"Israel to Pay Students for Social Media Propaganda"

[Comrade Grumpy]

This article is almost a year old, but is very timely right now.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/08/14/israel-students-social-media/2651715/?AID=4011243&PID=3662453&SID=skim725X175X5c6100e06bb598b4bab56b963ed01da0

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel is looking to hire university students to post pro-Israel messages on social media networks — without needing to identify themselves as government-linked, officials said Wednesday.

The Israeli prime minister's office said in a statement that students on Israeli university campuses would receive full or partial scholarships to combat anti-Semitism and calls to boycott Israel online. It said students' messages would parallel statements by government officials.

"This is a groundbreaking project aimed at strengthening Israeli national diplomacy and adapting it to changes in information consumption," the statement said.

An Israeli official said Wednesday that scholarship recipients would be free to decide whether or not to identify themselves as part of the program, which would begin within months.

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Oh, and they have a racist running the show:

The Israeli daily newspaper Haaretz identified the official heading the project as Danny Seaman, a public diplomacy official who has written posts on his personal Facebook page which Haaretz described as being incendiary and anti-Muslim.

Haaretz posted what it said were four screen shots of his recent posts. In one of them, Seaman wrote: "Does the commencement of the fast of the Ramadan mean that Muslims will stop eating each other during the daytime?" In another, he uses profanity in a comment about the chief Palestinian peace negotiator.

[BillZBubb]

1. Just part of the continuing, massive Israeli propaganda effort.

There are posters on DU who fit the profile.

[Comrade Grumpy]

2. I've noticed a couple. Low post count, high talking points quotient.

[TwilightGardener]

3. It works for Russia and China, why not?

The US should get in on this game, too.

[stillwaiting]

11. Oh, I'm sure the US gets in on that game.

They are not openly hiring students, but they are definitely in that game.

[alsame]

4. Frank Luntz wrote much of

current talking points for US and European audiences, the "2009 Global Language Dictionary" for The Israel Project.

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The entire propaganda manual PDF is at the link.


http://mondoweiss.net/2009/07/no-it-isnt-the-pentagon-papers-but-heres-a-small-sign-that-the-msm-is-finally-going-to-take-on-the-b.html

[BillZBubb]

6. Thanks for the link.

We see a lot of Luntz's propaganda on DU.

[L0oniX]

5. Pollution of "freedom of speech" is the new government norm.

thanks Obama

[geek tragedy]

7. They and the Putinbots are painfully obvious.

to anyone caring to notice.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. In war, truth is the first casualty. Aeschylus

[Populist_Prole]

9. Ahhh. So THAT's it

I've been noticing a lot of pro-Israel rhetoric from conservative friends/family lately; well, the past couple of years or so.

Funny thing is many of them were heretofore somewhat anti-semetic ( culturally speaking ) and not very religious at all. Now I'm getting all these stupid-assed email forwards from them about extolling a stalwart Israel in the face of Arab hordes, or stupid shrieking about preserving our "Judeo-Christian" values blah blah blah.

Straight out of the neocon playbook, and so these reactionary lunkheads eat it up like a bucket of fried chicken.

[d_b]

10. *U.S.