Gevald campaign

Poster attacking the Democratic Party ticket in the run-up to the 1864 United States presidential election, containing much of the scaremongering tactics typical of Gevald campaigns.

A Gevald campaign (Hebrew: קמפיין געוואלד) is a partisan get out the vote campaign[1] aimed at convincing voters that voting for a certain candidate or party is the only way to avert a certain catastrophe.

The term was coined in 2007 by Israeli pundit Ya'akov Ma'or, in his book "What have we learned from Arthur Finkelstein". It is derived from "gevalt", a German expression of alarm.[2]

  1. ^ "Buzaglo and the white tribe (in Hebrew)".
  2. ^ "Netanyahu's gevald campaign has already begun". The Jerusalem Post. November 18, 2018.