The Israeli government has signed contracts worth millions of dollars in recent months to rehabilitate Israel’s standing in American public opinion, both online and offline.

Amid a sharp drop in support from the conservative right, Israel has hired firms to conduct not just “hasbara [public diplomacy] campaigns” but also campaigns targeting millions of Christian churchgoers, bot networks to amplify pro-Israel messages online, and efforts to influence both search results and the responses given by popular AI services like ChatGPT.

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    when a massive superpower enthusiastically bankrolls your entire military, you have all kinds of extra funds for fun little projects like this one; that and healthcare.

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    With risk of permaban, I am going to be very blunt here, anyway: I really don’t like Israel. There. I said it. Come at me, bots.

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      That’s a very prevalent and public opinion on here. I’m not going to blanket say that all Israelis are bad. I live in the US, so while we’re not actively committing a genocide, I live in a place with a pretty bad rap, so I empathize with the Israelis not complicit in genocide.

      That said, fuck Israel.

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    This is LITERALLY the ONLY Thing they Can do since COMMITTING Genocide is LITERALLY a Jewish Trait and to say Otherwise is ANTI SEMETIC!

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      Hey now, to be fair, all those many, many times when the Old Testament recorded the Israelites committing genocide, they were doing it because God specifically told them to do it. It’s not like they would EVER go against the will of God.