Following his poorly-received rant before a nearly-empty auditorium during the UN General Assembly session, where most of the world was seeking an end to the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu retreated to a more friendly venue. Speaking to pro-Israel “influencers” at Israel’s New York City consulate, aware of their concerns over the dramatic loss of support for Israel among Americans, he smugly presented a strategy to counter what he described as a “convergence of antisemitism and anti-Zionism online.”
According to a report on the gathering in New York-based weekly newspaper The Jewish Voice on Sept. 28, Netanyahu called on them to fight a war on a “new existential battleground,” where Americans are “scrolling TikTok, Instagram and X.” The article in The Jewish Voice said that he described this new field of battle as one where “hostile narratives, spread at lightning speed online,” were undermining Israel’s legitimacy.
Calling on them to become “digital soldiers,” he continued: “Networks are not just for entertainment. They are instruments of truth or lies. Our enemies know this—and we must know it too.” He continued, identifying the pending takeover of TikTok by a consortium led by Oracle CEO and Zionist billionaire Larry Ellison—supported by Ellison’s close friend Donald Trump—as “consequential,” as a “most important purchase.” He concluded by implying that the next target for takeover could be Elon Musk’s “X.”
Oracle, a database software company, is flush with cash resulting from a huge demand for AI contracts. It is at the center of a tech boom, with over $100 billion in contracts from OpenAI, Nvidia, Meta, and other big tech firms. Ellison is using this flood of cash to expand his empire to entertainment and media, beginning with providing funds to his son’s Skydance Media, to purchase Paramount Global, which is the parent company of legacy media network CBS. With the Ellison family backing, Paramount has made a $70 billion-plus bid to purchase Warner Brothers Discovery, a major player in the entertainment sector.
As for TikTok, an executive order signed by President Donald Trump allowed TikTok to remain in the U.S., as long as a U.S. firm took over its U.S. operations, opening the door to Ellison and Oracle. A hyped-up hysteria over metadata of U.S. users being turned over to Beijing if TikTok remained a Chinese firm led to the selloff to Oracle. Under this new deal, Oracle will handle TikTok U.S.’s security operations, while also controlling cloud computing services for the newly formed company—meaning that these security operations will now be in the hands of a firm committed to protecting Israel from the inconvenient truths which have undermined the Netanyahu criminal regime, allowing Ellison and his tech bros to consolidate control over what can be reported on both social and legacy media.
