An explosive inside look into the highly-planned and well-funded global propaganda campaign to delegitimize Israel and sow the seeds of antisemitism in the aftermath of October 7th.
October 7th, 2023 was a truly horrific day--a day in which Israeli men, women, and children were slaughtered or kidnapped, in the most barbaric fashion possible by the Iran-backed, Gaza-based terrorist group Hamas. The attack set off a bloody war, with profound consequences for both Israelis and Palestinians. That much is well known.
Less known is the propaganda campaign--the narrative war--that also began on that day. Like Hamas' war on Israel, the narrative war had been in the works for a long time. It took, and continutes to take, planning, organization, and lots of money. Paid protestors. Professional organizers. Top-notch lobby efforts. NGOs, unions, and associations working together like a well-oiled machine. And, of course, messages designed to capture the support of legislators, voters, and the media.
There is little, if anything, organic about this campaign, even if some of its own participants aren't quite aware of it.
Interestingly, Canada has become ground zero for this international effort, a result of shifting demographics, porous online and physical borders when it comes to foreign interference, lack of political will, and failure to enforce laws that could help prevent the spread of this type of hate. The numbers themselves are astounding, reflecting a growing tide of antisemitism, anti-Zionism, and general intolerance with a brazenness that has not been witnessed before. A country known for its historic support for the Jewish homeland and for Jews in general has become, since October 7th, a place where Jews live in fear, with skyrocketing incidents of vandalism, violence, threats, and intimidation.
A highly successful political strategist, and legal advocate for victims of hate, Warren Kinsella deconstructs the inner workings of this campaign of hate, and pulls no punches as to what is at stake here: the further spread of antisemitism within society--especially amongst the younger generations but certainly not limited to that demographic--and how to offset it.
WARREN KINSELLA is the president of Daisy Group, assisting clients on a wide variety of administrative, Indigenous, and governmental affairs. Previously, he was a partner at the law firm of McMillan Binch in its Public Policy Group, and has also worked as a consultant, journalist, and political chief-of-staff.
From 1990-1993, he held the position of special assistant to the Rt. Hon. Jean Chrétien, leader of the Liberal Party of Canada. In addition, from 1993-1996, Kinsella served as chief-of-staff in a number of federal ministries. He was also Chairman of the War Room in the successful Ontario Liberal Party election campaigns; managed the federal Liberal Party of Canada's War Rooms in 1993 and 2000; and, most recently, helped oversee the 2018 campaign of Toronto Mayor John Tory. In 2020, he worked in several states as a consultant on the Joe Biden-Kamala Harris U.S. presidential election campaign.
Warren Kinsella has been a columnist with the
Ottawa Citizen,
National Post, Ottawa
Hill Times, and the Postmedia chain. He is the bestselling author of
The War Room: Political Strategies for Business, NGOs, and Anyone Who Wants To Win; Age of Unreason; Recipe for Hate; and
New Dark Ages.
