Eretz Nehederet satirizes Israeli “hasbara” with hip hop song

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Eretz Nehederet satirizes Israeli “hasbara” with hip hop song

Eretz Nehederet, Israel’s most popular satire show, stood proud and strong against the consensus during the Gaza military operation. While the mainstream media – both Israeli and international – kept on reporting that an estimated 90 percent of Jewish Israelis supported the operation, Eretz Nehederet stuck with an unmistakably anti-war message. And yet, the show remained as popular as ever – probably because it’s totally irreverent, dishing it out to pretty much everyone (Hamas, the IDF, the government, Members of Knesset, pop stars, the Israeli media and the foreign media) with hysterical humour.

“Throw On You Til” is a hip hop song that satirizes the foreign ministry’s less-than-successful attempts to communicate Israel’s position. Now that someone’s put in subtitles and uploaded it to YouTube, you can all enjoy it. Note the pidgin English, Israeli style, mixed with hip hop style. Brilliant.

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Gorgeous clip! Totally the style, man. For realz!

1. Adam Daniel Mezei
on January 25th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
“the foreign ministry’s less-than-successful attempts to communicate Israel’s position”…
I would tend to disagree.. It seemed to me they did an excellent job (and I’m not even being sarcastic. what the MFA/IDF was producing was immediately gobbled both by the official media and by many independent reporters and bloggers.
I think that state-sponsored ‘hasbara’ has come a long way since 06…

2. Mo-ha-med
on January 25th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Next Israeli Eurovision entry? Those Eretz Nehederet guys are really outdoing themselves.

3. Fay
on January 25th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen in a long time. Kind of reminds me of my Concordia days trying to do hasbara on campus and laughing hysterically at the MFA’s content with an “are they for real?” kind of incredulity. Anyway, this was spot-on, thanks for posting the link.

4. segacs
on January 26th, 2009 at 7:27 pm
This was hilarious – like segacs, it reminded me of the more ridiculous aspects of all the hasbara efforts I’ve been involved in.

But, my favorite Eretz Nehederet skit has to be the one with the BBC correspondent with the spot-on accent (and arrogance).

5. Raeefa
on January 26th, 2009 at 8:47 pm
The polls that indicated 78% and 90% support for Operation Cast Lead – are you certain which populations were addressed? (i.e: that the 90% figure corresponds to the Jewish population exclusively).

7. Daniel
on January 27th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

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