Agitprop and atrocity imagery

A guide to Islamist slop

Here’s a post by ‘Syrian Girl’ (real name Maram Susli) that received 172,000 ‘likes’ in under 24 hours on Twitter/X. It reads: ‘Israel shot a little girl in front of her brother while she was collecting water’, which is a lie. In reality, the child in the photo, Ruwaida Saleh, was shot by the Houthis—a slave-owning jihadist movement whose motto is ‘God is great, Death to America, Death to Israel, Curse on the Jews, Victory to Islam’—in Yemen in 2020 (see here, and the second screenshot below).

A typical and deliberately misleading post by Maram Susli, a Syrian Muslim whose family migrated to Australia. She now spends her time spreading lies to promote jihadists who hate non-Muslims. So enriching!

The same image being fact checked in 2023

In other words, this nightmarish photo really proves the exact opposite of what’s being claimed, namely that groups pro-Pal agitators support are committing grave war crimes, not Israel.

Those agitators know this, of course, but couldn’t care less. Indeed, they’re entirely happy to use images of kids murdered by their own side to demonise Israel for fighting against jihadist death cults. Damaging Israel by any means and bolstering brutal theocratic regimes that oppose Israel are their sole objectives. These take precedence over truth, honesty, or the wellbeing of the civilians they claim to care so much about (after all, their own social media posts prove that the militias they back kill civilians, including unarmed children).

It’s all so totally third-world. And Westerners fall for it! And not just Westerners of the anti-civilisational woke and braindead liberal varieties, either. A large and vocal swathe of the right is increasingly being captured by Islamist dogma, too (for more on that, see my notes here and here, and my essay here).

There are so many examples of this stuff I don’t know where to start. There was the time pro-Pal accounts raged about Israelis ‘looting Palestinian scooters’, when what the footage actually showed was Israeli soldiers peacefully retrieving scooters Palestinians had stolen.

Or, on a more consequential level, how about when Hamas and its army of online fanboys claimed Israel had massacred hundreds of people in a hospital bombing? The BBC, countless other mainstream media outlets, hundreds of celebrity douchebags and millions of Islamo-bots massively amplified the story. Angry crowds took to the streets to rage against ‘Zionists’. There was widespread outrage. And then it turned out the rocket that hit the hospital was fired by…Palestinians.

Note to reader: This never happened. But don’t let that stop you from firebombing a few synagogues in retaliation.

Remember when UN experts (read: activists) claimed 14,000 Gazan children would die within 48 hours? It went ultra-viral, made headlines around the world, and was literally just completely made up.

And let’s not forget this picture of a Jewish man shouting at a Muslim woman, which is always doing the rounds. It’s held up as proof of racist Jewish treatment of innocent Muslims, but is in fact a decontextualised still taken from a video which shows the woman initiating the confrontation by snatching his prayer book out of his hands.

I could fill up hundreds of articles by simply listing examples here (and other people have done, to their credit), but you get the point.

For pure comedic value though, I couldn’t leave out this one:

This was meant to be a shorter piece rather than an essay, so I’ll keep the conclusion brief:

Islamists who hate the West, hate Jews, and don’t bat an eyelid about straight-up lying to further their political and religious objectives are waging a shameless, constant and relentless propaganda campaign. And to a significant extent, it’s working. The result is that public discourse, and socio-political life more broadly, are being corrupted.

Stop falling for it. In the long term, it won’t only be Jews who suffer the consequences.

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