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REPORT: ISRAEL TARGETS US PUBLIC WITH MASSIVE PROPAGANDA CAMPAIGN  
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News Desk, The Cradle.
June 25, 2024
Popular Resistance.org
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_ Israel’s Ministry Of Diaspora Affairs Funds US-Based
Organizations To Lobby For Measures Restricting Criticism Of Israel
And Its Ongoing Genocide In Gaza. _

Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli , (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

 

Israel is covertly funding a massive propaganda campaign to target the
US public, including through the passage of legislation to restrict US
citizens’ right to free speech when criticizing Israel and its
ongoing war on Gaza, _The Guardian_ reported
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24 June.

The UK newspaper reported that there are 80 programs already underway
as part of the massive propaganda campaign known as the “Voices of
Israel.”

The program is funded and run by the Israeli Ministry of Diaspora
Affairs, led by MK Amichai Chikli.

The program was designed to carry out what Israel calls “mass
consciousness activities” targeting the US and European public.

Voices of Israel is part of the “latest incarnation” of a
“sometimes covert operation” by the Israeli ministry to censor
students, human rights organizations, and other critics of Israel.

Known previously as “Concert” and before that, “Kela Shlomo,”
the campaign previously spearheaded efforts to pass so-called
“anti-BDS” state laws that penalize Americans for engaging in
boycotts or other non-violent protests of Israel.

Voices of Israel works through non-profits and other entities that
often do not disclose donor information. From October through May, the
campaign spent about $8.6 million to target US citizens with
pro-Israel propaganda.

The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
is one such organization receiving funding through the Israeli
program.

The ISGP cited its success during congressional hearings in which
Claudine Gay, the president of Harvard University, was grilled for
allowing pro-Palestinian protests on campus.

Congresswoman Elise Stefanik confronted
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during the hearing, accusing her of fostering antisemitism at Harvard.
The confrontation was widely viewed on social media.

Gay, the prestigious university’s first African-American president,
soon resigned amid the resulting negative media coverage. She
was replaced
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interim president by Jewish-American professor and Harvard provost
Alan Garber.

_The Guardian _reported further that the ISGAP touted its
“congressional public relations coup” at a 7 April Palm Beach
Country Club event.

“All these hearings were the result of our report that all these
universities, beginning from Harvard, are taking a lot of money from
Qatar,” bragged Natan Sharansky, the ISGAP chair. Sharansky, a
former minister of Diaspora Affairs, told the assembled supporters
that 1 billion people had viewed Congresswoman Stefanik’s aggressive
questioning of Harvard president Gay.

The ISGAP has also been deeply involved in the campaign to limit US
citizens’ Second Amendment right to free speech by passing laws at
the state and local levels that redefine antisemitism to include
certain criticisms of Israel, _The Guardian _added.

The ISGAP lobbies governments to adopt the International Holocaust
Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism, which equates
criticism of Israel as a ‘racist endeavor’ and anti-Zionism with
antisemitism.

“We shifted the focus to work at the local level,” said Brig Gen
Sima Vaknin-Gill, a former intelligence officer now managing director
of the ISGAP.

“We’ve found that mayors and states – it’s much easier to work
with them and actually make the definition into something real.”

Another US group tied to Voices of Israel and the Ministry of Diaspora
Affairs campaign is CyberWell, a pro-Israel “anti-disinformation”
group led by former Israeli military intelligence and Voices
officials. CyberWell established itself as an official “trusted
partner” to TikTok and Meta, allowing it to help screen and edit
content.

A recent CyberWell report called for Meta to suppress the popular
slogan “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.”

_The Guardian_ notes, “One struggles to find a parallel in terms of
a foreign country’s influence over American political debate.”

US-based organizations producing propaganda or lobbying to influence
US citizens are required by law to register as foreign agents.

However, none of the groups identified in _The Guardian’s_ report
have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA).

“There’s a built-in assumption that there’s nothing at all weird
about viewing the US as sort of an open field for Israel to operate
in, that there are no limitations,” said Lara Friedman, president of
the Foundation for Middle East Peace.

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