With anti-Arab campaign ad, Netanyahu stoops to new moral and political lows
Israeli election campaigns have often been ugly. They have featured exaggeration, fearmongering and outright deception. But even by those standards, the first major campaign advertisement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, posted on Netanyahu’s…
Assessment
Netanyahu's Likud party released an AI-generated campaign ad targeting former military chief Gadi Eisenkot, drawing widespread shock for its anti-Arab messaging. The ad marks a new threshold in Israeli election rhetoric, even by the historically aggressive standards of past campaigns. The move risks further polarizing an already divided electorate and may signal the tone of the broader campaign ahead.