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'''Hasbara''' may refer to any of these, click for fuller coverage:
  
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* [[Hasbara (history)]] meaning of the word and history of Israeli efforts since 1977. Detailed coverage.
  
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* [[Wikipedia's Hasbara]] - how hasbara has come to dominate all articles on Israel/Palestine at the Wikipedia. Mis-used sources, heavy-handed administrative interference and a lot of tricks. Detailed coverage.
  
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'''NOTE''' much of this article lifted from [http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hasbara&action=edit Sourcewatch]  
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* [[Hasbara (2002 Manual)]] [http://zionism-israel.com/issues/Zionism_Israel_Wujs2.html "Defending Israel and Zionism"] was produced by the [http://www.wujs.org.il World Union of Jewish Students] in 2002. A few details, please add.
  
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'''Hasbara''' - the Hebrew word for 'Explanation'. In practice it has come to describe those who contribute to the dispersed propaganda effort to sell Zionist Israel, justify its actions, and defend it in the court of worldwide public opinion. The '''Hasbara''' portrays Israel as fighting on two fronts:
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* [https://wikispooks.com/wiki/2009_Global_Language_Dictionary Hasbara (2009 Manual)] examination of the [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fmedia%2F70%2Ftip_report.pdf ''2009 Global Language Dictionary''] a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP), 2009.</ref>, a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP). Partial coverage, please add.
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#A hostile, native, non-Jewish Palestinian population and Israel's surrounding Arab States
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#World opinion. 
 
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The latter is the province of the Hasbara. It's premise is that Israel's problems are the result of inadequate 'hasbara' - in practical terms, propaganda - rather than an extended underlying unjust situation involving what has, defacto, become a grossly  apartheid State.
 
  
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== The techniques utilized ==
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*Smearing/defaming critics of Israel, aka, [[attacking the messenger]].  This is even the terminology found in the ''Hasbara Handbook''
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*Selective discussion of issues
 
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*Framing of issues, and setting the terminology used in discussing Israel
 
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*Harassing media about its coverage
 
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*Challenging the portrayal of an alternative narrative, and attempting to keep the zionist narrative as the dominant one.
 
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==Hasbara Campus Manual==
 
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The [[File:Wujshasbara.pdf]] Hasbara Handbook: Promoting Israel on Campus, contains some interesting admission:
 
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'''Propaganda is used by those who want to communicate in ways that engage the emotions and downplay rationality, in an attempt to promote a certain message.'''
 
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It describe seven propaganda techniques:
 
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#'''Name calling''': through the careful use of words name calling techniques link a person or an idea to a negative symbol.
 
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#'''Glittering generality''': name calling in reverse.  Glittering generalities use positive phrases in order to lend positive image to things.  Words such as "freedom", "civilization" &hellip;
 
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#'''Transfer''': involves taking some of the prestige and authority of one concept and applying it to another.  For example, a speaker might decide to speak in front of a United Nations flag, in an attempt to gain legitimacy for himself or his idea.
 
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#'''Testimonial''': enlisting the support of somebody admired or famous to endorse an idea or campaign.
 
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#'''Plain folks''': a technique that attempts to convince the listener that the speaker is a 'regular guy', who is trust-worthy  like 'you or me'.
 
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#'''Fear''': the inculcation of fear.
 
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#'''Bandwagon'''.
 
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==On-Site resources==
 
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*[[File:Wujshasbara.pdf]] - Hasbara Handbook - World Union of Jewish Students, March 2002.
 
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*[[File:Tip report.pdf]] - Hasbara Handbook - Global Language Dictionary - 2009
 
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==External resources==
 
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*Fadi Kiblawi, [http://palestinechronicle.com/printstory.php?sid=20031023184739430 Israel's Campus Concerns], ''The Palestine Chronicle'', Oct. 23, 2003.  Quote: "The Hasbara Handbook prescribes fascinating instructions on attacking the messenger and avoiding the message at all costs &lsquo;in ways that engage the emotions, and downplay rationality, in an attempt to promote&rsquo; their cause. In a section entitled &lsquo;Name Calling,&rsquo; Israel's Jewish Agency writes, &lsquo;Creating negative connotations by name calling is done to try and get the audience to reject a person or idea on the basis of negative associations, without allowing a real examination of that person or idea."
 
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*Conal Urguhart, [http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5072982-103681,00.html Israel uses TV show to find its best spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', Nov. 27, 2004.
 
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*Gary Rosenblatt, "[http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=10220 Hasbara’ Goes Prime Time]", ''The Jewish Week'', December 3, 2004.
 
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*Hilary Leila Krieger, [http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0011659.html Expert: Israeli PR improving, but...], ''Jerusalem Post'', December 16, 2004.  Interviews Frank Luntz during the 2004 Herzliya Conference.
 
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*Gary Rosenblatt, "[http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13562 Inside Israel’s Image War]", ''The Jewish Week'', January 19, 2007.
 
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==References==
 
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Hasbara may refer to any of these, click for fuller coverage:

  • Hasbara (history) meaning of the word and history of Israeli efforts since 1977. Detailed coverage.
  • Wikipedia's Hasbara - how hasbara has come to dominate all articles on Israel/Palestine at the Wikipedia. Mis-used sources, heavy-handed administrative interference and a lot of tricks. Detailed coverage.
  • Hasbara (2009 Manual) examination of the 2009 Global Language Dictionary a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP), 2009.</ref>, a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP). Partial coverage, please add.

 

A Hasbara victim on Wikispooks

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Alison ChablozProfessional musician harassed and prosecuted in the UK for publishing satirical songs about 'The Holocaust'

 

Related Quotation

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'Feliks'“Wikipedia is not just what it appears to be. It is more than a lexicon. It is also a bogus encyclopedia, a small but effective opinion manipulation machine. In certain areas, the encyclopedia becomes a pseudo-encyclopedia and has for years been dominated by a small group consisting of approx. 200 people. The only thing remaining is something that looks like a reference book, but is in the hands of dogmatists and people who write in Wikipedia non-stop, but have no qualifications in the areas they write about.”'Feliks'
Dirk Pohlmann
Markus Fiedler		24 December 2018

 

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