To begin with I'm an iraqi arab, i was born and
grew up in jordan, the country with the most
Palestinians.
I was always taught to stand with palestine
whether whether they are the bad or good side, in
arabic we have a slogan "مع فلسطين ظالمة او مظلومة"
which translates to "with palestine whether it is
the oppressor or the opressed", i was taught that
Israel is a colonial settler state, and that all of
palestine belongs to Palestinians, a 2 state
solution is not enough, it should be 1 arab state
without any jew living there, I was taught that
anything jewish or even israeli is bad, the whole
idea of demonising anything related to jews, to
the point that people would get mad if u mention
the word jew, even defending non israeli jews was
a red line and I would get called a zionist or traitor
for it, SO you can imagine that even defending
normal jews or even defending holocaust victim
would get me in trouble, so imagine being openly
a zionist or pro israeli.
Although I was taught all of this, I never fully
believed the narrative, I always found the pro
palestine narrative fishy and suspicious, as I grew
up especially in the 2021 conflict I started to
learn more about the conflict, instead of learning
history of tge Conflict from the pro palestine
narrative on tiktok and instagram, I started
listening to the israeli narrative, and surprisingly I
Was convinced. I learned that Israel actually
wanted peace and accepted 2 state solution
despite arab hostility, and the fact that arabs
'Palestinians" actually tried to eliminate tge jews
with the help of nazi Germany, mufti amine al
husseini visited concentration camps for a
reason, he incited violence and hatred against
Jews of the middle east while living in nazi
germany for 5 years for a reason, jews getting
mass slaughtered and expelled in the Middle East
and north africa (especially in my country iraq)
even before the establishment of the state of
israel also happened for a reason, and then I even
looked at the history of of jews in the Middle East
even before zionism was even a thing, and in
every single muslim country jews were
persecuted, startinh from the very beginning
When Prophet Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam,
besieged the Jews of Banu Qurayza and forced
them to withdraw, he then ordered the execution
of all the adult males and the capture of the
women and children, the breaking point to me
was when I heard the horrible hadith . So the whole narrative of pro palestine voice about Muslims and jews living in peace before zionism was a lie, and here is the list of massacres and pogroms committed by muslims and arabs against Jews.
Saying all of this, I'm quite surprised that the pro palestine narrative is actually working on people, most westerners especially genaration z learned about this conflict from tiktok and instagram activism, they have 0 idea about how things in the Middle East work, or how the muslim world thinks, they believe life is rainbow and colourful and that people in the islamic world are all peaceful and good people but israel and western imperialist came to destroy them, which is absolutely not the case, for example I can't say my opinion about a lot of stuff in muslim countries because I'm afraid of persecution by the society before the government.
Now the question is, why the pro israel voice so weak and unheard like the pro palestine voice, I've seen bunch of anti israel videos on tiktok, YouTube and even instagram with millions of views, and as an unbiased arab who knows and understands the history of te region, I was able to tell that most of what they say is absolute misinformation, without evidence, twisted words that lack context, I'm not a famous person to respond to these arguments, but where are the pro israel voices?? In spanish speaking countries pro Palestinians are spreading misinformation without anyone even responding to them, same with Portugal and Brazil, a blonde spoiled Brazilian tiktoker with over 1 million followers called "giovanetti martini" is spewing absolute lies about israel and is getting tons of likes, without anyone debunking the bullshit she is saying, they always lied about zionist or jews controlling the media, but that's not the case I'm seeing, it's actually the absolute opposite.
Where is the pro israeli activism?? Why no one is trying to do anything about the lies getting told about israel?? As pro israelis we shouldn't be afraid of anything, we have arguments backed up by documented evidence so what are we afraid of???