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


Gantz: No progress has been made with judicial reform negotiations

The talks were "not really advancing in any of the issues and specifically not on the issue of the Judicial Selection Committee," Gantz said.

 National Unity Party head Benny Gantz at a faction meeting on May 1, 2023.

The Holocaust started in mainstream media - opinion

We continue to see examples of the same dehumanization of Jews in today’s mainstream media, especially in the terrible ways news outlets report on the murder of Israelis.

 MEMORIAL CANDLES with the names and details of individuals murdered in the Holocaust are displayed at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv. Racism alone does not lead to the systematic genocide of an entire population.

When is journalism antisemitic?

Prof. Richard Landes diagnoses disturbing trends in the way many media outlets cover Israel

 MOURNING BEFORE a burial in 2000 in the West Bank Kalandiya refugee camp, in front of a picture of the shooting of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durra.

Russian propaganda: The most insidious weapon of power

How and why did such a vast number of Russians fall under the influence of false Russian propaganda, even though they have free access to the Internet and alternative sources of information?

 Journalist Anton Krasovsky attends a session of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum on June 16, 2022.

Israeli security expert behind worldwide election manipulation efforts - report

Israeli security expert and founder of Demomam International Tal Hanan found to head a team working to manipulate global politics.

Illustrative image of a computer hacker

US lawmakers ask for documents on Russian hackers targeting nuclear labs

The Department of Energy - which is responsible for America's nuclear labs - and the Russian Foreign Affairs Ministry did not immediately return messages seeking comment.

VISUAL DEPICTION OF A HACKER

India censors BBC documentary that 'questioned Modi's leadership'

Directions to block the clips from being shared have been issued using emergency powers available to the government under the country's information technology rules.

India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves upon his arrival to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (not pictured) in Ramallah, in the West Bank February 10, 2018.

Iran arrests 'agent' of London-based opposition TV channel - report

The action comes amid the biggest challenge to Iran's clerical rulers since the 1979 revolution, sparked by nationwide protests after the Sept. 16 death of Mahsa Amini.

 People demonstrate outside the Houses of Parliament during a protest against the Islamic regime of Iran following the death of Mahsa Amini, in central London, Britain, October 8, 2022.

Nazi propaganda shows role of dehumanizing Jews in Holocaust - study

Propaganda during the Holocaust increasingly used language related to intentionality and malevolence, suggesting that Jews were portrayed as possessing a greater capacity for “agency.”

 The Holocaust Memorial in Berlin

WATCH: This is the education that Iranian girls are forced into

Schoolchildren in Iran recently took to protesting pro-government material in school, ripping up textbooks and stomping on them.

 A teacher is seen while teaching online school classes to students at their homes, as schools are still closed, following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease in April 2020. Note the portraits of the supreme leaders in the front of the classroom.