YouTube sensation Rachel Griffin Accurso (42), famous for her Songs for Littles series, is under the radar of antisemitism watchdog group StopAntisemitism.
The group has accused her of spreading anti-Israel content and pro-Hamas propaganda through her posts about the Gaza conflict.
Among the disputed content shared by Accurso were viral images of a child, purportedly showing starvation in Gaza.
StopAntisemitism claimed these images were debunked and that the child, Fadi al-Zant, wasn’t starving but suffering from cystic fibrosis.
However, the child’s mother has clarified to The Washington Post that her son was indeed suffering from both cystic fibrosis and starvation.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
So laser focused on whether the one image is legitimate, ignoring all the other evidence that Israel is indeed intentionally starving people.
Steve@startrek.website 3 weeks ago
Deflect, confuse.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yeah, this shit is why I get on my wife about checking the legitimacy of images from Gaza. I tell her, “If you make one mistake that is they excuse they need. The bad actors will focus entirely on that and use it to delegitimize everything you post about it.” Several times I’ve had to point out that she should delete something. These people will repeat lies and falsehoods all day, but the moment you do it they will pounce and never let go.
IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
The images were legitimate as well. The child was starving because he needed medication and twice the food of a normal child. Both were blocked by Israel. After he was successfully ethnically cleansed from Gaza by Israel, he was able to receive the care he needed and recovered his weight. Proving the perpetrator of his starvation was Israel.
Images of a starving Palestinian boy went viral. The attention saved him.