Israel’s ambassador to Washington, Yechiel (Michael) Leiter, has been sounding the alarm about what he calls a large-scale, well-funded propaganda campaign aimed at demonizing Israel — a fight he took to conservative audiences on Life, Liberty & Levin where he explained why Judea and Samaria are nonnegotiable to the Jewish people. Leiter, who took up his post in January 2025, has been relentless in pushing back against media distortions and foreign efforts to rewrite history and erase Jewish ties to the land.
The ambassador didn’t mince words when he called out major outlets over falsified or misleading images and narratives, arguing that a buried correction rarely undoes the worldwide damage of a front-page lie and that this is part of a coordinated campaign to delegitimize Israel. Americans who still believe the mainstream press are arbiters of objective truth should listen to a seasoned diplomat who has watched mounted narratives outpace facts and then be surprised when the left’s policy prescriptions follow.
Those worried about information warfare should also note that investigative filings and reporting exposed concerted efforts — including digital geofencing, influencer projects, and AI-directed messaging — aimed at swaying American opinion on Israel, particularly among evangelicals and conservative communities. Whether you cheer or bristle at governments doing outreach, the American people deserve transparency about foreign influence operations and who is paying for the narratives that shape our politics.
Let’s be blunt: the cultural elites and their media allies have been waging a relentless campaign to paint Israel as the villain while ignoring the true architects of terror. Judea and Samaria are not abstract lines on a map — they are the cradle of Jewish history and the security depth that keeps America’s most steadfast ally alive in a violent neighborhood. Conservatives must stop apologizing for history and start defending the truth that underpins Western civilization.
If Washington wants to be a friend to freedom, it should back leaders who refuse to cede their holy sites and their history to international moral relativism. Ambassador Leiter’s warnings and his media tour are a clarion call for honest reporting, congressional oversight of foreign influence, and a principled American foreign policy that stands with allies and defends sovereignty.
Hardworking Americans who love liberty should side with truth over trendy narratives, stand with Israel’s right to its ancestral heartlands, and push back against any effort to rewrite reality with money and algorithms. Mark Levin gave a platform to a man fighting for the same conservative values — faith, family, and country — and patriots should answer that call by insisting our leaders do the same.
