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


Jihadi terrorists use humor to reinforce identity - study

Academics examined 82 jihadi magazines published in English and found that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in particular use mockery and parody.

 Members of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement at a gathering for Islamic Jihad commander Khaled Mansour, who was killed on the first day of "Operation Breaking Dawn", in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 8, 2022

Jihadi terrorists use humor to reinforce identity - study

Academics examined 82 jihadi magazines published in English and found that Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in particular use mockery and parody.

 Members of Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement at a gathering for Islamic Jihad commander Khaled Mansour, who was killed on the first day of "Operation Breaking Dawn", in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on August 8, 2022

Israel's Foreign Ministry quietly launches re-branded hasbara org.

VOI’s mission of “recognizing that the State of Israel’s international legitimacy" is a national security issue of the highest order, an official document states.

(L-R) Deputy Foreign Minister Idan Roll and Foreign Minister Yair Lapid

Iran regime's 'Jewish Studies Center' published over 1,000 antisemitic articles

An antisemitic Iranian regime-backed website published more than 1,000 antisemitic articles, reports, comment pieces, books and videos since 2016.

Iranians burn an effigy in the likeness of U.S. President Donald Trump during a protest marking the annual al-Quds Day (Jerusalem Day) on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran June 8, 2018

'Denazification' post stamp: Rebels, Ukraine compete with propaganda postage

Pro-Russian separatists have issued a new post stamp entitled "The Decline of Nazism," that supports the "denazification" of Ukraine

 Members of Azov battalion attend a rally on the Volunteer Day honouring fighters, who joined the Ukrainian armed forces during a military conflict in the country's eastern regions, in central Kiev, Ukraine March 14, 2020.

This is how Iran exploits international film festivals - opinion

To redefine and reimagine its identity on the global stage, the Islamic Republic chose the medium of cinema.

 IRANIAN DIRECTOR Abbas Kiarostami (left) holds his Palme d'Or alongside Japanese actor Koji Yakusho at the Cannes Film Festival of 1997.

Bennett: IDF won't halt war on terror due to false anti-Israel propaganda

Bennett did not reference the death of Palestinian-American Shireen Abu Akleh, an Al Jazeera journalist who was killed while covering an IDF raid in Jenin.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett arrives to a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on May 15, 2022.

Russian rabbi: Hard to understand why neo-Nazism asserting itself in Ukraine

Ukrainian Chief Rabbi Azman responded emotionally: “Jews on the Russian side who support this war, are supporting the massacre of Jews."

Rabbi Alexander Boroda.

Twitter to cut spread of BelTa, other Belarus state media posts

Belarus served as one of Russia's launchpads for its invasion of Ukraine last month.

SOCIAL MEDIA GIANT Twitter

Antisemitic propaganda in US increased by 27% in 2021 - ADL

There were 352 incidents of antisemitic propaganda in 2021, up from 277 in 2020.

Swastika's at Jewish cemetery (illustrative)