I have added a few author notes to update some of the text. The above quotation, in passion and paranoic ring could have come from the pen of anyone of our local hatemongers, whose rhetoric we have come to know well over the past half century. Secondly, this propaganda apparatus, sanctioned, as it is, by duly recognized governments which together form an influential political power bloc, has lent these local anti-Semitic efforts the aura of respectability.
Arab propaganda constitutes a formidable threat to the Jewish people.
This essay will focus upon the Arab propaganda effort in this country first by examining its history, institutions arid aspirations, and secondly, by analyzing the techniques and themes that it uses to achieve its goals. Finally, we will attempt to measure the effectiveness of this endeavor. Ironically, the initial inspiration for this effort was stimulated by the success of the Zionist movement in this area. For while the Arabs used political obstructionism and violence to oppose the creation of a Jewish State, the Zionists built up a propaganda apparatus that succeeded in convincing the majority of Americans of the efficacy and rightness of a Jewish State in Palestine. The Zionist diplomatic victory in securing the UN partition of Palestine 1 convinced the Arabs of the necessity of attracting favorable public opinion.