Can’t be sure on this one – although I personally feel pretty sure. This fits “the squad” well – they are young and brash and products and producers of the this digital age. They are not immune to information control – either as the victims, or the perpetrators. I do not see these women as the “vanguards” they see themselves as. Lately, they have become like their conterparts on the far right (in Congress) – they are flailing, grasping, at something, anything…

But this story has a dubious list of corroborators:

1. MSN – at least it appears in the “opinon” section.
2. Johnathan Turley – smart guy, but definitely swayed by the Right. This is out of his scope as a lawyer – he’s being a pundit here.
3. Fox. Again, these guys used to be unreliable, but lately, they are the ones fighting censorship, and allowing diversity of opinion. Still – they say wacky things.
4. New York Post. Tabloid.
5. The Denver Gazette. ?
6. Newsbreak. The jump on the bandwagon, calling Omar anti-semitic. Tired.
7. Washington Examiner. D.C. political tabloid

Pretty weak list – right-wing, woman-haters. Click-bait tabloids. None of them link to the actual post – because it’s been taken down by Omar. That’s the big proof – the perpetrator hiding her tracks.

They all say (exactly) this:

A community note from X stated that the picture was a 2013 sarin gas attack in Ghouta, Syria, and not from the Israel-Hamas war

But no one links the community note. It’s classic viral spread. Probably Fox started it, and the above line is now galvanized – but where is the “community note”?

The false statements and picture were originally posted by Sulaiman Ahmed . Here

Here is the original (from Syria). I believe this is the one Obama chose to ignore, due to legal complications – and his career. When Assad did it again (allegedly, in both cases?). Trump chose to retalliate. Note that it is against international law to use chemical weapons on your own people.