A network of influencers from the United Arab Emirates have become part of a social media conspiracy that seeks to spread anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim propaganda, interwoven with pro-Israel messaging. The goal of the campaign, now being promoted by Elon Musk and his X [formerly Twitter] online affiliates, is to drive hatred of Muslims, while securing support for Israel.

In early August, Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, publicly admitted that Israel was losing the online propaganda war, making it clear that he was particularly concerned with social media efforts that reach Republican voters, who he identified as still supporting Israel.

Taking this issue very seriously, Tel Aviv initiated a plan to pay pro-Trump influencers to travel on specially designed propaganda tours. Israel’s goal is to bring some 550 such right-wing influencers on these all expense paid trips. The group responsible for organizing the trips is called Israel365 and describes its mission as defending “Western civilization against threats from both Progressive Left extremism and global jihad.”

Exchanging Hatred Of Muslims For Love Of Israel

Since the start of the “War on Terror” in the early 2000’s, a common tactic employed by Zionist billionaire-funded propaganda projects was to drive fear of Islamic fundamentalism and Muslim migration amongst Western populations.

At the centre of this strategy is an organization called the David Horowitz Freedom Center (DHFC). Together with the DHFC and its key donors, a media and policy network was constructed that financed the rise, or influenced the trajectory, of almost every major pro-Trump conservative figure that we have all become familiar with. Everyone from Charlie Kirk, Laura Loomer, Ben Shapiro and Jordan Peterson, to Geert Wilders, John Bolton, and Pete Hegseth are implicated.

Another pillar of this strategy has been to use identity politics to bolster this propaganda. The “as a Muslim” or “ex-Muslim” commentators, who are granted book deals and provided immense compensation for their alleged “expertise” are used as effective tools for convincing right-wing audiences of their views. While the majority of their content is designed to advocate against Islam and Muslim migration to the West, the primary objective is to insert pro-war and pro-Israel propaganda.

Although the right-wing “new media” has built its audience through cosplaying an opposition to identity politics, they have in fact used it just as much as their liberal counterparts. Such is the idea of using someone from a Muslim background to affirm a position, in order to point to them and say “see, even one of their own agrees they are doing this to our identity group”. This also notably comes in the form of the “as a Palestinian” influencers, who are used to either push outright hatred of their own people, or to claim they are peace seekers using their platforms to attack and smear people standing up for the Palestinian cause and promote Israeli propaganda.

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