Days after the Knesset elections, a funded, nearly anonymous online ad campaign began running, seeking to glorify Ra’am party chairman Mansour Abbas and present him in a positive light compared to right-wing Knesset members. According to information obtained by Channel 14, the “Blue and White Future” organization—the same group behind the Kaplan protests —funds the campaign.
The campaign seeks to legitimize and promote a coalition with the Ra’am party through ads that portray Mansour Abbas as wonderful in contrast to members of the coalition parties. The campaign doesn’t just whitewash Mansour Abbas—it operates on his behalf and in his service like a public relations machine.
This is an almost completely anonymous campaign, making it very difficult to trace its funding source. But it turns out that the entity paying for this campaign is the same organization behind the Kaplan protests, now operating as a PR factory for Mansour Abbas. We reached out to attorney Gilad Sher of the “Blue and White Future” organization, but he did not respond.