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Meet the Londoner defending Israel on the cyber frontlines as an IDF commander

Staff Sergeant Benjamin Lee told the JC about his experiences defending Israel online, including during the May 2021 Israel-Hamas war

June 23, 2022 10:03
Benjamin Lee IDF
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A London graduate has told the JC how he is leading the defence of Israel against the “TikTok intifada” as an IDF commander on the cyber frontlines.

Staff Sergeant Benjamin Lee has 20 soldiers under his command running the IDF’s social media accounts in four languages on everywhere from Twitter to TikTok, and Facebook to LinkedIn, with millions of followers around the world.

Any IDF content that the public sees on social media is from his team.

In an exclusive interview, Lee described the daily battle that he and his troops are fighting: “We’re very, very aware of the scale of anti-Israel rhetoric and vitriol that there is online, but we’re still here, we’re still fighting. We’ve got that spirit which I think has carried the Jewish people through many travails and many difficult periods, and is at the heart of what it means to be Israeli as well.

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