"The Instagram account of an Israeli soldier has been thoroughly scrubbed after a photo posted..."

“The Instagram account of an Israeli soldier has been thoroughly scrubbed after a photo posted recently generated significant criticism both from the soldier’s followers and from the Internet writ large. The photo appears to show a child’s head positioned in the center of a sniper rifle’s crosshairs. Full size The Guardian has confirmed that the boy in the photo is Palestinian, and that the soldier who uploaded the photo to Instagram is a sniper.”

- Outrage Over Israeli Soldier’s Instagram Photo of a Palestinian Child in Sniper Rifle Crosshairs (via illegalplumpudding)