Maram Susli
Maram Susli | |
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Personal information | |
Born | 1987 (age 36–37)[1] Damascus, Syria |
Website | syriangirlpartisan |
YouTube information | |
Channel | |
Subscribers | 95.8 thousand[2] |
Total views | 4.8 million[2] |
Last updated: 11 April 2024 |
Maram Susli (
Media outlets she has contributed to include
Early life
Susli was born in Damascus; her family moved to Australia when she was a child.[8][11] She studied chemistry at the University of Western Australia and has a science degree in biophysics and chemistry.[11][12]
Career
Susli's series of video and social media commentaries on her YouTube channel had over 30,000 subscribers and close to 2.5 million views in 2014.[13]
She has contributed to New Eastern Outlook,[14] which is an online pseudo-academic SVR-run disinformation and propaganda journal,[15][16] as well as the conspiracy website InfoWars,[4][5][17] and Russian and Iranian government propaganda outlets RT and Press TV,[8] and occasionally contributed to the Hezbollah-aligned Al Mayadeen. She was interviewed by white supremacist Richard Spencer.[18][19]
Views, conspiracy theories and misinformation
Susli began writing and speaking on the
According to
In 2014,
In 2017, along with
After the
During the
Following the 2024 Bondi Junction stabbings, Susli was among those falsely accusing a 20-year-old University of Technology Sydney student with a Jewish surname of carrying out the attack.[32]
InfoWars, Vice, and The Daily Beast interviews
In an interview with Alex Jones on InfoWars, following the Ghouta chemical attack of August 2013, she implied the rebels were responsible for the massacre. Susli said the Syrian government was a corrupt dictatorship and that there was "a legitimate reason for people to want to create ... change". She stated that the United States and NATO used the anger of the Syrian people to serve their own agendas.[12][33] At the time she had thousands of subscribers, which weren't verified.[34]
In a 2014
References
- ^ "The Kardashian wannabe trolling for Assad". Al Arabiya News. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ a b "About SyrianGirlpartisan". YouTube.
- ^ a b c "The Best English-speaking Friend Assad Could". Haaretz. 19 October 2014. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- ^ a b c "Tulsi Gabbard's Reports on Chemical Attacks in Syria - A Self-Contradictory Error Filled Mess". Bellingcat. 4 August 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2021.
- ^ a b c d e f Monbiot, George (15 November 2017). "A lesson from Syria: it's crucial not to fuel far-right conspiracy theories". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
The story was then embellished on Infowars – the notorious far-right conspiracy forum. The Infowars article claimed that the attack was staged by the Syrian first responder group, the White Helmets. This is a reiteration of a repeatedly discredited conspiracy theory, casting these rescuers in the role of perpetrators. It suggested that the victims were people who had been kidnapped by al-Qaida from a nearby city, brought to Khan Shaykhun and murdered, perhaps with the help of the UK and French governments, 'to lay blame on the Syrian government'. The author of this article was Mimi Al-Laham, also known as Maram Susli.
- ^ "Conspiracy Theorists, Right-wing Politicians Fuel Nord Stream Disinformation". 17 October 2022.
- ^ Cullotty, Eileen (2020). "Conspiracy and the epistemological challenges of mediatized conflict". In O'Loughlin, Ben; Parry, Katy; Rousell, Laura; Maltby, Sarah (eds.). Spaces of War, War of Spaces. Bloomsbury.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j Schachtman, Noah; Kennedy, Michael (17 October 2014). "The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad". The Daily Beast. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
It's little wonder that Susli found her way into [Alex] Jones' orbit as conspiracies lie at the heart of her worldview, if her comments on social media are any indication. According to her, 9/11 was an 'inside job.' al Qaeda and ISIS, by her telling, don't exist in the form they've been presented to the global public. First off, they're one in the same. Second, they're a CIA front—hence the use of 'ALCIAda,' a favorite portmanteau.
- ^ a b "'Partisan Girl' & the Online Battle for Syria". Al Bawaba. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ a b Koltai, Kolina (8 December 2023). "Images of Syrian Civil War Take on a Second Life in Gaza Conflict". bellingcat. Retrieved 11 December 2023.
- ^ a b c "Australian blogger Syrian Girl posts views on ISIS, US airstrikes, Ebola". news.com.au. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ a b Hilsman, Patrick (29 December 2016). "Down the Alt-Right's Syrian Rabbit Hole". Pulse. Retrieved 17 September 2020.
The Assad regime had a relationship with the American far-right long before Susli's appearances on InfoWars. ... [Speaking to Alex Jones, Susli said:] 'I'm not gonna come here and deny that the government wasn't a dictatorship, it wasn't corrupt, that, you know, that people weren't angry with it. I'm not gonna say that there wasn't a legitimate reason for people to want to create that change but the fact is that was totally exploited and even pre planned by the foreign agendas, the US, NATO, basically the global elite as you call them'. ... [Regarding the Ghouta chemical attack she said:] 'It's absolutely undeniable that little children died in Damascus three days ago and that the images are shocking and anyone cannot deny that ... and I also don't want to implicate the rebels as a whole. ... I don't want to implicate them directly because I'm sure some of them have families that live in that area and I believe that they themselves are pasties to a global game that they are cannon fodder for and the powers that be have managed to convince them that they are going to get armed that they are going to get no fly zones ...they want to divide Syria up into mini states and they wanna crush any rogue state'.
- ^ a b c d Valenzuela, Natalie (13 October 2014). "Meet the YouTube Sensation Who Predicts Syria's Future". Vice. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ^ a b "How Syrians Talk About Assad: Zaina Erhaim vs. Partisan Girl". Al Bawaba. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ISBN 978-1-9774-0687-3. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
- ^ Press Release. "Treasury Sanctions Russians Bankrolling Putin and Russia-Backed Influence Actors". United States Department of the Treasury. Retrieved 11 November 2022.
- ^ a b Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees (13 March 2017). "For Russian TV, Syria isn't just a foreign country — it's a parallel universe". The Washington Post. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ Kennedy, Noah Shachtman (17 October 2014). "The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad". The Daily Beast.
- ^ "Prominent white supremacists are still on YouTube in wake of ban | CNN Business". CNN. 11 June 2019.
- ISBN 9783838215761.
- ^ Silkoff, Shira (29 June 2021). "Former Democratic Congresswoman claims Jews caused 9/11 on Twitter". The Jerusalem Post. Retrieved 5 September 2021.
- ^ "Aussie internet sensation takes on IS". PerthNow. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ^ a b Ellis, Emma Fray (31 May 2017). "To Make Your Conspiracy Theory Legit, Just Find an 'Expert'". Wired. Retrieved 27 September 2017.
- ^ "Australian blogger Syrian Girl posts views on ISIS, US airstrikes, Ebola". NewsComAu. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 23 August 2021.
- ^ Bloomfield, Steve (17 July 2018). "Whatever happened to Seymour Hersh?". Prospect. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
- ^ Higgins, Eliot (4 April 2019). "Tulsi Gabbard's Reports on Chemical Attacks in Syria - A Self-Contradictory Error Filled Mess". Bellingcat. Retrieved 30 May 2021.
- ^ a b Stewart, Heather (19 April 2018). "Russia spread fake news via Twitter bots after Salisbury poisoning – analysis". The Guardian. Retrieved 22 May 2019.
- ^ a b c Williams, Martin (24 April 2018). "FactCheck: How Twitter users were wrongly labelled as Russian bots after a government briefing". Channel 4 News. London. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ "Fact Check: Does Video Show Israel Helicopter Shoot Festival Goers?". Newsweek. 13 November 2023.
- ^ "Distort and Deceive: One Pro-Assad Influencer's Disinfo War on Israel". polygraph.info. 15 November 2023.
- ^ Alba, Davey; Lu, Denise; Yin, Leon; Fan, Eric (21 November 2023). "How Musk's X Is Failing To Stem the Surge of Misinformation About Israel and Gaza". Bloomberg.com. Archived from the original on 21 November 2023. Retrieved 22 November 2023.
- ^ Molloy, Shannon (15 April 2024). "The social media figures who spread Westfield Bondi massacre misinformation". news.com.au. Retrieved 15 April 2024.
- ^ Higgins, Eliot (20 August 2014). "Attempts to Blame the Syrian Opposition for the August 21st Sarin Attacks Continue One Year On". bellingcat. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
Maram has expressed the view that the Syrian government was not responsible for the August 21st Sarin attacks
- ^ "A group of online 'activists' are claiming Syria's chemical attacks were staged". News.com.au. 23 April 2018. Retrieved 1 November 2023.
External links
- Syrian Girl on Blogger
- Maram Susli on Twitter