Going Beyond the Echo Chamber
- A pro-palestinian female Arab blogger set up a Wikipedia page for Israellycool after she became a regular listener of our podcast
- Dubai businessman Thani Al Shirawi gave David a shoutout at the Israel-Dubai conference. In the shoutout, which you can view here, Thani acknowledged their longtime friendship (predating the Abraham Accords), and spoke in defense of Zionism, which is something he learned more about through David. Thani is a staunch supporter of Israellycool and has even helped David in his fundraising efforts
- A former Palestinian Salafi radical is a huge fan of Israellycool and has chosen it as the platform to tell his story
- A Syrian refugee approached us in order to connect with Jewish people
- Legendary singer Alan Parsons shared an Israellycool post to rebuff infamous antisemite Roger Waters
- David Gilmour, Roger Waters’ former Pink Floyd bandmate, starting following Israellycool on Twitter after we posted a video documenting Waters’ history of antisemitism
- David’s connections with celebrities like Disturbed (band) lead singer David Draiman and Hollywood actor Mark Pellegrino have led to them writing for Israellycool and being interviewed for the website
- Our pieces on Israel-hating APAN President Nasser Mashni have been picked up by Sky News Australia and other mainstream media outlets in Australia, leading to his “Mr Nice Guy” persona being ripped apart
Going on the Offense
- A number of people posting antisemitic things have renounced their ways and promised to promote tolerance following Israellycool exposés on them
- “Shirley Temper” Ahed Tamimi was arrested for incitement following an Israellycool exposé of her Instagram story
- Many Jew-haters and terror supporters have been arrested, or lost their jobs, responsibilities or honors given to them thanks to Israellycool exposés, including but not limited to:
- Doctor Lara Kollab
- Rutgers University Professor Michael Chikindas
- Australian Defense Dept employee Victoria Liang
- Suhair Nafal
- Fiona Ryan
- Baseball hall of famer Johnny Bench apologized for an antisemitic “joke” following an Israellycool video of the “joke” going viral
- Infamous Jew-hater Lucas Gage repeatedly blamed Israellycool for his being swatted multiple times, being booted from Twitter, and having his social security number leaked online, even though we had nothing to do with it – all because we have exposed him and got inside his head
- Antisemitic thug Saadah Masoud, who beat up an Israel-supporter, was charged with a hate crime following Israellycool publishing his identity.
- Israellycool’s posts on antisemitic Adelaide University student newspaper editor Habibah Jaghoori led to high-profile Australian journalist Andrew Bolt covering the story, which helped put pressure on the student union to sack her as editor.
- Antisemitic rapper ‘Soul Khan’ Noah Weston abandoned his campaign for district leader of AD 46, following an Israellycool post exposing his antisemitism being sent to constituents.
Credibility
- The Simon Wiesenthal Center called for the FBI and the US Department of Homeland Security to investigate possible links between Iran and the antisemitic Mapping Project following an Israellycool post demonstrating the likely connection. Subsequently, Rep. Jack Bergman called on the Justice Department to investigate.
- In 2013, then Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon used an Israellycool rebuttal to a Palestinian video in order to create his own rebuttal video .
- Israellycool’s groundbreaking research, scoops, huge archive of materials, and diverse content has meant that larger organizations like StandWithUs, Honest Reporting, Camera, Canary Mission, Ireland-Israel Alliance, and Im Tirtzu are regularly using and building off Israellycool posts.
- Israellycool has been cited in many published books, including:
- Anti-Zionism on Campus: The University, Free Speech, and BDS (Andrew Pessin, Doron S. Ben-Atar, 2018)
- Judaism, Antisemitism, and Holocaust: Making the Connections (David Patterson, 2022)
- Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 46 (Yoram Dinstein, Jeff Lahav, 2016)
- Media Dictatorship, How Schools and Educators Can Defend Freedom of Speech (Cedrick Ngalande, 2022)
- Jihad and the West: Black Flag over Babylon (Mark Silinsky, 2016)
- Swimming Against the Current Reimagining Jewish Tradition in the Twenty-First Century. Essays in Honor of Chaim Seidler-Feller (2020)
- Israeli Discourse and the West Bank Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement (Elie Friedman, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, 2017)
- Education under attack (Brendan O’Malley, 2010)
- The Sephardim in the Holocaust: A Forgotten People (Isaac Jack Lévy, Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt, 2020)
- Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong? Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad (Richard Landes, 2022)
- A Brief and Visual History of Antisemitism (Israel B. Bitton, 2022)
Scoops
- Renowned fact-checking website Snopes has used Israellycool as a source to debunk a fake anti-Israel quote
- An Israellycool post about Ilhan Omar getting involved with the Somali government to encourage anti-Israel activity made the rounds in the Somali media, forcing the Somali government to directly address it and issue a denial.
- The West Australian newspaper apologized for a crossword puzzle containing overt anti-Israel propaganda, following an Israellycool post and subsequent reader complaints
- An Israellycool post on former Australian Foreign Minister Bob Carr accepting an invitation to speak at a fundraiser dinner in support of the so-called palestinian “Right of Return” headlined by a terror-supporter, led to Carr pulling out of the event.
- Following an Israellycool post on a ‘fake’ Miss Greece, who claimed to be boycotting the Miss Universe pageant in Israel, the official organization behind selecting Miss Greece denounced her while linking to an Israellycool post
- The Daily Mail amended an article that seemed to use the word “Zionist” in a derogatory manner, following an Israellycool post.
- Following an Israellycool post about Hollywood celebrity Rosie O’Donnell hawking an “Israel Begins Bombing Gaza Acrylic Print” based on a photo from Syria, O’Donnell removed the propaganda artwork from her store
