PoC: How to Hack and Outpace Anti-Zionist Propaganda by Jonathan Rosenoer

AI can be used effectively to hack and outpace anti-Zionist (and antisemitic) propaganda. In order to address this adversarial challenge, it is useful to be grounded in the underlying factual context and how myths and conspiracy theories are used to distort it. But facts alone are not sufficient to withstand the social pressure to accept a flood of hostile propaganda, which at its heart is weaponized “public relations.” AI is uniquely suited to defend against these attacks. It can help Jews and their allies Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act (OODA) faster and more accurately than the propagandists—capturing the OODA loop and transforming it into both a sword and a shield that exposes their tactics, protects vulnerable communities, and reclaims the initiative in the information battlespace. I present here a Proof of Concept focused on Nicholas Kristof’s recent despicable article in the New York Times to illustrate how a “respectable” narrative is structured and best understood as propaganda, and therefore how AI‑assisted analysis can be used to outpace and neutralize its impact.

Edward Bernays, the father of modern public relations, argued in Propaganda (1928) that power in mass society comes from “the conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses,” an “engineering of consent” that bypasses rational judgment and targets unconscious emotion, group identification, and the feeling of power that comes from being in the crowd. Bernays treated the public not as a collection of reasoning individuals but as a state of mind, drawing on Sigmund Freud’s insight that a group “has no critical faculty, and the improbable does not exist for it.” That is exactly how modern antisemitic and antizionist propaganda operates: it frames Jews and Israel in ways that appeal to unconscious resentments, moral vanity, and herd identity, then uses social proof and repetition to make those frames feel like common sense. 

Because these methods rely on emotional framing, group psychology, and social pressure, resistance has to begin by making those pressures visible and then cycling through the OODA loop faster and more accurately than the propagandists in order to attack their framing and interrupt the reception of their messaging. US Air Force Colonel John Boyd developed the OODA Loop as a decision-making framework for competitive, zero-sum environments. His insight was that a pilot who can move through Observe–Orient–Decide–Act more quickly and accurately will disorient and dominate a slower opponent. A decisive competitive advantage would be obtained by disrupting the Orient(ation) state of the opponent’s OODA Loop and preventing both the propagandist and target recipient(s) from taking effective Act(ion).

Anti-Zionist Propaganda is designed to break the Jewish OODA loop

Modern anti-Zionist messaging aims to sabotage each phase of the OODA loop in the target population. Operating inside our OODA loop, it seeks to shape what people see, how they interpret it, and how they react, faster than we can correct.

Information flooding: breaking Observe

Antisemitic and antizionist actors saturate the information environment with overlapping accusations: genocide, apartheid, colonialism, organ‑harvesting, “standard operating procedure” rape, and more, often amplified by bots, algorithms, and aligned influencers.

The Kristof piece fits neatly into this ecology. It injects a highly emotive narrative—“The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians”—into an already overloaded environment, offering detailed, graphic allegations of “systematic sexual violence” by Israeli forces and prison staff, framed as being part of an “organized state policy.”

For ordinary observers, this is one........

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