An October 2023 video authentically showed a pro-Palestinian demonstration on UCLA's campus with people chanting, "We want Jewish genocide."
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In reality, the chant went like this: "Israel, Israel, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide." The phrase used a format that's often shouted at protests, though sometimes with different opening words ("Israel, Israel") depending the demonstration's purpose.
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On Oct. 26, 2023, a user on X posted a video (archived) with a German-language caption that, when translated to English, read: "Student 'protest' at UCLA in California. The students chant: 'Israel, Israel you can’t hide, we want Jewish genocide!'"
"I wouldn't have thought it possible that students in the United States would call for a second Holocaust in the 2020s," the user continued, using hashtags such as "anti-Semitism," "post-colonialism" and "wokeness."
The video was also posted on TikTok (it's since been removed) and YouTube with the same claim: that the footage showed people at a pro-Palestinian demonstration on UCLA's campus chanting, "We want Jewish genocide."
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However, that was not an accurate caption for the video, based on Snopes' examination of the clip. Instead, the demonstrators were recorded chanting, "Israel, Israel, you can’t hide. We charge you with genocide."
They did not say "We want Jewish genocide."
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