oatmealHaMakom Exposé: IDF Spokesperson Unit Established a Fictitious News Outlet and Ran Influence Operations During the War
Whatever happened to insufferable genocide promoter Noa Tishby, the Israeli actress who worked so hard to make the Gaza atrocities palatable to US audiences? If you suspected she was functioning as an IDF asset, you're not far off.
#HaMakom's exposé reveals that the IDF Spokesperson's Unit created a fictitious news organization called "Fact Check – Daily Content," which recruited dozens of influencers between October 2023 and December 2024:
> "87 posts were published on Instagram by influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers, including Noa Tishby, Sherry Gavati, and figures from the international Jewish community, reaching millions of viewers. Under a 'factual' guise, the influencers explained that Arabs are the true occupiers in the land... and justified why Israel's actions in Gaza do not constitute genocide, defending the military against ICC accusations in The Hague."
The operation falsely presented itself as a "non-profit organization," according to soldiers who participated, though the article does not specify whether individual influencers knew the outlet was an IDF front.
[...] "The channel was intended for an overseas audience, ostensibly objective and unconnected to Israel. But everything was videos we produced in the unit, which of course prioritized the Israeli narrative," says a soldier who participated in producing the videos. "At first I thought it was important. I wanted to present a logical angle, but then I realized we were posing as something we're not. A state spokesperson body in Israel shouldn't be running influence operations domestically while impersonating a fake entity."
Hebrew https://www.ha-makom.co.il/fake-news-idf
Watch Tishby at work... For some reason, reading this made me think of Scientology: the aggressive response to any criticism of Israel, the threats against critics, the behind-the-scenes lobbying, and the deployment of celebrities to lend credibility to the messaging. Both organizations treat critics as enemies to be neutralized rather than legitimate voices engaging in good-faith debate, and both deploy front groups to make their messaging appear independent.
#Hamas is Trying to Commit Genocide, Not Israel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZg8m4kQVdM or https://yewtu.be/watch?v=WZg8m4kQVdM
#IDF #hasbara (Israel's public diplomacy apparatus—state-sponsored efforts to shape international perception of Israel and justify its policies) #HasbaraOps #GazaGenocide #NoaTishby #Palestine #Israel
