Google pockets $45m to fuel Netanyahu’s propaganda denying Gaza famine
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Google has signed a six-month, $45m contract with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office to run propaganda campaigns denying famine in Gaza and promoting Tel Aviv’s war narrative.
The deal, revealed in government disclosures, places Google and its YouTube platform as “key entities” in Netanyahu’s messaging drive, managed through Israel’s state advertising bureau Lapam.
Ads paid for under the contract insist “there is food in Gaza” despite the UN declaring famine and warning of mass starvation, with at least 367 Palestinians, 131 of them children, already dead from hunger and malnutrition.
Alongside YouTube, Israel is spending millions more on platforms like X and Outbrain/Teads, funding videos that accuse the UN of “sabotage,” discredit the Hind Rajab Foundation, and push debunked claims against Hamas.
The campaigns were launched in June not only to counter reports of famine but also to justify Israel’s bombing of Iran during Operation Rising Lion, which killed more than 400 civilians.
Google co-founder Sergei Brin reportedly dismissed UN criticism of the company’s role as “transparently anti-Semitic,” while rights groups accuse the tech giant of profiting from genocide.
(Drop Site News)
If anything, I see myself as a “witness.” I’d also be pleased, if you’d call me an “interpreter.” WIM WENDERS
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