How frequently do you message your favorite AI chatbot to answer a quick question? Do you still trust its responses? In its early stages, this technology made glaring errors which stimulated a healthy amount of skepticism. But since evolving past simple arithmetic errors, this tool has become an almost, ubiquitously trusted source. However if you look closer, the errors remain; they are just less conspicuous. This has led to a situation where, similar to Wikipedia, AI platforms have become a new front for the informational war against Israel and Jewish identity.
A little background on me: I was driven by a deep curiosity about the Jewish State and by exposure to manipulative anti-Israel bias in mainstream media. Through my time with Club Z, I learned the truth behind many of these false narratives and the real history of Israel. That experience left me wanting to explore these complex historical topics even further.
When I would ask ChatGPT to tell me more about what I had just learned, the information didn’t match. I was hearing two clashing narratives.
Ask most AI models today to explain the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and you’ll likely get a version of history that strips away context, erases Jewish indigeneity, and portrays Israel as the aggressor in every given situation. It doesn’t matter that these narratives are historically incomplete or factually distorted; AI presents them as objective truth.
According to a recent ADL report, leading AI models, like Meta’s LLaMA and ChatGPT, regularly return antisemitic and antizionist responses. Some are overt, others hide behind polished language, such as overusing terms like “apartheid,” demonization of Zionism, or one-sided accounts of regional violence that ignore centuries of persecution against Jews in the region.
For instance, when you ask ChatGPT if there is a genocide in Gaza, it generates a “yes” answer in reasonable-sounding language while only offering information from untrustworthy and barely includes an opposing perspective. Clearly, AI doesn’t just replicate these tropes, it amplifies them.
The problem is rooted in where these models get their information: the internet, which historically hasn’t been favorable to Zionism. From social media echo chambers to biased reporting and conspiracy-driven forums, Israel has been consistently vilified online.
On top of that, AI developers make subjective choices about which sources the technology should trust, so the bias doesn’t just come from the data but from how that data is handled.
It gets worse.
AI systems are also shaped by user feedback, so if enough people repeatedly demand that it accept anti-Israel misinformation, the model starts to treat those lies as truth. This society-driven training data means that misinformation can be reinforced through the sheer volume of ideological beliefs. If enough people demand the AI accept that Israel is a colonial oppressor, it begins to “learn” and repeat that narrative, regardless of its accuracy.
This technology is quickly becoming the primary entry point for research on any subject across education levels and generational divides. If we don’t challenge the way AI models portray Israel and Zionism, we will have passively endorsed a potent new form of antisemitic propaganda. Though this time, it’s clean, coded, and treated as unquestionable fact.
So what can we do to stop this? First, users must understand that AI is not a perfectly trustworthy source. Every time you encounter a biased or false response from an AI model, don’t just scroll past it. Document it. Challenge the misinformation by providing accurate context or reputable sources. If the platform allows, correct the model’s response directly and always report these cases to the platform moderators.
We must also advocate for change from the source. AI developers, tech companies, and policymakers need to hear from us. Demand transparency in training data, bias mitigation policies, and user reporting tools that actually work.
The more we engage with AI critically and hold it accountable, the better chance we have of ensuring it evolves into a tool for truth.
We cannot allow the most cutting-edge tools of our generation to become echo chambers for the oldest prejudice in the book. The world deserves the truth about Israel, and Jews deserve better from the technology we rely on.
