Posted on 10/17/2023 1:02:56 PM PDT by Red Badger
Claimed victims in image were killed by IDF, but they really were victims of Syria’s dictator
Ilhan Omar, the Democrat representative in Congress for a suburban district in Minneapolis, long has insisted that “disinformation” be struck from the conversations Americans have about issues.
Apparently that would be, however, only “disinformation” with which she disagrees.
That’s apparent because she was caught over the weekend spreading “disinformation,” or a lie, about the war that the Hamas terrorists launched against Israel a week ago.
In that initial assault, the terrorists broke into Israeli territory and killed an estimated 1,200 individuals immediately, including babies that were decapitated, according to IDF reports.
Omar’s response to the massacre by Hamas terrorists killing innocent civilian noncombatants, including children, was to post an image of children, dead, wrapped in white, lying on the floor.
She reposted the image from Sulaiman Ahmed, who said “CHILD GENOCIDE IN PALESTINE,” and, “614 Palestinian children murdered by the Israeli IOF Forces.”
Only it wasn’t. The image was of children who were killed, but not by the IDF. These were children killed by a sarin nerve gas attack in 2013 by Bashar al-Assaid, the dictator of Syria.
Constitutional expert and popular legal commentator Jonathan Turley noted that Omar “has long been a leading voice among Democrats calling for censorship and speech controls in the name of combating disinformation.”
However, her offense was the same, “posting a picture purportedly showing children killed by Israeli forces. In reality, it was a picture of victims of a 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta, Syria.”
He explained, “The incident should, but is unlikely to, prompt Omar and fellow Democrats to reconsider their push for censorship and other anti-free speech measures. Such false imagery was quickly and effectively addressed in this incident without the need for bans and speech regulation.”
He explained, “The false image was quickly identified and challenged, including in a community note from X, formerly known as Twitter. There are obviously children who have been and will be killed in Gaza. However, many will knowingly spread false images or claims as part of that debate. Whoever posted this picture had to have known that it was not showing children from Gaza.”
He explained, “The incident shows that free speech allows for its own disinfectant. Bad speech is countered by better speech as the public judges what is true and what is false.”
The New York Post, which posted Omar’s propaganda image, said her “gruesome and false X post Saturday came after her fellow Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , D-N.Y., warned the public about the ‘incredibly high’ level of ‘misinformation in all directions’ on the platform concerning the Israel-Hamas war.”
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee called Omar out, with, “@IlhanMN is spreading dangerous misinformation, blaming Israel for killing kids who were killed by Assad in Syria 10 years ago.”
Ilhan. Was your marriage to your brother consummated? Did he stick his wee wee in your hoo hoo and fill it up with uh oh juice?
Sobbing socialist shrew photo....
Aide: Hey, cameras 3 and 4 weren’t on. Got problems 1-2 with some kind of static messing them up. Go back 100 feet, walk forward, act shocked and then sob again. We’ll give it another try. Do you need more glycerine eye drops?”
AOC: No, I’m good.
Note: For movies requiring actors to fake tears they used glycerine drops to create them. Child actor Jackie Cooper in the 1940s was told to pretend his dog had just been run over and killed. Worked for him.
That’s why it’s so easy for HAMAS to win the propaganda war... Most of the leftist propagandist who work for the press support them, so every report is tainted against Israel.
Maybe we deserve to be conquered by Muslims if we are tolerating all of this crap in the West.
Jackie Cooper was this kid in old movies....
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/licensed-image?q=tbn:ANd9GcSJfwHHQK3Y_dWnav3D2Ahp8poKXx_r0zuOL9QoNqZHSqi9HsheSR1mYLy7bL6dBV58BB9Udl2UiD8IEUw
She violated USA laws to even get here.
WHY cannot she be deported???
Yes. Trump47 should charge her with the brother marriage thing and have her citizenship revoked for the fraud and send her back to the hellhole she craves.
Years ago there was that bearded Palestinian dude in the blue helmet who seemed to be every where carrying a ‘’dead baby’’ around all over the place.
In war truth is so precious a commodity that it must be attended by a body guard of lies’’.- Winston Churchill.
Sarin attack in a hellhole...
Yeah. That’s him. I thought it was a blue helmet.
Anyway the guys mug was all over the place.
Evil Kunt. Sensor, and jam her out.
Now he is almost impossible to find in the search engine. I think he’s been scrubbed.
Remember college campuses during the Viet Nam War, where the then students accused our Troops of being baby killers? It's ironic the the Democrats are now supporting real baby killers.
She’s a Muslim , 5 is old enough................
The dead kids are the responsibility of Hamas mothers offering families as human shields
The mothers are not innocent and are culpable
The very same.
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