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Haaretz report says Israel plans to fly 16 social media influencers who support Trump’s MAGA and America First campaigns.

The influencers each have hundreds of thousands to millions of followers. They will be flown in to counter what the Israeli government sees as declining support for Israel among young Americans, the report said, without citing any date.

“With the rise of the America First movement and MAGA in American politics, it’s essential for Israel that the movement adopt a pro-Israel position,” Yacov Livne, senior deputy director of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Department of Public Diplomacy, was quoted as saying in the report.

“[While] older Republicans and American conservatives still hold pro-Israel views, positive perspectives towards Israel are falling across all younger age groups,” it said, according to the report.

The influencers will be pushed to share messaging that aligns with Israeli policy regarding the Palestinians. “We are working with influencers, sometimes with delegations of influencers,” an unnamed source from the ministry told Haaretz.

Israel365 promotes support for Israel, specifically among Christians, based on biblical principles. Its website says the group “stands unapologetically for the Jewish people’s God-given right to the entire Land of Israel”.

The organisation also rejects a two‑state solution as a “delusion” and describes its mission as defending “Western civilization against threats from both Progressive Left extremism and global jihad”.

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[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don’t even engage with people who think that criticizing a government is the same as criticizing a religion.

If you think that using the word “genocide” to describe what’s happening in Palestine makes me antisemitic somehow, then fine. You’ve just told me that you don’t know what words mean. Fuck off and don’t talk to me.

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You're pro-semetic, since Palestinians are also from Semetic culture. Arabs are the largest ethnic group within it.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago

Interesting. TIL

[–] nymnympseudonym@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago

People who think religion is real and should have a hand in politics... ... ... have no place in modern civilized democracy

[–] FelixCress@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)
[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who are the guys on the left?

Grandpa’s like “ok sure, wave for the camera rolls eyes

[–] ewo@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Italian facists, if I'm not mistaken the man to the left of grandpa is Mussolini

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They certainly had interesting taste in pants.

[–] ewo@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 week ago

As a lover of good boots they tar the brush

[–] Wazowski@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

Fuck Israel.

[–] floop@lemmy.dbzer0.com 25 points 1 week ago

It’s like when Hitler toured Italy. Or when Mussolini toured Germany. Either way, what the fuck.

[–] mgnome@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Defending Western civilization against threats from both Progressive Left extremism and global jihad.

Ah yes, the infamous Marxist-Islamist menace.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago

It's the everyone-else menace.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 21 points 1 week ago

Holy fuck this is fucked.

[–] Theprogressivist@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Nazis funding nazis

[–] SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one 12 points 1 week ago

Oh boy, so much inhuman scum in one place at one time...

Totally not a convenient opportunity...

[–] fucktrump@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Please let a missile find its mark

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago

Fuck MIGA pedos.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

Israel is known for creating false flags to try to pull the US into conflicts along with them. I would not be surprised if some "Hamas" fighters attack the tour to try to enrage the maga group into pushing for more weapons to be sent

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago

In a less insane system, those shills would be subject to the Foreign Agent Registration act.

[–] korsystems@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

The USA-Israel couple is truly the most degenerate thing in the world. If only the rest of the world had the balls to ostracize them once and for all...

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

What a time for a sudden funni.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Just drop them off in the Gaza strip, preferably without a parachute.