On December 7th, 2023, Jack Paulson and Lee Fang released WhatsApp and Zoom leaks showing individuals tied to J Ventures willfully consipring to act and causing others to act in the United States as agents of a foreign principal, the Israel Defence Force to wit, without prior registration under the United States Foreign Agent Registration Act.

We have obtained access to thousands of the group’s WhatsApp messages dating back to mid-October, and an intricate spreadsheet where group participants request and claim tasks ranging from social media responses to IDF support shipments. Separately, we have viewed a number of video meetings charting best practices for “hasbara” –-- an Israeli term of art for “public diplomacy” whose detractors see it as a euphemism for propaganda -- that offer a window into Israel’s public-relations war that is not limited to the tech sector. Inside the Pro-Israel Information War. Jack Paulson and Lee Fang^1