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* [https://wikispooks.com/wiki/2009_Global_Language_Dictionary Hasbara (2009 Manual)] examination of the [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fmedia%2F70%2Ftip_report.pdf ''2009 Global Language Dictionary''] a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP), 2009.</ref>, a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP). Partial coverage, please add.
 
* [https://wikispooks.com/wiki/2009_Global_Language_Dictionary Hasbara (2009 Manual)] examination of the [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweek.com%2Fmedia%2F70%2Ftip_report.pdf ''2009 Global Language Dictionary''] a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP), 2009.</ref>, a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP). Partial coverage, please add.
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==Some favorite techniques==
 
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# Smearing/defaming critics of Israel, all criticism of Zionism is "the new antisemitism".
 
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# Use of sources often so poor as to be completely discredited.
 
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# Attacking credible sources and witnesses, inventing or distorting trivial incidents.
 
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# Selective discussion of issues.
 
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# Controlling the language, towns instead of settlements, "disputed" instead of occupied.
 
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# Framing of issues, the siege of Gaza as a response to terror.
 
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# Harassing media about its coverage.
 
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# Challenging the portrayal of an alternative narrative, and attempting to keep the Zionist narrative as the dominant one.
 
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==External resources==
 
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*'''Fadi Kiblawi,''' [http://palestinechronicle.com/printstory.php?sid=20031023184739430 Israel's Campus Concerns], ''The Palestine Chronicle'', Oct. 23, 2003.  Quote: "The Hasbara Handbook prescribes fascinating instructions on attacking the messenger and avoiding the message at all costs &lsquo;in ways that engage the emotions, and downplay rationality, in an attempt to promote&rsquo; their cause. In a section entitled &lsquo;Name Calling,&rsquo; Israel's Jewish Agency writes, &lsquo;Creating negative connotations by name calling is done to try and get the audience to reject a person or idea on the basis of negative associations, without allowing a real examination of that person or idea."
 
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*'''Conal Urguhart,''' [http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,5072982-103681,00.html Israel uses TV show to find its best spin doctor], ''The Guardian'', Nov. 27, 2004.
 
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*'''Gary Rosenblatt,''' "[http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=10220 Hasbara’ Goes Prime Time]", ''The Jewish Week'', December 3, 2004.
 
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*'''Hilary Leila Krieger,''' [http://student.cs.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0011659.html Expert: Israeli PR improving, but...], ''Jerusalem Post'', December 16, 2004.  Interviews Frank Luntz during the 2004 Herzliya Conference.
 
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*'''Gary Rosenblatt,''' "[http://www.thejewishweek.com/news/newscontent.php3?artid=13562 Inside Israel’s Image War]", ''The Jewish Week'', January 19, 2007.
 
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*'''Laura Knight-Jadczyk,''' [http://www.sott.net/articles/show/125480-Hasbara,+Shmuel+Rosner+and+the+Israel+Factor Hasbara, Shmuel Rosner and the Israel Factor] - sott.net 11 January 2007
 
  
 
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Revision as of 20:33, 14 December 2011

Hasbara may refer to any of these, click for fuller coverage:

  • Hasbara (history) meaning of the word and history of Israeli efforts since 1977. Detailed coverage.
  • Wikipedia's Hasbara - how hasbara has come to dominate all articles on Israel/Palestine at the Wikipedia. Mis-used sources, heavy-handed administrative interference and a lot of tricks. Detailed coverage.
  • Hasbara (2009 Manual) examination of the 2009 Global Language Dictionary a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP), 2009.</ref>, a professionally researched 116-page guide by The Information Project (TIP). Partial coverage, please add.
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