[Hat tip: commenter “miguel cervantes.”]

The Trump administration’s push to deport anti-Israel Columbia student activist leader Mohsen Mahdawi (my previous post on him can be found here) has become a cause celebre. But as one might suspect, much of the story – the narrative, as it were – that Mahdawi tells about himself is either a lie or a misleading distortion.

For example, he describes the deaths of loved ones at Israeli hands without mentioning any of the following details (the link is to the “X” page of David Collier):

It took me two days to find holes in the story. …

Mohsen says he was 10 when his best friend was shot in front of him in the al-Fara refugee camp. I checked the fatalities database for the time period. When he was 10 years old NO CHILDREN AT ALL were killed at his camp.
Something is wrong. …

But we shouldn’t be surprised. Only four people died in total during those four years in his camp. If only four people died over the course of four years, how did Mohsen scrape seven bodies off the wall in one night?

Did nobody bother to check any of his stories?

The answer is “no.” The stories are too good to fact-check by the MSM. However, so many of these stories – just like race hoaxes such as the one perpetrated by Jussie Smollett – are lies that rigorous fact-checking should be the first thing the MSM does when writing a story. Of course, it’s not. In my previous post on Mahdawi I mention the extraordinary lack of curiosity and research on the part of the MSM in writing this story; their failings were quite obvious.

More:

Then there is Mohsen’s family. He posted an image of seven people to his social media, mourning all of their deaths. I identified four. All were terrorists killed while fighting the IDF. His entire family appears to be terrorists – or terrorist supporters. …

… Mohsen claimed in an IG post that his two cousins were ‘assassinated’ – saying “an Israeli sniper unjustly shot the two brothers in the head.” In fact they died because they shot at Israeli soldiers and the soldiers shot back. …

In his Facebook group [from 2012] Mohsen promotes a show that ‘highlights the sacrifices of our martyred heroes, prisoners, and wounded.’ The show basically involves Mohsen’s mother going to the homes of the worst terrorist prisoners. He posts loads of these videos glorifying terrorists. …

Mohsen Mahdawi posted and promoted this in his own Facebook group: The Khaybar chant – an explicit call for a massacre of Jews, Vermont US Senator Peter Welch defended Mohsen as standing up against antisemitism. Mohsen’s own behavior strongly suggests otherwise. …

There’s no excusing any of this. The man who can do no wrong lied and promoted deadly terrorists and genocidal antisemitic chants. The media is failing us. The politicians are failing us. The truth is staring at us in the face but nobody wants to see it.

Actually, quite a few people see it – and have seen it for many many decades. It became crystal clear at the turn of the century with the al Durah hoax, although that was not its beginning. I’ve been writing about this sort of thing for the entire time I’ve been blogging. But things have only gotten worse, especially with the Democrats and the universities.

The man whose “X” feed I took those quotes from, David Collier, has also published this article on the subject at his website. Please read it for more details. And here is David Collier’s background. His name rang a bell with me, and sure enough, he was the person who just a couple of weeks ago exposed the BBC as creating a pro-Palestinian propaganda film that was subsequently pulled:

The BBC was recently caught publishing a documentary that secretly relied upon, and paid, the family of a senior Hamas official.

In the public outrage that followed, BBC executives were forced to take the documentary offline.

The documentary, titled “Gaza: How To Survive A War Zone,” allegedly cost over half a million dollars to make, and yet the Hamas ties to the production were exposed in less than twelve hours of the show airing. …

The unique aspect of the “BBC-gate” documentary saga was that it exposed BBC anti-Israel bias across the entire news-delivery supply chain. Once it left the hands of Hamas propaganda agents in Gaza, across the fixers and journalists, all the way to the BBC executives who rubbed their hands with glee and dreamed of global awards, the failure was complete, catastrophic and inexcusable. Not one part of the system did its job properly.

The MSM and the Democrats have decided to defend the Palestinian side, and part of doing so is to not question the stories of those like Mahdawi. Another benefit of spreading his story is to make him seem like an innocent victim of a marauding and tyrannical Trump administration, and promoting that narrative about Trump is one of their main goals.