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"I am an Arab, but an Israeli Arab": Yosef Haddad refutes the lies about Israel on the Internet

Many celebs have already been called to the flag and mobilized for Israeli propaganda, but among them also networked social activists, such as Yosef Haddad, an Arab-Israeli from Nazareth.

We talked to him about the last days and the information during "The Guardian of the Walls"

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Tuesday, 18 May 2021, 14:09 Updated: 14:22

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Struggling for Israel's image on social media: In recent days, there has been criticism of the activity of the IDF Spokesman and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the outreach activity on social media. Or rather, criticism has been leveled at inaction. Many celebs have already been called to the flag My friend and propagandist, an Arab-Israeli from Nazareth. "The whole subject of propaganda began to burn in me when I was abroad after 3 years of military service as a soldier and commander in the Golan Heights and after a year of rehabilitation after a serious injury in the Second Lebanon War," Haddad tells Walla! TECH.

"During these years I experienced the good in Israeli society. In the army we were all like brothers, and in rehabilitation I was treated with devotion by Jewish and Arab doctors." I went out into the world and heard so many lies about Israel, the IDF and Jewish-Arab relations in the country, and I could not keep quiet.

I found myself arguing and fighting to tell the truth and refute all the lies.

"Slowly I joined information campaigns of various organizations, I started speaking on campuses and in communities and today I also run social networks with tens of thousands of followers to reveal to the world the real reality in Israel in different languages."

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What content do you upload during "Wall Guard"?

"In recent days, I have been trying to publish as many videos as possible that explain the situation. Response videos for that matter to all kinds of scholars or politicians. One of my strongest videos was my response to the congressional representative, who spoke at the congress about the situation in Gaza. "Completely from the war crimes of Hamas. By the way, she completely ignored that according to the US administration Hamas is a terrorist organization. It would have been seen throughout her speech that she really supports it. Again, the matter she took it as Palestinians."

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"That is why it was very important for me to come and explain - Israel is not fighting the Palestinians. It is fighting Hamas, the terrorist organization. In fact, I try to show how the IDF tries to choose its targets and also eliminates bombs because it has seen children or for fear of harming innocent people.

Or more than that - how important to the IDF are all the holy places. There was an attack on a villa that is very close to the mosque, and you can see that the mosque was not damaged at all and quite a few other stories that are false stories that the IDF killed this girl and bombed here and bombed there - all kinds of lies. .

It's very important to me to talk about it.

Of course, it is impossible to ignore the fact that I am an Israeli Arab and Hamas is shooting at Israel and killing Jews and Arabs.

Of course this whole story with the father and daughter who were killed in the neighborhood near Lod, and of course of course, I'm talking about the whole story of Israeli Arabs living in a triangle living in the mixed cities and snatching volleys and missiles falling here.

Alarms, so it's also important to present it and talk about it. "

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How have you been feeling these last few days?

"Things need to be put in proportion. When you fight against a network like Al Jazeera, which has state budgets, and you fight influencers who have 100 million and 200 million followers, then you try as hard as you can to respond and influence. I see in some of the responses I answer To all kinds of scholars who do not understand what they are talking about and tweeting about Israel and Palestine, that it catches. I also see people looking at it and sharing. And there is some kind of frustration, but it is also understandable frustration because there is nothing to do, for anyone trying to explain and want to show The beautiful face of Israel, so there are 300-400 others who try to prove otherwise. But, and this is a big but, once there's one thing that really catches and is published everywhere, and it goes on, like some of the content I did, it provides. People just send messages and say 'Walla "I did not know. What a passage."But really because they see facts and truth, and when that happens - that's the biggest story there is. "

What do you think about Israeli propaganda?

"Look at the story of two days ago and you will understand what our situation is, because our situation could have been much better. When the IDF decided to bomb one of the buildings because there is something to do with Hamas, and it has proof of that.

And if we want to talk about how to do information, then I as a social activist and information activist, I am not part of a government ministry and I do it independently and like me - there is quite a bit more.

We do not know what was behind the bombing, and was expected by the state to come and say 'here, take the information because of which we bombed the building'.

And if they pass the information on to us, we can pass it on.

In this way it was possible not only to change, but also to win in consciousness.

There could have been a double victory here - the fact that a media body is hiding Hamas operatives, so that's one thing.

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"So you can also say what influence Hamas has on the media in Gaza. Let me also tell you that if you are a media person there, you can not speak freely. And that is part of the information that could be used. And when you show such a thing about Hamas, where do they put their stuff? , It's victory number 2. Instead we got a fog. Here was a very big opportunity. This is a classic example of a problem because there is nothing to do, information is part of the game.

And the fact that we're bombing a communications building and not talking about the facts and showing why and how much, so they win and that's a shame.

So I do not have the evidence, until the IDF releases evidence, I as an information activist I do not have the evidence and I can not rely on a past basis that Hamas uses civilian facilities to store its missiles. It seems to me that this story gives you some understanding of what is happening in the world ".

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