One of the past statements of Rep Ilhan Omar (D-MN) used to twist political disagreement with her views into allegations of prejudice against Jews (prejudice-baiting) was a November 2012 tweet that claimed Israel has "hypnotized the world." The tweet was posted during Israel's Pillar of Cloud/Defense war on Gaza.
During the same war the Israeli paper Haaretz published an article about how the National Information Directorate in the Prime Minister's office, the Information Ministry, the Foreign Ministry, the IDF Spokesman Unit tried to put a positive 'spin' on combat operations. The article was called "The PR Policy - 'civilizing' the operation."
Since 2000 getting 'pro-Israel' narrative more accepted by more people more quickly than the the Palestinian narrative, to advance Israel's narrative at Palestinians' expense, has been how "Israel has hypnotized the world."
Mekel insisted that despite criticism, Israel has a clear message, “but it is not a one-line sound bite like the Palestinians have.”
No wonder the backlash and prejudice-baiting (twisting political disagreement into accusations of religious bigotry) was so strong. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) was right on substance of what she posted while wrong on style of how she 'chose her words.' Or maybe Rep Omar was ironically correct in word choice by 'coining' a 'sound bite' phrase.
