Israel Under Fire
Israel Under Fire is a social media operation in support of Israel's 2014 campaign in Gaza run by students at the IDC Herzliya. According to The Age, the operation is staffed by some 400 student volunteers, and supported by the Israeli Government and the Israel Defence Forces.[1]
Contents
Precursors
A similar operation was run out of IDC Herzliya during the 2012 Pillar of Defence operation in Gaza.[1]
Structure
Subunits within Israel Under Fire include:
- A team that translates messages from Hebrew into 30 languages
- A graphics team creating charts and images to be distributed via Facebook and Twitter.
- a video editing department
- a talkback team that, according to volunteer Igal Raich, trawls social media “looking for inconsistent facts like ‘Israel constantly kills women and children’”.[1]
Doctored Images
On 15 July 2014, the New York Times reported:
- One widely-shared image posted by Israelis using the #IsraelUnderFire tag, apparently showing a devout Muslim protester holding placards that read “Stop Hamas Terrorism on Israel” and “Free Gaza From Hamas,” appears to have been created by digitally manipulating a genuine news photograph of a November 2012 protest in Sarajevo.[2]
The paper showed a screen cap of the doctored image in a tweet by Nisan Zeevi.[2]
People
- Lidor Bar David[2]
- Igal Raich - volunteer in 'the Advocacy room'[1]
Related Accounts
- Twitter israelunderfire
- Facebook IsraelUnderFireLive
Related Powerbase resources
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Matthew Hall, Israeli propaganda war hits social media, The Age, 18 July 2014.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Robert Mackey, Young Israelis Fight Hashtag Battle to Defend #IsraelUnderFire, Open Source, New York Times, 15 July 2014.
