The Real Housewives of Hasbara: When the Gaza War Is Good for Business
A wave of women influencers have transformed into super-engines of Israel advocacy since Oct. 7. The 'hasbaristas' seamlessly blend lifestyle content with nuance-free Zionist activism. Are they good for hasbara? Was hasbara ever good for Israel?
Lizzy Savetsky is having a very good year.
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Doreen
08:34
Hasbara coming from an occupying power can't ever succeed. And please save us from those plastic influencers.
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CV
06:56
This vulgar, unarticulated, imbecilic stuff spouting ladies are indeed particularly repulsive in their certitude that Israel is entitled to kill babies and it's antisemitic to even say otherwise. But the more outrageous and disconnected from reality Israel defenders turn, the quicker it will repel normal unbiased people looking on this Israel - Palestine disaster and trying to make sense of it.
This is quickly happening, and the current massacre, aid workers executions, gazafication of the west bank are helping a lot of people to see through the propaganda.
Let's see where all those "influencers" are in five or ten years, eh ? Not sure they are all that courageous then, once the tide of public consensus has finally turned and Israel is definitely associated with trumpism in people's minds.
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Seriously
04:26
Unbelievable...promoting boobs by your Plastic Surgeon husband!
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Mo
03:49
Those women are proudly promoting Genocide and baby killing.
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@Mo
06:20Mo
Well, at least not Islamic fundamentalism…
CV @@Mo
06:59Mo
To people who consider the Palestinians people to be rooting for Muslim fundamentalism, I refer to this photo of Khalida Jarrar, a Palestinian MP from the west bank, celebrating her freeing from an Israeli prison a few years back (she was since rearrested and refreed and rearrested and so on, always without charges of course).
https://www.rfi.fr/fr/moyen-orient/20160603-israel-deputee-palestinienne-khalida-jarrar-liberation-apres-an-prison
Do you think this picture fits with Palestinians rooting for "Muslim fundamentalism" ?
