Netanyahu’s Eighth Front: How Israel Plans to Buy Silence and Manufacture Consent in the US
Since Trump’s inauguration, the White House has indicated a lack of interest in engaging in conflict with Russia; however, a more troubling battle is emerging within the U.S. This battle which Israel prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls “Israel’s Eighth Front,” exists in America specifically because the U.S. holds sway over global media, explains former British diplomat, Alistair Crook in his recent article published by the Strategic Culture Foundation. Crooke suggests that “Israel’s Eighth Front War” is characterised by its lack of boundaries; it operates without rules, laws, or ethical considerations, which Israel deems necessary for the complete domination of any dissent.
The US has become a battlefield in which, according to former Oracle CEO Safra Catz, Americans will be urged to love and respect Israel. In a leaked email dated 2015 and addressed to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Catz stated:
“We have all been horrified by the growth of the BDS movement in college campuses and have concluded that we have to fight this battle before the kids even get to college. We believe that we have to embed the love and respect for Israel in the American culture. That means getting the message to the American people in a way they can consume it,” (Source)
As stated by Tom Barrack, a longtime friend of Trump and Envoy to the Middle East, “this new doctrine revolves around Israeli ‘dominance’ – and for that to happen, Barrack infers that others must logically ‘submit’. The idea of Netanyahu’s ‘Eighth Front’ stems from the belief that complete Jewish dominance necessitates a specific level of dominance in America—something Israel cannot achieve on its own, as it requires unwavering support from America to ensure the continuous flow of funds, weapons, and operational assistance.
Therefore, it is essential to map out and pinpoint the routes that Israel will take to attain this ‘supreme’ level of influence and authority over America’s policies, mindset, and spirit. In recent months, US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has exposed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Israel lobby’s power in Washington, DC, arguing that the activities of the pro-Israel American lobby group amount to foreign lobbying without accountability.
VIDEO: US Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene is exposing AIPAC (Source: Anadolu Agency
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In a post on X, political analyst Dominic Michael Tripi stated that “TikTok is now censoring posts that mention the influence of AIPAC after ownership change”. Approximately 45% of TikTok USA is currently under the control of Oracle, Silver Lake, and MGX, the primary investors. ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, holds a 19.9% stake, while the remaining 35% is owned by investors associated with ByteDance and new stakeholders. Oracle will take on the role of TikTok’s security provider, overseeing user data, content systems and the retraining of the application’s algorithm to accommodate Israel’s narrative in the US. Yesterday, US Vice President JD Vance mentioned that “American investors will truly have control over the algorithm” once the agreement is finalized; However, if there was any uncertainty regarding the direction TikTok USA is about to take, one simply has to hear from Oracle’s newly appointed vice chair, Safra Catz, who was born in Israel. She expressed her steadfast support for Israel during the Hill and the Valley Forum Leadership Summit 2025, where she stated unambiguously: “We stand with Israel”.
VIDEO: Oracle CEO Safra Catz | Special Message to HIll & Valley Forum 2025 (Source: The Hill & Valley Forum|Youtube)
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With Larry Ellison, a billionaire and staunch advocate for Israel, serving as the chief technology officer of Oracle, now overseeing user data and the algorithm, critics are increasingly worried that TikTok may be significantly modified to reflect Israel’s political agenda in the US, likely suppressing any pro-Palestine viewpoints or anti-Zionist opinions, as a starter.
Today, we are highlighting an insightful article by Richard Powell, published on the Great Reporter website, that explores the complex realm of Israel’s cognitive warfare, particularly focusing on Netanyahu’s Eighth Front strategy. The piece offers in-depth insights into the mechanics of this influence operation and illustrates how effortlessly Israel can procure silence or create consent. It also underscores the heavy toll this war on consciousness will have on independent journalists, who will likely face de-platforming and legal battles, revealing also how this assault on truth has proven deadly for our esteemed Palestinian journalist colleagues.
Richard Powell reports for Great Reporter…
Israel’s Eighth Front: The War on Independent Media
When Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the UN General Assembly in late September 2025, the visuals told the story: rows of empty seats as delegates staged walkouts. He boasted that Israel was waging seven simultaneous wars and would “get the job done.”
But, as veteran diplomat Alastair Crooke explained to Judge Andrew Napolitano, the decisive theater isn’t Gaza or Lebanon—it’s the U.S. information sphere. “The eighth front,” Crooke said, “is inside the United States… against podcasters and influencers.” The aim is to control platforms, algorithms, and narratives before a generational shift in American opinion hardens into policy.
Crooke’s wider frame ties the information war to a strategic push: keep Russia tied down over Ukraine while moving toward confrontation with Iran and locking up energy levers from the Middle East to Venezuela and Argentina. Whether or not one accepts that grand design, the logic of the eighth front is clear: without U.S. public consent, the rest becomes harder—militarily, diplomatically, and financially.
Buying silence, manufacturing consent
Israel’s sway over legacy outlets predates the current war. Crooke argues it solidified during the Obama years and intensified during COVID, when narrative management calcified. Reporters who depart from the line are disciplined (AP’s Emily Wilder, CNN’s Octavia Nasr), while editorial pages reflexively launder official talking points. But something broke during Gaza 2023–25: Palestinian livestreams and independent outlets pierced the firewall, bringing raw images of sieges and strikes directly to mass audiences. The monopoly cracked—and so began the counter-offensive.
On the platforms themselves, civil-society monitors have logged systematic takedowns of Palestine-related content. Investigations documented widespread removal and downranking of Gaza posts across Instagram and Facebook during the 2023 escalation, describing the practices as systemic censorship of Palestine content.
Meanwhile, U.S. polling has tilted under the pressure of that imagery and independent reporting. Multiple surveys show younger Americans increasingly sympathize with Palestinians; overall sympathy for Israelis has fallen to multi-decade lows, and among Democrats, sympathies now run decisively toward Palestinians.
Netanyahu’s open admission: social media is a “weapon”—and TikTok is “the most important purchase”
In New York and Washington, around UN week and a White House visit, Netanyahu met with U.S. influencers to lay out the playbook: social media is “the most important weapon,” he said—and TikTok is “the most important purchase… going on right now.” If Israel can “get” TikTok and align X with Elon Musk’s cooperation, “we get a lot.” Video clips of the briefing circulated widely.
The timing was not incidental. On the same news cycle, reports described a U.S. consortium advancing a TikTok-U.S. operations deal—raising concerns that pro-Israel billionaires would gain leverage over the algorithm most influential with Gen-Z. Netanyahu’s candor about courting X (“Elon is a friend”) underscored that platform capture—by purchase, policy pressure, or personal relationships—has become a central plank of Israel’s information doctrine.
If TikTok sets the culture for hundreds of millions while X shapes elite discourse, owning or influencing both would fuse bottom-up and top-down narrative power. Whether the strategy will work is contested—even some mainstream commentators derided the influencer briefing as tone-deaf—but the intent is no longer hidden: algorithmic battles are national-security doctrine.
Case file: Britain—secret briefings, editorial capture
While the U.S. front leans heavily on platform strategy, Britain’s version looks like classic access politics. Documents released in Israel under the Freedom of Information Act show that former IDF chief Aviv Kohavi held private meetings with BBC news director Richard Burgess, Guardian editor-in-chief Katharine Viner, and FT editor Roula Khalaf between 7–9 November 2023—weeks into the Gaza bombardment, as deaths crossed 10,000. The trip was coordinated by Israel’s Foreign Ministry and the IDF to “enhance the trend of support for Israel.”
A BBC insider called the meeting unprecedented and outrageous, warning it caused irreparable damage to credibility. Planning memos described top editors as “influencers” whose cooperation was highly important for Israel’s legitimacy in its “Iron Swords” war. Meetings were also slated with Sky’s chair and senior UK defense and intelligence officials. The optics are stark: in the midst of alleged war crimes, a recently retired IDF chief quietly briefed Britain’s most powerful newsrooms off the record.
The Telegraph: from Fourth Estate to fifth column
Once a pillar of British conservatism, The Daily Telegraph has, in recent years, morphed into a dependable amplifier of Israeli state narratives. During Gaza 2024–25, it questioned Palestinian casualty counts, framed Israeli operations as reluctant necessity, and waged a PR war against the BBC for supposed Gaza-coverage breaches—while publishing anonymously sourced stories that risked legitimizing strikes on civilian infrastructure.
The emblematic episode came in June 2024, when the Telegraph alleged Hezbollah stashed Iranian weapons at Beirut International Airport. Lebanon promptly opened the airport to diplomats and journalists. No evidence emerged, and the claim was widely condemned as “narrative laundering”—potential cover for bombing a civilian hub, as in 2006. The Telegraph’s own follow-up acknowledged denials; independent observers documented the debunk.
Ownership wrangles deepened concerns. Dovid Efune, a pro-Israel media entrepreneur, surfaced as a suitor, raising alarms that any residual independence would vanish. Tellingly, when Kohavi met Britain’s media elite in 2023, the Telegraph was conspicuously absent. Analysts’ read: it didn’t need persuading. Under editor Chris Evans, the paper has platformed op-eds denying Israeli culpability, smeared critics as antisemitic, and reflexively defended Israeli conduct—a conversion from conservative broadsheet to partisan organ in Israel’s information war.
This transformation isn’t an abstraction. Media that pre-legitimizes military narratives—from “human shields” to “precision strikes” to “terror tunnels under hospitals”—changes what’s politically possible. When press offices get flattened—like the AP/Al Jazeera tower in 2021—the echo chamber shrugs and moves on.
Inside the eighth front: how influence runs
1) Platform governance and acquisition.
Pressure or purchase to steer distribution: the proposed TikTok U.S. deal; explicit outreach to X; lobbying for stricter moderation of “anti-Semitism” (often conflated with Israel criticism) to down-rank Gaza content. Meta’s audits and watchdog reporting have repeatedly found suppression of pro-Palestine voices despite public promises of neutrality.
2) Editorial courtship at scale.
Closed-door briefings with top editors (Kohavi in London) during kinetic operations; the goal is to lock frames early: Israel as reluctant actor; Palestinian sources as tainted; civilian tolls as “unverified.”
3) Smear-and-starve tactics.
Independent outlets face lawsuits, advertiser boycotts, demonetization, and shadow bans. Figures such as Max Blumenthal and Scott Ritter have been repeatedly de-platformed or financially throttled; hosts like Judge Napolitano are targeted with boycotts for merely airing dissenting analysis.
4) Culture-industry leverage.
From studios to streamers, ownership consolidations concentrate gatekeeping. While causality is complex, the gravitational pull of owners’ politics shapes what gets green-lit, promoted, or buried—especially on Israel/Palestine.
The influencer summit: message, messengers, and blowback
Clips from Netanyahu’s influencer briefing show a mix of earnest pro-Israel talking points and crude, stereotype-laden content designed for virality. While many mocked the effort as self-parody—and comments on TikTok skewered the presenters—the point isn’t persuasion by argument; it’s algorithmic seeding. Visibility is victory on short-form feeds. If even a small fraction of apolitical scrollers absorb “Israel is defending itself / critics are antisemitic / AIPAC isn’t foreign influence” frames, the cost-benefit pencils out. The push looks like an overt attempt to convert feed dominance into political insulation, with Netanyahu’s own words as the master key.
The personal cost of dissent
For independent reporters, the price is de-platforming and litigation. For Palestinian journalists, it’s lethal. Since 2023, Gaza has been the deadliest conflict for media workers in modern history. Israel’s strike on the AP/Al Jazeera tower—still lacking public evidence of the alleged Hamas presence—remains a case study in punishing the press. Aviv Kohavi later said he had “not one gram of regret.”
The pattern is coherent: smother scrutiny abroad, destroy witnesses at home.
Legal chill and the European mirror
The UK’s proscription of Palestine Action under counter-terror laws criminalises even symbolic support, with protesters arrested at scale near party conferences; the government seeks to shunt legal challenges into a specialized tribunal. Civil-liberties groups warn of a chilling new precedent for speech around Israel/Palestine.
Across Europe and Australia, “anti-Semitism action plans” increasingly blur critique of Israeli policy with hate speech. The result is a compliance culture where editors self-censor, platforms over-remove, and protesters face terror-law exposure.
Back to Crooke: the grand chessboard
Crooke’s core thesis is that Washington’s security apparatus wants Russia kept simmering, not boiling, to prevent Moscow (and Beijing) from materially backstopping Iran if/when Israel and the U.S. escalate. In that frame, the eighth front—winning the narrative in America—becomes precondition for escalation: it sustains the coalition, chokes off dissent, and keeps youth disaffection quarantined from power.
He also warns of Israel’s overextension: reservist shortfalls, grinding Gaza attrition, talk of invading south Lebanon up to the Litani to smash Hezbollah’s heavier arsenal. The risk calculus—too many fronts, too few troops—collides with the need to declare victories in the information space.
Why this front matters more than the other seven
Militaries can dominate ground briefly; narratives sustain legitimacy. Netanyahu’s empty UN hall suggests that global opinion is slipping beyond repair. At home in the U.S., polls trend away from Israel, particularly among the young. Platforms once thought apolitical are now openly contested sovereign terrain.
Hence the strategy: buy platforms, brief editors, punish independents, and criminalize solidarity. It won’t flip the world overnight—but it can slow the realignment, muddy accountability, and extract a few more years of impunity.
The fight for journalism itself
Israel may yet “get the job done” on some fronts. But on the eighth, the outcome will decide whether journalism remains a check on power—or becomes merely another silo in a platform owner’s ad stack.
As Gaza’s rubble smolders and more Americans recoil from endless war, one truth hardens: the struggle over who controls the feed is now a question of war and peace. The eighth front isn’t auxiliary; it is the frontline.
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Forgot the part about using your tax dollars to do so. 90% of your fake Government holding a duel citizenship with these psychopaths and you wonder why there can never be peace in the Middle East. They are all part of the same international criminal organization. The 1930s are playing out once again now in the US. Are you getting it yet?