“Pro-Palestinian online activists set off internet storm with claim American-born Rebecca shot dead #RazanNajjar on Friday, but she hasn’t been in army for years and wasn’t a sniper”

TIMES OF ISRAEL
IDF vet gets death threats after she’s falsely accused of killing Gaza medic
by Judah Ari Gross
June 3, 2018

A demonstrably false claim started spreading on social media sites around the world on Friday night, accusing a long-since-released IDF soldier, Rebecca, of being the sniper who shot dead a Palestinian medic during violent clashes along the Gaza border earlier that day. Amid widespread Palestinian and international anger over the killing of Razan Najjar, a 21-year-old volunteer paramedic, during a riot along the security fence, the baseless accusation about Rebecca spread rapidly on social media, prompting threats against the former servicewoman, her friends, and family members. READ MORE

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