| This weekend saw a new episode in the battle of digital narratives in Israel and Palestine — the uncanny horrors of which were haunting, even by recent standards. An article published by the Jerusalem Post, Israel’s most-read English newspaper, reported that widely-circulated photos of a Palestinian baby’s corpse held by his mother and grandfather were, in fact, pictures of a doll. The claim has been debunked by several journalists and fact-checking sites, and the baby was identified as Muhammad Hani Al-Zahar, five months of age. The Jerusalem Post has since retracted the article and issued a statement that they regret the incident. But – as is the case in an information landscape where the validation or condemnation of a foreign country’s actions is increasingly arbitrated online – the damage was already done. Multiple posts have since circulated on digital platforms, fanning the flames of the ‘fake babies’ theory and playing into insidious ‘Pallywood’ conspiracy theories of staged suffering. | 
