"A glaring blind spot in Europe’s approach to information security...Germany illustrates the problem particularly clearly."
Wolfram Lacher
Same tricks, softer words: How EU officials downplay Israeli influence campaigns
<div><img width="600" height="400" src="https://static.euobserver.com/2025/09/14b429df-bc7c-4396-b24c-bdfffa17120d-7a70d898-b682-4e2f-8b78-7f267f696af3-efd3c150-ff8c-4656-bcb5-28d64a150dce-600x400.jpeg" class="attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail wp-post-image" alt="" decoding="async" fetchpriority="high" srcset="https://static.euobserver.com/2025/09/14b429df-bc7c-4396-b24c-bdfffa17120d-7a70d898-b682-4e2f-8b78-7f267f696af3-efd3c150-ff8c-4656-bcb5-28d64a150dce-600x400.jpeg 600w, https://static.euobserver.com/2025/09/14b429df-bc7c-4396-b24c-bdfffa17120d-7a70d898-b682-4e2f-8b78-7f267f696af3-efd3c150-ff8c-4656-bcb5-28d64a150dce-1200x800.jpeg 1200w, https://static.euobserver.com/2025/09/14b429df-bc7c-4396-b24c-bdfffa17120d-7a70d898-b682-4e2f-8b78-7f267f696af3-efd3c150-ff8c-4656-bcb5-28d64a150dce-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https://static.euobserver.com/2025/09/14b429df-bc7c-4396-b24c-bdfffa17120d-7a70d898-b682-4e2f-8b78-7f267f696af3-efd3c150-ff8c-4656-bcb5-28d64a150dce-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w" sizes="(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px" /></div>When investigations describe fake personas, disguised information platforms, military-linked influence operations, or outsourced political targeting linked to Israeli actors, Europe usually reaches for a different vocabulary than it does when Russia or China do the same thing.
