A video game titled Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque lets users play as a "Palestinian freedom fighter" who shoots IDF soldiers.

A video game titled Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque lets users play as a "Palestinian freedom fighter" who shoots IDF soldiers.

  • BreadpilledChadwife [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Some quick highlights:

    • The dev’s father was a Fatah fighter (socdem Palestinian liberation party)
    • The game over screen reads “YOU BECAME A MARTYR. Rejoice, O mother of the martyr, rejoice! Prepare your son for his marriage (in paradise). Tie the band on all your pain and spread his wedding handkerchief. Spread your anger against the oppressor, his injustice must be stopped.”
    • “In this game, the player does not shoot Israeli civilians, women, children, elderly – only soldiers. Also in this game, there are NO images of sexual content, illicit drugs, religious desecration, hate speech against any group, ethnicity, or religion, [antisemitic] propaganda against Jews, Nazi propaganda, or boasting of any terrorist groups and/or other unlawful acts. This game only contains the virtual representation of the Palestinian Resistance Movement against the Israeli Military Occupation, which is officially recognized by the United Nations."