Clandestine And Clumsy: Israel Botches Influence Operation Targeting Americans

Are you a prominent African American lawmaker on Capitol Hill? Are your social media posts met with vaguely robotic exhortations to support the Israeli military? If so, you might've been the target of a cheap, embarrassingly shoddy influence campaign paid for by the Israeli government. You can call The White House and complain, but it won't likely do any good. According to The New York Times, Israel's Ministry of Diaspora Affairs -- which, as its name suggests, attempts to consociate Jews livi