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Pallywood

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Pallywood, a portmanteau of "Palestine" and "Hollywood", is a disinformation campaign used to falsely accuse Palestinians of faking suffering and deaths during their conflict with Israel.[1][2][3][4][5] The term started being used a lot after the killing of Muhammad al-Durrah in 2000 during the Second Intifada, but people saying the photos are fake..[6] Israeli pundits have used the term to dismiss videos showing Israeli violence or denial of Palestinian suffering.[3] During the Israel–Hamas war, it has been used to a lot, such as claiming dead Palestinian babies are dolls.[7][8][2] Some news sources call Pallywood stories conspiracy theories.[2][8] The term (and related disinformation) have been used in posts by the Israeli government on their official social media profiles.[5]

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  1. "'Pallywood propaganda': Pro-Israeli accounts online accuse Palestinians of staging their suffering". France 24. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 5 September 2024.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Ramirez, Nikki McCann (3 November 2023). "No, Palestinians Are Not Faking the Devastation in Gaza". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on 29 March 2024. Retrieved 18 May 2024.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Carpenter, M.J. (2018). Palestinian Popular Struggle: Unarmed and Participatory. Routledge Studies on the Arab-Israeli Conflict. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-00882-2. Archived from the original on 13 May 2023. Retrieved 27 April 2023.
  4. Schleifer, Ron; Snapper, Jessica (1 January 2015). Advocating Propaganda – Viewpoints from Israel: Social Media, Public Diplomacy, Foreign Affairs, Military Psychology, and Religious Persuasion Perspectives. Sussex Academic Press. ISBN 9781782841609. Archived from the original on 28 January 2017.
  5. 5.0 5.1 "'Pallywood propaganda': Pro-Israeli accounts online accuse Palestinians of staging their suffering". France 24. 21 November 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  6. 'Caught in the Mohammad al-Dura crossfire Archived 2011-01-16 at the Wayback Machine, by Calev Ben-David, The Jerusalem Post, October 12, 2007:

    : But pro-Israel media-watchdog advocates have gone further, arguing that the footage is a prime example of what has been dubbed "Pallywood" - media manipulation, distortion and outright fraud by the Palestinians (and other Arabs, such as the Reuters photographer caught faking photos during the Second Lebanon War), designed to win the public relations war against Israel.
  7. "No, these images show real dead Palestinian babies, not dolls". The Observers - France 24. 15 March 2024. Retrieved 27 August 2024.
  8. 8.0 8.1 "Israel-Hamas war misinformation is everywhere. Here are the facts". AP News. 2 November 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2024.