Part 3: A Moral Counteroffensive: The War for Truth and Liberty
As protests and algorithms amplify moral inversion, our counteroffensive reclaims truth with light in the square and clarity in the digital realm.
We are losing the war for hearts and minds because indoctrination, post-truth culture, and exclusion have made facts powerless. This plan wins with lawful presence, verified truth, trusted messengers, and a coalition that turns moral clarity into a living narrative. Public opinion remains polarized. Favorable views of Israelis at 56 percent in 2025 per Pew, down 11 points since 2022, and sympathies slightly favoring Palestinians at 35 percent versus 34 percent for Israel per NYT/Siena. Deep polarization exists, with 70 percent of Democrats viewing Palestinians favorably versus 37 percent of Republicans. Independents show only 32 percent approving Israeli actions per Gallup.
On Monday, in Part 1: Antisemitism is the Oldest Rebellion Against Universal Justice, I traced antisemitism to its roots in the war against the Jews. Yesterday, in Part 2: Packaging Hate as Social Justice, I tried to demonstrate how that war has metastasized and now disguises itself as “social justice” to make erasure look like empathy. Today, I will finish the series with a critique on why we’re losing the information war and I frame out a strategy to turn the tide: A counteroffensive designed to outflank the assault on truth and reclaim both the public square and the virtual realm.
Crucially, let us be clear on the objective: this is not a policy paper advocating ways to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, nor is it a defense of any specific Israeli military action.
This is a counteroffensive designed to turn the tables on our enemies by restoring moral clarity in public. Because media and academic attention remains disproportionately, often antisemitically, focuses on Jews and Israel, while real genociders and colonizers act with impunity, my goal is to flip the narrative with a counter-factual that has the potential to be more powerful than the lies our enemies propagate.
The world must break its antisemitic obsession with Israel and the Jews, before we can ever have an honest debate on the region.
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Why Israel Is Losing the Battle for Hearts and Minds
Before charting a path forward, we must first be brutally honest about why we’ve been unable to defend against the onslaught of lies leveled against us. Simply stated, we are losing because:
At least two generations have been groomed on identity politics. They’ve been taught an antizionist frame of intersectionality and identity politics that reduces everything to “oppressor” versus “oppressed” casting Jews as colonizers.
We live in a post truth culture where feelings outrun facts. We have tried confrontation: fact sheets, rebuttals, denunciations, and press releases. We’ve tried to counter lies with truth. We’ve labeled activists as terrorist sympathizers, trading accusation for accusation. It has not worked. A generation steeped in identity politics and intersectionality views such charges not as truth, but as oppression from the powerful. The backlash bonds them tighter, turning critics into the very elites they decry. We can continue to shout that it is hypocrisy to spread propaganda about Israel, while ignoring actual genocides, gender apartheid, and the colonial violence of authoritarian and theocratic regimes. But to date, our efforts have been dismissed as “whataboutism.”
Jews are cast as “Zionists” and are shouted down and shut out of the public square by cancellations, encampments, and de-platforming under a dogma of anti-normalization: the belief that even mere dialogue with Zionists is unethical and immoral.1 This policy has devolved into a campus practice where Zionism disqualifies Jews from participation in even non-Israel-related progressive causes effectively denying them a valid voice on any topic.
There is a trust deficit. We live in echo chambers driven by corporate media and social media algorithms. The public has become consumed with confirmation bias and an inability to think critically outside their engrained beliefs.
The pro-Palestinian movement dominates the visual field and the digital algorithm. Their videos are cinematic. Their slogans are simple.
The result is isolation and moral inversion. While our adversaries build coalitions across movements and continents, Israel’s advocates fracture across denominations, parties, and ideologies. For too long, Israel’s defenders have aimed their message at journalists, diplomats, and policymakers instead of students, creators, and the political center.
The solution is not to match their anger but to drown it out. To tell a truer, more universalist story and force the world to see the true face of tyranny that is the cause of all regional instability. Flood the field with the truth: every tyrant who hates Israel hates freedom itself. Every movement that demonizes Jews is practicing for a world without dissent.
To each weakness this proposed counteroffensive supplies a strength: narrative replacement for indoctrination, verification and visuals for post-truth, disciplined lawful presence for exclusion, coalition-building for fragmentation, credible validators for trust, and emotionally grounded storytelling for the empathy gap.
That is the work of this counteroffensive. It is not propaganda. It is moral restoration. It is how we reclaim the language of justice and return truth to the public square both on the streets and in the feed.
Educational Infiltration: The “Academic Intifada”
As discussed in Part 1, this failure is not accidental; it was cultivated through decades of academic framing. We cannot fight the political symptoms without confronting the intellectual architecture that produced them
As Professor Troy rightly points out, we are combating an entrenched, well-funded “academic intifada”. Hostile foreign governments, state-sponsored NGOs, and wealthy foundations have invested billions of dollars over the past two decades to fund academic chairs, university centers, and curricula that specifically promote a post-colonial, anti-Western, and anti-Zionist narrative. This ideological funding has effectively poisoned the well of critical thought, turning many departments into factories for indoctrination, not education.
This foreign influence extends far beyond the ivory tower. It is a coordinated ecosystem of narrative control that reaches from K–12 classrooms to elite universities.
University Level: Governments and state-linked foundations donate huge sums to establish “Middle East Studies,” “China Studies,” or “Gulf Studies” centers. These gifts often include quiet conditions on hiring, curriculum, or which subjects may not be taught. Examples include the now-notorious Confucius Institutes, funded by the Chinese Communist Party, and Qatar Foundation International partnerships that have underwritten Arabic language and “global studies” programs across the U.S. Tuition pipelines from wealthy Gulf states and China create a second lever of influence: universities fear offending the regimes that supply both money and full-pay students.
K–12 Level: The same pattern appears in miniature. Foreign-backed nonprofits offer “free” cultural or language resources to schools, Middle East “cultural understanding” kits, Mandarin programs, global-studies lesson plans, many of which present a sanitized version of authoritarian governments or erase Israel entirely from maps. Teachers are courted with expense-paid “study tours” abroad and return with pre-approved lesson plans.
Hidden Sponsorships: Foreign regimes route money through U.S.-registered charities that sponsor campus events, student associations, and faculty fellowships promoting the donor’s political line. The messaging is consistent: minimize human-rights abuses, romanticize Islamist movements as liberation causes, and frame Western democracy as the true colonizer.
Joint Labs and Research: Joint labs and exchange programs often give foreign partners access to sensitive technologies or data and sometimes contractual control over publication. The Department of Justice has prosecuted multiple cases involving scholars who concealed Chinese or Iranian state funding while working on federally sponsored research.
Compliance Failure: By law, universities must report any foreign gift over $250,000 to the Department of Education, yet compliance is spotty. A 2020 federal investigation uncovered more than $6.5 billion in previously unreported funding from China, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE. K–12 oversight is even weaker—most districts have no reporting requirement at all.
The cumulative effect is cultural capture, not overt espionage. Certain subjects such as Uyghur slavery, Iranian terror finance, Qatari funding of Hamas, quietly vanish from syllabi. Students graduate fluent in grievance narratives but ignorant of authoritarian repression. Administrators learn that speaking plainly about these regimes can cost donations, partnerships, and jobs.
A New Approach: Outflank the Assault
As we discussed in Part 1, the assault on Jews in America and Christians around the world is no isolated prejudice. It is a prelude to dismantling freedom itself, a tyrant’s opening move disguised as justice. Jews are always the canary in the coal-mine because the moral veto is aimed at the whole structure of liberty.
The recent First Circuit decision in StandWithUs Center for Legal Justice v. MIT confirmed what we already knew: the First Amendment protects hateful political speech.
The First Amendment is not the obstacle. The only answer is that we must meet speech with more speech. The ruling should not discourage us. It should liberate us. Courts defend legality, not morality. They preserve speech, not civilization. They do not decide truth. We do.
The Heritage Foundation’s Project Esther proposes hard power: purges, deportation, and defunding. Viscerally it feels good. And while our frustration is real, state coercion like this feeds authoritarianism accusations and so far has only backfired. We need a better strategy.
If the law cannot silence lies, the answer is not censorship or deportation. It is to counter-speech with conscience and fact.
We can no longer meet their emotional outreach with cold facts or history. It’s time to turn the tables on them. Use their playbook but with universal appeal. We will not attack Islam as a faith. Instead, we confront Islamist political ideology, a radical strain that hijacks religion to justify oppression. We must launch a campaign on a scale that matches the anti-Zionist campaign but shine a light on the terror groups, islamic regimes, clerical networks, and patronage systems that sustain and advance Islamist terror: those that enforce gender apartheid, ethnic cleansing, genocide, and the colonization of entire peoples by authoritarian power.
1. Performance: Flooding the Streets with Truth
So it’s time for a new strategy.
It’s time to take the kid gloves off and unleash every bit of horrific media we have from Islamist attacks on innocent civilians. Why don’t we have video billboards in front of every pro-Palestine encampment streaming unedited raw video from Hamas’ GoPro cameras. It is incumbent on us to show the world what the face of terror looks like. From the “Falling man” of 9/11, to the murder of innocent men, women and children and the rape and sexual violence against women on October 7th. We need to widely release the footage that Hamas filmed. From the mass graves of the Yazidis, to the forced labor camps that enslave fifty million worldwide, and Christian children in Nigeria being burned alive, to media that exposes the gender apartheid of the Taliban and the terror of the Iranian regime, it must speak for every historical victim of tyranny who stood for universal dignity against the cult of force and selective outrage.
We need to organize at a scale that forces journalists to cover the contrast: disciplined, diverse Americans holding vigils for real victims while mobs glorify killers. These are not counter-protests. They are counter-narratives made visible public acts of moral clarity designed to reveal truth through contrast. We will deploy large digital screens and mobile billboards outside encampments, campuses, and UN offices, streaming verified, age-gated footage of terrorist atrocities, accompanied by survivor testimony and factual overlays. Each frame will say what moral relativism cannot: this is what you defend when you call terror resistance.
This shift turns attention from false grievances to real atrocities. Our goals are to defend freedom and oppose all global actors who violate the moral law, thereby expanding the lens of public obsession:
Expose the true genociders who operate in silence while the world obsesses over Israel. Expose extremist ideologies: Islamism, white supremacy, any movement justifying terror or dehumanization
Champion universal rights for all peoples oppressed by tyranny including women’s rights, LGBTQ rights and academic freedom. Protest the Islamist gender apartheid and genocides that the antizionist movement so conveniently ignores.
Reveal the moral selectivity of activists, proving their motive is antisemitism, not justice. Replace selective outrage with evidence-based consistency.
Re-center the cause of conflict by highlighting how the Arab world has maintained the Palestinians as permanent refugees for decades, a policy of cruel subjugation designed to weaponize their suffering against Israel and the West. This rejection of peace is the sole reason no peace exists in the Middle East; it is the signature cruelty of the tyrants.
This is where we mirror their tactics but without their anti-American rhetoric, without their violence, and without their false claims of apartheid, genocide and colonization. They single out one democracy with moral inversions and double standards. We will show the real record: documented campaigns of conquest and forced conversion, systemic repression of women and minorities, and UN-recognized genocides against Yazidis and other non-Muslim groups. Facts ground us in truth, not propaganda.
If courts protect chants for our destruction then we meet those words with living arguments the public can see and feel. Our protests must match their scale while ensuring we are everything theirs are not: peaceful, lawful, coordinated, disciplined, and deeply American.
They Chant “Death to America.” We proudly say “God Bless America.”
They chant “Globalize the intifada.” We hold showcase the results of the first and second Intifadas and hold vigils for terror victims around the world who suffer under oppressive regimes.
They shout “Genocider.” We will highlight real genociders and focus on the victims killed by real genocides.
They reframe self determination as “Settler-Colonialism.” We force them to confront what actual colonialism looks like.
They glorify theocracy. We stand arm-in-arm with Muslim reformers, Iranian dissidents, Arab Christians, and LGBTQ refugees who escaped religious police under theocratic and autocratic regimes around the world.
No shouting matches. No blocking students on campus. No shutting down highways. We offer only the unvarnished and brutal truth told in graphic detail.
Their selective outrage and moral inversion are exposed in real time. This is not just confrontation. It is reclamation. By standing firm, we rekindle the pride in America that has faded in too many.
This can’t be a jewish initiative. We must partner with Christian organizations, human-rights advocates, and Muslim reformers who must lead this fight in the name of true Universal rights. We must expand our reach beyond traditional boundaries turning thousands into tens of thousands and ultimately millions, as seen in historical movements like the civil rights of the 60s and the anti-apartheid of the 70s and 80s, which began modestly but grew through moral persistence. We must win the war of attrition by keeping our focus on the global atrocities that are regularly ignored by corporate and social media.
Take Back the Classroom
Our objective must be to reclaim the classroom from this strategic narrative warfare. We must package short, classroom-ready modules, survivor talks, and debate kits so teachers and student leaders can carry “One Moral Standard” into schools and campuses.
We must create a non-partisan “Academic Transparency Coalition” to push model legislation in every state requiring:
Full public disclosure of all foreign gifts, grants, and partnerships in K–12 and higher education.
Mandatory posting of donor contracts online and reporting of in-kind gifts such as travel or curriculum materials.
Penalties for failure to report and a federal clearinghouse that allows journalists and parents to track foreign funding in real time.
The aim is not censorship but sunlight. When the public sees who pays, bias becomes obvious.
Ban formal collaborations with institutions in countries that restrict academic freedom or deny reciprocal access to American educators. Exchange must be two-way or not at all.
Establish an independent board of educators, historians, and human-rights experts to audit foreign-sourced teaching materials for factual accuracy and political bias before they enter classrooms. This panel should include reform-minded Muslim and Chinese scholars who can speak credibly against propaganda.
Replace Dependency with Domestic Investment
Lobby Congress and private philanthropy to fund new language, regional-studies, and cultural programs free from foreign money and influence. If the United States wants academic independence, it must pay for it. To force institutional change where dialogue has failed, we must target the university’s financial engine. We must specifically reach the upper-middle-class parents of “blue America” those who have been funding the “credentialing factory” that is now brainwashing their children. We must frame the appeal as protecting educational integrity, not partisan loyalty.
We must demonstrate the reputational damage and the toxicity of the investment, making it clear that funding this system is subsidizing the very exclusion and hate that is disqualifying their children’s Jewish friends from having a valid voice. This is the financial veto that can restore academic standards where moral clarity has been lost
Teacher-Training for Propaganda Awareness
Develop short professional-development modules—how to identify loaded terms, cherry-picked maps, and omission patterns in lesson plans. Teachers should leave training able to spot ideological manipulation the way they now spot plagiarism.**]
Building the Counter-Narrative Infrastructure
Our objective must be to reclaim the classroom from strategic narrative warfare by building a parallel network that is fact-based, morally consistent, and emotionally compelling. This requires three layers:
National Curriculum Library Produce modular, classroom-ready lessons—short videos, survivor talks, and debate kits under the banner One Moral Standard. Each piece should be downloadable and easily inserted into social-studies, civics, or ethics courses.
The “Teach the Truth” Fellowship Train a cadre of teachers and graduate students each summer to deliver this material locally. Fellows become the moral first-responders inside schools and trusted peers who can correct misinformation without bureaucratic approval.
Local Parent and Alumni Chapters Parents and donors are leverage points. Organize them to demand that universities and school boards disclose curricula and foreign partnerships before approving budgets or donations. A well-informed donor network can do what bureaucracies won’t: cut the pipeline of influence at its source.
The counter-curriculum must not debate politics; it must expose hypocrisy and moral inconsistency. Modules will include:
Case Studies in Moral Triage: contrasting global outrage over Israeli self-defense with near-silence on ongoing genocides (Uyghurs, Darfur, Christian persecution).
Exposing the Refugee Weapon: analyzing how Arab governments have kept Palestinians stateless to perpetuate conflict.
The Sourcing Audit: teaching students to trace the funding and ideological lineage of anti-Zionist centers to their foreign sponsors.
Human Rights Mirror: pairing every accusation against Israel with a documented abuse from the accuser’s own regime, restoring moral proportion.
Together these steps shift the fight from exposure to reconstruction. Transparency dries up the money that fuels indoctrination; domestic funding fills the gap; trained teachers and parents create a culture of vigilance; and a unified moral curriculum inoculates the next generation against propaganda. That is how we break the academic intifada and rebuild education on truth.
2. Presence: Winning the Algorithmic War
The primary front is digital. We must build what Israel and its advocates have failed to do: a viral digital movement that tells a moral story faster than lies can spread. We must reclaim the very tools that have been weaponized against truth. The same movement that floods the streets with chants and slogans floods the algorithm with lies. We must do the same. The information war will be won through exposure and revelation deployed through algorithms.
Showing the World What It Refuses to See
It is time to stop hiding what evil looks like. For too long, the footage that proves the barbarism of Islamist terror has been locked away, deemed “too graphic,” “too divisive,” or “too triggering.” Yet the same activists who chant “from the river to the sea” have no hesitation in circulating fabrications and staging grief for propaganda. We will counter fiction with evidence unedited, verified, contextualized truth that forces the conscience awake.
Each image tells the same story: the cult of tyranny against the conscience of humanity. We will not sanitize evil. We will curate it responsibly, verify it rigorously, and display it fearlessly. The moral line that separates civilization from barbarism cannot be defended by euphemism.
Each image and testimony must serve one purpose: to make denial impossible. Every post, reel, or billboard will carry one message: One Moral Standard. Verified evidence of Islamist atrocities will appear side by side with the silence or applause of those who excuse them. The goal is not vengeance; it is recognition. The footage itself becomes the argument.
People will watch lies beautifully told over truth poorly packaged. So we will make truth both beautiful and unbearable. We will invest in cinematic, emotionally grounded storytelling, with enough gore to make denial collapse. Each edit will pair horror with humanity: the mother’s voice over a blurred frame, the child’s photo before the massacre, the candle before the darkness.
Within hours of a viral protest or false claim, teams will deploy counter-narratives built not from slogans but from proof. We will never again let a lie dominate the news cycle. Each truth reel will combine verified footage, survivor accounts, and moral contrast—what really happened versus what propaganda claims.
This must be a coordinated and disciplined movement.
Creators over Committees: Empower students, journalists, and moral witnesses to create under a shared banner: One Moral Standard.
The Receipts Library: A secure, multilingual archive of verified footage and testimonies with timestamps, metadata, and legal clearance.
Rapid Response Hubs: Regional cells ready to edit, translate, and deploy high-contrast truth reels within hours.
Digital Billboards: Permanent installations near activist hubs and major cities displaying verified footage with QR codes linking to full context and survivor accounts.
Reclaiming the Algorithm
We can not fight algorithms with outrage; we must redirect them with evidence. When hate trends, truth must follow it into the feed. Our partnership strategy will involve collaborating with platforms to authenticate footage, with fact-checkers to validate claims, and with influencers to carry moral clarity into virality.
Preemptive Frames: “Before You Scroll: The Reality of Hamas.”
Trend Hijacking: Use trending audio, captions, and formats to inject verified content into viral streams.
AI Coordination: Ethical AI tools will predict propaganda spikes, generate multilingual subtitles, and track bot networks.
To fight bots and digital propaganda, we combine defense with offense:
Detection and Exposure: Use AI-assisted tools to track bot networks and coordinated hate campaigns; crowdsource reporting through trusted channels for removal.
Preemptive Framing: Release inoculation reels. Short, shareable myth-busters.
Trend Hijacking: Intercept trending hashtags with high-engagement truth clips formatted for TikTok, Reels, and YouTube Shorts.
Paid Precision: Use micro-targeted ads to reach young audiences with tested narratives built on moral clarity, not fear.
Alliance Building: Partner with platforms like Meta, X, and YouTube for priority moderation and transparency on coordinated inauthentic behavior.
Cross-Community Collaboration: Unite Jewish, Christian, Muslim reformist, and secular voices under one digital flag. Moral diversity is our credibility.
AI-Assisted Coordination: Use ethical AI to predict trends, generate subtitles in multiple languages, and identify emerging propaganda patterns before they spread. Technology amplifies truth when guided by conscience.
We flood the field with evidence that we fight for one moral standard, not one nation. When we defend Israelis, we defend Yazidis, Afghans, Nigerians, and all victims of fanaticism. The false accusation of “dual loyalty” collapses when the world sees Jews fighting for the dignity of all.
When people scroll, they should encounter a mirror they cannot look away from. Each image, each frame, each act of courage becomes a spark in the moral grid a light that forces the conscience to choose.
We are outnumbered and outfunded, but not outwitted. The side that dares to show what evil looks like, and what good still requires, wins.
The Call
If you stand for the universal moral law, you must join this fight.
To everyone that shares the Judeo-Christian belief that “You shall love your neighbor as yourself”
This work is rooted in the defense of freedom itself. It speaks to the moderates who have tuned out the shouting and reminds them that silence is not neutrality but surrender.
Critics will say that everyone already condemns these regimes and that existing sanctions prove this action is unnecessary.
But sanctions have failed. The killing continues.
If outrage were consistent, the squares would be filled for the Uyghurs, for Afghan women, for Christians in Nigeria, for Yazidis in Iraq. Their silence is moral selectivity. Proof that modern “justice” follows politics, not principle.
Our objective is to break the antisemitic obsession and moral inversion that has consumed the world.
This is not a fight between right and left; it is a stand between truth and falsehood, between courage and fear.
The hour demands courage. We win not by begging censorship or pity, but by rebuilding moral imagination. Fighting antisemitism is self-defense for every free person.
We lead as Americans rooted in our shared values:
For Freedom. For Liberty. For Justice. For Women. For Peace. For America.
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I recently heard Professor Gil Troy speak. He said:
It’s really become a stable position of BDS that it’s a waste of time to talk to a Jew. It’s a waste of time to listen to a Zionist . You simply don’t speak to them instead you chant, you yell, you organize but you don’t engage with any kind of dialogue and part of the theory of antizionism that’s taken root is that dialogue with Zionists is unethical and immoral. If you engage in a dialogue with Zionist that means you’r saying a Zionist is worth listening to. Worth talking with. That they might have some position that it had some value in your in your life. The anti-normalization position has become dogma for BDS and it’s it’s taken other visiou forms on campus. The most common of which is I’m running an organization about climate change, I don’t want a Zionist in it. That’s a terrible assault on the kind of progressive views that many Jewish students have and on many campuses where there are powerful antizionists in thos organizations your Zionism disqualifies you from having a valid recommended position on any topic whatsoever and there are causes that you can save from hostility and that’s really only the last few years that that has evolved that anti normalization has gone that way as well and that’s just devastating.
In a time when antisemitism and anti-Zionism are on the rise in academic spaces, Professor Troy’s work provides a crucial framework for understanding and confronting these challenges. Here is “Countering the Academic Intifada: A Conversation with Professor Gil Troy”.