Yakov Hirsch

"Hasbara Culture"

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

The Iran war was brought to you by Jeffrey Goldberg. He turned the Holocaust into a bludgeon, branding critics “self-hating Jews” and selling Iran as “Amalek’s arsenal.” My @Mondoweiss piece names him Netanyahu’s key collaborator. https://t.co/NjWNxsJGLi

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: Nothing threatens Hasbara Culture like Haaretz
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[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: Nothing threatens Hasbara Culture like Haaretz
https://t.co/XbAD7FXOHj

[Gideon Levy @gideonle]

Without Haaretz, Israelis Wouldn't Know There's an Occupation - Opinion https://t.co/ByaYI43Dwp

[Alex Sheremet @automachination]

On the contrary, Yair Rosenberg is so sloppy, emotional, and dishonest, that he got into a fight with me over the terms of the Gaza ceasefire, got ratioed, blocked me from frustration, then quietly DELETED his tweets because they were wrong.

Why is the New York Times hiring him?

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

In a sane political culture, the New York Times would hire Arno Rosenfeld to cover the Jewish beat instead of Hasbara Culture journalist Yair Rosenberg.

[Alyssa Katz @alykatzz]

My colleague @ArnoRosenfeld, who covers antisemitism for @jdforward, is from San Francisco and has an excellently local assessment of what just happened (twice) to @Scott_Wiener. https://t.co/bitcHxJhB7

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: It’s Hasbara Culture’s world we just live in it.

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Yair Rosenberg was central to denying, downplaying and obfuscating genocidal statements made by Israeli officials in the early days of the genocide, as I note in my book on the subject

[Stewart Mills @StewartMills]

@HenMazzig Hen’s post are incendiary. He uses our fears to cause a vitriolic reaction. Hen is not a peace maker.

Hen relies on fragments of truth to feed our prejudice. Meanwhile Netanyahu has refused an investigation to understand the systemic failure that enabled October 7.

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: Nothing means what Hasbara Culture says it means.

[Haviv Rettig Gur @havivrettiggur]

Mamdani isn’t opposed only to the Jewish state, you see, he opposes all states that privilege a religion.

But he’ll only ever talk about one of them.

Dozens of states are officially Muslim — and privilege Muslims more than Israel privileges Jews. (Before you come at me on that, look it up. Religious freedom, family law, you-name-it.)

He’ll never complain ad hoc about those Muslim states. They don’t trouble his moral imagination.

Heck, Palestine is officially Muslim, drawing not a whisper of rebuke.

And all of them is beside the points that the Jews are not a religion and that they desperately need a state of their own.

Selective outrage isn’t outrage, it’s fake outrage covering for bigotry.

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: Words mean nothing to Hasbara Culture.

[Jamie Metzl @JamieMetzl]

Zohran Mamdani is a virulent antisemite whose words and actions pose a fundamental threat to New York’s Jewish community.

If he wants to change that, a clear path is open to him.

If he continues down his current path of incitement, he will bear direct responsibility for the harms that will inevitably follow.

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

The interests of Hasbara Culture and the interests of the state of Israel are mutually exclusive.

[Danny (Dennis) Citrinowicz ,داني سيترينوفيتش @citrinowicz]

One of the biggest problems with Israel's political leadership ahead of the next elections is that many still fail to grasp how dramatically Israel's international standing has deteriorated.

Calls to topple Hamas through a prolonged military campaign in Gaza come with a significant cost: further eroding what remains of Israel's international legitimacy. Likewise, another strike on Iran without the backing of the U.S. administration would be an unprecedented gamble with Israel's security. And perhaps most importantly, there is still little recognition that the strategic reality has fundamentally changed after the Iran campaign. The idea that regime change in Tehran is a realistic policy objective is no longer credible.

Much of Israel's political discourse remains rooted in the assumption that Israel can continue using military force while preserving broad international support. From Washington to European capitals, however, the prevailing perception is that Israel has reached a crossroads. Continuing down the same path will almost certainly come at the expense of its already weakened international legitimacy.

This is about more than hope for Israelis or ending an endless cycle of war. It is about a basic strategic reality: actions that much of the international community tolerated in the past are unlikely to receive the same acceptance in the future.

It is difficult to speak about economic growth, attracting investment, or reversing the emigration of talented Israelis while simultaneously advocating for the military overthrow of Hamas or another war with Iran. That contradiction suggests many Israeli politicians still underestimate how damaged Israel's global image has become.

Those who believe Iran is Israel's greatest threat should pay close attention to what the world is saying about, and increasingly to Israel.

Most Israelis do not want to live in a modern-day Sparta. Ironically, the recent confrontation with Iran also exposed the limits of Israeli military power. Even with remarkable operational successes, military force alone cannot solve Israel's long-term strategic challenges.

Israel may not be an island geographically, but it is very much one geopolitically. Its economy depends on trade with Europe, and its security depends heavily on its strategic partnership with the United States. Both relationships could come under increasing strain if Israel continues on its current course. The same is true for the peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan, which remain pillars of regional stability.

These are the issues Israel's political leadership should be focused on, not promises of another strike on Iran or claims that Hamas can be eliminated through military force alone. The central challenge today is preserving Israel's long-term security, international legitimacy, and strategic partnerships, not pursuing objectives that may prove unattainable at an unsustainable cost.

If the goal is to strengthen the world's only Jewish state over the long term, it will require a fundamental strategic reassessment, not simply promises to continue with more of the same. That is the leadership Israel needs today.

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: There is no hate like Hasbara Culture hate.

[Jonathan Greenberg @JGreenbergSez]

I dislike using the epithet “kapo” this way.

Most kapos were trying to survive in an impossible situation.

@bradlander is a repulsive opportunist who has chosen to align with antisemites for his own gain.

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: Without character assassination Hasbara Culture would be out of business.

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Poor Glenn, appears not to know that the left has always used Jews this way. The price of admission to the global proletariat has always been indifference to fellow Jews .

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Friedman thinks Lander consciously betrayed "the Jews" for votes & knows his allies are antisemites. In reality, Lander is principled & also happens to believe his policies are good for Israel & "the Jews." Yet he views Netanyahu—the sickest amoral conniver ever—as a sacred idol.

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

This piece reflects reality. AIPAC spends fortunes nationwide attacking candidates over Israel. When the race inevitably becomes about Israel, Hasbara Culture gasps, claims everyone is "obsessed" with Israel, and smears them as antisemites. They started the craziness.

[Emily 🗣️ Tamkin @emilyctamkin]

For @jdforward, I wrote about how Israel was so salient in NY's Democratic primaries in part because staunch Israel supporters made it so
https://t.co/cIQRagbTav

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Friedman thinks Lander consciously betrayed "the Jews" for votes & knows his allies are antisemites. In reality, Lander is principled & also happens to believe his policies are good for Israel & "the Jews." Yet he views Netanyahu—the sickest amoral conniver ever—as a sacred idol.

[David M Friedman @DavidM_Friedman]

Brad Lander made a simple calculation. He could betray the Jewish people, slander the State of Israel, and embrace radical Islam, and thereby pick up enough votes to enter Congress. The math was correct, the morality despicable.

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: There is no poison like Hasbara Culture poison.

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Brad Lander is a sad example of a Jew who hopes joining his oppressors and enemies will save him. There were many such Jews in the towns and kibbutzim near Gaza. They were leftists who believed in peace and who marched against Netanyahu. They were the first targets on October 7.

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: There is no hysteria like Hasbara Culture hysteria.

[Mark Dubowitz @mdubowitz]

Reason 1: the mayor is an Islamist who hates America, hates freedom, hates Jews and is driving the people who pay most of the taxes out of the city.

Are there other reasons?

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: Nothing means what Hasbara Culture says it means.

[Rep Josh Gottheimer @RepJoshG]

These are the same photo.

Enough is enough. Where do we draw the line?

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

Reminder: Words mean nothing to Hasbara Culture.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

People sometimes compare Mamdani to Karl Lueger, the activist antisemitic mayor of Vienna in the early 1900s. But Lueger electrified trams, built a gasworks etc., while also inveighing against Jews. The Mamdani formula seems to be "all inveighing; no trams."

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

The writer of this review is not a serious person.

[The Telos-Paul Piccone Institute @TheTPPInstitute]

New in Telos Insights: @PeterHerman4 reviews Omer Bartov's Israel: What Went Wrong?, arguing that the book's genocide claims rely on weak evidence, omit key context, and give intellectual cover to antisemitic attacks on Israel.

https://t.co/dMlqN2YT4A

[Yakov Hirsch @YakovHirsch]

According to Hasbara Culture theory, only Hasbara Culture gets to claim “context.”

[Dr. Dan Diker @Dan_Diker]

Classic JStreet . Focus international attention on the 2% extreme problematic comments of one or two Israeli ministers without noting context to Katz’s comment the aftermath of 4 dad soldiers . 98% you missed: Iran, Hizbullah, Hamas, Iraq Qatar , Turkey.