‘Things have only gotten worse’: Israel fumes as millions fail to stop collapse in US support

Israeli officials are reportedly furious that a $1.5 million-a-month influence campaign led by Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Brad Parscale, has failed to halt the collapse in support for Israel among young US conservatives. Despite millions of dollars spent targeting the MAGA base, shaping social media narratives and influencing artificial intelligence platforms, polling shows that attitudes towards Israel have continued to deteriorate. The operation aimed to prevent young conservatives from turning against Israel, according to an investigation published by TIME. Publicly presented as a campaign to combat anti-Semitism, its wider strategic purpose was to preserve support for Israel among a section of the US right increasingly critical of Israel and Washington’s involvement in Israel’s regional wars. Foreign Agents Registration Act […]