Israel is Losing the Propaganda War
Deacon Dave Havard said, “I do not know why you waste so much time arguing about words. It would be better to change the actions which are prompting such words. The reason Israel is losing the propaganda war is that they think it can be won by choosing the right words to describe their actions. The rest of the world is judging the actions, not the words.” That observation was made in 2019. The data since then has done nothing but confirm it, repeatedly, at a scale that should alarm anyone still betting on messaging as the fix. A Pew Research Centre survey of 24 countries conducted in spring 2025 found that in 20 of those countries, roughly half or more of adults held an unfavourable view of Israel, with the figure exceeding three-quarters in Australia, Greece, Indonesia, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and Turkey. In the United States specifically, the share of adults with a negative view of Israel rose eleven percentage points between March 2...