Within little more than an hour after the incident in the air had ended, the antisemitic conspiracy theorists were busy online, calling the FlyDubai terrorist attack an Israeli “False Flag” Operation. One of them, who wrote online without naming Israel, was a British MP, Ayoob Khan, who posted that “I smell a rat,” a claim that has been taken to mean that things were not what they seem, that somehow Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was behind the attack so that he could then present himself as the strong leader that Israel needs at a time of crisis. Exactly how he could have convinced the Omani co-pilot to commit mass murder and suicide, the rat-smelling Ayoob Khan did not explain.
More about the lunacy of the conspiracy theorists, ranting about a “false flag” attack, can be found here: “Watchdogs uncovered conspiracy theories blaming Israel for staging flydubai incident,” by Alex Carson, Jerusalem Post, October 1, 2026:
Online conspiracy theories accusing Israel of orchestrating a false-flag operation began circulating on social media just over an hour after an attempted terrorist attack aboard an Israel-bound flydubai flight on Wednesday, according to antisemitism watchdogs.
The incident began at 1:21 a.m. ET, when a Boeing 737 MAX 8 flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv with 174 passengers transmitted emergency distress signals after the copilot stabbed the captain and attempted to crash the aircraft. Passengers and crew intervened to subdue the attacker before the plane diverted safely to Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
The first post declaring the event an Israeli false flag appeared on X/Twitter 67 minutes after the emergency signal, the Combat Antisemitism Movement (CAM) and Antisemitism Research Center (ARC) reported.
“What’s striking here isn’t just the volume – it’s the speed,” ARC research associate Oliver Marks said. “Sixty-seven minutes is all it took for the near-downing of a commercial airliner by a terrorist pilot to become fodder for antisemitic conspiracy theorists across the globe.
“It’s clear this isn’t a narrative that forms in response to an incident. Rather, it’s part of a script that already exists, sitting ready for use whenever opportunities arise.”
These conspiracy theorists are of the same ilk as those who claim Israel was behind the 9/11 attacks. They continue to insist that “no Jews went to work that day at the Twin Towers.” They claim that that attack was intended whip up anti-Islam sentiment in the U.S. And the atrocities carried out against Israelis on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 died, were actually the handiwork of IDF soldiers and Mossad agents dressed in civilian clothes akin to those worn by Hamas. They used those attacks, misattributed to Hamas, as an excuse to commit their “genocide” in Gaza.
And now we have those diabolical Israelis staging a third “false flag” attack. Keenly aware of their loss of support worldwide, they decided to sacrifice 174 of their own citizens to create a groundswell of sympathy for the Jewish state that had become a pariah and, at the same time, to shore up domestic support for the war criminal, Prime Minister Netanyahu.
As John Kerry, of all people, said in 2004: “They have obviously decided that some people will believe anything, no matter how fictional or how farfetched, if they just repeat it often enough.”
PRCS USN (ret) says
And, 9/11 was an inside job.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Precisely! Leftists do weave fine conspiracy theories that force you to yell at them!
mgoldberg says
then of course they’ll be accusing the Saudi’s and UAE’s of colluding with the Israeli’s.
Doris Wise says
British MP, Ayoob Khan. The rat he smells is himself.
Hindu American says
And, BBC initially termed this Islamic terror act an “altercation”. Reuters called it a “fracas”. WSJ called it a “cockpit struggle”.
Hey, maybe it was just a “brouhaha”.
Go figure!
Taffy says
Maybe just shy of a few Irishmen for a good ole donnybrook!
WPM says
Or a donnybrook?
Wellington says
Another cottage industry has begun.
Taffy says
A theory normally needs proof. But, an Internet conspiracy theory needs to be put out there and reported on enough sites by the blind following the blind, to make it Internet truth. A strong component of many AI algorithms is how widespread the “facts” are on the Internet. So pretty soon, ChatGPT and Grok may be reporting that the attempted hijacking is an Israeli false flag. This happened with the MRA COVID vaccines. Every site, save the intelligent few, were towing the gubbmint line that the “vaccine” was safe and effective, when it was neither. Soon, its effectiveness fell out of the FDA’s definition of “effective,” so the FDA changed the definition of “vaccine” twice to accommodate, so it would not have to be pulled off the market. The media malinformed frenzy in favor of the COVID shot, made it into a de jure safe and effective vaccine, instead of a de facto marginally effective and unsafe clot-shot.
ploome says
dear Taffy……you made me smile when you write
“A theory normally needs proof.”
not when it come to accusing Jews/Israelis of anything
as I wrote before…..an accusation becomes a conviction immediately
John1 says
Muslim MP another example of what happens when you let Muslims into your country in such numbers they can win elections. I read yesterday on the Geller report that Trump has cut legal Immigration from Muslim majority countries 96% since he took office in his second term. It should be 100%, and we need remigration like some people in Europe are trying to do with all the worthless Muslims they let in under Merkel.
somehistory says
The MP muzzie should wipe his top lip. That’s where the rat smell originates.
Luchtpint says
“As John Kerry, of all people, said in 2004: “They have obviously decided that some people will believe anything, no matter how fictional or how farfetched, if they just repeat it often enough.”
Such is the nature of propaganda.
To make a case in point, here are a few quotes by Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s principal propagandist.
“If you repeat a lie often enough, people will believe it, and you will even come to believe it yourself.”
“A lie told once remains a lie but a lie told a thousand times becomes the truth”
“Propaganda works best when those who are being manipulated
are confident they are acting on their own free will.”
“Arguments must therefore be crude, clear and forcible, and appeal to emotions and instincts, not the intellect. Truth was unimportant and entirely subordinate to tactics and psychology.”
“Think of the press as a great keyboard on which the government can play.”
“Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.”
“The rank and file are usually much more primitive than we imagine. Propaganda must therefore always be essentially simple and repetitious”
“The most brilliant propagandist technique will yield no success unless one fundamental principle is borne in mind constantly – it must confine itself to a few points and repeat them over and over.”
“It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.”
“It would not be impossible to prove with sufficient repetition and a psychological understanding of the people concerned that a square is in fact a circle. They are mere words, and words can be molded until they clothe ideas and disguise.”
“The essence of propaganda consists in winning people over to an idea so sincerely, so vitally, that in the end they succumb to it utterly and can never escape from it.”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
One theory I heard just now was one where Netanyahu, looking cornered over Haretz’ “disclosure” that he had been warned by the Emiratis before October 7th 2023 but chose to ignore it, decided to salvage his plummeting numbers in the polls by getting the Emiratis to warn him that a hijacking was about to take place, and then the hijacking actually happening. Then the investigations lead back to the islamic Republic, enabling Bibi to say “See, I told you so” and resuming Operation Rising Lion. Thereby salvaging his numbers w/ the Israeli public, which does want regime change in Iran
They’re assuming that Bibi is as power hungry as Abbas or whoever’s currently running Hamas that he’d risk the lives of 174 of his fellow citizens to get catapulted to power once again. Despite being Israel’s longest serving Prime Minister
James Lincoln says
From redstate.com
“Watch: Veteran Aussie Pilot Throws Interviewer for a Loop With Fact Drop on FlyDubai Incident”
https://redstate.com/sister-toldjah/2026/10/02/veteran-aussie-pilot-interview-on-flydubai-incident-n2207672