Israel secretly targets US lawmakers with influence campaign over Gaza war
Israel organized and funded an influence campaign last year aimed at U.S. lawmakers and the American public with pro-Israel messages, as it aimed to foster support for its actions in the Gaza war, according to officials involved in the initiative and related documents to the war in Gaza. operation.The covert campaign was commissioned by Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs, a government body that connects Jews around the world with the State of Israel, four Israeli officials said. According to officials and documents, the ministry allocated about $2 million for the operation and hired Stoic, a Tel Aviv political marketing firm, to carry it out.The campaign began in October and remains active on Platform X. At its peak, it used hundreds of fake accounts posing as real Americans on X,...