An Israeli Soldier Just Gave Me This

About

An Israeli Soldier Just Gave Me This is an image-based copypasta that emerged as a parody of a January 2024 tweet by journalist Douglas Murray in which he claimed that he had received a picture from an Israeli soldier found in a "random house in Gaza" that showed the Eiffel Tower with a minaret on top, perhaps meant to imply France could be a target of Hamas. The tweet was largely joked about by X / Twitter users replacing Murray's text with humorous, outlandish pictures.

Origin

On January 30th, 2024, journalist Douglas Murray^[1] tweeted an image he'd purportedly received from an Israeli soldier that the soldier found in "a random house in Gaza" showing the Eiffel Tower with a minaret atop it. Murray wrote, "An Israeli soldier just gave me this. He found it in Gaza, in a random house." The post gained over 8,800 retweets and 24,000 likes in two days (shown below).

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The tweet quickly began being criticized as propaganda by some and people doubted the validity of Murray's story.^[2] Additionally, people began mocking the tweet by copying Murray's text and replacing the supposed propaganda poster with humorous images.

For example, on January 30th, 2024, Twitter user @thelefttake^[3] replied to Murray's tweet with the text and a sketch of pregnant Scooby-Doo, gaining over 650 retweets and 14,000 likes in two days (shown below, left). The same day, Twitter user @AyoCaesar^[4] made the joke with the Zodiac Killer cipher, gaining over 290 retweets and 5,300 likes in two days (shown below, right).

Other popular jokes with the copypasta include a January 30th tweet by Twitter user @ChingisKhan^[5] that showed images of Adolf Hitler on toast, gaining over 90 retweets and 640 likes in two days (shown below, left) and a tweet posted the same day by Twitter user @OfSymbols^[6] that included an image of Jar Jar Binks as a buff woman, gaining over 70 retweets and 860 likes (shown below, right).

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