Israeli propaganda is bad because it centers around the idea that wanting an enthno-state theocracy is a completely normal political aspiration while at the same time pretending the enthno-state also practices democratic pluralism. The Zionist authorities have become so enamored with the zionist project they either don’t know or don’t care what comes across as sensible to someone who lives thousands of miles away from Israel and perhaps has very little stake in encroaching settlements. Like the propaganda about how Hamas will take over the entire world and institute a global pogrom just doesn’t hit. No one believes that outside the most blinkered Zionist.
Furthermore the propaganda is laser directed at maybe three demographics, so it comes across as alien and hyperspecific if you don’t belong to their audience. Zionist propaganda is intended for: American Islamophobia liberals who aren’t Jewish, American reactionary evangelicals who believe the apocalypse is happening in two months, and young Jewish people living outside of Israel.
And none of those groups necessary share political or economic interests, the only thing that may tie them together is a bloodthirsty hatred of Muslims but even that’s a stretch and isn’t as unifying as Israel thinks it might be
I would say pretty firmly that out of these 3 groups, “young Jewish people living outside of Isra*el” are the easiest to peel off, and possibly even make anti-imperialist allies out of.
Israeli propaganda is bad because it centers around the idea that wanting an enthno-state theocracy is a completely normal political aspiration while at the same time pretending the enthno-state also practices democratic pluralism. The Zionist authorities have become so enamored with the zionist project they either don’t know or don’t care what comes across as sensible to someone who lives thousands of miles away from Israel and perhaps has very little stake in encroaching settlements. Like the propaganda about how Hamas will take over the entire world and institute a global pogrom just doesn’t hit. No one believes that outside the most blinkered Zionist.
Furthermore the propaganda is laser directed at maybe three demographics, so it comes across as alien and hyperspecific if you don’t belong to their audience. Zionist propaganda is intended for: American Islamophobia liberals who aren’t Jewish, American reactionary evangelicals who believe the apocalypse is happening in two months, and young Jewish people living outside of Israel.
And none of those groups necessary share political or economic interests, the only thing that may tie them together is a bloodthirsty hatred of Muslims but even that’s a stretch and isn’t as unifying as Israel thinks it might be
I would say pretty firmly that out of these 3 groups, “young Jewish people living outside of Isra*el” are the easiest to peel off, and possibly even make anti-imperialist allies out of.