A comedic video intended to skewer the online media chose Israelis and Palestinians as its subject.
The video, titled “Beautiful: Israelis And Palestinians Join The Same Google Doc,” was produced by ClickHole, a parody news site run by the satirical US newspaper The Onion.
ClickHole’s video pans over a very generic-looking Google document where random Jews and Arabs are represented by plain avatars bearing only their first initials. Corny, faux-inspirational music plays all the while.
Watch the video below. If you find it boring, well, that’s the point!
It seems that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was chosen as the subject of the spoof because of the plethora of hackneyed online content highlighting the often insignificant cooperation efforts between the two groups of people, who have been at war off and on for the past 100 years.
ClickHole’s mission is to make fun of the way that news sites like BuzzFeed, UpWorthy and The Huffington Post attempt to make often vapid content go viral.
The site regularly posts stories with insipid headlines like “What This Adorable Little Girl Says Will Melt Your Heart,” or “Seven Classic 90’s Toys That Weren’t Fun Anymore After 9/11.”
This isn’t the first time the site has chosen Israelis and Palestinians as its subject.
In September, ClickHole ran a story titled: “He’s Palestinian. She’s Israeli. Both Of Them Incorrectly Summarize The Movie ‘Blade.’” And in 2014, the site posted this headline: “We Took An Israeli Child And A Palestinian Child And Put Them Together In The Same Room. And We’re Going To Keep Them.”
-Hunter Stuart
