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Source: https://jcpa.org/article/disinformation-and-apartheid-polls/
The "Apartheid" Poll and the Disinformation Discourse
(Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs) Dan Diker and Yechiel Leiter - A disinformation campaign leveled at Israel's legitimacy has been percolating through the West since the 1975 UN "Zionism is Racism" Resolution. This campaign has come to normalize the application of delegitimizing terms to Israel such as "genocide," "apartheid," "ethnic cleansing," "settler colonialism," and "racism." Disinformation by BDS-affiliated and Jewish anti-Zionist organizations spread through American college campuses and social media have negatively affected Jewish public opinion on Israel. American Jewish and Israeli leaders must stand against the disinformation campaign that has become the progressive discourse. Dan Diker is Director of the Project to Counter BDS and Political Warfare at the Jerusalem Center. Dr. Yechiel Leiter is Director of the International Department of the Shiloh Policy Forum.