Anti-Israel Propaganda Fail of the Day

A group calling themselves Scottish Jews Against Zionism are the latest to try hijack the Russian-Ukraine war and make it all about their beloved “Palestine” and the big, bad Israelis (hat tip: Michal):

The Sky News report they included (top right) deals with the death of a palestinian Arab woman and her baby. If you look inside the report itself, you will see how Gaza’s (Hamas-run) health ministry alleged they were killed in an Israeli airstrike:

Gaza’s health ministry said the pregnant woman, 37, was severely wounded in an Israeli airstrike that hit a home in east Gaza City, and died later in hospital.Advertisement

The 14-month-old girl, Seba Abu Arar, was killed in the strike, it said.

However, the IDF said “the pair had died due to a misfiring Palestinian rocket.”

But if that is not enough proof for you, even the desperately anti-Israel Human Rights Watch admitted the latter (as I posted weeks after the incident):

A little over a month ago, I posted how a 14-month-old palestinian toddler and her pregnant mother likely died as a result of a palestinian rocket that misfired within Gazan territory. I based this on a number of things, and my suspicions were strengthened when I saw the Palestinian Center of Human Rights (PCHR) did not even blame Israel.

Now Human Rights Watch (HRW) have released a report that pretty much confirms it.

In addition, a Palestinian rocket that landed inside of Gaza was most likely responsible for the deaths of a pregnant Palestinian mother of nine and a 14-month-old toddler.

On May 4, a munition struck the al-Zaytoun neighborhood in eastern Gaza, killing Falastin Abu Arar, a 38-year-old mother of nine, and her 14-month-old niece, Siba Abu Arar. The Gaza Health Ministry included both on a list of people killed by Israeli airstrikes, but the Israeli military said that it did not conduct the lethal strike.

Human Rights Watch was unable to investigate the strike for security reasons and Israel’s repeated denial of permits to Gaza for foreign researchers. A field worker with a Palestinian organization who visited the site said that unlike at other sites, Palestinian authorities quickly removed remnants of munitions and described damage that make it more likely that the strike came from an errant Palestinian rocket.

In other words, these so-called Scottish Jews Against Zionism included in their post the propaganda equivalent of a misfired palestinian rocket.

Oh, by the way, there is a very big chance they are not Scottish Jews at all.

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