Ella Kenan: yes, that’s how all the lies started

Ersin Çelik
Ersin Çelik
00:16, 25/04/2026, Saturday • Yeni Şafak News Center
Ella Kenan: yes, that’s how all the lies started
Ella Kenan: yes, that’s how all the lies started

Her name is Ella Kenan.

She is a 38-year-old woman.

No one knows how many innocent people’s bloodshed her narratives have legitimized so far.

But she herself says she has turned the minds of billions of people upside down.

What is certain is that Ella has either justified or obscured massacres.

By the way, she is a soldier.

Naturally, she doesn’t wear a uniform or carry a weapon.

Yet she commands a digital army capable of activating millions of screens simultaneously.

She herself describes her role and what she does.

Down to how they take down “those they hit”…

I am talking about former Israeli military intelligence personnel Ella Kenan.

A video of a speech she gave has been appearing before us for days.

She says: “We work with communities of over 60,000 people worldwide who make our content go viral, who also report antisemitic discourse and fake news to get them removed, and who perform other actions that serve our narrative. We also produce content for non-Jewish influencers who collaborate with us. I proposed setting the agenda instead of reacting to events. (…) I presented the ‘Hamas is ISIS’ narrative and the reasons for it; I gave a short basic training on how we can generate interest and momentum around this narrative. And it worked. Within three or four days, it became the most watched narrative on the internet. It remained viral worldwide for about three months. It even made it into Biden’s speech. Yes, that’s how it all started.”

Loyal to her state and religion, confident and with great self-assurance, Ella Kenan openly explains how they wage war on social media.

Incidentally, perhaps due to power intoxication, she also lets slip how they produced a perception worldwide using ISIS.

She boasts about it, because she says they were successful.

And that is precisely the point I want to draw attention to.

Moreover, this discourse was so successful that, while the genocide continued, a significant segment in Turkey – those who for months began every sentence with “but Hamas” – kept shaping social media.

We cannot know which of them worked directly for Ella Kenan.

But it is as clear as day that the “Hamas is ISIS” narrative was systematically spread in our country as well.

Therefore, no one can claim that certain active social media users in Türkiye do not serve in Ella Kenan’s troll army.

Ella Kenan’s own words, “we also produce content for non-Jewish influencers,” already strengthen this assumption.

There is an organization whose name comes from the concept “Bright Mind.”

Some Israel-based sources state that Bright Mind was founded after October 7, 2023, for the purpose of organized content production and dissemination on social media.

And Ella Kenan is the founder of Bright Mind.

They have a single goal, which they themselves declare: “To strengthen pro-Israeli discourse.”

What is it that they do?


Actually, the method is simple but the impact is huge: they create ready-made content packages, produce slogans and visuals, and then simultaneously circulate them through thousands of accounts.


Thus, a message – even if it appears as a natural discussion – can quickly be brought onto the global agenda according to Israel’s interests and as a result of coordinated dissemination.


There is another detail in Ella Kenan’s statements that seems very normal to her but feels like a confession to us: she says that more than a thousand entries on Wikipedia have been “distorted, deleted, or changed” in favor of Palestine.


Kenan claims that the founder of Wikipedia supported them in carrying out this process.


I say “claims,” but the world’s “Free Encyclopedia,” Wikipedia, did not respond to Ella Kenan.


What could they even say? If they said, “We did not work for Israel,” their donations would be cut. If they said, “We did work,” they would be declaring that they have lost their freedom.


Frankly, it no longer matters whether they make a statement.


Ever since Netanyahu defined social media as a “battlefield,” Israel has started playing for real.


They seized TikTok while it was in China’s hands.


In the last few months, the platform has removed millions of pieces of content supporting Palestine, and now the phase of shutting down major accounts has begun.


It appears that TikTok, under heavy political pressure and algorithmic interference, will soon become Israel’s official hasbara.


Ella Kenan and her ilk are actually telling us something.


We are an open target.


We are under attack from the Eighth Front, and every day we are being captured a little more helplessly.


Meanwhile, our screen time has long surpassed eight hours.


Even if no bombs fall on us for now, it is certain that we will be struck by a slogan, by a lie.


I wonder, will we ever realize it?

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