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Seven Social Media Influencers Sharing Anti-Israel Hatred Online
People gather as smoke rises from a mobile shop in Sidon, Lebanon as Hezbollah communication devices explode across the country on Sept. 18, 2024. Photo: REUTERS/Hassan Hankir
Last week, thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies belonging to Hezbollah terrorists across Lebanon appeared to combust spontaneously, injuring thousands of Hezbollah terrorists. The targeted Israeli operation also caused a wave of fake news and misinformation being promoted by anti-Israel influencers across social media.
Seven of the influencers peddling these lies appear below.
1. Bassem Youssef is a comedian and former Egyptian TV host. In a recent post on X, he claimed that Israel is capable of detonating phones and tablets whenever and wherever they wish. This claim is entirely false, as Israel possesses no such technology. He’s also spread countless anti-Israel propaganda before and after the operation targeting Hezbollah.
And suddenly my phone , our security system , my kids tablets are time bombs that detonate at the whims of one country . You win Israel . Not a single politician or late night show talks about this ? None of that worth the news ? Nothing “funny” can come out of it ? The whole…
— Bassem Youssef (@Byoussef) September 18, 2024
2. Jackson Hinkle, an influencer who’s been removed from every social media platform except for X for promoting misinformation, posted to his 2.7 million followers the false claim that “Israel killed mostly civilians in their pager attack, and ZERO members of Hezbollah’s senior command.”.
Both Iranian state media and Hezbollah themselves have confirmed that several Hezbollah terrorists have died.
Israel killed mostly civilians in their pager attack, and ZERO members of Hezbollah’s senior command.
ISRAEL IS A TERRORIST STATE!
— Jackson Hinkle (@jacksonhinklle) September 17, 2024
3. Influencer Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl) posted on X that Israel “didn’t target Hezbollah members. They targeted everyone with a pager…”. This is fake news; only the pagers belonging to Hezbollah operatives were reported to have been affected. Her post has since appeared to be deleted.
The Zionist terrorist didn’t target Hezbollah members. They targeted everyone with a pager including doctors and nurses, killing a child. This is a nation wide terrorist attack. pic.twitter.com/9ojtlDMuHg
— Syrian Girl (@Partisangirl) September 17, 2024
4. Sarah (@sahouraxo), an influencer on X and a self-described Independent Lebanese geopolitical commentator with over 622k followers, claims, “This is an Israeli terrorist attack against Lebanon and its citizens.” A false claim: only Hezbollah operatives were targeted, not Lebanese civilians.
This is an Israeli terrorist attack against Lebanon and its citizens.
Devices exploded among ordinary civilians in streets, homes, institutions, and shops, killing 8 people, including a child, and injuring over 3,000 across the country.
This is pure, unadulterated terrorism.
— sarah (@sahouraxo) September 17, 2024
5. Daniel Haqiqatjou, founder of the antisemitic website MuslimSkeptic.com, made several false claims in a series of posts on X, where he claimed the attack targeted innocent Lebanese civilians and went on a rant accusing Israel of “flooding all the Muslim countries it trades with with “ticking time bomb products,” such as drinks, beauty products, pharmaceuticals, and appliances.
All the Zionist news outlets are spamming that the pagers belonged to “terrorists,” so that confirms that these were innocent Lebanese civilians that the Jewish state has targeted.
— Daniel Haqiqatjou (@Haqiqatjou) September 17, 2024
He also made the false claim that “No Muslim has ever committed terrorism via mass-distributed consumer goods.” Users on X were quick to fact-check this, adding the context that in 1978, Palestinian extremists claimed responsibility for distributing Israeli oranges, lemons, and grapefruit that had been tainted with mercury.
No Muslim has ever committed terrorism via mass distributed consumer goods.
This is a new type of terrorism invented and executed for the first time by the only Jewish state.
— Daniel Haqiqatjou (@Haqiqatjou) September 18, 2024
6. Nicholas Fuentes, a far-right American political commentator and live streamer known for promoting white supremacist and antisemitic views, shared this antisemitic conspiracy post to X (it, too, has since been deleted).
If you buy anything from Jews there is a small chance that they have hidden remote controlled explosives inside of it that they can detonate from Israel at any time to blow up your face, hands, or legs.
— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) September 18, 2024
7. Owen Jones, a writer and YouTuber with over 1.1 million followers on X, did not say anything overtly false but made several comments referring to this precise and targeted operation as “an obscene terrorist attack.”
Leave aside that these pagers are used by doctors and nurses.
If Hezbollah blew up the phones or pagers of IDF soldiers, whether or not on duty, inevitably killing and maiming children and bystanders – he’d denounce this as an obscene terrorist attack.pic.twitter.com/Io1fQFsOKB https://t.co/3cen505orm
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) September 17, 2024
Of course, Israel’s attack was the opposite of the terrorism directed at civilians by Hezbollah and Hamas. Unlike those two groups, Israel only targeted terrorist operatives. But these seven biased influencers will never tell you that.
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Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is seen addressing supporters, in Beirut, Lebanon. Photo: Reuters.
JNS.org – This Oct. 7 will not only be an anniversary of tears, of pure contrition, even if the memory is burning as the people of Israel live. As to how, it wasn’t at all obvious. Our whole history is made of miracles—from the splitting of the sea to escape from the Egyptians to the Inquisition to the pogroms to the thousand other genocidal attacks to which the Jews have been subjected. In every case, the results are always incredible and surprising, especially for how we have emerged active, faithful to our Torah tradition and committed to the return to Jerusalem until we made it happen.
The War of Independence in 1948 was fought by concentration-camp veterans, yet we defeated all the Arab armies, united in hatred, who marched against us. Later, in 1967, 1973 wars were won by a hair’s breadth with miraculous strokes of imagination and leaders who gave birth to ideas that people would have expected. No one would have ever bet a euro, penny or shekel on the idea that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and his entire hierarchy could be eliminated, petrifying Iran, especially since we have already reduced its other favorite proxy, Hamas, to pieces. And now we have bombed Iran’s other proxy, the Houthis, some 2,000 kilometers away, destroying the airport from which they receive their weapons and aid from the ayatollahs. The Islamic Republic’s leader, Ali Khamenei, is reportedly hiding underground, the Iraqi and Syrian Shi’ites are waiting to see if they are next, and cities controlled by Tehran are shaking.
As President Joe Biden said, it is a measure of justice, but one that Israel has undertaken in an impossible fashion, defending its citizens amid a thousand prohibitions with determination and without fear. Only in this way can a 76-year-old young state, which has been attacked from all sides, defend itself. The country’s existence is the latest chapter in the history of a people born many millennia ago in the Land of Israel, who are finally back home and defending their state.
The war is certainly not over, as Hezbollah reportedly had 100,000 fighters. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows that he must see this fight through to the end, despite the international pressure to which Israel has been subjected for nearly a year. Israel’s leadership understands that its very existence is at definitive risk if there is no “new Middle East” in the aftermath of Oct. 7.
While previous generations and Israeli leaders hoped that peace agreements would establish peace in the region, today’s leaders know that there is also a need for battle to stop those who, dominated by absurd fanatical and religious beliefs, wish to kill you. (After all, what do the Houthi rebels in Yemen have to do with the Jews and Israel?)
This is the lesson of our time—not just for Israel and the Jewish people but for everyone. The Jewish people are writing a new page in history, one in which the free world must write and fight alongside them, as it is a battle for the survival of Western ideals. Israel has eliminated the two most dangerous terrorist groups in the world—Hamas and Hezbollah—with operations that will set a precedent for decades. And it challenges Iran. I would like to hear the applause, please.
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