Have The Tamimis Been Lying About Daughter Shirley Temper’s Age?

Following my post from yesterday about the US government telling terror enabler Bassem Tamimi “Hasta la visa, baby!”, I received a tip regarding Ahed Tamimi’s (‘Shirley Temper’) age from pro-Israel advocate Rachel Steinmetz, who pointed to this page in Arabic which lists her as being 12 in September 2011. Other sites like this and this confirm that age. And we know from her Facebook page that her birthday is around February.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=606127529532463&set=a.189271341218086.65672.100004056648063&type=3&theater

Update: she removed the FB post but I found this:

This would make her current age 17.

So why is it that when we saw the most recent propaganda photo of her biting the IDF soldier’s hand in August of last year, the Daily Mail reported this?

daily mail headline

This would make her current age only 14.

Similarly, NBC News and anti-Israel site Mondoweiss reported her age as 14 last year, as does the site Palestine Pulse.

Anti-Israel video production company AMZ Productions (of Oregon) have released a trailer for their propaganda film The Radiance of Resistance featuring Shirley, with this description on the YouTube page.

ahed 14So clearly something is not kosher here. Either Shirley is Benjamin Button, or – as is my belief – the Tamimis are lying about her age as Shirley’s star has risen and propaganda value has increased. After all, the younger they make her, the more sympathy people may have for their plight.

I believe it is no coincidence that almost everything we see with Bassem Tamimi and his clan are lies and damn lies, as they march towards their ultimate goal to make us Jews statistics.

23 thoughts on “Have The Tamimis Been Lying About Daughter Shirley Temper’s Age?”

  1. The famous NYT article about the Tamimis states that she was 11 at the time when she received her award in Instanbul in December 2012, which would make her 15 now. Of course, who knows whether they fed the NYT reporter the truth then?

    Just as they want to keep her young now, they may have artificially inflated her age earlier to avoid condemnation for allowing a child under 10 to participate in violent protests.

    This should surprise no one. In the Tamimi family, children are props or tools. Rather than acknowledge a part of her identity as basic as her age, they create an identity for her which is useful for their agenda.

  2. Speaking of lies, The Fifth Column article you linked to, which is full of them, claims that her parents allow her to participate in protests because the alternative is to risk her being killed in an Israeli airstrike in her home. West Bank, Gaza, it’s all the same, you know. How can they write this stuff with a straight face?

      1. Kathy Prendergast

        Many of the useful idiots out there don’t even know the difference between Gaza and the West Bank, nor that Israel has not occupied Gaza since 2005.

        1. Yes, I recently saw a tweet complaining about how Israel doesn’t allow the people of Gaza to go to the beach. When I pointed out that Gaza has 40 miles of beach and that the people go there all the time, I got abuse.

  3. When are the Tamimis going to be honest about Janna Jihad’s parentage and her relationship to Ahed? The two girls are practically inseparable. They are widely reported to be cousins and last summer during the Ahed’s “biting incident”, Janna’s mother Nawal was described as Mohammed’s aunt. Nawal has never been described as the sister of Mohammed’s mother, Nariman.

    Her last name is Tamimi http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2851758/Jana-Tamimi-documenting-conflicts-Israeli-soldiers-mobile-phone.html, but she prefers to go by the moniker “Jana Jihad” http://en.cncnews.cn/news/v_show/44820_Universal_Children_s_day-Palestinian_girl_s_reporting_dream.shtml

    Yet in a 2015 Arab weekly interview, Bassem described her as a “distant relative”. http://www.thearabweekly.com/?id=119

    1. Bassem Tamimi doesn’t want Janna to get more attention and eclipse his daughter. He cares more about the media attention his family gets than “the occupation” after all.

    2. Kathy Prendergast

      First-cousin marriage is so common in their culture it probably doesn’t matter whether or not they are sisters or cousins. They are all much more closely related than they would be in cultures that don’t approve of first-cousin marriage. Of course, it is now widely known that this practice, once it becomes culturally entrenched and routinely practiced over generations, reduces median IQ and results in higher rates of all kinds of horrific birth defects.

      1. Thank you for giving me an opportunity to update. Petra Marquardt-Bigman’s article in the Times of Israel cites Ehrenreich’s book about the Tamimis (which I haven’t read). http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/janna-jihad-the-innocent-face-of-the-tamimi-clans-support-for-terror-and-jew-hatred/

        In the book, Ehrenreich explains that Janna’s father is Jihad Ayyad, who now lives in West Palm Beach. Janna’s mother, Nawal, emigrated with him to the US, but decided she “didn’t like the isolation of Americn life” and returned to Nabi Saleh. As Ms. Marquardt-Bigman points out, apparently her life in the West Bank wasn’t so oppressive if she preferred it to Florida. Janna was actually born in the US.

        As for cousin marriages, I wouldn’t be so quick to use it to condemn Arab society as an inferior gene pool. It was common in Jewish European communities for generations, as it was among non-Jewish aristocracy.

        1. Kathy Prendergast

          I wasn’t using it to condemn Arab society, just pointing out that it’s still a common practice. Among non-Jewish European artistocracy and European Jews, over time it had many of the same negative effects, particularly regarding the prevalence of genetic illnesses or birth defects, like hemophilia or Tay Sachs disease. There are other theories explaining why Ashkenazy Jews still have such a high median IQ, despite widespread first cousin marriage in the past. In most other human populations where is had been widespread, it has been shown to reduce median IQ over generations. IQ is still one of those elephants in the room that mainly people are terrified to raise in polite company, but despite that it is a huge factor in a population’s ability or inability to control aggression, plan for the future, and develop socially and economically.

  4. What still disgusts me about this “girl” is the hypocrisy of peace activists swooning over a blonde haired blue eyed girl, when they’ve spent decades wailing and conflating the conflict as white oppression of the brown.

    1. Kathy Prendergast

      Exactly…I’d like to make a video montage of her and some of the faces of typical Israeli kids these days; she’s several shades whiter than many of them. In fact, she’d be quite easy to past off as the child of a bunch of nasty-ass trailer trash racists, endlessly brainwashed into protesting against the peaceful brown people who live in the neighbouring village, who are so constantly threatened that they need soldiers to protect them from the trailer trash kids who throw stones at them in their cars on the road. Their whole protest is based on nothing but ethnic hatred, after all.

      1. Kathy Prendergast

        I suspect the anti-Israeli activists responsible for this propaganda also know full well that there are still a lot of white paleo-anti-Semites out there who detest Israel, eg. David Duke and many members of the so-called “alt-right”, so images like Shirely Temper’s are appealing to them too. Those hypocritical neo-Nazi pricks have probably never even met a Palestinian Arab and probably would never invite one into their homes, but they still rail about the “invasion” of Palestine by the Jews and the “genocide” against its people.

  5. they have to lie about her age

    if she is 17, that would make her past proper marrying age

    she would therefore become a sharmuta and they would have to throw her down a well, in order to keep family honor

  6. Thanks for the heads up about the Radiance of Resistance film. Maybe it’s time to take another look at the “Rise Up” organization’s tax forms. Is the US government helping to fund this propaganda vehicle?

  7. Kathy Prendergast

    As the Tamimis are observant Muslims, whether their daughter is 14 or 17 I don’t understand why they’re still letting her go around with her hair not only uncovered but hanging long and loose and flying in the wind (even I wasn’t allowed to do that at the strict secular middle school I went to; girls with long hair had to keep it in braids or ponytails), unless they know that attractive young girls get more attention from Westerners in propaganda videos like these. If that’s the case, I hope their pimping out of their daughter is worth it to them.

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