Free Palestine’s Obsession With A French Medallion

Apr 23

Social media is a cesspool. How many times have you heard me say that?

Thanks to social media, a French medallion has been making the rounds, confidently mislabeled as an “Israeli shekel,” usually accompanied by the kind of captions that think they’ve onto the Jews and their pesky plot to control the world, which they allude to with coins, and a state the size of New Jersey.

The medallion/coin shows a plane and Torah scrolls. The scrolls vaguely look like towers, because long. This is literally all it takes for Free Palestine and 9/11 Truthers: Plane depicted + Jews = “they knew.”

I reported two posts about this damn medallion, and twice Facebook/Meta said, “This is fine.” No consequences.

Don’t let the fact that Meta allows posts like this to persist, in OPs’ hopes of demonizing Jews, stop the very same losers who spread misinformation from claiming they’re censored.

These posts come after the popularity of British Mandate coins (which clearly say “Eretz Israel,”) propped up as a way to prove “Palestine was totally real! Look at these British coins! No, I won’t move my finger that’s hiding half the coin’s text!” Such posts are recycled every few months. The responses about the British Mandate not representing a unique Arab state are ignored, because Free Palestine and 9/11 Trutherism rely on ignorance and repetition.

Beyond the fact that it makes no sense to hint at a secret plot if one were real, it’s genuinely frightening that lunatics can see a few symbols and read apocalyptic subtext. As I wrote in Noticers Part 1, “Schizophrenia and related disorders are marked by impaired pattern recognition, where individuals often miss real connections while simultaneously perceiving illusory ones.”

Torah scrolls appear because it’s Jewish. A plane appears because planes exist. That’s the full mystery. That’s the pattern. But the schizophrenics, like an ex-roomie friend who was literally schizophrenic and saw visions of Ra shooting flaming arrows, think they’re onto something else.

It’s worth mentioning in this rant that decades prior to seeing these posts about a French medallion, the jokesters and all-too-serious 9/11 Truthers were making similar claims with US dollars. There’s a long-running folding trick where the bill, when manipulated just right, appears to show the Twin Towers and smoke. It’s been circulating since shortly after 2001. As have “wingdings fonts” conspiracies for real wingdings.

Nobody serious thinks the Bureau of Engraving and Printing was leaving cryptic warnings in circulation. It’s a pattern-seeking brain doing what it does worst: making connections where there aren’t any.

This is coming at a time where the Islamic State is openly attacking US and saying “Death to America,” but real persons and bots alike are responding, “Well they didn’t call me goy!” The only thing wilder than the ignorance is the selective outrage. So let’s remember the real-world reactions to 9/11:

There were verified reports and footage of celebrations in parts of the Middle East, and even a small but real incident in New Jersey that was investigated at the time. That exists in the historical record.
You can find videos of Palestinians cheering 9/11 on, on 9/11, on YouTube.
To this day, Free Palestine champions 9/11 as righteous. Hasan Piker stated that “America deserved 9/11.”
Instead of the endless videos and real quotes, the Free Palestine cult repeatedly turns to imagined symbols on coins and false information. Oh yeah, and a fixation with a few individuals allegedly “dancing,” without context.

At some point, this stops being about the coin, or the dollar, or even 9/11. It becomes about schizophrenics bonding over shared (false) pattern recognition. “Free Palestine” discourse gravitates to Nazi ideology and 9/11 Trutherism, and I have not even once, in my entire life, seen this cult try to disavow their comrades when they do this.

There’s a reason so many Flat Earthers love defending Palestine. When a symbol depicting the Torah is “recognized” as the Twin Towers, they’re stretching further than those who saw stars and said, “Ooh, that looks like a bear!”