A new investigation has traced a major anti-Muslim propaganda campaign targeting Britain back to Israel.

The campaign, uncovered by academics Marc Owen Jones and Sohan Dsouza, was at its height before the UK's 2024 general election and the anti-Muslim riots that raged across the country later that year.

It involved large numbers of paid advertisements warning of an Islamic takeover of Britain masterminded by Qatar.

"Between 2024 and 2026, our investigation recorded more than 154m exposures to its British-targeted material," Jones and Dsouza wrote in an article published by The Nerve.

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Embedded metadata in 78 video files recovered from the campaign's channels on social media platform Telegram "revealed Hebrew names, nicknames and words in folders, drive labels and editing projects, alongside usernames and Mac model identifiers".

Moreover, a "Windows account’s exports recorded a shift from [Arabia Time Zone] UTC+3 to UTC+2 between 22 and 27 October, consistent with Israel’s return to winter time. Lebanon and the Palestinian territories also changed clocks that weekend, but taken together with the working pattern, the narrative, the IP address, and the Hebrew labels, the evidence points to Israel."

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  • [–] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

    Countries, particularly those allied to the US have to understand this - Israel is NOT your friend. They might be friends of your friend, but that doesn't make them YOUR friend.

    They're only your friend if you turn on your Muslim citizens, and then like them - you're not a good country anymore. Because you no longer believe in fairness and religious freedom. Rights.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago

    I'm in the US and my father recently hit me with a barely coherent anti-Muslim rant. He's never brought them up while discussing politics with me (I was very young during 9/11) and has never showed any animosity towards them in front of me. He even went through a phase where he was into Turkish soap operas a few years ago, so he probably got at least some positive exposure to Muslim people during that time.

    My guess was MAGA operatives/bots on his brain rot TikTok/Insta feed due to the war and midterms, but Israel makes sense too.

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