Israel’s Spin Machine Just Broke; Wild Claims Finally Go Too Far

Israel’s Spin Machine Just Broke; Wild Claims Finally Go Too Far

From Kernow Damo by Damien Willey

April 20, 2026 · 13 min

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of a senior Israeli media figure admitting that fake news is effective while truth is disregarded in the context of Israeli propaganda.

Israel’s own media man has said the quiet part out loud about Israeli news reporting: fake news works, truth doesn’t. Right, so Israeli propaganda, hasbara, the government financing of pro Israel talking points which for years has shielded the state from being held to account for its worst excesses, it’s taken a battering in recent years, rightly so, being exposed for what it is, no matter how much Israel clings to it being the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth and anyone saying otherwise is an antisemite. Well, Benjamin Netanyahu’s press spokesman has now been caught on video appearing to openly brag that fake news works, that truth does not actually matter, and that facts do not matter, and if you are Israel and you have spent years demanding to be treated as the truthful side while everybody else gets smeared as liars, fanatics or useful idiots, that is not a bad afternoon in the press office, that is a self-inflicted credibility hit. Eli Hazan is the man in that clip and he is not some anonymous online gobsh*te either, he is a senior Likud operator who has served as Netanyahu’s spokesman and now sits around the part of the Israeli state that deals with…

Topics covered

  • Israeli propaganda
  • fake news
  • media reporting
  • Benjamin Netanyahu
  • Eli Hazan

Keywords

  • hasbara
  • credibility
  • press office
  • truth
  • media

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