in Kibbutz Beeri in southern Israel October 22, 2023.

Deepfakes fooling audiences, undermining trust in real media - study

They are being spread not only during the current Russian-Ukrainian War but also by Hamas terrorists and their supporters in various parts of the world.

 Pictured (L-R) John Twomey, University College Cork researcher and Dr. Conor Linehan

The PACC is filled with lies and hate - opinion

OPENED IN 2014, Clifton’s Palestinian American Community Center, or PACC, was built, per its website, with a mission for members “to sustain and strengthen ties to their Palestinian heritage.”

 THE PALESTINIAN American Community Center in Clifton, New Jersey: It is not designed to help members fit in to American society, but to perpetuate and teach hate of the Jews and by implication, the State of Israel, the writer argues.

How Iran used Gaza hospital strike to spread anti-Israel, US propaganda

Iran claimed that the attack was linked to US support for Israel. It used the terms “evil,” “barbaric” and “bloodthirsty creature.” 

 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

Two elves and a scroll: China military releases animation on Taiwan 'reunification'

The Eastern Theatre Command inserted shots of aircraft carrier formations and J-20 fighter jets, reminding viewers of its battlefield capabilities.

 A visitor looks at an audio/visual interpretation of a painting entitled 'Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains' by Chinese painter Huang Gongwang at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, June 1, 2011.