An unfortunate facet of modern politics is the use of marketing and public relations firms to “sell” oneself to the public, or rather, in most cases, to discredit one’s opponents.
Modern marketing is notorious for exaggerating the benefits of one product and the faults of its competitors in order to boost sales. The more extreme the marketing pitch, the more likely it is to gain attention and succeed. In our era of information overload, only the loudest and most dramatic are often seen and heard.
And all of that applies, too, to marketing politicians and defaming their rivals. Which is why the current political debate in Israel is characterized by such harsh rhetoric and bombastic slogans.
And it’s about to get worse. Because Americans know how to do this better than anyone, and an Israeli opposition movement just hired a top US public relations firm to help bring down Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Blue and White Future, an Israeli NGO that provides financial and organizational support to several groups actively protesting against Netanyahu’s government, recently hired a Washington-based PR firm to bolster its cause in the United States.
Trident DMG will provide Blue and White Future with “strategic communications services,” according to filings under the Foreign Agents Registration Act cited by Politico. The three-month contract is reportedly worth $75,000.
Among other services, Trident will distribute press releases, arrange radio and TV interviews, and disseminate the “positions of the pro-democracy movement in Israel” in newspapers and magazines, the Department of Justice filings revealed.
Trident DMG was founded by Democratic Party strategist Josh Galper, former CNN journalist Eleanor McManus, former Clinton White House special associate counsel Adam Goldberg and former Clinton lawyer Lanny Davis.
Blue and White Future is chaired by CEO Eran Schwartz, a leader in the demonstrations against Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s judicial reform drive. Other public faces of the association include Gilead Sher, who served as chief of staff to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, as well as Maya Jacobs, Barak’s former spokesperson.
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I noticed over the years every American based leftist fungus has a Clintonista lurking about.
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