Maram Susli

Susli is a contributor to the conspiracy theory website InfoWars, and has participated in online broadcasts hosted by its founder, Alex Jones. She has appeared on podcasts hosted by David Duke, the former Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as the Holocaust denier Ryan Dawson. She has been interviewed by Richard Spencer for the YouTube channel of his National Policy Institute, a white supremacist group. Susli, in an interview with The Daily Beast in 2017, expressed her opinions about the Holocaust: "Jews were ethnically cleansed from Germany… [On] specifics and numbers and events...I’m going to leave that to the historians. And I think you’d find that there's historians on both sides."

Along with Theodore Postol, she has rejected the claims that the Syrian Government used chemical weapons of any sort. In a YouTube video, she referred to evidence posted by Postol, suggesting that the 2017 Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, alleged to have killed 74 people, was not the work of the Assad government. Seymour Hersh, in defence of Postol, insisted: "He talked to her once on one thing". After the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury, England in March 2018, her Twitter account posted 2,300 posts over a 12-day period which was accessed by 61 million users. The Guardian newspaper initially described her as being a "Russian bot" (accounts can benefit from automated programs), but subsequently changed its article by substituting "account" for "bot". Susli, in response, said in one of her videos: "I am not a robot; I am a human being." In her interview with The Daily Beast in 2017, Susli indicated that she does not support President Bashar al-Assad or associates of the Syrian Ba'athist party. She said this, according to the website "[d]espite her trolling over Assad’s enemies, despite her appearances on Assad-friendly media outlets, and despite her connections to pro-Assad hackers."

Describing herself as a "Patriot Syrian Nationalist, who rejects any breach of Syrian sovereignty", in a Vice interview, Susli began writing and speaking on the Syrian Civil War in 2012. She has made a series of video and social media commentaries which have been downloaded to her account on YouTube. One video on the platform If Syria Disarms Chemical Weapons We Lose the War had been viewed 44,720 times by October 2014. In the interview she said, the rebels in the Syrian uprising had negligible democratic credentials and, in reality, were from the "regressive Muslim brotherhood". Believing the country was under threat from outside "the thing to do was stand by the army and government and call for peaceful democratic reform". As Mimi al Laham, she made the same argument, that it would be a "grave mistake" for Assad to renounce chemical weapons, in an RT interview with Abby Martin. Susli has been accused of "Trolling for Assad", and has claimed the Houla massacre in 2012 was the work of the British intelligence services.