My name is Rabbi Moshe Rudner and this is my story:
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Slick Hasbara vs Sincere Hasbara
I posted the following video and received a publishable comment. You might not be able to see it because Google hides many comments even if I allow them through.
Egypt is a special land full of wonderful people.
What follows is A raw, unscripted conversation between an American Rabbi and a Gazan doctor in Egypt during wartime.
In 1999 I was ordained by Rabbi Noach Weinberg to bring peace to the world through representing Jews and Judaism transparently, publicly, internationally.
I was the founding rabbinic ambassador of what came to be called Hasbara.
After being flown around the world for conversations in various countries with tens of thousands of people, the well-moneyed elite stepped in. I was told that my sincerity was accomplishing wonders, but now I would have to be "sincere" using their slogans and propaganda points.
I had become too successful to be able to continue without command from above.
I resigned immediately and the word Hasbara, and honesty, and the state of the world itself has deteriorated to the state it is today.
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Without institutional support I was blocked, stymied, and starved at every turn.
But I kept my charge.
After the October 7th massacre I attempted to reach my one-time disciples and secretaries. They were now in charge of multi-million dollar budgets and controlled by the apparatus of the Israeli government. Surely they could see that their methods would not only fail to bring the brotherhood of humanity, but they had even failed to assure security.
I reached out privately, publicly, transparently and even in public videos when everything else failed.
And I was ghosted.
So, in the midst of murderous tribal hatreds, tortures, kidnappings, and rivers of blood and tears I moved to Egypt.
Still shut into silence by the powers that be, I have been doing the best I can to prove to one and all that we are all simply humans, and that, given the choice, we prefer not to either harm or to be harmed, but rather to enjoy each other.
That's the context of this bit of conversation.
The cameraman did his best but nonetheless left the visuals wanting.
This 30 minute piece of conversation begins when a passerby visibly shaking in anger at the sight of a Jew speaking in friendly terms with Egyptians was invited to join the conversation.
After the battery went out our conversation continued for many more hours. If only we had the world's attention the wars might already be over today.
His name is Dr. Mohammed Hejji and here is the article I wrote and which he gratefully thanked me for.
Here is that article in my own words, in Hebrew:
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