The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office, will fund a hasbara organization to disseminate propaganda on behalf of the Israeli government. StandWithUs will run “interactive media war rooms” manned by students who will be trained to disseminate Israeli hasbara on social media platforms. The project will be based a model that was tried during Operation Protective Edge and previous military operations, in which “hasbara war rooms” were established in academic institutions across Israel in order to disseminate IDF and government messages. According to the governmental plan, the students who will be enlisted to take part in the program will be trained by Yair Edi Freiman, the head of interactive media and hasbara organizations in the National Information Directorate, alongside workers from StandWithUs that will enlist students from the U.S. and Britain, who will be flown to Israel in order to take part in “educational and training meetings. The National Information Directorate will be highly involved in determining the messages disseminated by the students, and will include a mechanism that allows government representatives to oversee the content of those messages as well as the means of their dissemination.”
Posted on: Sat, 17 Jan 2015 03:42:38 +0000
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