The Double Identity of an « Anti-Semitic » Commenter | Common Dreams

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  • The Double Identity of an « Anti-Semitic » Commenter | Common Dreams | Breaking News & Views for the Progressive Community
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    Un étudiant étatsunien #sioniste ("Common Dreams" lui donne le pseudo de Beck) abreuve les sites qui ne se plient pas à la doxa israélienne de commentaires antisémites auxquels il répond ensuite lui-même pour fustiger le « climat antisémite qui règne » dans les sites en question.

    The impersonation, this character wrote, must be part of an “elaborate #Hasbara setup,” referring to an Israeli international public-relations campaign. When Common Dreams finally confronted the man behind the deceptive posting, he denied that he himself was involved with Hasbara.

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    “Today many supporters of Israel worldwide are becoming digital ambassadors,” Neil Lazarus, a prominent Israeli public-relations consultant to the government, wrote in the Times of Israel in 2012. “The internet is transforming the battle lines of Israel’s public relations war. . . . As Hasbara becomes a grass-roots movement, the very essence of the relationship between Israel and Diaspora Jewry is being transformed.”

    Lazarus, in fact, has teamed up with the pro-Israel website HonestReporting.com to train “digital ambassadors” globally to promote Israel’s interests online. The website claims 3,000 such ambassadors, a number Lazarus confirmed in a phone conversation with Common Dreams from Israel.

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    Beck may have shown the future, unless defenses are mounted. As the ADL’s Todd Gutnick said, “Any idiot with a computer can do something like this.” But Beck is highly intelligent—at least in some ways. Think what a team of Becks could do.

    #Israel #Israël #délétère