But when you look at their examples of this praise, there is very little compared to other terror attacks in the past.
First of all, the hashtag they mention #عملية_قلقيلية is hardly getting any traction at all.
The specific X posts they reproduce have very few views and Likes, and they are being published by people with very few followers.
One offers a prayer for Jews to be emotionally destroyed: "May God perpetuate our joys over the sound of your wailing, the loudness of your weeping and your sorrows. May God perpetuate our joys over the shedding of your blood and the tearing of your limbs. May God hasten the destruction of your entity and your movement behind every stone and tree." This didn't even get 700 views, and the tweeter only has 416 followers.
Another tweet they highlight has only 350 views and 12 likes.
A Facebook post with a poem they link to has only 12 likes.
This is not anything close to going viral. My average tweet - and I generate a dozen or more a day - does better than these.
Media, terrorist and otherwise, do this often. They want to amplify a story so they find obscure things to support it and pretend that there is a groundswell of popularity behind what they are trying to promote, hoping to generate a feedback loop to make their story true after the fact.
But no one can fake the people who hand out sweets, the fireworks and the honking horns after other terror attacks.
Could it be that Israel's decimation of Hamas is having an effect on Palestinian psyche where they are not as enthusiastic over terrorism knowing that the response may be far bigger?
It is too soon to say, but the seeming lack of spontaneous support for the heinous attack is something to note.
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