The death of Muhammad al-Durrah, captured by a Palestinian cameraman, escalated the violence. The post-terror death video has existed as a local genre at least since the Second Intifada. Snuff itself, in the Israeli context, is not new. This quasi-intifada is all about the smartphone. All cause outrage, have changed national and global conversations, and have inspired both cover stories and protest movements.īut in Israel-Palestine, suddenly, snuff has become inescapable.Įvery Palestinian intifada has something that defines it: In the first intifada, it was rocks. We live in a snuff world, full of ISIS beheading videos, dead Syrian children, shocking images like the abandoned body of Michael Brown, and explosive videos like the death of Eric Garner. Let us be clear: A growing predilection for snuff is not exclusively an Israeli-Palestinian phenomenon. Last week, a video that documented the (non-fatal) shooting of Asraa Zidan Tawfik Abed, a 30-year-old mother from Nazareth who attempted to stab a soldier in Afula, was shared throughout the world and eventually found its way to traditional media outlets. There’s no other way to say this: documented death has gone viral.
The uncensored, unedited videos - far more graphic than the heavily-censored versions that later appear on the evening news - spread like wildfire.
In the last couple of weeks Israelis and Palestinians have both been disseminating photos and videos of terror attacks and dead bodies, primarily using Facebook, WhatsApp, YouTube and Twitter. Chances are you happened upon them already, courtesy of the newest, and by far the most sickening online trend to capture the screens of Israelis and Palestinians (and outside observers) for quite some time: snuff. We won't provide you with any links to these videos in this article. Children abused and kicked while they’re dying, women stabbed or gunned down in the streets, men lying unconscious after having failed to escape their attackers, or burning alive after attempting to ignite Molotov cocktails. It’s just that for the past few days, I, and the other millions upon millions of social media users - have been bombarded with videos and photos showing Israelis and Palestinians, dead, dying or gravely injured. It’s not that I have a particularly sick mind. Syria is the new Israel: The world is bored with Israel-Palestine Israel’s answer to the violence: More, better violence This isn't an intifada, this is what binational Israel looks like Images of my countrymen being stabbed, axed or rammed to death keep popping up. Lately it’s been getting harder and harder to sleep at night. The body of a Palestinian man who tried to stab Border Police and was shot dead by the Old City of Jerusalem, October 14, 2015.
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