Hasbara: Explanation or Policy Problem?

Israel's Foreign Minister says convincing governments to move their embassies to Jerusalem is as important as the battlefield. A listener in Jerusalem calls that pursuit anti-intellectual and childish — and argues Israel's image problem isn't a communications failure but a policy one. This episode unpacks what Hasbara actually means (it translates as "explanation," not propaganda), how its institutions work from the Government Press Office to semi-independent NGOs, and why the selective-facts method is simultaneously defensible and fragile. Then we test the embassy claim against the scoreboard: 128 to 9 at the UN, and eight years after the US move, no major power has followed. What happens when the audience turns out to be domestic all along? Episode #960359 — open it directly at myweirdprompts.com/960359