With Shirley Temper’s latest exploits, there has been a cynical campaign by palestinians to manipulate the exploitation of their own children. And it has not gone unnoticed.
Following the release of the video, Tamimi was arrested for her assault. Despite the ambiguity about her age, this triggered a widespread Twitter campaign calling for her release, under the hashtag #NoWayToTreatAChild.
The use of this hashtag is not accidental or random, and like the video, it reflects the cynical manipulation of children’s rights that is emerging as a dominant theme in anti-Israel activism.
“No Way to Treat a Child,” or NWTTAC, is a campaign coordinated by Palestinian, Israeli and international NGOs, many of which also promote the BDS movement against Israel. Through concerted efforts to falsely accuse the IDF of violating the rights of Palestinian minors, they seek international sanctions against the Jewish state.
The leading group behind the campaign is a Palestinian NGO, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P). The agency, reportedly tied to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine terrorist group, has joined with U.S.-based pro-BDS organizations such as the American Friends Service Committee and Jewish Voice for Peace to lobby the U.S. government to “use all available means to pressure relevant Israeli authorities to end the detention and abuse of Palestinian children.”
I’ll be damned if I am going to let them get away with the abuse of their own children. So I decided I would use their own hashtag to hoist them on their own petard.
These poor children deserve better than the evil, exploitative parents they have been cursed with.
