Al
Jazeera, Stop Using Children as Weapons!
When talking
about Israelis in the Israel-Palestine conflict, or indeed, in talking about
any non-Muslim side in any Muslim-vs.-non-Muslim conflict in the world, the
main stock-in-trade talking-point, or rather the main psychological weapon
against the non-Muslim side that Islamic, or on a broader landscape their woke
leftist, propagandists make use of is the issue of Muslim “children” being
“killed” by non-Muslims.
Take the following few exemplary Al-Jazeera headlines in the case of Israel (moving backwards in date):
“Updates:
2 Palestinian children killed by Israeli forces in West Bank raid”
13 November
2025
10 November
2025
“Updates:
Child among two killed as Israeli air raids, drones target Gaza”
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2025/10/7/the-young-children-killed-by-israeli-fire-this-year-in-occupied-west-bank
7 October 2025
3 September
2025
7 April 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-0zrQZWwDE
“Kids
Under Fire: An investigation into Israeli soldiers shooting children | Fault
Lines Documentary”
27 March 2025
26 March 2025
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlCzT9_YE9Y
“Palestinian
children killed in Israeli attacks in Gaza | Al Jazeera Newsfeed: Here is a list of the names we know, from more than 11,500
children killed during Israel’s war on Gaza. Even this is less than half of
those killed.”
2 February 2024
This is just a sample
collection of such reports in Al-Jazeera, obtained by just a casual
three minute search in google, where the subject of “children” killed by
the Israeli forces features in the headlines. Needless to say, there
must be countless more headlines (not detected in this casual search) where
this same theme is repeated by Al-Jazeera alone, countless times more
cases where the theme is reported by Al-Jazeera not in the headlines but within
the reports, and multiple countless times more cases where the same
theme is repeated with admirable passion and pathos by countless other (than
Al-Jazeera) pro-Islamic and woke and leftist reporters, journalists, media
agencies and personnel, and political activists, in every corner of every
country in the world. Just one example:
https://www.facebook.com/thewire.in/videos/kochi-activists-read-out-names-of-1500gaza-children-killed-in-israeli-strikessim/1358347769410749/
“Kochi
Activists Read Out Names of 1,500 Gaza Children Killed in Israeli Strikes
Similar readings will be held across Kerala, aiming to speak aloud names of
18,000 children killed in Gaza — a call for collective grief and
resolution. #watchcommunity”
14 October 2025
No, this is not
something incidental in news reporting. This is a very major and fundamental
psychological weapon in the armory of Islamic and pro-Islamic (woke leftist and
anti-Semitic) propaganda, used against non-Muslim adversaries.
To put things in their
perspective, here are three examples of Al-Jazeera headlines about Kashmiri
Muslim “children” killed by Indian forces:
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/21/heart-bleeds-kashmiris-grieve-children-killed-on-india-pakistan-frontier
21 May 2025
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/7/2/photo-of-toddler-sitting-on-his-grandfathers-body-angers-kashmir
2 July 2020
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/11/19/pakistan-india-shells-kill-three-children-in-kashmir
19 November 2016
Again, as I said above,
this is just a sample collection of such reports in Al-Jazeera, obtained
by just a casual three minute search in google, where the subject of
“children” killed by Indian forces features in the headlines. Needless
to say, there must be countless more headlines where this same theme is
repeated by Al-Jazeera alone, countless times more cases where the theme
is reported by Al-Jazeera not in the headlines but within the reports,
and multiple countless times more cases where the same theme is repeated
with admirable passion and pathos by countless other (than Al-Jazeera)
pro-Islamic and woke and leftist reporters, journalists, media agencies and
personnel, and political activists, in every corner of every country in the
world.
And it is very
effective, as I have seen many times. The moment − however fishily,
incongruously, insincerely, falsely, artificially or hypocritically − the
“children are being killed” arrow is shot against non-Muslims in any discussion
or report of any Muslim-vs.-non-Muslim conflict situation, countless otherwise
sane and even pro-Hindu people seem to lose all sense of proportion, balance,
common sense and even honesty, and get so overwhelmed by the “I must show how
much I care for children” obsession or syndrome, that they steadfastly refuse
to see reason. On a Hindu and Hindutvavadi online discussion site of which I
was a member, an otherwise sane and rational (and very much Hindu-minded) lady
member seemed to go berserk in attacking Israel for the Palestinian “children”
she insisted they were deliberately, calculatedly and cold-bloodedly
slaughtering in the “Palestinian” areas, however much attempts were made to
make her see reason. I finally gave up, realizing the overpowering power of
psychological warfare in brainwashing minds and numbing reason, but also
deciding that this powerful psychological weapon must one day be made a subject
of an article.
As I pointed out in my
recent article, “Israel, Palestinians, and India”: “Eerily, increasing numbers of
non-leftist Hindus (including even Hindus who are avowedly “Hindutva”-minded)
also shed crocodile-tears for Palestinians and talk of the rights of
Palestinians, in line with the guidelines of woke-dictated political-“correctness”-dogma.
And the strange part of it is that these Hindus, without exhibiting even the
slightest blush of shame, quote the woke spokespersons of the west as
authorities on the Israel-Palestine issue – spokespersons who have never
seen fit to comment on the ethnic cleansing of Hindus in Kashmir, Pakistan or
Bangladesh, but who allege instead that Muslims are being targeted in India!”
It is a
well-known and universally observed fact that, in every Muslim-vs.-non-Muslim
conflict in the world, children are the biggest weapon used by Islamic
fundamentalists and extremists in propaganda wars − and before that in
actual conflicts with their non-Muslim adversaries, beginning with the stone
throwing Islamic mobs which attack the security forces trying to keep order in
non-Muslim countries always keeping crowds of children (and women) in the
vanguard of the mobs (besides using children as spies, messengers, conduits for
drugs and weapons, and even as actual shooters and bombers). This is
the case not only in matters pertaining to Israel, but also in matters
pertaining to Kashmir:
24 April, 2025.
Apart from the fact
that the “outrage” is always selective and biased, against Jews and Hindus, and
in support of Muslims, the fact that children are expressly used as shields and
weapons by Islamic “movements” is usually ignored by the anti-Hindu and “anti-Semitic”
(i.e. anti-Jew) media.
In fact, see the way,
even as it is forced to acknowledge this fact, the “google overview” reply to a question “reports about children used as shooters in
Kashmir”
twists the issue round to claim that Muslim children are targeted while these same
children, when (one supposes) therefore forced to take up arms, spare Hindu children!
“Reports indicate that
militant groups in Kashmir have recruited and used minors as combatants.
Eyewitnesses in recent terror attacks have also described some of the
assailants as appearing to be teenagers, although the primary victims of
violence in the region are often children and civilians.
Recruitment of Children by Militant Groups
Human rights reports and
news articles have highlighted the use of children by militant outfits in Jammu
and Kashmir.
·
A 2019 report noted a rise in the number of local recruits,
including minors, with some joining groups like Hizbul Mujahideen and
Lashkar-e-Taiba.
·
In some cases, minors as young as 14 and 17 were killed in
encounters with security forces.
·
Reports suggest that factors such as alleged police harassment,
exposure to violence, and social media influence played a role in pushing some
minors towards militancy.
·
Authorities have also intercepted and counselled minor boys
attempting to cross the Line of Control for training.
Children as Victims of
Violence
Children in Kashmir are
significantly impacted by the conflict, often as victims rather than
perpetrators.
·
A report by the Jammu and Kashmir Coalition of Civil Society
(JKCCS) documented that over 300 children were killed between 2003 and 2017,
many of whom were shot dead by security forces or died due to pellet gun
injuries.
·
The UN Secretary-General has urged India to end the use of
pellet guns against children.
·
Children have also been killed in blasts and crossfire during
counter-insurgency operations.
·
In the April 2025 Pahalgam terror attack, eyewitnesses described
some of the attackers as approximately 15-year-old boys who separated men from
women and children before shooting the men. The victims in this incident were
primarily adult male tourists and one local pony operator.”
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