Bellingcat: NEW: @koltai.bsky.social identifies a trend of footage and images from Syria’s civil war being recycled and misattributed to the current Israel-Hamas conflict. We found deniers of chemical weapon attacks in Syria sharing false claims about Israel and Gaza. www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/12...

NEW: @koltai.bsky.social identifies a trend of footage and images from Syria’s civil war being recycled and misattributed to the current Israel-Hamas conflict. We found deniers of chemical weapon attacks in Syria sharing false claims about Israel and Gaza. www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/12...

Images of Syrian Civil War Take on a Second Life in Gaza Conflict - bellingcatwww.bellingcat.com Bellingcat has also identified a trend of footage and images from Syria’s long-running civil war being recycled and misattributed to the current Israel-Hamas conflict.

There is ample evidence of the use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime against civilians, from witness testimony to open-source material. In 2022, a German court convicted an Assad regime official of ‘crimes against humanity.’

On Nov 15, French authorities issued an arrest warrant for Assad over his armed forces’ use of chemical weapons. Last week, Syrian rights groups and legal experts launched a new justice initiative at The Hague.

A double erasure is occurring. Using footage from another war, rather than the real evidence of civilian suffering in Gaza today, obscures the plight of victims in the Syrian conflict and potentially allows bad-faith actors to deny the suffering of Palestinian civilians.

As the current conflict between Hamas and the Israel Defense Forces has played out, prominent pro-Palestine and pro-Israel accounts have shared misrepresented footage, flooding platforms and distracting from the atrocities in Gaza.

One such influencer is the far-right US personality Jackson Hinkle, who has been popular on X during the Israel-Hamas war. On October 10, Hinkle claimed that “Assad didn’t gas his own people”, and on October 21, he shared a picture of Assad with a caption calling him a “hero”.

Hinkel has made several posts using the conflict in Gaza to advertise his social media presence, such as posting on X about how users need to pay for a subscription to his content to “expose Zionist lies.”

I mean, Hinkle said, Adolf H was gay and transgender, imagine that, and people take him serious. youtu.be/RCM9v1e3ljo?...

Jackson Hinkle Tries to Convince Sneako Hitler is Gayyoutu.be Dylan Burns reports on the return of Alex Jones Vtuber and a conversation between Sneako and Wacksmon PlinklePlease Subscribe, Like, Comment & Share the vide...

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