Israeli propaganda machine targets AI and Christian groups in $100m campaign

Israeli media have caught up and acknowledged that the occupation regime and its backers are spending a fortune trying to control what westerners think. They want to control what AI platforms like ChatGPT and Claude tell them. In particular, their targets are the Christian groups it thinks owe it their fealty — as well as the younger people it has lost through its genocide, occupation and warmongering. Israeli propaganda has been showing clear signs of bullshit — obvious even to the untrained eye, and they need this to change.

Israeli propaganda gets digital upgrade

Disclosures have come as US firms representing foreign governments register under the ‘Foreign Agents Registration Act’ – though Israel’s biggest and most shameless lobbying groups like AIPAC and the ADL still evade registration. Israel has signed a slew of contracts, through its Foreign Ministry, Tourism Ministry and Government Advertising Agency (LAPAM), with firms for them to promote Israel’s interests, including one run by former Trump adviser Brad Parscale. In an attempt to put the campaign at arm’s length, Israel routes payments to its agents through Havas Media Germany GmbH. Documents show that the company has received at least $100 million since 2018.

As well as wider ad and AI campaigns, Israel is also tracking and targeting US Christians physically, through the use of:

geofencing: drawing a virtual boundary around places of worship and sending targeted ads to cell phones that enter the boundary. According to the documents, the campaign plans to “geofence the actual boundaries of every major church in California, Arizona, Nevada and Colorado and all Christian colleges during worship times.

As the misuse of AI platforms and surveillance spreads in Western Countries – with the UK government in particular dismantling privacy rights and public freedoms, Alex Karp – the nationalist CEO of Palantir, one of the US firms handed huge UK government data contracts – is happy to say publicly that he’s relaxed about Western Nations becoming surveillance states, as long as his country and firm are at the heart of the surveillance.

Karp told Axios that:

when people are worried about surveillance, of course, there are huge dangers there, but you know, you will have far fewer rights if America’s not in the lead.

As AJ Dellinger summed it up for Gizmodo:

Basically, we might completely destroy our economy, our culture, our sense of privacy and individuality, our sense of pride in contributing to our communities—but we’ll be damned if we let anyone else do it to us.

An out of tune ‘Karp’

Karp went on to claim that people’s concerns about AI-driven surveillance are because they fear it will catch them cheating on their spouses. However, he is on record telling shareholders that the job of his company is to:

scare enemies and on occasion kill them,

so the reality is far darker, particularly as his company chair and fellow founder Peter Thiel recently equivocated when asked whether he wants the human race to survive and admitted that:

I no longer believe that freedom and democracy are compatible.

Karp and Thiel are also ardent Zionists who supply products and services to the Israeli military for its use in the Gaza genocide. So when they say that ‘we’ should create and control the surveillance state, it’s a safe bet that ‘we’ also includes Israel. This of course is very, very bad news for ordinary people in Western Asia and any western country, and for any notion they have of freedom.

Featured image via the Canary