Viral Video Falsely Claims Imam’s Anti-Semitic Comment Led To Stage Collapse in Pak
By Hazel Gandhi An old video from 2018 is being shared with a false communal claim that a stage in Pakistan collapsed after an Imam standing on it was speaking about the extermination of Jews. BOOM found that the claims are false, the video shows a stage collapsing during an election campaign of Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) because it was overburdened and not because of any anti-Jew statements. The 30-second video shows a man speaking while standing on the stage along with other people after which the stage collapses and all of them fall down. A caption on Facebook suggests t...