Fake News: Anti-Israel Radicals Falsely Claim KFC Facebook Post ‘Mocked Displaced Palestinians’
The false claims “were amplified by Britain-based creator Sulaiman Ahmed and Danish physician Anastasia Maria Loupis — both of whom have monetized misinformation about the fighting in the Gaza Strip.”
Another day, another lie spread by anti-Israel radicals.
This time around, their target was Kentucky Fried Chicken.
You’d think the fast food restaurant wouldn’t come close to making it onto their radar, but considering McDonald’s and Starbucks have also been targeted for similar reasons, I guess it was only a matter of time before KFC, too, was on the receiving end of some undeserved attention.
It started with a message and image posted to KFC’s Facebook page last month, where they wrote “Sorry, no tents here, just finger-lickin’ good chicken, just the way you like it to spice up your weekend.”
Included were the hashtags #NoTentsJustChicken and #KFCAntigua. Below that was an image of a KFC bucket and a tent, with the “Tents” hashtag in between.
Because the outrage mobs have to be outraged at all times, not long after the post went up, anti-Israel influencers with hundreds of thousands of followers on social media shared a screengrab of the post along with the following claim:
DISGUSTING AD MOCKING GAZA BY .@kfc
KFC is literally mocking displaced Palestinians in Rafah whilst they are suffering FAMINE!
'Sorry, no tents here, just finger-lickin good chicken..!' pic.twitter.com/nHIl1DMLHw
— Khalissee (@Kahlissee) February 18, 2024
KFC MOCKING PALESTINIANS pic.twitter.com/ZDhuMAUK5X
— Sulaiman Ahmed (@ShaykhSulaiman) February 19, 2024
KFC is MOCKING Palestinian refugees who lost their homes!!
Keep BOYCOTTING psychopaths🚨🚨#BoycottKFC pic.twitter.com/mslPK5UYOI
— Dr. Anastasia Maria Loupis (@DrLoupis) February 19, 2024
As one might guess from seeing the Community Notes that were added, the claim that KFC was “mocking displaced Palestinians” by referencing tents was not remotely true. In fact, the lie was so egregious that media fact-checkers who normally act as apologists for leftists and their many falsehoods stepped in to refute what was being claimed.
Here’s what Reuters wrote:
On Feb. 15, 2024, the Facebook page for the Antigua Public Utilities Authority posted about a tent positioned “to facilitate linesman training” that went missing.
[…]
Meredith Krones, a spokesperson for KFC Global, told Reuters in an email that the “post was shared by the KFC Antigua team with the intention of joining the trending conversation in Antigua related to a tent that was reported missing by the Antigua Public Utilities Authority. This post is in no way related to the conflict in the Middle East and was removed when we realized it was being misinterpreted.”
AFP also did a fact check, which gave more details and which definitively proved KFC’s post was about the missing tent:
Similar accusations pinballed across Instagram and platforms including Facebook and X, formerly Twitter, where they were amplified by Britain-based creator Sulaiman Ahmed and Danish physician Anastasia Maria Loupis — both of whom have monetized misinformation about the fighting in the Gaza Strip.
[…]
Links to KFC’s post alluding to the missing APUA tent show up in Google search results, revealing the company shared it to both its Facebook page and KFC Antigua’s Instagram channel (archived here).
In a follow-up post on February 18, APUA shared a photo of the tent.
“Now that you’re gone, we are getting lots of shade but not quite like what you used to pitch,” the agency wrote (archived here).
KFC commented under the post: “We think this one is more for North Coast Hardware and not us” (archived here).
(Note: Some of the Internet archive links in AFP’s write-up at times will not load correctly)
Some Antigua residents also responded to the false claims by correcting the record:
A quick internet search can prove this. The post was meant to be a funny jab towards the Antigua Public Utilities Authority (APUA) having had their service tent stolen. If you had done your research you would have found out that Antigua is a semi-arid island, thus water is scarce
— Jenel (@Sunkissed268) February 20, 2024
Your post is spreading lies about my island. It's about a stolen tent of the Antigua Public Utility Authority. It's an joke on the island. Please stop spreading misinformation about Antigua.
— Smooth Move (@SmoothM10922904) February 18, 2024
Though the “mocking” claim has been soundly debunked, all three tweets above that were posted by the influencers are still up as of this writing, further proving the point that these people don’t give a damn about the truth as long as there is a false anti-Israel narrative to be pushed.
— Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter. —
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“Anti-Israel influencers”? WTH? You misspelled “scum.”
What were they mocking?
1. no tents
2. finger licking
3. good
The answer is number is number three. Palestinians are good! Ha ha ha.
If not this, then something else. IDS (Israel Drangement Syndrome) is the ancestor to TDS and been around a long time. Should this fakery it even receive oxygen at this point? Most normal people make no association. It takes an element of derangement for that.
What do Israel Derangement Syndrome and Trump Devotion Syndrome have to do with each other?
Why don’t you reveal it?
I don’t know. You’re the one that made the claim.
Anti-Israel radicals need to invent stuff. This is a parallel to the race-mongering crowd that need to create incidents (Jussie Smolyay, et al) and things like “institutional racism”.
Anti-Israel radicals need to invent stuff. Some ideas would include:
1. stair chair-lift for Air Force One
2. medical alert button for Nuclear Football
3. 2 day under wear for overnight trips to Camp David
4. muzzle for white house german shepherd
5. extra large note cards for conversations than last longer than two minutes
6. repeat button for voting machines in Democrat districts
Hey, Sulaiman Ahmed!
Muhammad was a child molester.
Palestine: FIctional construct of muslim conquest wars
Muslim supremacists’/terrorism supporters’/Islamofascists’ ceaseless, utterly contrived and fallacious victimhood-posturing and grievance shuck-and-jive act is becoming exceedingly offensive, tiresome and irksome.
The propaganda mythology of alleged Muslim victimhood and perpetual grievance must be rejected, wholesale.
KFC not halal…they should give zero fucks
The original KFC meme was hamas terrorist carrying KFC chicken bucket in tunnel that connected gaza with egypt.
The idea was the tunnels under gaza were harmless and even necessary to smuggle the basiscs of life into gaza.
There’s not a colonel of truth in this.
I see this as an example of “I am the center of the universe” syndrome.
I care so deeply about this issue, and everything I think, say, or do is a reflection of my deep feelings. So therefore, everything ANYone else thinks, says, or does is a reflection of their feelings on this ONE issue. I do not have a life outside this ONE issue, and in my mioptic thinking, no one else does either.
Sometimes it’s just being so self-absorbed.
But there’s also the dishonest version where you do it as a tactic.
It may all be a big lie…
…but it might still be a good idea.
With the vast majority of the so-called “‘Palestinians” supporting Hamas, it is difficult to have much sympathy at all. They brought these difficulties upon themselves, not only with the heinous attack on October 7th, but with the ongoing diversion of their time and energy toward terrorism, rather than economic development.
Currently, there are plenty of Palestinians who would be happy for a bucket of KFC. This faux outrage makes a mockery of their hunger.
The ad was not “being misinterpreted”; it was being misrepresented, i.e. Deliberately twisted.
Reminds me of how the left got rid if Garrick Tremain.
What about the chicken genocide? Where is PETA?
“No, we weren’t mocking you, we weren’t even thinking of you, but now that you mention it…”