Recently, the alleged Palestinian anarchist organization Fauda (Chaos;the same name as the popular Netflix series) has gained popularity amongWestern leftist activists. This happened thanks to the vigorous activityof "Fauda" on the Internet. They run telegram channels , speak onInstagram , etc. After the Palestinian attack on Israel on October 7,the US-based Black Rose Anarchist Federation conducted an interview witha Fauda member, and excerpts from interviews with other participantswere published by the Anarchist Agency website.We carefully studied the content of their media channels. Doubts wereraised by the fact that no real evidence of the existence of Fauda wasfound. No photographs from any protests in Palestine, even with masks orpainted faces, no leaflets pasted on the walls.There are only a few videos of their speaker Abu Al-Rob speaking. Thelast of them - and the only one in which the voice is not heavilydistorted - was published on October 26. In it, he expressed support forthe October 7 attack and stated that Fauda, together with all otherPalestinian organizations, was fighting against Israel.We asked our Arab comrades: is it possible to verify the authenticity ofthe video based on the accent of "Abu Al-Roba"?And they received this answer: "He is a non-native speaker who tried hisbest to imitate a Levantine accent (shamiy) while delivering writtenspeech because he wanted people to believe that he was speaking from aPalestinian. This is 10,000% fake, even the phonetics of simple wordsare pronounced incorrectly, and it is clear that this is not aPalestinian speaking. Also, some letters sound terrible when spoken."Israeli comrades reported that they saw the activities of "Fauda" on theInternet, but did not trust this group. And they put forward a number ofversions - from the fact that the sound in the video was created byartificial intelligence, which reads the text in order to protect theidentity of the guy who wrote it, to the fact that these could berefugees who have lived abroad for a long time and have forgotten thelanguage.But Arabic speakers rejected these versions too. As they told us, in thevideo you can hear different intonations in the same words, as well asshortening/lengthening of syllables, so it is definitely read by a livenarrator. And the Arabic language is so bad that it is unlikely thatthis was a refugee, even one who left the country a long time ago:"If you're Palestinian, you get the vocabulary right, which isn't reallyevident in the pronunciation. A much more plausible explanation is anattempt to portray a local person as a non-local. This person cannotpronounce the sound kh[h], no matter where it is in each word. And thefact that he always pronounces it softer/harder is actually a decentclue to suggest that he never spoke Arabic as a first language."A more plausible version of the Israeli comrades is that the "Fauda"label was invented by the Israeli intelligence services in order to"catch with live bait" - to monitor the moods of gullible Western andRussian-speaking leftists writing to Fauda's contacts and take them intoaccount. (Fauda has a resource in Russian). A possible motive for thefraud is collecting money from Western leftists, as in the posterpicture for the post.In general, apparently, no "Fauda" really exists, and whether it wascreated by the special services or are just some impostors ofnon-Palestinian origin who played such a game for dubious purposes isanyone's guess.Abu Ilyas al-Bibihttps://blackrosefed.org/interview-fauda-palestine/(en) US, BRRN: Voices from the Front Line Against the Occupation:Interview with Palestinian Anarchists (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machinetranslation]https://www.ainfos.ca/23/oct/ainfos00833.htmlhttps://avtonom.org/news/feyk-haos-organizaciya-palestinskih-anarhistov-fauda_________________________________________A - I N F O S N E W S S E R V I C EBy, For, and About AnarchistsSend news reports to A-infos-en mailing listA-infos-en@ainfos.ca
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