Sbeih.jpg was a Palestine news and advocacy account on Instagram created by Subhi.[1][2] It had 1.6 million followers as of August 3, 2024.[1] Meta disabled the account and its backup account 6 March 2025.[3]
Background
Subhi is a half-Palestinian and half-Filipino Muslim content creator living in diaspora and creating digital narratives in English.[1] His posts were typically about 2 minutes long and sought to create anti-colonial, Palestine-centered narrative.[1]
Zainab Saeed El-Mansi sees Sbeih.jpg as "a continuation of the Palestinian anti-colonial struggle across colonial borders, against a history of different settler-colonial annihilative strategies, post-Oslo narratives and Arab normalization" and sees the goals of his work as reclaiming Palestinian narrative and agency and mobilizing support for Palestine, as well as "[decolonizing] the hegemonic Western and Zionist colonial digital and media narratives."[1]
El-Mansi places Sbeih.jpg within the post-2010 Palestinian generation of scholars and activists,[1] which Raja Khalidi has characterized as a "younger, radical, and impatient generation of heterodox and activist scholars that departs from, indeed renounces, the preceding trend in studying the realities of Palestinian development" that have "explicitly challenged the prevailing narratives of so-called peace building, including the neoliberal economic policies that underpin much of the post-Oslo literature on Palestinian development."[4]
Sbeih.jpg was among a number of Palestinian accounts that criticized Nas Daily in 2022 for its simplistic representation of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, commenting "I don't feel like it's fair to just clump the history of the Palestinian people and the struggle with just any other struggle... it's much more complex than that."[5]
References
- ^ a b c d e f El-Mansi, Zainab Saeed (2024-12-01). "'Siyada Asliya Falastiniya' in the Digital Narratives of "PreOccupation Podcast" and "Sbeih.jpg"". Cairo Studies in English. 2024 (2): 8–27. doi:10.21608/cse.2024.320962.1189. ISSN 0575-1624.
- ^ Chang, Ho-Chun Herbert; Shaman, Benjamin; Chen, Yung-chun; Zha, Mingyue; Noh, Sean; Wei, Chiyu; Weener, Tracy; Magee, Maya (2024-11-01), Generative Memesis: AI Mediates Political Memes in the 2024 USA Presidential Election, arXiv, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2411.00934, arXiv:2411.00934, retrieved 2025-03-07
- ^ Weat The Peace. "wearthepeace". www.instagram.com. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
Palestinian activist Subhi, who many know him by his handle Sbeih.jpg, has now been suspended off Instagram indefinitely from both his main account and his backup account.
- ^ Khalidi, Raja (2016-08-01). "Twenty-First Century Palestinian Development Studies". Journal of Palestine Studies. 45 (4): 7–15. doi:10.1525/jps.2016.45.4.7. ISSN 0377-919X.
- ^ The New Arab Staff. "Nas Daily slammed for 'both sides' take on Israel-Palestine". The New Arab. Archived from the original on 2025-01-17. Retrieved 2025-03-07.
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