This tweet is a doozy:
Some 14,000 people so far have retweeted this, and fully believe that Israel calls up people they are about to assassinate.
Why? Because this makes it a better sport before killing them, like some cheesy supervillain who says "the human is the toughest prey" before giving him a head start in some B-movie?
But let's go with it. Let's say that Israel really called up Refaat Alareer and warned him that he would be killed. What would he do?
He would plaster the threat all over social media. He would call every news outlet and tell them that he was just warned about his own assassination. He would frantically call friends in Hamas and ask to hide in a tunnel. Failing that, he would hide himself, alone, in some basement.
But what does he do instead, according to his admirers who are retweeting this story?
He goes to his family, where they can be killed along with him!
So if you believe this risible lie, then you also believe that this Palestinian icon, poet, human rights activist, saint, demi-god, or whatever they are calling him now, chose to doom his sister and her children to certain death.
What a guy!
Now look who "liked" this tweet - Ali Abunimah! The editor of Electronic Intifada, a site quoted often by the likes of Ken Roth, believes this obvious lie without even a question.
This one tweet tells us a great deal about how easily anti-Zionists lie, how easily they spread obvious lies, and how gullible they are.
