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Digital occupation: What's behind Israel's social media in Arabic

Alsaafin, Linah
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/04/digital-occupation-israel-social-media-arabic-180403121518782.html

Publisher:  Aljazeera
Date Written:  04/04/2018
Year Published:  2018  
Resource Type:  Article

Israeli social media accounts in Arabic aim to normalise Israel's occupation and whitewash its image, Palestinians say.

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Adraee's Twitter and Facebook pages are among several mushrooming social media accounts in Arabic by Israeli military and government officials that target Arab citizens.

According to Fidaa Zaanin, an outspoken Palestinian critic of these accounts, they have one unified objective, which is to penetrate the ranks of Arabic-speaking world.

"By conversing with them in their mother tongue, these Israeli officials are opening communication channels, and disseminate lies and propaganda with the aim to normalise the Israeli occupation and to whitewash the image of the Zionist entity," Zaanin, who is from Gaza but now lives in Berlin, told Al Jazeera.

"Israel is portrayed as the only democracy in the Middle East, a progressive humane state, and the victim of violence and terrorism," she continued, "thus censoring a whole history of colonisation, murder and forced displacement."

One example is of Adraee tweeting about the Land Day protests that took place near the Gaza Strip's eastern border last week, in which 17 Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli forces.

"Sending 30,000 troublemakers to fight at the security fence only points to Hamas's terrorism and their attempt to exploit the citizens of Gaza," he said.

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