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How Foreign Money Rewired America’s View of Israel
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The anti-Israel shift in the West did not begin on October 7. The narrative was financed, institutionalized, and taught for years before the world saw its consequences.
In this episode of EylON the Record, Eylon Levy speaks with Ofir Dayan, head of the Antisemitism and Delegitimization Research Team at Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies and author of Intifada Globalized: Why Young Westerners Are Turning Away from Israel. They examine how Qatar and other foreign actors built influence across American universities, schools, media, lobbying firms, and political networks—and whether Israel entered the information war too late to reverse the damage.
In this episode, we discuss:
• How Qatar spread its influence through universities, think tanks, public-relations firms, law firms, teacher-training programs, and carefully targeted investments.
• Why the anti-Israel movement on American campuses was already organized and institutionalized long before October 7.
• Whether Israel should conduct its own influence campaigns—and why its recent efforts have appeared unprofessional, reactive, and easy to expose.
• The story Israel must tell about Jewish indigeneity, sovereignty, and the wider assault on Western democratic values.
This is not simply a debate about better messaging. Public opinion affects military alliances, arms supplies, diplomatic support, and Israel’s ability to defend its citizens. Treating the information war as an afterthought has become a national-security risk.
🎯 Key moment:
“We’re fighting emotions, we’re fighting narratives, we’re not fighting facts.”
Find Ofir Dayan’s book, Intifada Globalized: Why Young Westerners Are Turning Away from Israel, here: https://gefenpublishing.com/product.asp?productid=3558
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