Hashtag supporting Palestinian knife attacker trending on twitter

Boring username · 25-01-2015 01:46PM #1

Four days ago, a Palestinian man boarded a bus in Tel Aviv and proceeded to slash and mutilate 11 commuters on their way to work. The man was subsequently wounded in a shooting and is currently being held in custody.

What followed, however, is a pretty disgusting insight into the warped mindset of those who have been indoctrinated into the cult of hatred. The hashtag #JeSuisCouteau ("I am the knife") began trending on Twitter, as thousands of people clambered to offer their on-line support for this act of barbarity.

I don't have a particular side in the Israel/Palestine conflict, in my opinion the war industry on both sides seems too deeply ingrained for peace to ever take hold.

I just think it's a pretty repugnant thing to do in light of events in Paris recently, and it's an utter public relations disaster for the Palestinian cause. Having said that, no doubt Israel will now retaliate in a disproportionate act of violence, thus continuing the cycle of tit for tat killings that keep the warlords on both sides happy.

Whatever your politics or opinions are, I think most people would agree this is a disgusting thing to do. (And yes, Israel have done it in the past too, and rightfully been called to task on it).

alchemist33 · 25-01-2015 01:49PM

Yes its disgusting, but it's twitter. It isn't representative of anything except people with axes to grind.

Menas · 25-01-2015 01:51PM

Some people just love a cause to follow without applying their brains to actually think about what that cause is.
Dumb people is dumb.

Boring username · 25-01-2015 02:10PM

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Some people just love a cause to follow without applying their brains to actually think about what that cause is.
Dumb people is dumb.

I get what you're saying in one way, yes people sometimes just on board the twitter bandwagon when it comes to certain trends. But in this case it's a pretty distinct phrase and the intention of the hashtag was quite clear I think.

Dan_Solo · 25-01-2015 02:14PM

Starting a topic title with "hashtag" is the same as "I dreamed" or "in EastEnders this week" with regards to importance.
With regards to PR for Palestinians well they've had thousands of their children bombed to death and another tract of their land stolen and nobody gave a ****. I doubt this will make any difference.

MichaelR · 25-01-2015 02:14PM

I looked it up on Twitter and the actual posts praising the knifeman all seem to be in Arabic. Still pretty disgusting, but I suspect some, if not all, are actual Palestinians (as opposed to Western leftists supporting Palestinian causes).

Harry Palmr · 25-01-2015 02:19PM

Angsty and radical "towelheads" supporting a fellow Islamic killer, quell surprise.

One eyed Jack · 25-01-2015 02:22PM

Boring username wrote: »

I get what you're saying in one way, yes people sometimes just on board the twitter bandwagon when it comes to certain trends. But in this case it's a pretty distinct phrase and the intention of the hashtag was quite clear I think.

Twitter being the global phenomenon that it is, you're always going to get some nutbars that will court attention for themselves just for the sake of someone being offended.

They're no different than the people who expect the world to care because some nutbar kills eleven people on a bus or kills twelve people in Paris, when the fact is that such things aren't all that important to most people.

kneemos · 25-01-2015 02:23PM

No different than Irish people supporting an IRA bomb,had twitter been around.

On another note does anybody take twitter seriously?

not yet · 25-01-2015 02:28PM

Je suis bored with this sh1te..

mad muffin · 25-01-2015 02:55PM

It reminds me of the scenes after the 9/11 attack. Palestinians cheering in the streets.

AnonoBoy · 25-01-2015 03:04PM

mad muffin wrote: »

It reminds me of the scenes after the 9/11 attack. Palestinians cheering in the streets.

What were you doing in Palestine in 2001?

kneemos · 25-01-2015 03:07PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

What were you doing in Palestine in 2001?

Hooping and hollering.

Dan_Solo · 25-01-2015 03:08PM

mad muffin wrote: »

It reminds me of the scenes after the 9/11 attack. Palestinians cheering in the streets.

Or the triumphalsim in the US after illegally invading and destroying Iraq who they had lied about supporting Al Qaeda.
Or the Israelis dancing in the streets at babies being crushed under rubble in Gaza.
More than one side at this tasteless celebration business.

mad muffin · 25-01-2015 03:29PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

What were you doing in Palestine in 2001?

I had an ice cream van

AnonoBoy · 25-01-2015 03:32PM

mad muffin wrote: »

I had an ice cream van

Like Billy Corgan in that music video for the pop song? :eek:

TommyKnocker · 25-01-2015 03:39PM

mad muffin wrote: »

It reminds me of the scenes after the 9/11 attack. Palestinians cheering in the streets.

Reminds me of the scenes of Israelis on a hill side having a bar-b-que, drinking beer and cheering as Israeli war planes and tanks bombed civilian area of Gaza.

Venus In Furs · 25-01-2015 03:48PM

kneemos wrote: »

No different than Irish people supporting an IRA bomb,had twitter been around.

Is there a point in there somewhere?

mad muffin · 25-01-2015 04:02PM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Like Billy Corgan in that music video for the pop song? :eek:

Exactly like that.

TommyKnocker wrote: »

Reminds me of the scenes of Israelis on a hill side having a bar-b-que, drinking beer and cheering as Israeli war planes and tanks bombed civilian area of Gaza.

Hardcore.

kneemos · 25-01-2015 04:03PM

Venus In Furs wrote: »

Is there a point in there somewhere?

There is a very obvious point.

keith16 · 25-01-2015 04:04PM

mad muffin wrote: »

I had an ice cream van

ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM!

WE'RE ALL OUT OF ICE CREAM!

_Kaiser_ · 25-01-2015 04:05PM

Do people really take stuff that "trends" on Twitter or other social media that seriously? It's 99% nonsense with occasionally useful stuff like traffic updates, news alerts and such.

_Kaiser_ · 25-01-2015 04:05PM

keith16 wrote: »

ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM!

WE'RE ALL OUT OF ICE CREAM!

Damnit... I'd love a Feast right now.

mad muffin · 25-01-2015 04:09PM

keith16 wrote: »

ICE CREAM! ICE CREAM!

WE'RE ALL OUT OF ICE CREAM!

_Kaiser_ wrote: »

Damnit... I'd love a Feast right now.

Fear not! I have more.

As a matter of fact I have a tub of chocolate and a tub of mint chocolate chip in the freezer.

Venus In Furs · 25-01-2015 04:13PM

kneemos wrote: »

There is a very obvious point.

There reeeeeally isn't.

It's analogous to someone saying "I got food poisoning in x restaurant" and the response being "No different to when I got food poisoning in y restaurant". Meaningless in other words.

For a split second, I thought maybe you meant "We" Irish are in no position to criticise hardliners because some Irish people supported the IRA's campaign... but then I thought, nobody could ACTUALLY think something as vacuous as that.

FourFourRED · 25-01-2015 04:14PM

Ah well if it's in a hashtag it's bound to make a difference

kneemos · 25-01-2015 04:25PM

Venus In Furs wrote: »

There reeeeeally isn't.

It's analogous to someone saying "I got food poisoning in x restaurant" and the response being "No different to when I got food poisoning in y restaurant". Meaningless in other words.

For a split second, I thought maybe you meant "We" Irish are in no position to criticise hardliners because some Irish people supported the IRA's campaign... but then I thought, nobody could ACTUALLY think something as vacuous as that.

The point being people are the same the world over.

Hmm Ben and Jerrys.

Smiles35 · 25-01-2015 06:45PM

And what about the Choc-Isis?

anncoates · 25-01-2015 06:59PM

The IRA analogy isn't a bad one really. It just means that there are many atrocities with political or religious motives that disgust the majority of people but that are at worst supported or at best rationalized by people with a vested interest or sympathy to the cause.

No wish to have a bashing session about it, just making an observation.

In light of that, I despair of Twitter posts like that but it's hardly new or sadly, even shocking.

Zippie84 · 25-01-2015 09:11PM

One hilariously stupid thing about twitter hashtags - is that often there are stupid / offensive hashtags that are started... and you will then have people tweeting about the stupidity / offensiveness of the hashtag... including the hashtag in their tweet, essentially keeping it going, and often getting it trending...

And then you'll have people tweeting appalled at what is trending... including the hashtag in their tweet, and essentially keeping it trending...

And so on and so forth....

Notorious97 · 25-01-2015 09:59PM

Opened this thread expecting it to be related to the other thread with a housemates boyfriend threatening to stab him.

Hashtag supporting Palestinian knife attacker trending on twitter

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