Middle East Children's Alliance, which promoted fake Gaza children's artwork in the US, has ties to terror groups

From National Review:

The Middle Eastern Children’s Alliance (MECA), a California nonprofit that designs K–12 curriculum material, has fiscal and personnel ties to U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations, according to a new report by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI).

“Our investigation of MECA has yielded evidence suggesting it holds fiscal and personnel ties to US designated foreign terrorist organizations, chiefly the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), alongside a host of extremist anti-government actors based in the United States,” reads the report by the NCRI, released on Monday.

MECA is really dedicated to spreading anti-Israel propaganda to American children.

I looked at them in 2012 when they had a traveling exhibition of Palestinian children's art. The art looked way too mature for children, and I asked some experts whether they could have been conceived and drawn by children. (Besides their sophistication, I was struck that not one of the pictures were signed, something kids would prioritize.) The overwhelming consensus was no way that these were done by kids, although some of the images might have been drawn by adults and traced or colored by children.

I just asked an AI its opinion on these four images. It concurred:

Image 1 (burning houses, tanks, sad trees, smiling sun)

🔍 Assessment: Mixed signals

Child-like features: Uneven proportions, floating figures, exaggerated facial expressions, symbolic objects like the crying sun and “sad trees” suggest a child’s emotional worldview.

Adult cues: The layout is unusually complex — a two-point perspective street, tanks placed in correct scale to buildings, with multiple narrative layers (people fleeing, soldiers, journalists, etc.).

🔎 Verdict: Possibly created by a child with heavy adult guidance or mimicry. The messaging is sophisticated; the rendering is inconsistent.

Image 2 (black smoke, aircraft bombing city)

🔍 Assessment: Unlikely to be child-drawn

Sophisticated use of space: Planes are proportioned and angled correctly, smoke is stylized with volume and spiral shading, buildings show mass and collapse.

Symbolism: The tone is graphic and deliberate — it feels like a visual editorial, not a spontaneous emotional drawing.

🔎 Verdict: Very unlikely to be drawn by a 9–11-year-old without tracing or copying an adult example. Highly probable adult origin or at least tracing from reference material.

Image 3 (missile with U.S. and Israeli flags hitting building, mother and child looking on)

🔍 Assessment: Highly unlikely to be child-authored

Symbolic complexity: The U.S. and Israeli flags painted on a missile require political awareness well beyond age 9–11.

Narrative composition: A foreground of bloody corpses, a background of crumbling buildings, a directional missile — all clearly staged for moral impact.

🔎 Verdict: This is propaganda art, stylistically simplified to look childlike, but too ideologically mature for the claimed age group. Adult author highly probable.

Image 4 (helicopters bombing mosque, realistic tank firing)

🔍 Assessment: Certainly not child-drawn

Technique: This is watercolor/ink wash with strong line confidence and spatial consistency — hallmarks of trained adult illustrators.

Style: Consistent with editorial cartooning — not child expression.

🔎 Verdict: No ambiguity. This image was created by an adult, possibly professional, possibly Latuff himself or an imitator. No 9–11-year-old could produce this without tracing and instruction.

Overall Conclusion:

1 out of 4 could plausibly be a child’s original drawing, and even that shows signs of directed messaging.

3 out of 4 show stylistic, symbolic, or technical sophistication inconsistent with 9–11-year-old artistic development.

The collection as a whole appears curated to appear emotionally raw, but closer inspection reveals intentional, mature propaganda techniques.

This is who is trying to infect our children with anti-Israel hate, in America. It is not at all surprising that they would be affiliated with the PFLP, which (besides being a terrorist group) is by far the most advanced Palestinian propaganda outfit.