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Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Palestinians trying to hijack the earthquake

The Palestinian Information Center seems upset that the world is paying so much attention to the earthquake in Turkey and Syria and not to them.So they wrote an article that not only accuses Israel of "aid-washing" but also claims that the damage in Gaza wars was just as bad, if not worse, than the horrific scenes we are seeing in the quake zones.The painful scenes of the...

New types of EoZ cartoons

I love making my cartoons, but since I am not a good enough artist to draw them myself, I spend a lot of time looking for an existing cartoon that can be re-purposed and re-captioned for my punchline.Last week, it occured to me that artificial intelligence drawing packages might be able to help.They aren't the quality I want, but they show potential.Here are the first...

Amnesty USA's "Israel-Palestinian" Twitter account never condemns terrorism, rails against "hasbara," accuses pro-Israel tweeters of being "paid trolls"

Amnesty USA maintains a Twitter account with the name IOTPA and the Amnesty logo. It describes itself as an unofficial account: "Amnesty International USA member leader team for Israel/OPT/Palestine. Views our own. Re-tweets should not be construed as a position of Amnesty International."It might not be official, but it sure shows how anti-Israel Amnesty USA is. Beyond that,...

Another great speech by Ron Prosor at the UN

This speech was given yesterday by Israel's ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor: John Fitzgerald Kennedy said, “The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie... but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.” This is the third year that I am standing before this Assembly to address this agenda item and once again, I experience a sense of déjà vu as I listen...

'Zionist Imperialists' to the Rescue in Syria

From International Business Times: Historically bitter relations between Syria and Israel have been bypassed by the civil conflict as a wave of injured Syrians get urgent medical help from Israelis. The two countries remain technically at war (Israel is frequently demonised as "Zionist Imperialism" by the Ba'ath Party rejectionists of the Assad regime) but that has not...

Hasbara 2.0 - the video

Yesterday I posted the slides for my Hasbara 2.0 speech last year. Here is the video of the presentation. If you have a couple of free hours, you might find it interesting...

2010 Hasby Awards/Hasbara 2.0: The slide presentation

Here are the slides that I created for my lecture last year at Yeshiva University which included the 2010 Hasby Awards and Hasbara 2.0. (function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })(); Yes, I know that there is a...

Hasbara 2.0, part 2: What is good hasbara?

Part 2 of my series on hasbara is now up on NewsRealBlog. Check it out! UPDATE: It looks like the videos that were supposed to be embedded in the story did not make it in. Here they are: ...

Hasbara 2.0 - why the Israel haters are winning today

Since it was frustrating trying to figure out what to post here and what to post at my NewsRealBlog gig, I decided to start to document my ideas about Hasbara 2.0 that I spoke about in December. So I will be running a continuing series on hasbara there. The first installment, an introduction, is up now. Check it ou...

Melanie Phillips: "Israeli hasbara is a joke"

A video where Phillips tells it like it i...

Facts and logic do not work on the ideologues

Ha'aretz this morning has another article that twists the facts of the Abu Rahma case. This one, by Gideon Levy, blames the IDF for what he thinks is clear evidence that Jawaher Abu Rahma's death, and he calls the IDF spokespeople liars. Now there is no doubt that the IDF has not handled this as well as they should have. But what is even more clear is that there is no way that a healthy person with no other medical condition will be killed by a...

EoZ Hasbara 2.0 video now available

The video of my Hasbara 2.0 lecture at Yeshiva University on December 7 (audio plus slides) is now available. The lecture enumerates 11 Rules of Hasbara and 14 ways that anyone can be a reporter - i.e., find news that the media misses - in the Internet age. I also discuss how to amplify and publicize the news that the mainstream media misses, with simple methods that anyone can and should do. I believe that the video can be very helpful to people...

Hasbara 2.0 - a taxonomy of effective communication

Towards the end of my Hasbara 2.0 lecture, I (too quickly) went over this slide: The higher you go up the pyramid, the bigger the emotional pay-off. Things like videos, songs, and plays reach people on a visceral level and are far more effective than text or verbal communication alone. Take data that you or others discover, and push it up the pyramid. Convert raw data into...

Hasbara case study

In my Hasbara 2.0 lecture I stressed that Israel needs to use the language of human rights to argue its case, especially to a liberal audience. I was just pointed to a post at The Camel's Nose that makes the same point beautifully: Today, Maen Rashid Areikat, Chief Representative of the PLO to the United States, penned a response to Moshe Yaalon’s articleon the Middle East Channel of Foreign Policy.com. While faulty policies are at...

2010 Hasby Award Winners

As announced last night in my live presentation in New York, here are the winners of the 2010 Hasby Awards: People's Choice Runner Up with over 2000 votes: Pilar Rahola's article, "The Anti-Israel Hysteria" People's Choice winner, with over 2700 votes: Paris Zionists' unique protest against the anti-Israel Gaza photo exhibit at the Museum of Modern Art in Paris: Hasby...

The official Hasbara 2.0 poster, and some Technorati news

I can now reveal the official poster for the Elder's off-Broadway extravaganza, at Yeshiva University, scheduled for next Tuesday: I am still working on the slides - I am pushing a hundred Powerpoint slides, so the talk will likely last some 90 minutes or so (I speak fast.) There is a lot of information there, though.The organizers wanted some stats about my blog, so...

Which 2010 Elder post was the best example of hasbara?

It didn't seem becoming to nominate anything I did this year for the Hasby Awards, since there is a little conflict of interest there, but a number of people did place nominations for postings and videos of mine. Here they are, with some of my favorites added. So here you can vote on what you think was the best/most effective EoZ activity this year: 1. Happy Nakba! What...

Vote for the People's Choice Hasby Awards 2010!

The excitement for the 2010 Hasby Awards, for the best hasbara events of the year, is reaching a fever pitch!The entire free world is awaiting the live presentation of the winners on December 7th in New York City. While the selection process for the official Hasbies is a closely guarded secret by the audit firm of EoZ and Associates, the People's Choice Hasbara Awards are...

Nominations now being taken for the 2010 Hasby Awards!

The sponsors of my planned Hasbara 2.0 talk at Yeshiva University have been telling me that the turnout would be significantly higher if I speak on a weeknight, and if I go to the main YU campus rather than Stern College in midtown as I had hoped. Since my presentation is probably a one-time only deal, and I believe it is an important topic, I gave in. The new date is December...

Gabriel Latner's speech goes viral

From JPost: When Cambridge University’s prestigious student debating society hosted a debate last month on the motion “Israel is a rogue state,” Israel’s supporters bleakly anticipated another hostile, demonizing and divisive event, and braced, too, for acceptance of the motion in the final vote. But the motion was surprisingly and firmly defeated, with 74 percent of the votes opposing it. At the root of that thoroughly unexpected result was the...