Saudi anti-terrorism summit panned on social media

Palestinians and Arabs on social media relish reacted with madden after a newly fashioned, self-proclaimed anti-terrorism coalition opened their first assembly in Riyadh with a video that incorporated a scene of a Palestinian combating Israeli occupation forces.

Monday’s summit of the Islamic Coalition Against Terrorism used to be attended by representatives from Forty one Muslim countries and used to be led by Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

It is miles unclear whether or now not the inclusion of the clip used to be deliberate.

Other folks on social media characterised the incident as a manufacture of Arab « normalisation » with the Israeli occupation, on the expense of Palestinians.

The image of the Palestinian dates support to 2001, in the course of the second Palestinian insurrection (intifada) in opposition to the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

Social media lit up after the video presentation, with many Palestinians and Arabs displaying their discontent on Twitter in regards to the usage of the image.

هذه الصورة من مقطع الفيديو الذي عرض في الجلسة الافتتاحية لاجتماع « مجلس وزراء دفاع التحالف الإسلامي لمحاربة الإرهاب » في #السعودية تعود لعام 2001 وهي لمقاوم فلسطيني يشتبك مع جيش الاحتلال جنوب #القدس المحتلة!
إلى المهرولين للتطبيع مع الاحتلال..كانت وما زالت وستبقى #المقاومة_مش_ارهاب pic.twitter.com/Nrj3dxnNrY

— محمد المدهون (@mohamed_mdn) November 27, 2017

« This image from the video that used to be shown in the outlet session of the ‘Council of ministers of defence of the Islamic Coalition to Fight Terrorism’ in Saudi Arabia is from 2001 and is a Palestinian resistance fighter clashing with the occupation navy in the south of occupied Jerusalem. To those which may maybe per chance maybe maybe be hurrying to normalise with the occupation, it used to be and must nonetheless continuously be: resistance is now not terrorism, » one Twitter individual wrote. 

هذه مقاومة وأعلى درجات الشرف والكرامة التي تفتقدونها.#الارهاب هو ذلك الذي تمارسونه على شعوبكم المقهورة منذ عقود.
– من اجتماع وزراء دفاع التحالف لمحاربة الارهاب » في الرياض pic.twitter.com/m5KYi4BSPK

— Izzadeen Ahmad (@IzzadeenAhmad) November 26, 2017

« Right here’s resistance and essentially the most captivating stage of honour and dignity, which you lack. Terrorism is what you relish got got implemented in opposition to your oppressed people for decades, » one more tweeted.

معياركم لتصنيف الإرهاب لا يهم الناس!! الإرهاب كل من يطبع و يتقارب مع اسرائيل هو ارهابي
المقاومة الفلسطنية اشرف منكم
#المقاومة_مش_إرهاب

— Bandar AlShalahi (@Q8BRA) November 26, 2017

« Other folks map now not care what your standards for classifying terrorism is. Terrorism is all who normalise with Israel. Palestinian resistance has more honour than you. »

رؤساء الدول العربية بلا قيم حينما يطلقوا صفة الإرهاب على من يرفع رأس بلاد العرب والمسلمين عاليا.#المقاومة_مش_إرهاب

— ismael ahmed (@IsmaelAhmed11) November 20, 2017

« The heads of Arab states don’t relish any values when they name those who buy our [Arab and Islamic states] heads high, terrorists. »

Others said there used to be no set a query to that the usage of the image used to be deliberate.

#جزايريون_مع_اشقايهم_السعوديين
هل تعتقدون أنه خطأ أم صدفة ؟
كلا والله إنه التعمد من أجل ضرب المقاومة والتطبيع مع الصهاينة وليس هذا إلا تعبيدا للطريق #المقاومه_مش_إرهاب https://t.co/yxBVyFsZVR

— هاشم (@HichamLuxe) November 26, 2017

« Discontinue you ponder it used to be a mistake or a coincidence? No; it used to be intentional to strike Palestinian resistance and to normalise with the Zionists, and here’s most advantageous to pave the draw. »

Avichay Adraee, Israeli navy spokesperson, also weighed in, describing the inclusion of the clip as proof of agreement over what is « terrorism ».

« The Arabs communicate the truth, whether or now not it used to be a mistake or intentional. Terrorism is terrorism […] There may maybe be no need for Hamas and its supporters to be angered, for no one must be ashamed of what they’re. What took place as of late is that the ‘disease’ used to be detected. Will it be eradicated? » he said on Twitter.

The incident comes as Saudi Arabia is going by procedure of criticism from Palestinians after Israeli officials overtly mentioned covert ties and normalisation with Riyadh.

In June, the Arab world reacted similarly after the Saudi foreign minister known as on Qatar to discontinuance its enhance of Hamas, the Gaza-based motion. 

Adel al-Jubeir characterised Hamas as a « terrorist organisation » amid a rift between Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain.

Thousands of social media users wired that resistance is the upright of the Palestinian people in elaborate to create freedom from Israeli occupation.

They also said that speaking about Hamas as a « terrorist motion » is doing a service to Israel and echoes the statements of Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister. 

On the time, Salim al-Menhali, a UAE-based professor of world family members, said: « It is miles same outdated that Hamas is resistance, now not terrorism, for it does now not assault someone; it defends Palestine from the occupiers… What is now not same outdated is for Hamas to be attacked to delight the enemy. »