Antisemitic Palestinian 1948 folktale is basis for an upcoming videogame

Palestinian propagandists know that novels, movies and videogames are great mediums for them to brainwash unsuspecting people enjoying the entertainment. Since the story itself is obviously fiction, players and viewers believe that the are based on real events, and the background descriptions of history are assumed to be accurate. 

In this way, lies about history can be presented without the worries that newspapers and academics have about being exposed as liars. After all, it is a work of fiction!

The latest example of blood libels against Jews being presented as entertainment is an upcoming videogame called "Dreams on a Pillow."

According to the crowdsourcing site  that is funding it, it is based on a true story - but it isn't. It is based on a folktale:

Like all oral folktales, the story of Omm has numerous variations, however, all stories share the same fundamental elements: a young mother living in Palestine had her husband murdered by the Zionist invaders, and she ran to her home to retrieve her newborn child from the bed. She fled out of town in a panic, only to realize later that she had carried along a pillow instead of her child. The ending of the folktale differs wildly based on the audience - in most stories, the mother loses her mind - in others, she is murdered, or successfully avoids the roaming Zionist gangs and military groups to make it out of her homeland - not to return in her lifetime.

 Each detail is more lurid and more antisemitic than the last.

Throughout the game, Omm, Pillow, and the player will experience often untold stories of Palestinian history. As Omm travels from the massacre of al-Tantura to the concentration camps of Atlit, she will later encounter the campaign of terror that led to the fall of Haifa, the bioweapon poisoning of Acre, and the Zionist attacks on refugees towards the Lebanese border.

The game developer, Rasheed Abueideh, tells a personal story that appears to be as filled with propaganda lies  his game.

Rasheed struggled to carve out a sustainable career in the games industry, facing a decade of rejection and avoidance from funding partners and publishers who deemed supporting a Palestinian “too risky” or “controversial”. While he continued to tinker on small games projects, he opened a nut roastery near his hometown of Nablus to support his family.

Today, the building sits empty as Israeli colonists terrorize the roads of the West Bank, making travel to his roastery unsafe. With Israel’s assaults on Gaza, the West Bank, and Lebanon intensifying daily, Rasheed -unsure of his continued safety in the face of relentless colonist attacks on the West Bank- has set his sights on continuing to following the path he was forced to abandon a decade ago: using games to not just tell the story of the 1948 Nakba, but to let people experience it through a game. To share the catastrophe that has haunted generations of Palestinians with displacement, apartheid, occupation, and violence.

It appears that Rasheed is very good at spinning Palestinian folktales. 

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