--- title: '''What would you do?'' Israel Defense Forces infographic' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/what-would-you-do-idf-infographic-2012/ description: 'An Israel Defense Forces social-media graphic from Operation Pillar of Defense: rockets fall across Sydney, New York, London and Paris landmarks beneath…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [!['What would you do?' Israel Defense Forces infographic](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/what-would-you-do-idf-infographic-2012.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/what-would-you-do-idf-infographic-2012.jpg) # 'What would you do?' Israel Defense Forces infographic An Israel Defense Forces social-media graphic from Operation Pillar of Defense: rockets fall across Sydney, New York, London and Paris landmarks beneath the question 'What would you do?', with a caption asking viewers to share it if they agree Israel has a right to self-defense. The tell is the staging: the viewer's own city is placed under fire and agreement is turned into a shareable act. - **Date:** November 19, 2012 - **Period:** [Contemporary](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=contemporary) - **Made by:** Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's Unit - **Region:** [Middle East and North Africa](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=middle-east-north-africa) - **Country:** [Israel](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=israel) - **Medium:** [Digital posts](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=digital-post) - **Issuer type:** [Military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=military) - **Regime:** [Netanyahu Government](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=netanyahu-government) - **Leader:** [Benjamin Netanyahu](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=benjamin-netanyahu) - **Audience:** [Foreign public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=foreign-public) - **Purpose:** [Persuade or win support](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=persuade-support) - **Themes:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military), [Media and information](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=media-information) - **Event:** [Operation Pillar of Defense](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=operation-pillar-of-defense) - **Techniques:** [Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_Infographics,_What_Would_You_Do.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** CC BY-SA 3.0 (IDF Spokesperson's Unit, permission confirmed via Wikimedia VRT) Israel Defense Forces Spokesperson's Unit, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` WHAT WOULD YOU DO? SYDNEY NEW YORK LONDON PARIS SHARE THIS IF YOU AGREE THAT ISRAEL HAS THE RIGHT TO SELF DEFENSE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ``` The Israel Defense Forces emblem beside the sponsor name is a graphic, not transcribed. [← 'Mission Accomplished' banner on USS Abraham Lincoln](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/mission-accomplished-banner-2003/) ['No Way. You will not make Australia home' poster →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/no-way-operation-sovereign-borders-2013/) ## Using the same techniques - [Der Warner (broadsheet lampoon on the Jesuits after Breitenfeld and Rain)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/der-warner-anti-jesuit-broadsheet-1632/) (1632 · Scapegoating, Fear appeal) - [Sans-Culottes, feeding Europe with the Bread of Liberty (James Gillray)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sans-culottes-bread-of-liberty-gillray-1793/) (Jan 12, 1793 · Fear appeal, Name-calling) - [豬叫取胎圖 (Picture of the Pig Sect Extracting a Foetus), from Reverently Obeying the Sacred Edict: A Complete Picture Gallery to Repel Heterodoxy](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/pig-cry-taking-foetus-hunan-1891/) (1891 · Fear appeal, Name-calling). Content note: Colour woodblock caricature depicting foreign Christians as members of a 'pig' sect and showing them cutting a foetus from a woman; violence against a woman and derision of Christianity. - [The Radical Programme, No. 4: Dismemberment of the Empire (Gladstone & Co. auction India), St Stephen's Review Presentation Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/radical-programme-selling-india-st-stephens-review-1891/) (Oct 31, 1891 · Fear appeal, Scapegoating) - [En posesión de su presa (In Possession of Its Prey)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/en-posesion-de-su-presa-el-diablo-1894/) (Jun 2, 1894 · Fear appeal) - [劉永福懸賞抓拿日本奸細告示 (Liu Yongfu's notice offering rewards for capturing Japanese spies), Taiwan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/liu-yongfu-reward-notice-japanese-spies-1895/) (1895 · Name-calling, Fear appeal) - [Sífilis: Curación absoluta y radical en el Sanatorio para sifilíticos (Syphilis: Absolute and Radical Cure at the Sanatorium for Syphilitics)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/sifilis-sanatorio-abreu-1900/) (1900 · Fear appeal) - [時局圖 (The Situation in the Far East / Map of the Present Situation), newer version with English labels](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/situation-in-far-east-tse-tsan-tai-1900/) (1900 · Fear appeal)