Hasbara

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 (2002 Manual) "Defending Israel and Zionism" was produced by the World Union of Jewish Students in 2002. A few details, please add.

• 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.

Some favorite techniques

1. Smearing/defaming critics of Israel, all criticism of Zionism is "the new antisemitism".
2. Use of sources often so poor as to be completely discredited.
3. Attacking credible sources and witnesses, inventing or distorting trivial incidents.
4. Selective discussion of issues.
5. Controlling the language, towns instead of settlements, "disputed" instead of occupied.
6. Framing of issues, the siege of Gaza as a response to terror.
7. Harassing media about its coverage.
8. Challenging the portrayal of an alternative narrative, and attempting to keep the Zionist narrative as the dominant one.

External resources

• Fadi Kiblawi, 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 ‘in ways that engage the emotions, and downplay rationality, in an attempt to promote’ their cause. In a section entitled ‘Name Calling,’ Israel's Jewish Agency writes, ‘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."

• Conal Urguhart, Israel uses TV show to find its best spin doctor, The Guardian, Nov. 27, 2004.

• Gary Rosenblatt, "Hasbara’ Goes Prime Time", The Jewish Week, December 3, 2004.

• Hilary Leila Krieger, Expert: Israeli PR improving, but..., Jerusalem Post, December 16, 2004. Interviews Frank Luntz during the 2004 Herzliya Conference.

• Gary Rosenblatt, "Inside Israel’s Image War", The Jewish Week, January 19, 2007.

• Laura Knight-Jadczyk, Hasbara, Shmuel Rosner and the Israel Factor - sott.net 11 January 2007