Reply #39: At the time...

[Karmakaze]

A long time ago (in DU time) a series of documents on tactics to be used for Hasbara were exposed here on DU. Those documents came straight from official Israeli government websites or semi-official websites like the one I linked to, and discussed various tactics to be used for Hasbara (Israel Advocacy) down to talking points detailing the exact response to make to many standard claims about Israel and its actions, and tatics to divert attention from areas where Israel could legitimately (in their own eyes) be criticised to subjects more beneficial to Israel.

The problem was, once other people critical of Israel read these documents, they suddenly noticed that these talking points, almost word for word were being used, along with all the other tactics described, right here on DU. This resulted in people specualting that some posters were simply parroting the Israeli government line fed to them by such Hasbara websites.

Soon, saying someone was involved in Hasbara was as bad as saying someone was a freeper, and not long after that even mentioning the word Hasbara would get a post locked if not deleted.