Thread by @HonestReporting

This is how anti-Israel smears so often start: With Palestinian lies.

Quds News is a Hamas-affiliated news agency. Here, a viral tweet tells of four Palestinian "teenagers" who were killed by the Israeli military.

Here's what they're not telling you:

An article posted to the Hamas website openly described the four as "heroic martyrs of Palestine" who took part in "heroic armed clashes."

hamas.ps/ar/post/13638/…

The same article refers to Jenin's "heroic resistance" and hails how the city "continues to confront the occupation and storm it with bullets."

Here are some more pictures of the "martyrs."

And another...

One more:

But Quds News isn't telling its readers that Hamas has admitted the four took part in "heroic armed clashes", nor the fact that it described their city as "storming [Israel] with bullets".

And it certainly isn't showing any of those pictures.

This is important because Quds News is seen by leading anti-Israel smear activists such as Ali Abunimah of the Electronic Intifada.

Abunimah shared the Quds News tweet not once, but twice.

It's also been shared by academics and policy analysts influential in anti-Israel circles, such as Dr. Yara Hawari, of Al-Shabaka.

And here's another academic, this time in America, Shabana Mir.

So the half-truth has gone from Hamas-affiliated media outlet to anti-Israel activists, Palestinian academics and now to Muslim American academics.

This is how the Hamas narrative reaches American audiences.

Update: And this video of one of the four also came to light yesterday.

#Incriminating.

After watching that video, you may recognise the face here, in another tweet issued by Quds News: It's that of Nour Jarrar.