How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion. ^⁠45%

7/29/2026, 9:05:01 PM

Topics: Israels Influence Operations, US Israel Relations, AI And Information Manipulation, Political Campaigning

Keywords: Israel, Influence Campaign, Public Diplomacy, Hasbara, Foreign Agents, Fara, Brad Parscale, Llm Poisoning, Chatbots, Artificial Intelligence

BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Hasty Generalization, and Confirmation Bias, with Framing Effect as the most egregious example at 46.3% saturation with 202 hits. Analysis detected 829 faulty-reasoning hits from 436 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 47.1% and a BS Rank of ⁠45% (12,395 of 22,405 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 55.30% of the article peer group.

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Israel is spending wads of cash on public diplomacy in a desperate attempt to reverse waning American support for the country after it stands accused of genocide in Gaza and pushing the U.S. into the Iran war.

Since Oct.

7, Israel has spent over a billion dollars on global “hasbara” — television appearances, social media campaigns, chat-bot training, and other efforts to influence how people think about Israel.

And this “public diplomacy” budget more than quadrupled in the last year alone.

To understand these efforts to win back American hearts and minds, we welcomed Quincy Institute Research Fellow Nick Cleveland-Stout to the latest episode of Always at War.

Nick’s latest research is the most-definitive accounting yet of Israel's new approach to winning over American’s hearts and minds.

Nick’s findings surface a surprising development in Israel’s influence efforts: while the country used to rely almost exclusively on wealthy, sympathetic advocates tilting the policy process toward Israel’s interest via American lobbying groups like AIPAC, Israel has recently been forced to hire U.S. contractors and firms that have to register as foreign agents under FARA.

While the transition signals Israel's increasing desperation, it also allows us to see who Israel is hiring and for what.

Take for example, Trump's former campaign manager Brad Parscale, who is currently the proud holder of three of Israel’s largest contracts.

His main gig: running a mass texting campaign on behalf of Israel while posing as mysterious “peace” groups like “Allies for Peace.”

Or, to take another example, the public diplomacy group Targeted Communications Global, which has spent nearly $10 million to run ads on places like X, the Daily Caller, and Breitbart.

It turns out, Israel is more worried about maintaining their right-leaning supporters.

But perhaps the most shocking revelation is just how much time and money Tel Aviv is spending on “training” our chat bots — think Claude, ChatGPT, or Grok.

The Israeli government is actually paying for “LLM poisoning” — developing pro-Israel websites that feed information to these chatbots whenever they’re asked about Israel.

The apparent goal is that, when you ask about a straightforward incident — like Hind Rajab’s murder by the IDF — the chatbot will feed you a “he-said, she-said” story that features Israel’s justifications for shooting a five-year old, not a straight, factual accounting of events

But the question remains, will the tens of millions Israel is spending on public diplomacy actually work?

Will a sophisticated and expensive influence campaign really change Americans’ minds about Washington’s perpetual blank checks for Israel?

Tune in and find out.

Confirmation Bias

21.8%

Anchoring Bias

Availability Heuristic

Representativeness Heuristic

Hindsight Bias

Overconfidence Bias

Framing Effect

46.3%

Loss Aversion

Status Quo Bias

Sunk Cost Effect

Optimism Bias

Pessimism Bias

Negativity Bias

21.8%

Self-Serving Bias

Fundamental Attribution Error

Actor-Observer Bias

In-Group Bias

Out-Group Homogeneity Bias

Halo Effect

Horn Effect

Dunning-Kruger Effect

Recency Bias

Primacy Effect

Blind-Spot Bias

Ad Hominem

4.8%

Straw Man

Appeal to Authority

4.4%

False Dilemma

10.6%

Slippery Slope

Circular Reasoning

Hasty Generalization

23.9%

Red Herring

Bandwagon

Appeal to Emotion

Begging the Question

15.6%

Post Hoc (False Cause)

Tu Quoque

Burden of Proof

Appeal to Nature

Composition/Division

Anecdotal

No True Scotsman

Ambiguity (Equivocation)

Gambler’s Fallacy

Middle Ground

Personal Incredulity

Special Pleading

Genetic Fallacy

Unattributed Quote

Quote-first Misdirection

Biased Writer Voice

29.6%

Indoctrination

Politically Left Leaning Bias

8.5%

Politically Right Leaning Bias

Attempt to Sell a Product or Service

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How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion. ^⁠45%

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How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion. ⁠45%

Analysis

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How much is your support for Israel worth? Try $1 billion. ^⁠45%