The 'Hasbara Project' and the 'Israel Project' Has Influenced Millions of Americans to Support Israel: We Have Fallen into a Trap of Condoning Whatever Israel Does as Orchestrated by God

The Hasbara Project

There really is a Hasbara Handbook. You can download your very own copy right now – this one, by the World Union of Jewish Students, is from 2002 and aims to help students make the case for Israel. You could, the book suggests, try one of two methods. You could engage in real debate or you could “point score.”  As it says on page 9 under the title “How to score points whilst avoiding debate”, and no I did not make this up: “Central to point scoring is the ability to disguise point scoring by giving the impression of genuine debate. Audience members can be alienated by undisguised attacks so all point scoring needs to be disguised.”


May 23, 2009

The Global Consciousness - Possible one of the most successful projects in American history, the Hasbara Project has influenced millions of Americans to support Israel through downplaying Israeli war crimes and demonizing the Palestinians.

Starting in the 1980’s, the Hasbara Project’s mission statement was to “train foreign-service officers in communications by placing them with American companies”. In translation: Implementing Israel-sympathetic journalists into the heart of American media.

An example of their efforts can be found in the book, “Battleground: Fact and Fantasy in Palestine” written by Hasbara missionary, Shmuel Katz. He considers the book textbook material that is a must-read for anyone influenced by the “Arab-propaganda”. The New York Times considers it at “the Number One World Problem Today”, which they go on further by calling it, “one-sided”.

Ever heard much about the Israel-Lebanon war? Probably not, because of the Hasbara. It was a humiliating defeat for the Israelis after invading Lebanon and killing over a thousand Lebanese civilians–much more than the total of Hezbollah causalities, just to end up defeated by Hezbollah.