The Islamic State (ISIS) And Palestine – Rhetoric vs. Reality | MEMRI

The Islamic State (ISIS) And Palestine – Rhetoric vs. Reality | MEMRI

The Islamic State’s (ISIS) extensive information campaign, titled „Slaughter the Jews,“[1] that it recently launched in the wake of the recent wave of violent events in Israel and the Palestinian territories has had numerous reverberations. The campaign includes all the elements familiar from previous ISIS campaigns, including copious use of social media to encourage terror attacks, and videos featuring armed activists making threats and urging intensification and escalation of attacks. This ISIS campaign and the threats it has included have been covered extensively by media in the West and Israel, with excessive focus on threats to Israel and the Jews and on the campaign’s colorful details, such as the fact that two of the activists in the videos issued their threats in Hebrew. This campaign, and the events of the past few months in general, have again raised the question of ISIS’s view of the Palestinian issue and the war on Israel.