Hasbara and the Control of Narrative as an Element of Strategy
Hasbara recognizes the control of narrative as a potent weapon.
Narrative is an element of rhetoric. It defines context.
When successfully imposed, it provides a cognitive filter.
Narratives offer a comprehensive framework for connecting and interpreting events.
They substantiate “group think,” establishing baselines for CONFORMITY and hence for OSTRACISM.
In politics, perception is reality.
Narratives legitimize some perceptions and delegitimize others.
Narratives can be drawn upon to reinforce stereotypes by imposing favorable
or pejorative labels on information and its sources. [name calling]
Such labels predispose recipients of information to accept some things as credible, to disbelieve
others, and to regard still others as so tainted or implausible that they can and should be ruled
out of order and ignored.
[Not incidentally, adherence to narratives is the usual cause of intelligence failure;
the inability to accept or even consider evidence that something outside the established
frame of reference is in the process of occurring.]
https://mepc.org/speeches/hasbara-and-control-narrative-element-strategy
Hasbara Handbook PDF: http://www.middle-east-info.org/take/wujshasbara.pdf
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