The Pallywood lies of "human rights defender" @IssaAmro

Where's the candy?

Pallywood is the term coined by Richard Landes to describe media manipulation by Palestinians, most prominently by staging events like carrying healthy people to an ambulance. But another aspect of media manipulation that we often see is the false captioning of real photographs or footage.

It works because people are conditioned to believe the caption of a photo or description of a video,. When such a video or photo is shown in a vacuum, observers often have no idea of  what they are looking at or the context, and they rely on the caption to understand what they are seeing. The picture may be worth a thousand words, but it only takes a few words to brainwash people into thinking they are seeing something that never happened.

I've shown examples of this before. 

Issa Amro is one of the more famous people who routinely accuse Israel of crimes, and he was called a "human rights defender" by the UN. And he is as an enthusiastic practitioner of this brand of Pallywood manipulation.

He captions this video: "Israeli settlers distributed sweets and candy to celebrate the killing of 10 Palestinians in Nablus city during Israeli military raid,  more than 100 hundred Palestinians were injured."

Do you see any indication of celebration? Of candy? Of anything more than a few Jews on a traffic island? 

The could be trying to cross the street  They could be hitchhiking. But they are not handing out candy, as this frame by frame version shows.

The irony, of course, is that this supposed "human rights defender" has never said a word against the many documented cases of Palestinians who really are handing out sweets, setting off fireworks and otherwise celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians. If he is horrified at the supposed inhumanity of Jews hanging around a street, certainly he should - once in his life - condemn the Palestinian celebrations at targeting innocent Jews.

Then again, calling an established liar a "human rights defender" is a form of Pallywood as well. 

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