On websites such as FrontPageMag, Stop The ISM and Dafka, there are some curious photos showing up with westerners, alleged to have been in ISM at the time of the shutterbugging, posing with AK-47s and wandering around a Palestinian prison facility. While none were actually trained or working with ISM, just one of these westerners, who I’d been referring to as Mr. Pixelface, had his own likeness distorted in every image.
In his article that appears on the above-mentioned websites, “investigative reporter” Lee Kaplan repeatedly refers to Mr. Pixelface as “our volunteer” 
from Britain, sent to “infiltrate” ISM. He didn’t. But he met some other people who had also yet to be trained or work with the orgainzation, and that’s who he decided to tag along with. Everyone else in the photos on Kaplan’s various sites are shown clearly, their names and home countries displayed for all to see. But not Mr. Pixelface. His ID was being obscured for “security purposes.”
The article goes on to detail numerous falsehoods about the people within the photos as well as ISM iteslf. But what is a Stop The ISM devotee doing running around the West Bank looking for AK-47s to be photographed with? Well , first off, it has been learned from looking at a copy of the man’s passport that his name is in fact Paul Cinato. And he looks like this:
Paul Cinato had been telling those he met in a hostel and around the West Bank that his name was “Paul Andrews.” He was apparently being honest, however, about where he’s from. Only a single reference to a Paul Cinato in Dunstable Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, shows up on the internet. And that’s as a representative for a business called Zion Computers. Apparently Mr. Cinato was borrrowing a page from Lee’s playbook. For the next time Paul gets sent by Lee to go play with guns in some sort of smear campaign attempt, maybe he should just say his name is Mr. Mulberry.
For an account about what happened according to those there, here’s a statement from ISM.
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