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Israel’s recent invasion might be the continuance of an old conflict, but it brought us something new and very depressing – social media propaganda campaigns: Both sides deployed dangerous new media weapons during this latest round of fighting in Gaza. Armed with Facebook profiles, Twitter accounts, and Lavazza espresso, warriors fearlessly and tirelessly scoured the [...]

Every conflict is more complex than you imagine. In this clip from the Palestinian Media Watch, a young victim puts a viewpoint that was “aired not on an Israeli network but on Palestinian Authority TV”: Clips like this one, of course, are all part of the propaganda battle that every conflict is immersed in. Her views don’t [...]

Few topics get the loops tapping their keyboards in outraged frenzy more than Israel. So it is again on for young and old over at the ABC Unleashed site. So far there have been three contributions, “Massacre of the innocents” (by acclaimed foreign policy analyst Bob Ellis), “Israel no victim” and “Questions for Hamas”. All these [...]