This Image Does Not Show A Recent Rally In France
The Claim
an image shows a group of people protesting in France against the victory of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election.
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Recently, social media users have been circulating an image claiming to show a group of people protesting in France against the victory of Marine Le Pen in the French presidential election. Some of whom are wearing keffiyehs and holding Palestinian flags with a swastika painted on the monument in the background.
Misbar’s Analysis
Misbar investigated the circulating the image and found the claim to be misleading.
2014 Pro-Palestinian Rally in Paris Amid Gaza War
Misbar's team found the image is not recent; it dates back to August 2014, and depicts protesters showing support for Palestinians in Gaza at a Paris rally.
Pro-Palestinian protests escalated at this time after over 500 Palestinians, mostly civilians, were reported killed in the Israeli offensive. On July 7, 2014, Israel initiated airstrikes in Gaza leading to a worsening humanitarian crisis with more than 650 Palestinian fatalities and over 4,200 injuries, including 73 children.
Although the majority of the pro-Palestinian protests have been peaceful, a minority of aggressive demonstrators have specifically attacked Jewish businesses and synagogues.
Repression Of Palestinian Expression And Activism In The United States
Over the previous nine months, authorities at the national and local levels in the United States have endeavored to criminalize Palestinian activism and manifestations of Palestinian identity. This crackdown has impacted various spheres, including politics, business, civil society, higher education, culture, and others. The aim of Israel and its American allies, both at the national and local levels, is to erase Palestinian presence from historical narratives. By challenging the discriminatory U.S.-Israeli campaign, Palestinians also compel a public examination of the historical origins and practices of Israel's settler-colonial ideology and the Zionist movement that gave rise to it. Israel and Zionism are unable to withstand such critical scrutiny.
A recent and particularly overt effort to stifle Palestinian voices targeted Rabea Eghbariah, a Palestinian attorney, legal scholar, and JSD candidate at Harvard University. In November, the Harvard Law Review journal opted not to publish an article by Eghbariah that advocated for the Nakba as a legal framework for Palestine. The piece was suppressed even after undergoing editing, fact-checking, and approval by the journal's own editors.
Violent Attack On Palestinians In Umm Al-Khair Village By Israeli Settlers
On Monday evening, a group of Palestinians in the village of Umm Al-Khair in Musafer Yatta, south of Hebron, experienced suffocation following an assault by Israeli settlers, who were backed by Israeli forces. According to local sources cited by WAFA, settlers from the Karmiel colony and Shimoun colonial outpost, established on lands belonging to local residents south of Hebron, targeted individuals in the Shuaib community within Umm al-Khair. They menaced children and women with threats of violence, sprayed them with pepper gas, resulting in injuries to several individuals. Some suffered from suffocation, while Israeli soldiers deployed live ammunition, stun grenades, and toxic gas against the civilians.
A diplomatic delegation from Belgium, Canada, Denmark, the European Union, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom visited Umm Al-Khair on the same day to assess the situation. They condemned the extensive demolitions inflicted on the village's homes and structures by Israeli forces the previous Wednesday, marking the largest demolition operation in the West Bank since October 7.
Deadly Israeli Incursion In Gaza's Rafah
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that a minimum of six Palestinians lost their lives in the southern city of Rafah in Gaza, while Israeli forces advanced further into the city and continued their incursion into Shujayea in northern Gaza, resulting in the destruction of several residences.
Residents shared that Israeli tanks, which had re-entered Shujayea four days earlier, launched artillery at multiple houses, trapping families indoors and preventing their escape. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimated that between 60,000 to 80,000 individuals were displaced from Shujayea in recent days.
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