The following photo has been disseminated by the Israel hating crowd – including the ever (un)reliable Richard Silverstein – and is being passed off as Israeli policemen brutalizing a palestinian woman.
Note: tweets since deleted.
Silverstein also includes it in this post:
http://www.richardsilverstein.com/2015/03/08/happy-international-womens-day-signed-your-friends-in-the-israeli-police/
As is typical with such blood libels against Israel (and Silverstein’s posts), something seemed amiss straight away.
For a start, the uniforms are not those worn by Israeli riot police, who look like this:
Or this:
The hats in the photo look similar to those of the regular Israeli police. But not quite.
In fact, the hats worn in the photo seem to be from a kid’s costume!
Because they are hats from a kid’s costume, the brims are too short, and the fake policemen seem to have extended them with real hats.
Then there’s also the matter of the gun in the photo not being Israeli police department issue.
In other words, this is fake.
Incidentally, Silverstein knew there were question marks regarding the authenticity of the photo and even asked for a source.
Despite not receiving a source nor proof it was authentic, he went ahead and posted it anyway. Because spreading the truth is not his agenda. Damaging Israel is.
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wow…pallywood at its best but it shows how utterly imbecilic they are at creating their ‘masterpieces’
In addition, the men are wearing collarless T-shirts, not buttoned shirts with collars, as shown in your picture of the Israeli police.
And, unless the color in the picture is bad, for the man with his hand on the woman’s head, the pants and shirt do not match – the pants are darker than the shirt.
Also, notice the handcuffs hanging loose from the belt.
You are right, it smells to high heaven of a fake.
Did not notice the handcuffs, but handcuffs also came with the Purim costumes this year.
It is not the existence of the handcuffs that is suspicious – it is the way they are carried. Israeli cops have nice little pouches to carry their handcuffs in. They do not carry them loose on their belts. Too easy to steal, if nothing else.
Last night in the Old City there was the first night of an annual music festival. There were thousands of people out and plenty of police, but not only did I not see one pair of handcuffs, I did not see one regular policeman wearing a hat. That I would never have paid attention to if not for this fake photo.
and what moronic cop would carry a gun like that while enacting an arrest?
the gun is fake, or not loaded
I’m betting on fake. No rear or front sights.
I’m not an expert on police procedures or guns, but isn’t holding a gun while resting your hand on someone else’s shoulder with your other hand holding onto their arm a dumb way to be holding the gun?
i.e. what if her shoulder jerks back and causes him to fire?
The jacket insignias looked like Purim costumes. Do they ever way Mishtarah instead of Mishteret Yisrael?
Purim used to further Haman’s aims, just like the UN institutions instituted in the wake of the Holocaust are used to further Hitlers’.
This so-called human rights advocate censors and blocks people that dare to point out his bias. Not a great sign of confidence, but more like how a petty tyrant would behave.
At his site, he calls for proof of those who question the picture. He warns that one questioner “is on thin ice.” Where is his proof now that the issue is raised? After all, he is the one that put it out there as truth.
I doubt the comment left to this effect will show up.
I think I’m going with you on this one, Dave. Not only have you provided ample evidence that the photo is a fake, you have a far better track record of truthfulness than people like Richard Silverstein.
I believe her Arab husband had just beat her senseless for wearing the wrong terrorist organization’s scarf around her neck, and she was being rescued during Purim celebrations by Police wearing children’s costumes.. I am guessing they are rushing her to their flying unicorn where they will first stop for a falafel before taking her to safety. The one with the gun pointing toward the crowd is letting everyone know he will shoot to protect her if he has too. And because no one in Israel knows how to hold a gun after spending three years in the IDF, he really totes that bad boy like he means business.
OMG.. Does it ever end with this group?
I like everything you said, but for educational reasons I will tell you IDF do not train with hand guns, only border police and anti terror squads train and use hand guns, all infentry use guns (in my days it was m16, and uzi for closed quarters combat, these days they have a gun called ‘tavor’ too)
Second hat matches. I’m curious about the truth, honestly it could be either way. Both sides are in an information and public opinion war. You’d expect it to be shady either way. The T-shirts though… what police officer anywhere wears a t-shirt? Uniforms are never cut like that.
Even if the second hand matches, the fact that the first does not should make it obvious that the whole thing is a fake. Because no real Israeli policeman would be wearing a child’s Purim costume whereas a Pallywood Fakestinian might be able to obtain a genuine police hat.
He took it down and replaced with a picture of the police arresting Daphni Leef who has nothing to do with the Palestinian cause and is disdainful of the “peace industry”. She does, however, make a very photogenic arrest picture.
I’m bemusedly speechless, the dumbest “smart” people of the western world strike again…
I bet the Palestinians who made this propaganda didn’t put makeup on the woman involved for the desired effect.
Is it a George c Clooney movie???? Don’t ever forget he married a muslim!!!!!
acccording to the pix, the woman is handcuffed behind her back. If so, then there is no need for the cop to put his hand on top of her head which would have to be uncomfortable for him. Cops put their hands on someone’s head when pushing him into a cop car but not while walking the prisoner down the street. Moreover, the brims of the two cops’ hats do not match. I vote for fake. Fake. Fake. And a rather sloppy one at that.
Look at the handcuff, there is no connecting chain on it also.
That is yet another pointer to the fakery of this photo. Unlike the American police, the Israeli police do not normally handcuff detainees behind their back.
First, Silverstein is fooled by this amateurish and childish picture, then he pontificates about it in the style of a 19 year college student. He is truly an embarrassment.
I wonder whether it would be more constructive to ignore this creep completely. I know I would.
The picture he put up of the dog biting the woman’s arm also looked fake and I think it originally posted back in 2007. I think the incident might have really happened back then but the specific photo he used looks shopped, big time.
Even the brims on the two hats in the fake picture are different as one has a white border and the second one doesn’t.
The kids’ costume uniform actually looks better than what Pallywood put together!