The Muslim (Archived link), a Hinduphobic account known for spreading disinformation and frequently falsely implicating the Hindu community by sharing old communal instances, tweeted a video of Israelis singing with the caption, “Israelis sing and dance a song about Gaza becoming a cementary for children. These people are going to love the GazaGenocide.”
Israelis sing and dance a song about Gaza becoming a cementary for children.
— The Muslim (@TheMuslim786) October 13, 2023
These people are going to love the GazaGenocide.#FreeGaza #طوفان_الاقصى_ #IsraelTerrorists #غزة_الآن #palastine #IsraelPalestineWar #FreePalaestine #FreePalaestine #Palestine pic.twitter.com/oRbSNdo0CB
The video shows some Israelis waving Israel flags while singing about the death of children in Gaza. The translation of the song in the subtitles reads, “Gaza, Gaza, Gaza is a cemetery! There’s no school in Gaza, because there are no children left in Gaza!”
The video is getting circulated on the X platform (previously known as Twitter) with the same claim.
The users Mister. J (Archived link) and DOAM (Archived link) wrote, “#WATCH : People from Israel sing and dance a song about Gaza becoming a cementary for children.”
#WATCH : People from Israel sing and dance a song about Gaza 🇵🇸 becoming a cementary for children. pic.twitter.com/zRZy1yZlGe
— Mister J. – مسٹر جے (@Angryman_J) October 15, 2023
Israelis singing and dancing a song about #Gaza becoming a cementary for children. #Palestine #Gazagenocide #GazaUnderAttack pic.twitter.com/kiQa1uz2x6
— DOAM (@doamuslims) October 14, 2023
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Fact Check
In our fact check, we found that the viral clip is from 2015 documentary ‘Disregarding Gaza‘ (Archived link of the documentary) uploaded on March 16, 2015. The description of the video says, “A short documentary that examines the absence of Gaza and the Palestinians from the Israeli mainstream media and 2015 elections.” The video description also notes how the documentary was recorded during Operation Protective Edge. The documentary focused on the lack of coverage of Gaza and Palestine in Israeli media. The clip from the documentary that is going viral begins at the time frame of 3:36.
Before the viral segment of the video begins, the anchor discusses how the crew was covering an inter-religious wedding in Israel that was met by Lehava protestors. Lehava is a far-right Israeli group that opposes interfaith and interethnic relationships and marriages.
Further, we also ran a keyword search for “Lehava protesting against inter-religious wedding” and discovered a Jerusalem Post (Archived link) report dated August 17, 2014. According to the story, the interfaith marriage of Israeli Jewish Morel Malka, who converted to Islam and married Palestinian Mahmoud Mansour, prompted the Lehava organisation to protest and denounced Morel Malka.
The couple requested an injunction to prohibit the protest at Rishon Letzion Magistrate’s judge, but the judge denied their request and instead ordered protestors to stay at least 200 metres away from the wedding celebration. Before allowing them admission, police asked each visitor for identification and questions about the newlyweds.
Another report by HuffPost UK mentions that more than 200 protesters from an organisation called Lehava gathered to oppose the “assimilation” of the two spouses, waving placards that read, “Assimilation is a Holocaust.” Supporters of the couple gathered outside the wedding to organize a counter-demonstration, singing popular love songs to drown out the yells of the right-wing demonstrators and holding a placard that said, “Only love will win.”
Apart from that, President Reuven Rivlin reacted on the wedding and criticised the anti-wedding protests on his Facebook page.
According to the report by BBC, four protestors were arrested for failing to obey police orders.
| Claim | In the viral video Israelis are celebrating the deaths in Gaza |
| Claimed by | Social media users |
| Fact Check | False |
