Yuli Edelstein

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a press conference about COVID-19, at the Prime Ministers Office, Jerusalem, March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

A coronavirus coup in broad daylight

As democracy goes into quarantine and surveillance of citizens becomes the norm, Israel is heading straight for an autocracy run by Benjamin Netanyahu.

By Michael Sfard March 19, 2020

Downtown Ramallah. (photo: Wikicommons)

The Ramallah bubble: Prosperity under occupation?

By Lia Tarachansky and Max Blumenthal From street level in downtown Ramallah the economy seems to be thriving. Gleaming storefronts display an array of brand-name products, American fast food restaurants are sprouting up and the city is host to a bustling nightlife that could rival Tel Aviv. For years Israeli officials have pointed to economic…

By +972 Magazine February 10, 2013

Government Press Office doing PR for the settler movement

It seems that every state agency in Israel is becoming a tool in the effort to further colonize the West Bank and deepen the control over the lives of Palestinians. Soon after the government reached an internal “deal” with the settler movement that would keep the families who settled in a so-called “illegal” outpost on the…

By Noam Sheizaf January 13, 2012

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Rightist Propaganda Min. looking for Arabs, gays to represent Israel

Hoping to boost the liberal image of country, Israel has increased efforts to use the gay community for advocacy and PR assignments. This post was updated. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first to appoint a government minister in charge of propaganda, advocacy and international public relations. Minister Yuli Edelstein has taken this position at…

By Noam Sheizaf January 4, 2012

All Arabs are apprently "deplorable.' Edelstein (on the right). (Photo: drmikeevans, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Israel’s Propaganda Minister: Arabs are a deplorable nation

Israel’s Propaganda and Diaspora Minister, Yuli Edelstein, said the Arabs are a “deplorable nation.” His spokesman: He meant every one of them Israel’s Propaganda and Diaspora Minister, Yuli Edelstein, told a crowd in a public diplomacy event in Or Yehuda that “as long as the Arab nation continues to be a deplorable nation, which continues…

By Yossi Gurvitz December 26, 2011

Hasbara: Why does the world fail to understand us?

A short discussion of the Israeli term used to describe the ongoing, ever-growing, national propaganda effort. I have used the word “Hasbara” pretty freely recently, and so do more and more people, without stopping to explain what it actually means. The use of this term has been widespread in Israeli Hebrew for many years now,…

By Noam Sheizaf November 13, 2011

“Air Flotilla” successful in exposing Israeli blockade of West Bank

Israeli authorities deployed hundreds of police officers to arrest and deport pro-Palestinian visitors. The Minister of Tourism announced that “good tourists” will be greeted with flowers Panic. There is no other way to describe the Israeli reaction to a plan organized by a few activists—no more than a thousand, according to the most generous estimates—to…

By Noam Sheizaf July 7, 2011