Israeli Cyber Spies Try to Influence US Elections
by Ian Mosley
The London Times has discovered that Israel is conducting a campaign to spread Zionist propaganda on the Internet and shut down websites which criticize Israel or Jews in general. This campaign has been carefully organized, staffed and paid for by the Israeli government–which means your tax dollars in action. Interestingly enough, like all such news, we have to look to the foreign press to learn about such matters. Not one whisper of this seems to have appeared anywhere in the American media.
More than a few patriotic, right wing websites have reported that strange individuals had appeared posting on their blogs in the months before the election blindly arguing in defense of Bush and the neocons. No amount of logic could persuade them that the US was headed for tyranny with Bush and the neocons in charge.
The prestigious Times of London reports that “Israel’s government has thrown its weight behind efforts by supporters to counter what it believes to be negative bias and a tide of pro-Arab propaganda.” (Read accurate media coverage of the atrocities Israel is committing against the indigenous people of the Middle East.) “The Foreign Ministry has ordered trainee diplomats to track websites and chatrooms so that networks of US and European groups with hundreds of thousands of Jewish activists can place supportive messages. In the past week nearly 5,000 members of the World Union of Jewish Students (WUJS) have downloaded special ‘megaphone’ software that alerts them to anti-Israeli chatrooms or internet polls to enable them to post contrary viewpoints. A student team in Jerusalem combs the web in a host of different languages to flag the sites so that those who have signed up can influence an opinion survey or the course of a debate.” (more…)