Just Mossad casually threatening thousands of American students
Elon Musk’s “everyone can have a verified account if you pay for it” Twxttxr strikes again:
This is a fake account fraudulently implying affiliation with Mossad.
Since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, fake accounts have been popping up impersonating government entities. The latest one causing confusion and spreading disinformation is one pretending to be the Israeli national intelligence agency, Mossad. #TheCube
www.euronews.com
But there is some truth revealed in the post, even if the source is a malicious actor.
There are many Israeli far-right government aligned entities that are actually attempting to frame all protests against what the government is doing in Gaza and the other Palestinian Territories as “pro-Hamas” and “anti-Israel”.
Unfortunately, there is some genuinely disturbing rhetoric, harassment, and assault directed at Jewish people and supporters of Israel taking place at some of the protests which no reasonable person should condone or accept. That must be stopped. Though, much of it is being perpetrated by masked individuals at the gatherings which makes it difficult to determine if they are legitimate participants, malicious entities, or simply opportunistic agitators (which seem to have a much more regular presence at these sort of events in the US and UK in recent years). Whatever the case, I don’t think it would be fair to say the represent the intent of the majority of the movement.
Most of it is simply demonstrations against the Israeli far-right government and the genocide being carried out at their direction by the Israeli military and settler paramilitary groups in Gaza and the West Bank.
The framing from branches of (or entities aligned with) Israel’s far-right government is of course very intentional and is meant to discredit all protest and criticism, not just the obviously problematic, antisemitic, or violent elements within the movement.
And those attempts are dangerous.
