Leaked report highlights Israel lobby’s failures








The “20X question”





The full document can be read below.

“Significant successes”

Key findings of the ADL-Reut report include:







Endorsed by Israel











Trump bad for Israel?








Driving people away













No good answers










Hasbara is the Hebrew term for Israel’s state propaganda.

Asa Winstanley contributed analysis.




Thanks for making the document available in full. It's fascinating to see this double-think in action. On the one hand, smear tactics, bullying, lies and legalized repression don't work. On the other, that's all they've got to offer so it's over the top they go once again, like WWI generals ordering yet another hopeless assault.

You almost have to think that somewhere in the highest recesses of the Israeli establishment they know how it's going to end. But there's so much invested in this doomed project that they're prepared to keep going until they run out of track.


The article makes clear that Israel's desire to end BDS can ONLY be brought about by its full acknowledgement of Palestinian human rights, both inside Israel and in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. However, since this would end the Zionist project and the Israeli mirage of a 'Jewish AND democratic state', Israel will never effectively end BDS, which will become increasingly more effective.


A great service von ei, giving us access to this report. Many thanks.
The Reut Group was called the Reut Institute in 2010 when it did two (very similar) reports on the de-legitimization topic. See http://reut-institute.org/Publ...
The current, leaked report refers to the work done then, 7 years ago. If anything, those reports give much more analysis of what Israel sees as its problem, adopts the correct viewpoint that BDS and anti-Zionism do indeed regard Israel as illegitimate, and it even makes in parts for some funny reading.
I think the lesson for those who agree with Ali Abunimah that a democracy in Palestine would mean the end of Israel is that we should 'take over' or 'own' with much more courage the epithet 'de-legitimizers'. Let us start consistently calling a spade a spade. Yes, Israel is illegitimate and should not be there. It should be replaced - by a democracy among whose citizens are the Returned Palestinians.
We know that we are not motivated by an ounce of anti-semitism, but we have nevertheless have to immediately clarify that our problem is not necessarily with some Jewish state somewhere but with the one in Palestine, far away from where Jewish people suffered persecution, the one which has for 100 years happened step by step at the cost of the Palestinians. Thus we don't even have to get into the issue of the self-determination of the Jewish people. We are talking about Palestine and about the basic, non-abrogable rights of the indigenous people. If this means the state presently ruling there is not legitimate, so be it.


Any organization that tries to thwart,bully,attack,dismiss,uses any means possible legal or illegal to destroy legitimate criticism of Israel,its policies and its supporters...will over time develop a counter insurgency tactics
I regularly have discussions over Israel online,on youtube comments,social media...MY tactic is to get them to reveal their sources of information...you very soon realize they quote from the same Zionist wikipedia....these Zionist trolls get caught out and insulted.
There are lots of very knowledgeable people online who know their facts,their history,and can produce arguments and evidence as support.The Israeli Zionist narrative is being openly shredded..because it is based on lies ,deceit,and manipulation.Some time a go the BBC the UK's state broadcaster aired a film which purported to show archeological evidence for mass graves at a German concentration camp.
Within one hour the documantary was rubbished...comments online pointed out that a Australian team used radar to look for disturbance of soil..they found nothing...also sometime later a documentary was produced which gave an alternative explanation.
The reality is on the internet,it hard to tell lies and get away with it.With the Zionist controlled media in the US and the pro-Israeli media in Europe has dug itself a big hole...i do not read papers or watch the BBC ...... AL JAZEERA AND RUSSIA TODAY for me.
The Israeli propaganda war is already lost when so many jews no longer want to be associated with the genocidal policies of a rogue state


I'm with you on RT, and sometimes Al-Jazeera. The others are trash. Great comment on the Zionist trolls. Instead of taking all the time to present my sources to them now, which they never consider anyway, I continually respond to them with the fact that they live in a Zionist bubble with its own circular logic. Much more fun, and it's the truth.

Ali Abunimah

