My latest: the Eylon Levy interview

Eylon Levy eats a slice of watermelon.  

Watermelon is green, white, black and red, like the colours of Palestinian flag.  Online, a slice of watermelon has become an unofficial symbol of Palestinian defiance – and, often, online support for Hamas and Hezbollah.  Improbably, it has become a visual representation of the post-October 7 war – what Levy calls “the information war.”

After October 7, Levy became one of the best-known spokesmen for Jews and Israel, around the planet.  He was everywhere, fighting in the information war: CNN, Fox News, Sky News, BBC, CBC and many more.  And, as he thinks about his answer to the question, he is here, eating some watermelon.  Before he can be asked whether it is a symbolic attempt to recapture a symbol that has been used to promote extremism or terror – or simply if he likes watermelon – Eylon Levy answers the question.

The question is this: what do they want? 

What do the invisible forces behind a well-funded, well-organized, propaganda war against Jews, the Jewish state and the West want, in the end? What is their strategic goal? What are the policies they hope to impose, when and if they win the propaganda war?

Levy gives his answer.  It is a long one, but it sounds like Levy knows every word of it to be true. 

“There is an attempt by Israel’s enemies to weaponize and militarize misinformation against Israel. Because Hamas’ is goal is not only to kill Israelis, and shatter national morale, it’s to poison global public opinion against Israel. It’s to create tension and friction between Israel and its allies. It’s to make good, ordinary, decent people turn against Israel by convincing them that Israel is evil incarnate. That is the meaning of the campaign to charge Israel with genocide, extermination, starvation, and being a white supremacist, colonial, apartheid, fascist state.  And to throw every nasty word in the dictionary at it.”

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