Hasbara

The Nova Exhibition in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025. (Ted Eytan/CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Nova Exhibition aims to return the world to October 7 — and keep us there

Borrowing heavily from Holocaust memorialization, the mobile exhibit wants visitors to identify with Israeli festivalgoers and forget everything else.

By Em Hilton August 4, 2026

Oracle's Larry Ellison and executive producer David Ellison arrive at the LA premiere of "Star Trek Into Darkness" at The Dolby Theater in Los Angeles, May 14, 2013 (Eric Charbonneau/Getty Images)

The billionaire family poised to rewire U.S. media in Israel’s favor

Having acquired Paramount and CBS and eyeing TikTok and CNN, the Ellisons are constructing a pro-Israel information empire with unprecedented reach.

By Will Alden December 4, 2025

Screenshots from animations published by the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, along with digital scans from a boat-building workshop in the Scottish Maritime Museum.

How a Scottish maritime museum ended up in Israel’s 3D propaganda videos

An analysis of dozens of Israeli army animations, used to justify Gaza strikes and amplified by international outlets, discovered digital assets sourced not from classified intelligence but commercial libraries and content creators.

By Oren Ziv October 8, 2025

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Israelis protest against the war and humanitarian crisis in Gaza, on a highway bridge near Jerusalem, August 15, 2025. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

How Israelis turned atrocity denial into an art

As Gazans document mass killing and starvation in real time, the response of much of Israeli society is: “It’s all fake — and they deserve it.”

By Ron Dudai August 22, 2025

Israelis and Palestinians protest against the killing of journalists in Gaza, in Beit Jala, the West Bank, Aug.15, 2025. (Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90)

‘Hamas in disguise’: Israel’s tried-and-true tactic to smear Palestinian journalists

Ahead of the planned invasion of Gaza City, killing Anas Al-Sharif is the latest step in Israel's campaign to erase Gaza's witnesses and prevent accountability.

By Muhammad Shehada August 15, 2025

Family and friends mourn near the body of Palestinian journalist Saed Sabri Abu Nabhan, who was shot and killed by an Israeli army sniper, at Al Awda Hospital in northern Gaza, January 11, 2025. (Ali Hassan/Flash90)

‘Legitimization Cell’: Israeli unit tasked with linking Gaza journalists to Hamas

Treating the media as a battlefield, a secretive army intelligence squad scoured Gaza for material to bolster Israeli hasbara — including questionable claims that would justify the killing of Palestinian reporters.

By Yuval Abraham August 14, 2025

UK-flagged vessel Madleen enter the Ashdod port, after the Israeli army took control on the vessel overnight, in Ashdod, June 9, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Trolling the Madleen reveals the depths of the Israeli media’s delusion

After Israel seized the Gaza-bound flotilla and subjected its passengers to humiliating displays, the media and public framed it as a ‘PR win.’

By Oren Ziv June 11, 2025

A woman in Jerusalem watches Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak at a press conference on her TV, September 28, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The ‘pact of silence’ between Israelis and their media

Israel’s long-subservient media has spent the past year imbuing the public with a sense of righteousness over the Gaza war. Reversing this indoctrination, says media observer Oren Persico, could take decades.

By Edo Konrad October 16, 2024

A mural in the Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, October 10, 2006. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

Dispelling the myths about Palestinian refugees — in Jenin and beyond

With Israel's Jenin invasion sparking a new round of misinformation, here are the truths behind five hasbara tropes on Palestinian refugees.

By Anne Irfan July 9, 2023

Far-right Israeli activists from the Im Tirzu movement at Tel Aviv University hold book showing Palestinian leader Amin al-Husseini with a swastika, during a protest against the annual Nakba ceremony, May 11, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

The Israeli right’s most dangerous anti-Palestinian smear

The Jewish far right has been calling Palestinians 'Nazis' for almost 80 years, casting them as an irredeemable enemy in an eternal war.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth April 20, 2023

Pro-Palestinian protesters rally in the Bronx, New York City, May 31, 2021. (Luke Tress/Flash90)

An academic cover for demonizing Palestine solidarity

The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism misrepresents its scholarly bona fides while conflating Palestine solidarity activism with anti-Jewish bigotry.

By Dan Weissmann February 14, 2023

Israelis protest against the current Israeli government and its planned judicial reform, Tel Aviv, January 28, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Is Israel’s hasbara bubble about to burst?

For decades, Israel's Western allies have nodded along as it professes to be 'the only democracy in the Middle East.' What happens if they stop?

By Meron Rapoport February 13, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin addressees Jewish leaders at the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations at the Shoreham American Hotel, April 17, 1980. (Moshe Milner/GPO).

The war that canonized America’s hasbara playbook

The defensive line taken by the American-Jewish establishment during the 1982 Lebanon invasion solidified many of the methods that are deployed when Israeli violence makes headlines today.

By Natasha Soffer-Roth October 28, 2022