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Guardian, Atlantic contributor acts as a Syrian terrorist mouthpiece on Twitter, and in case you don’t prefer it you’re a Russian stooge
Giving a sympathetic platform to a terrorist is reprehensible at greatest, downright legal at worst, and undoubtedly a foul search for a ‘revered’ media contributor. Oh, it’s for bashing Assad and the Russians? Go forward, then.
A humorous factor occurred just lately on Twitter. A journalist who contributes to the Guardian, International Coverage and the Atlantic tweeted—in an extended thread peppered with images of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, the chief of an Al-Qaeda department in Syria—about “the power that dominates” Idlib. Hassan Hassan’s preliminary tweet coyly averted mentioning that this power is Al-Qaeda in Syria.
Russia’s relentless and harsh marketing campaign in NW Syria, the place hundreds of thousands of civilians and IDPs dwell and might be compelled to flee en mass, continues. The chief of the power that dominates that space has a brand new speech. A brand new & harmful chapter is looming.
Particulars in following tweets: pic.twitter.com/FE7IkxNTkJ
— Hassan Hassan (@hxhassan) 24 декабря 2019 г.
And no, its not simply us Russian bots who say that Idlib is infested with Al-Qaeda: former US particular envoy, Brett McGurk, deemed Idlib “the most important Al-Qaeda secure haven since 9/11.”
The thread smacked of giving a platform to terrorist propaganda. After extensively quoting Jolani, Hassan weighed in along with his personal ideas on the scenario in Syria and his Al-Qaeda “rebels”.
Except for whitewashing designated terrorists, the purpose of his thread was clearly a continuation of the anti-Russia hysteria company journalists are so rabidly dedicated to.
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Liberate Syria’s Idlib, exactly for the civilians that America fakes concern over
These newest anti-Russia, anti-Syria headlines and tweets echo these which abounded when japanese Ghouta and Aleppo have been being liberated from terrorists. Go to Aleppo now and you will find a metropolis that simply celebrated Christmas and is rebuilding, and certainly rebuilding throughout Syria, in areas as soon as occupiedby terrorists.
Extra importantly, liberated areas are now not dominated by fanatics who imprison, torture, starve and assassinate civilians. Syrian ladies I interviewed earlier this yr in Sinjar, Idlib, spoke of being affected by terrorists in Idlib, and known as for the Syrian military to liberate all of Idlib.
However struggle propagandists do not care about these civilians…
Backslapping and Rebranding
The identical company media vultures who bandy about self-righteously livid expressions for all issues Russian and Syrian are normalizing terrorists in Syria, rendering ISIS into mere “militants”, “combating for survival”, as was the case in a latest Washington Publish ode to ISIS.
Within the regime-changers’ backslapping echo chamber that ensued on Twitter, as an alternative of celebrating the near-defeat of ISIS, company hacks described it as ISIS’ wrestle to “correctly resurge”.
Echo chamber for ISIS' survival. Immediately's company journalism. pic.twitter.com/FpNpfqFK4I
— Eva Bartlett (@EvaKBartlett) 27 декабря 2019 г.
So the US and allies invaded Iraq underneath the pretext of combating Al-Qaeda, largely destroyed that nation, killed untold numbers of Iraqi civilians, maimed untold numbers extra… and now the identical designated terror group, Al-Qaeda, is out of the blue a fuzzy li’l militant?
Likewise, a latest Bloomberg article describes the bandits ruling in Libya (with its slave markets – thanks, American humanitarian intervention!) as an “internationally acknowledged” authorities, and the terrorists heading there to create extra chaos as Syrian “rebels”.
Excessive Xenophobia
Unsurprisingly, when struggle propagandists get known as out by pondering individuals, they deflect blame onto Russia. A perusal of replies to Hassan’s tweets reveals many (non-Russian) individuals object to struggle propaganda and the platforms that propagate it.
Hassan will get a sticker for his efforts to do greatest within the Russophobia problem. He went past merely hurling the identical outdated unoriginal accusations at Russia, and denigrated the complete nation as “repulsive”. Stylish.
Had I identified you’re a Russian citizen, I’d have simply ignored. Repulsive.
— Hassan Hassan (@hxhassan) 25 декабря 2019 г.
In fact, when many on Twitter identified his xenophobia, he scrambled to reword. However that is the factor about Twitter: no edits. The vitriol is on the market, there is no undoing the racism.
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Blatant struggle propagandists like him have, for years, acted as cheerleaders and whitewashed the civilian-murdering terrorists in Syria, slandered these of us who problem struggle propaganda and trouble to provide platforms to civilians as an alternative of terrorists, and relentlessly hounded Russian diplomats and media.
The Russophobia, and certainly xenophobia, has gotten preposterous. It’s Russia that’s really serving to Syria combat terrorism, it’s Russia that additionally sends humanitarian support, it’s Russia that helps open humanitarian corridors for Syrian civilians, it’s Russia that’s aiding Syria in rebuilding, and it’s Russian sappers who’ve accomplished many of the demining of areas previously occupied by terrorists.
And it’s not Russia who financed, backed, and whitewashed terrorism: that honour goes to the US and its allies.
More and more, individuals on Twitter are calling the struggle orchestrators and their propagandists out. In fact,they have to all simply be Russian trolls, da?
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