The small yet vocal Western pro-Assad chorus effectively splintered western pro-Palestine solidarity camp into those that believe in human rights and those that don’t. Palestinian activists have been very vocal that pro-Assad groups don’t represent them, but the damage is real.
https://twitter.com/therubykid/status/1363048202728067072
To their credit Palestinian student groups have organised effective boycotts and deplatformed those from this camp from their events, but there is a relentless war of words that always follows and they themselves become targets online for speaking out.
This fragmentation has continued, with leading activists who first started denying regime war crimes now turning to defend other atrocities alongside their allies in this camp, including many who were actively recruited by Russian state media. 
These people represent nobody but themselves and their easily debunked propaganda is mostly only convincing people without the intellectual capacity to think for themselves or do basic research, but their voices are among the loudest, and they are amplified on social media
Without the social media platforms to push atrocity revisionism, these figures would no longer be able to monetise their agitprop, and the problem would start to improve. But that’s like staring at the sky and praying for rain at this point.
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