Sacha Dratwa
Lieutenant Sacha Dratwa is the head of the New Media Desk at the IDF Spokesperson's Unit of the Israel Defence Forces.[1] He is referred to in some sources as Sasha Bratwa.
Dratwa is a former communications student at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya in Israel, to which he immigrated from Belgium. He headed the French language online monitoring campaign at the HelpUsWin.org situation room set up at the Center in support of the the Operation Cast Lead offensive in Gaza in 2008/09.[2]
He was interviewed by the Jerusalem Post about HelpUsWin's campaign in January 2009.[3]
- "It's very hurtful and offensive to see that the world is not conveying what is happening in Israel, that there has been eight years of firing from Gaza into Israel," he said.
- Bratwa said that people he has engaged on French blogs and talkbacks don't even know that Israeli civilians had been living under attack for almost a decade.
- "The French do not believe that Israel has a right to exist," Bratwa said. "We are trying to explain on-line that we don't enjoy wars and having civilians die. It's our responsibility to show that we want peace."[4]
External resources
- Allison Hoffman, The ‘Kids’ Behind IDF’s Media, The Tablet, 20 November 2012.
- Sam Biddle, Here’s the 26-Year-Old Snowboarder Running Israel’s Social Media War, Gizmodo, 21 November 2012.
- Claudine Zapp, Israel’s social media war run by 26-year-old, The Lookout, Yahoo.com, 21 November 2012.
External resources
- LinkedIn: Sacha Dratwa
- Twitter: @SachaDratwa
Notes
- ↑ , LinkedIn, accessed 22 November 2012.
- ↑ IDC Media Innovation Lab., accessed 22 November 2012.
- ↑ Jessica Freiman, IDC students work to win media war, Jerusalem Post, 4 January 2009.
- ↑ Jessica Freiman, IDC students work to win media war, Jerusalem Post, 4 January 2009.
