Israellycool And Readers Get Shirley Temper’s Name Splashed Across Daily Mail (Updated)

It could have been a huge PR disaster when the below images were posted in the mainstream media, including the Daily Mail, and went viral.

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Ostensibly, it looks like every Israel hater’s wet dream: images of an armed IDF soldier trying to detain a young boy wearing a sling, while having women and children trying to stop him, armed with nothing but their hands.

Of course, there was context.

“The youth in the picture was seen throwing rocks, and as such a decision was made to arrest him. During the arrest, a violent provocation began which included a number of Palestinian women and children. As a result of the violent clash, a decision was made by the regional commander to cease the arrest,” the IDF said in a statement.

Army officials added that: “Two additional Palestinian youths were arrested for throwing stones during the violent clashes. The soldier pictured was lightly wounded as a result of the violent actions against him.”

But the initial Daily Mail report very much reflected the “simple” narrative

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And then something amazing happened.

Israellycool readers recognized the biting girl as the Pallywood star “Shirley Temper”, whose exploits I have documented comprehensively on this blog. Exploits which involve deliberately trying to provoke IDF soldiers under the watchful and encouraging eye of her parents, in order to produce great images for propaganda.

And they might have gotten away with it too, had it not been for those meddling yids!

Readers inundated the Daily Mail with links to this blog showing what Shirley Temper and her family have been up to. And Brian of London also contacted an editor over at the paper.

And the Daily Mail responded – by changing the tone of the story entirely, providing context to it and revealing Shirley Temper’s history.

Questions raised over shocking West Bank image of boy with a broken arm being held at gunpoint by an Israeli soldier after girl, 13, seen biting attacker is revealed as prolific ‘Pallywood star’

Questions have been raised over the authenticity of shocking images of a boy with a broken arm being held at gunpoint by an Israeli soldier after a 13-year-old girl seen biting his attacker is said to be a prolific ‘Pallywood star’.

The remarkable images which surfaced online on Friday appeared to show an IDF soldier armed with a machine gun grappling with the little boy as two women make desperate attempts to pull him off following protests in the West Bank.

A young girl is seen ambushing the balaclava-clad soldier by forcing the weapon from his hands and biting him before he flees the scene.

But it is thought the young girl in the photographs is Ahed Tamimi, whose parents Bassem and Nariman – also pictured – are well-known Palestinian activists in their village of Nabi Saleh.

The teenager has appeared in a string of similar videos where she challenges Israeli security forces and rose to prominence after she was filmed confronting one who arrested her brother, which resulted in her being presented with a bravery award.

She was handed the ‘Handala Award for Courage’ by the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, in Istanbul, where she reportedly expressed she would like to live.

Online blogs have dubbed her ‘Shirley Temper’ and accused her of being a ‘Pallywood’ star – a term coined by author Richard Landes, describing the alleged media manipulation by Palestinians to win public relations war against Israel.

Her father, Bassem al-Tamimi, was convicted by an Israeli military court in 2011 for ‘sending people to throw stones, and holding a march without a permit’ – a charge his lawyers deny.

He has been jailed eight times, while his wife has been detained five times. Other family members, including their son Waed, has also been arrested.

Bassem organises weekly protests and it was reportedly at one of these demonstrations that the shocking images are said to have been taken.

An Israeli army spokesman said that Palestinians had been throwing stones at an IDF force which was set up in the area.

An image has emerged on the internet of a boy, said to be the youth that was held at gunpoint, throwing rocks with one arm, while his other remained in plaster and in a sling.

The spokesman added that a decision was made to arrest the boy and it was during the detention that a ‘violent provocation’ began, including a number of Palestinian women and children.

He told Haaretz that there was ‘a violent disturbance of the peace in Nabi Saleh, in which Palestinians threw stones at IDF forces that were in the place.

‘The youth who was photographed was identified by the lookout force as a stone-thrower, and because of this it was decided to detain him.

At the time of the arrest, a violent provocation by a number of Palestinians developed, including women and children. In light of the violent altercation, the commander decided to not to go ahead with the detention.’

He added: ‘Two additional Palestinian youths were arrested for throwing stones during the violent clashes. The soldier pictured was lightly wounded as a result of the violent actions against him.’

Notice the oblique reference to Israellycool as “online blogs” (for the record, I invented the label Shirley Temper).

But I’ll take this as a win. Allowed to go unchecked, this would have been an unmitigated PR disaster for Israel. As it is, I am sure some damage has been done, but not as much as would have been the case had the Daily Mail not been alerted to the Tamimi family’s background in Pallywood productions. Now, Daily Mail readers will see the images, read the article, and might ask “What kind of parents would allow their child – already in a sling – to be placed in harm’s way?”

So thank you dear readers. We really can make a difference.

Update: Ahed Tamimi, Shirley Temper herself, shared on her Facebook page a link to the original Daily Mail story.

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She’s in for a rude shock when she discovers it now points to the updated version, which exposes her family’s antics to a larger audience.

Update: It looks like The Telegraph had covered the confrontation, but has now pulled the story.

Update: This photo confirms the IDF account – Shirley Temper’s brother was throwing rocks before his Oscar-winning performance (hat tip: Johnny and other readers).

Update (Brian): The photo of the brother throwing rocks may have been doctored. We have taken it down pending more investigation.

78 thoughts on “Israellycool And Readers Get Shirley Temper’s Name Splashed Across Daily Mail (Updated)”

  1. Why was the soldier acting alone? Where were his comrades? Why did he attempt to arrest the kid alone? Where was his riot gear?

    Soldiers are usaully sent in groups. Either way the whole event was badly mismanaged. I have been at such an event. The Camera men come equipped with gas masks because they know there will be tear gas. There are quite a few of them. They are playing the game “To catch A Jew”. There is violent demonstration like this every Friday. After mosque prayers they come out of Nabi Saleh down the hill towards the road. Same time same place very Friday.

    Soldiers are either sent in full riot gear with proper equipment for dispersing riots. Many times border Patrol do the hard part since they are best trained to handle riot control. The smart commanders simply send Border Patrol into the village and stop them before they get out. There also is team on top of the hill to block their second path to the road. I just don’t see this kind of mishap was allowed to happen.

    1. The second I saw the clip I that was my very first thought–WTF was he doing running after the kid in the first place (in other videos the soldiers have been the absolute epitome of calm, and have always refused to rise to the bait), and secondly, WTF was he doing by himself?

      It’s possible, of course, that he simply lost it. Also, based on the covering on his face, it looks like he had a gas mask that was pulled off him (the one Ahed is grabbing??).

      Anyway, I’m very interested to hear the background.

    2. He was set up. Probably was on patrol and tried to chase down a rock thrower. Very dumb as they were ready to film him and he was stuck in a situation where if he let the kid go it would be a propaganda victory and if he didnt it would look like he was attacking a kid. I’m guessing they are trained to stay passive in the situation and not aim his gun at anyone to try and limit the PR damage done.

    3. Agreed. The real problem for me was the IDF soldier’s clumsiness and his unit’s lack of response while he was being pummeled by a bunch of women.

  2. @Riaz Zair: you and the Pallywood Propaganda Industry of Lies are the disgrace. You are the colonialist Arab theives.

    Telling Jews to “go back to Poland”? Nice touch. Stay klassy, Zair.

  3. Riaz Zair, says: “Israel is populated by the Talmud – not Semites”

    That sentence doesn’t actually mean anything, Zair.

  4. Riaz Zair: we’re on to islam’s perverse ideology.

    mohammed designed islam as a
    replacement and superior ‘religion’.
    He did this because allah ‘told him’ that
    Christianity was corrupt and Judaism extinct.
    Ergo, the very existence of living breathing
    Jews and Christians (forget even about Israel….)
    calls into question the ‘perfect and unchangeable’ koran
    and it’s main spokesperson, mohammad.

    In the koran, this is blasphemy, the penalty is death.
    Hence, continual warfare against Jews and Christians
    is required of all muzlims.

    politicalislam.com

  5. Round of applause! And I never knew who came up with “Shirley Temper”. I’ve been using it for years. Thank you. That’s awesome!

  6. “She was handed the ‘Handala Award for Courage’ by the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdo?an,”

    That is why I don’t sympathize with Erdogan now that the Kurds are turning the guns on Turkey.

    1. Actually, they aren’t.

      Erdogan siezed the opportunity to turn his planes loose on the Kurds. He isn’t really attacking ISIS, he;s attacking the Kurds.

  7. Mariann Bacharach

    Check out her Facebook page. She is a bit obsessed about having blue eyes it appears. Can you say racial supremacy issues?

  8. I’m glad that Israellycool provided needed context to this incident, but how is this exactly a news story? Nobody’s covering it here in America that I can see. Not the Left or the Right. This is just one more episode of the status quo of an unresolved conflict. No movement towards a two-state solution or any efforts to annex all or parts of Judea and Samaria (West Bank if that is the preferred language). Just more of the same.

    1. how is this exactly a news story?

      Thanks to Israellycool and other notable news bloggers, these stories DO make the light of day.

    2. This is just one more episode of the status quo
      of an unresolved conflict.

      Yes.
      It’s all about the hatred embedded in the koran
      The koran is hate speech on an unprecedented scale.
      islam must go!

    3. You might want to check CNN.com. They decided to fall for the story hook, line, and sinker, posting it prominently on the front page.

  9. I am wondering why the Israelis don’t invent a weapon that could immobilize the attackers. A Taser in baton form would be perfect. The soldier could have had all of them immobilized and arrested and placed in jail where they belong.

    1. They shudnt be “immobilised”, they shud be shot. Muslim violence cannot be stopped, except by killing the attackers. Do you know what a stone from a sling can do to an eye-socket?

      1. I see your point. In every other mid east country they would be tortured and shot. But Israel is more civilized, and they don’t have the death penalty. Longer terms in their jail sentence would work for me.

  10. I saw this article this morning in CNN news on my Yahoo home page. I wonder if I ever will see a retraction from either.

  11. Oh, I thought I recognized the blondie from previous vids. I did not know she has name now! Shirley “Temper” suits her to a tee.

  12. Dave, is the boy in this oldwer photo not the little shyster with the fake plaster? Can Aussie Dave allow me to call him, “Palywood’s Fred Plaster”?

    Come to think about it, the fake journalist raghead may be one of the women grappling with our soldier. Can anyone help identifying these professional provocateurs? This is the term “professional Pallywood provocateurs”!

  13. I wouldn’t crow too loudly cobber. When all the fluff of partisan interpretation is stripped away, we are stlll left with an armed soldier brutalising a child, and knocking around some women – on camera for all to see. That’s the reality of the occupation, and no amount of ‘context’ is gonna smooth that away.

    1. And it is this sort of cynical reduction and minimization that feeds the lie .In case you haven’t noticed, more and more often this type of pre-meditated manipulation is being confronted, de-bunked and exposed for exactly what it is ;the consumer public is simply no longer buying it so easily. and BIG Media is backing away, as they did in this case.

    2. Kathy Prendergast

      Knocking around some women? I’d say the women were knocking him around, not to mention biting him. That act alone would get you shot in many countries, regardless of age. He was trying to arrest the boy because the boy was throwing stones at him,which is what these little bastards do, regularly…not pebbles, STONES; what’s he supposed to do, just stand there and endure it until one of them takes one of his eyes out? He didn’t exercise good judgment trying to take on this pack of hyenas alone, that’s all. And as I’ve mentioned before, I’d strongly recommend he seek medical attention for that bite; god only knows what kinds of diseases those mangy little gutter rats are carrying.

      1. I think you may have mislaid your humanity??? To refer to human beings as ‘hyenas’ and ‘gutter rats’ displays an ugly mindset. We have many examples of where that kind of language from the dark past leads. Palestinians are under occupation. They have the absolute right to resist a foreign army by any means they choose. It’s a bit of an unequal struggle tho – stones, and YouTube against guns. And don’t tell me the land is Israel and the IDF are not occupiers. If that’s the case, and assuming Israel is still a democracy, why don’t the 2.5 million Palestinians in Samaria and Judea have full citizenship rights, inc the vote?

        1. don’t tell me the land is Israel and the IDF are not occupiers.

          OK saamir, don’t take it from me:

          The UN lies about international law. What a surprise.

          A press release from the UN last Thursday says:

          Today, the Humanitarian Coordinator for the occupied Palestinian territory, Robert Piper, visited Susiya, a Palestinian herding community in Area C in the southern West Bank, where homes and community structures are at imminent threat of demolition. He was accompanied by senior officials from the Governments of Norway, Switzerland and Italy.

          The destruction of private property in occupied territory is permitted in cases of military necessity. But that’s not the reason Israel is allowed (and even obligated) to demolish the buildings in Sussiya.

          The reason is that under international law, even if you consider Area C to be occupied, the occupier must continue to use existing laws from before the occupation for zoning and the like. In this case, it means that Israel must enforce the zoning laws under Jordanian and British and even Ottoman regimes that were in effect in 1967.

          And Israel is doing exactly that.

          http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2015/07/the-un-lies-about-international-law.html#.VeHrkYs-DZs

          1. Mate. Seriously. Forget the history lessons. Both sides can bang on forever about the ottomans, the British, the mandate, even the bible. It’s all BS. All that matters is the here and now. Read my earlier message on this thread. The reality of this situation really is incredibly simple, though of course the solution is anything but.

              1. You really are a dickhead mate. Your ‘contributions’ have no value. Please don’t bother responding to mine in future. I certainly won’t be bothering with yours.

        2. Kathy Prendergast

          Oh dear, I think if you have to retire to your fainting couch when someone refers to bunch of bratty stone-throwing, biting kids and screeching women as “hyenas” and “gutter rats” you’re in the wrong place.

    3. disqus_Pb5yBxXpB8

      Aside from the reality that the Arabs have been attacking and killing the Jews (not to mention everyone else including others of different Muslim faith streams) since they discovered a religious rationalization for their vicious tribal aggressions, and the reality that the recent stream of attacks specifically on Jews of that region began in the mid 1800’s, long before there was even a thought of a State of Israel, and aside from the fact that soldiers are supposed to carry guns to protect their citizens from the violence and aggressions of their vicious, violent enemies, and aside from the fact that it was the women who were attacking the armed soldier, who despite all that violence directed at him as he tried to effect an arrest chose not to defend himself with his gun, and despite the fact that this event was pre-planned, positioning photgraphers to ensure that lots of publicity would flow from the manipulations involved, and aside from the fact that throwing rocks in most jurisdictions in the US is felony assault and has resulted in maimings and death of victims all over the world, and aside from the misrepresentation of the Israeli occupation as being oppressive when it is caused entirely by the Arab refusal to establish peaceful relations with Israel over many decades of negotiation, you’ve got everything just right.

      1. Blah blah blah……. Both sides can argue about all that stuff, from now till the end of eternity. Here is the problem for israel – if the West Bank is not part of, and doesn’t belong to Israe, then the IDF are foreign occupiers. Pure and simple. No logical argument. Under those circumstances, the population under occupation is fully entitled to use any and all means to resist and liberate the territory. On the other hand, If the West Bank is part of, and does belong to israel, then the entire population there must enjoy all the same citizenship rights (inc the vote), as those Israelis within the 67 lines. Pure and simple again. No logical argument. You can’t have your cake and eat it, as the saying goes. Actually, you kinda can, if you go for the greater israel option, WITHOUT granting citizenship rights to the entire west bank population. But then israel is a self declared, unambiguous apartheid state.

        1. disqus_Pb5yBxXpB8

          It’s interesting that you can be so certain and yet so wrong. First of all, the West Bank hasn’t belonged to anyone, in the national sense, in two thousand years, though it has over the centuries been administered by various foreign nations. The most recent previous administrator was Jordan, which conquered the area when the various Arab nations and groups refused to accept the UN mandate for “Two states, one Arab and one Jewish” in this region. The word so frequently misused, or perhaps misunderstood would be a more helpful term, is “occupation”. Pro-terror advocates have tweaked such terms to deceptively suggest that Israel violates international law (not true), or that this is a choice Israel made to oppress a peaceful neighbor (also not true). Israel has had nobody with whom to make peace in these lands. Look at Iran for an example of the prevailing beliefs. Or even Jordan & Egypt, both of whom have nominal peace treaties with Israel, finally, yet provide their populations with movies, books (“Mein Kampf, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, etc.) TV shows, classroom education all vilifying Israel and encouraging an attitude of animus and ultimately likely future aggressions.
          Israel’s Jewish population has been repeatedly been attacked by all kinds of terrorist groups, dozens of them, since long before there was even an Israel. I remember a warning in the Sixties to be careful buying bread in Israel supermarkets because Arabs were placing explosives in the loaves on shelves. This practice was enthusiastically renewed in the Eighties. Peaceful co-existence? The Arabs have clearly demonstrated they have no such interest.
          The logical response to violent attack is defense. This occupation, so emotionally misused, is just that. A defensive policing of a population from which violent terrorist attacks have been emanating for many, many decades. So it’s occupation in the sense that Israel polices it in the absence of any other government body willing to so engage. But it’s NOT occupation in the sense of deliberate, unprovoked, unjustified conquest, which is how so much of the pro-terror crowd misuses that term.

          1. Hi. You are clearly a very thoughtful person, and also well informed. Much of what you say, I can agree with. I am very far from an enemy of Israel. I’ve just come back from there (my second visit in two years). I love the idea of Israel, like the people, and have enormous respect for the country. My GF is Jewish by the way (we have many heated arguments). There is another side of the narrative tho – one of Israeli incursions into Lebanon, siege of gaza, settling the WB, that do not place israel in a good light. This reality needs to be recognised by zionists also. A solution has to be found that recognises the needs of Israelis to live in permanent peace, and also the needs of Palestinians to love a decent, productive live, with the kinds of rights Israelis take for granted. Whether this delivered thro a two state solution, or a full annexation with citizenship rights for all in an expanded Israel. Keep in touch. It’s good to talk.

            1. disqus_Pb5yBxXpB8

              Thanks. You have to be married before you can really appreciate arguing with your beloved.
              Siege of Gaza? Israel walked away from a functioning Gaza region – a region which Egypt had walked away from decades earlier – leaving behind well developed resources which could have provided a great standard of living. Hamas conquered the area, demolished all those agricultural and industrial opportunities, built fancy estates for their senior personnel, diverted most other resources toward killing Jews rather than assisting their own people, and continue to this day to disregard their own peoples’ interests because their explicit goal, as clearly articulated in their own Charter, is to “Kill the Jew wherever you may find him.”

              Lebanon? Hizb’allah kills Israelis, nobody utters a peep of regret. Israel retaliates or proactively interrupts some murderous action…. Israeli aggression is the prevailing mislabel.

              There were Arab leaders who wanted peace with the Jews. They were all assassinated, leading to a weltanschauung which results in hostility toward Israel no matter how idiotic. And in Israel defending herself and then being accused of all kinds of lies. You can’t have a two state solution when only one group is agreeable. It becomes even harder when 22 culture-sharing nations all agree to try to kill Jews and destroy Israel, while she’s got virtually no help at all, because everyone needs oil, and the Arabs have that in spades.

              I can’t see any hope for your optimism. “A solution has to be found…” There can only be a solution when both parties are willing. And the Arabs aren’t. Just read the new book by Khameini, who is determined to wipe out Israel and then come after America. Gives one pause, doesn’t it? As awful as we have often been, there are countries – and not just a few – that are determined to be far worse.

              1. It’s so refreshing to find someone one this thread who one can have an intelligent conversation with. Some of the comments here (from both sides) are truly appaling. I look forward to coming back to you later.

  14. Let’s do the same for CNN. They have an abominable Pali propaganda headline about this incident. They actually present the facts of the father filming the entire family’s weekly attempts at inciting Israeli soldiers. Yet they utterly fail to draw the logical and obvious conclusion that this is pure Pallywood. Is CNN so in the Arab pocket that they can’t even report the truth about Palestinian incitement when it smacks them in the face? How can CNN so blatantly condemn only the Israeli soldier who was assaulted while carrying out his lawful duties?

    1. We can see the brave father putting down his camera to “rescue” his son and aid his wife and daughter. Oh. No. He didn’t. Just kept shooting the video. Why isn’t anyone questioning his actions and behaviour?

        1. Kathy Prendergast

          That’s the responsible thing to do. But just because he doesn’t have a stone in his hand in the photo, doesn’t mean he didn’t throw stones. Don’t all the reports of the incident say the boy was throwing stones? Why else would the soldier have tried to arrest him? Throwing stones is not “not a big deal”; it’s attempted grievous bodily harm, if not murder…I have had stones thrown at me and it’s terrifying, and when one of them hits it really,really f***in’ hurts. If it were me in that soldier’s place that boy would have been lucky not to get his other arm broken.

      1. I’ve watched that blown up and in slowmotion, his hand is empty. Maybe he was practicing or loosening up like a pitcher. But his hand is devoid of anything. Totally empty.

  15. disqus_Pb5yBxXpB8

    Your cheery “It could have been a huge PR disaster…: misses the point and is hopelessly wrong. It WAS and will continue to be a huge PR disaster. Once this sort of misconception makes it into public view, it gets copied and repeated all over the place. Corrections are never allowed to interfere with this misdirection which proves so useful to the anti-Israel crowd. Even such photos as the Rachel Corrie Photoshopped image with shadows obviously going in different directions continue to be posted and totally accepted by those who are hostile to Israel interests, indeed, those indifferent to justice of any sort. So no, this WAS and will continue to be a huge disaster. There is no mitigation possible once these deceptions are launched. Check out Electronic Intifada or any number of other sources to see how such lies are perpetuated. I can’t imagine how to counteract them, but certainly unjustified optimism is not helpful.

  16. The video shows an IDF soldier attacking a little boy with a broken arm all on his own, armed only with a machine gun. What courage! What bravery! It’s too bad the IDF didn’t show this kind of “bravery” when they went up against the troops of Hezbollah in 2006 in Lebanon.

  17. Sadly Israel convicted the young soldier put in an untenable position saying he shot a man already down- However some evidence exists that the attacker reached for what may have been a trigger or other weapon.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB1eBvlN5X8

    ISRAEL you cannot continue to put these young people in these situations and NOT expect them NOT to react. Just to be able to claim most moral army ….throwing your own children to a pit of vipers, a field day for jewhaters at UN who will use this as a weapon too.

    The enemies would have given him a parade.

    Impossible, unrealistic ROE are also killing USA soldiers .

      1. no I posted it here b/c it’s relevant to the same problem- putting soldiers into impossible situations…giving them ROE that do not protect Israelis or soliders.

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