#PalestineIsNotMyCause receives a Twitter smack down

As Palestine still mourns last week's killing of toddler Ali Saad Dawabsheh at the hands of Jewish settlers, Twitter has fought back at an anti-Palestinian hashtag allegedly launched by a Kuwaiti living in Sweden.

#PalestineIsNotMyCause became one of the most trending topics on social media on Tuesday with the vast majority of Twitter users condemning the mean-spirited Arabic-language hashtag.

"I am not responsible for what happened 70 years ago, no one is responsible for what our stupid parents have done. Stop smearing our children with blood," tweeted Fatma al-Jahra a Kuwaiti doctor living in Sweden, who allegedly started the controversy.

"Palestine is not your cause. They tricked us when we were young into thinking Palestine is Arab, when in fact Arabs are only from the Hijaz region and they occupied [other lands] during the Muslim conquests," she said in another tweet.

They tricked us when we were young into thinking Palestine is Arab, when in fact Arabs are only from the Hijaz region" - Fatma al-Jahra

Mona Derefi, one of the few other supporters of the hashtag, said, "The Palestinians betrayed King Hussein, tried to occupy Jordan, caused the war in Lebanon and supported the invasion of Kuwait, why should we bear the responsibility for their loss?"

The Twittersphere quickly lashed out at comments such as these and drowned them in praise for Palestine and its cause.

A Twitter user using the moniker Olav Hauge, tweeted, "Palestine is our most important cause and the top on the list of our concerns no matter what the Zionists and their Arab accomplices in government and the media do to turn the tides."

"It is my cause and the cause of the Arab world," said Rotana Khalejia's presenter Kholoud al-Nimr.

Editor-in-chief of Barem Magazine, Mohammed Qadada, said, "Of course its not their cause, its only the cause of those who have self-respect and a sense of humanity."

Political science student Sultan al-Amir said, "Who ever made made this hashtag is now slapping themselves in the face, the overwhelming majority of the comments are against it. It will enter history as the biggest failure of hashtag ever."