Israel is recruiting an army of bloggers to combat Anti-Zionist web sites.
"During the war, we looked for a way to contribute to the effort," the ministry's director general, Erez Halfon, told Haaretz. "We turned to this enormous reservoir of more than a million people with a second mother tongue." Other languages in which bloggers are sought include Russian and Portuguese.
Halfon said volunteers who send the Absorption Ministry their contact details by e-mail, at media@moia.gov.il, will be registered according to language, and then passed on to the Foreign Ministry's media department, whose personnel will direct the volunteers to Web sites deemed "problematic."
Within 30 minutes of announcing the program, which was approved by the Foreign Ministry on Sunday, five volunteers were already in touch, Halfon said.
I guess we can know what to look out for in the coming months. The website this story is on has the Blue and Orange commonly associated with Zionism, as does Blogspot. Just about every day that I went to work last year I saw the same signs, with the same color schemes and symbols. I saw it first-hand, and it's not hard to miss in the least. You see them almost exactly where you would expect to see them. It's hard to do anything concerning average life knowing that these symbols are seemingly owned by something big and mean.
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