Richard L. Cravatts writing at the History News Network
As part of evaluating the competitive landscape of the popularity of nations, in a process referred to in marketing circles as ‘place branding,’ Israel, to no one’s great surprise, comes up short in brand likeability, ranking last out of 35 nations included in an August 2006 survey conducted by nation branding expert Simon Anholt, even less attractive to respondents than Indonesia, Estonia, and Turkey.
How could this have happened to a country that is the Middle East’s only thriving democracy and enjoys a remarkably robust economy that has spawned some 1000 startup high tech companies, for example, second only to the U.S.? How, in short, would you go about making the world hate Israel?
This is how you would accomplish that objective if you were an enemy of Israel:
Even after 60 years of its existence, you question the fundamental right of Israel to even exist and regularly, though falsely, condemn it for being created “illegallyâ€â€”through the “theft†of Palestinian lands and property—and thus decide, because of its original sin, it has no “right to exist.†You accuse the government of a “brutal,†illegal “occupation†of Palestinian lands, especially Gaza and the West Bank (but for many, all of Israel), of being a “colonial settler state,†a Zionist “regime†or “project,†a land-hungry nation, a usurper of property that was lived on and owned by a Palestinian “people†“from time immemorial.â€Â
And the article goes on and on explaining how, which really needs to be read in full. Particularly by the Israel/Jew haters on the Left.
