Hasbara: Explanation or Policy Problem?
Israel's Foreign Minister says convincing governments to move their embassies to Jerusalem is as important as the battlefield. A listener in Jerusalem calls that pursuit anti-intellectual and childish — and argues Israel's image problem isn't a communications failure but a policy one. This episode unpacks what Hasbara actually means (it translates as "explanation," not propaganda), how its institutions work from the Government Press Office to semi-independent NGOs, and why the selective-facts method is simultaneously defensible and fragile. Then we test the embassy claim against the…
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