…and offered Jeff Bezos’s acquisition of The Washington Post as an example of “investment in narrating the dialogue of history.”
Facebook is OK for Israel, Russia not so much.
Guess which calls the shots in US congress.
A pro-Israel advocacy organization, The Israel Project (TIP), was identified last week as operating a series of Facebook groups as part of an under-the-radar effort to spread pro-Israel messaging without identifying the source of the content. Its media strategy, however, was much bigger than that.
A message published on an online forum by TIP president Josh Block, and discovered by LobeLog, reveals that the Facebook groups documented in Al Jazeera’s still unaired documentary, The Lobby-USA—clips of which were published by The Electronic Intifadalast Thursday—were merely the beginning of Block’s ambitions for unbranded media platforms promoting his message.
The clips published last week show David Hazony, managing director of The Israel Project, acknowledging, “there are things that we do that are completely off the radar. We work together with a lot of other organizations.”
Hazony adds, “We produce content that they then publish with their own name on it,” but doesn’t provide the identity of the “other organizations.”
Another Israel Project employee, Jordan Schactel, was recorded saying:
So we have a lot of side projects that we are trying to influence the public debate with. That’s why it’s a secretive thing. Because we don’t want people to know that these side projects are associated with The Israel Project…
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