[Peace-discuss] Campus Hasbara operatives

[Szoke, Ron]

Hasbara Fellowships
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Hasbara Fellowships
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Formation

2001

Headquarters

New York City, New York, U.S.

Website

hasbarafellowships.org<http://www.hasbarafellowships.org/>


Hasbara Fellowships is an organization that brings students to Israel and trains them to be effective pro-Israel activists on college campuses.[1] Based in New York, it was started in 2001 by Aish HaTorah<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aish_HaTorah> in conjunction with the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The organization claims to have trained nearly 2,000 students on over 220 North American campuses.[2]

Activists trained by Hasbara Fellowships have been involved in several campus rallies. In 2002, Hasbara Fellowships organized a rally at the National Student Palestinian Conference at the University of Michigan.[3] In 2007, Hasbara Fellowships members at Brandeis University<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandeis_University> protested against former US President Jimmy Carter<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Carter>'s book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestine:_Peace_Not_Apartheid>.[4]
In May 2007, Hasbara Fellowships (co-sponsored by the Israeli Foreign Ministry) called for volunteers to counter a "dangerous trend" of Wikipedia<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia> entries portraying Israel in a "negative light". Interested readers were encouraged to consider "joining a team of Wikipedians to make sure Israel is presented fairly and accurately".[5][6]
In 2008, Hasbara Fellowships helped to organize "Islamic State Apartheid Week" at York University to counter the rival "Israeli Apartheid Week<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_Apartheid_Week>".[7]
In 2010, Hasbara Fellows created Israel Peace Week<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Peace_Week> as a response to Israel Apartheid Week. In its first year, the program reached 28 campuses in the US and three in Australia.[8][9][10]

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