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A Jewish policeman killed a Palestinian boy during protests in Jerusalem, Romanian conspiracy theorists claim.
NEWS: “MAKE IT GO VIRAL, FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO KNOW!!!!!
This is unacceptable.
An Israeli policeman strangles to death a Palestinian child, during Sunday’s protest at the US Embassy in Jerusalem
The innocent boy even read the Kalima Shahadad before he died.
Despite numerous attempts by groups to upload this video to Youtube, it has been consistently removed and deleted from Google, Facebook and YouTube.
Make this video go viral so it hits all the media!”
NARRATIVE: Jerusalem police kill Palestinian children that are protesting against the Israeli occupation.
The child was not killed, the policeman was not Jewish, the video was not filmed in Israel
WHY THE NARRATIVE IS FALSE: The incriminating video originally appeared in October 2023, days after the conflict between Israel and Hamas erupted following the Palestinian group's terrorist attack, claiming that the filmed incident took place during a Palestinian protest in in front of the US embassy in Jerusalem.
Allegedly, the incident was filmed on October 23, 2024. However, on that day, there was no massive Palestinian protest in Israel in front of the American embassy in Jerusalem, it was just a protest in Tel Aviv, by the relatives of the Hamas hostages in Gaza, who called on the government to take advantage of the killing of the group’s head, Yahya Sinwar, to secure the release of their loved ones.
In reality, the video shows a security guard forcefully restraining a child caught on the train without a ticket, on the platform of the Malmö station, in Sweden. The recording dates from February 2015, and the child was not killed, contrary to the statements accompanying it. The case was fully covered by the media at the time , and the Swedish authorities opened an investigation against the two security agents who detained the 9-year-old child and his friend. Those who claim that the incident took place in Israel rely on the fact, never confirmed since, that there were witnesses who claimed that the boy was heard praying in Arabic.
The incriminated video is still circulating on social media along with another, about which they claim the same thing, namely that it shows the killing of a Palestinian young man by an overzealous Jewish policeman. In reality, the latter shows the arresting of a man for vandalism, in 2016, in Valparaiso, Chile.
Although in both cases the brutality and disproportionality of the interventions can be questioned, they did not take place in Israel.
The source of the narrative, a deeply anti-Semitic extremist channel
CONTEXT: Anti-Semitism saw a strong resurgence with the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza, mobilizing extremists in numerous states, including Romania, a country with a well-known past of anti-Jewish militancy. The current narrative aligns with the anti-Semitic trend that claims that the Jews are pursuing world domination, based on a bigger plan that includes actions such as banning Christianity and banning freedom of expression , but are also planning concrete actions, such as the colonization of eastern Romania, after a forced displacement of the native population, by causing natural disasters.
The Telegram channel that promoted the narrative is a conglomeration of anti-Semitic "news", combined with conspiracy theories inspired by the discourse of the American far right, such as PizzaGate or Qanon.
PURPOSE: To promote an anti-Semitic and anti-Western discourse, to amplify sovereignist and ultra-religious feelings, to provoke anti-system social movements.
This story was published as part of the project „Investigating the impact of disinformation targeting the Israel-Hamas war in the Black Sea region”, financed by the European Media and Information Fund (EMIF).
Unica responsabilitate pentru orice conținut susținut de Fondul European pentru Media și Informație (EMIF) revine autorului și nu reflectă în mod necesar pozițiile EMIF și ale partenerilor Fondului, Fundația Calouste Gulbenkian și Institutul Universitar European.
The sole responsibility for any content supported by the European Media and Information Fund lies with the author(s) and it may not necessarily reflect the positions of the EMIF and the Fund Partners, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the European University Institute.
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