Claim
Arabs celebrating India’s victory over Pakistan in a cricket match and they express their joy by hugging and dancing around.
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Explanation
Asia Cup 2022 is being held in Dubai. India and Pakistan competed on 28th August 2020 and India won the last over thriller as Hardik Pandya hit a six with 2 balls to spare.
भारत की संस्कृत, संस्कार और व्यवहार की दुनिया दिवानी है… भारत की जीत पर दुबई के शैख़ साहब का जश्न कमाल!… pic.twitter.com/WnkO94wF7A
— Amber Zaidi 🇮🇳 (@Amberological) August 30, 2022
A video is being spread on social media that as soon as Hardik Pandya hit the six, a few Arabian Sheiks started dancing around in joy and celebrated India’s victory.
இந்தியா பாக்கிஸ்தான் இடையிலான கிரிக்கெட் போட்டியில் இந்தியா ஜெயித்தவுடன் துள்ளி குதித்து , கட்டிபிடித்து மகிழ்ச்சியை வெளிப்படுத்திய அரேபிய ஷேக்குகள்!! pic.twitter.com/xrAPrfab22
— வீரா_M.A🔆🌿/ വീര_M.A🔆🌿 (@star1_blak) August 29, 2022
What’s the truth?
With a reverse image search of the keyframes in the video, we can find that this video is from Kuwait during the 2020 Amir Cup, a club level Football tournament.
فتحت التلفون في الدقيقة الاخيرة ووجهت الكاميرا على عزيز عاشور رئيس النادي العربي كنت حاس ان هذا الرجل راح يفرح لانه يستحق الفرحة
تعب وزرع وحصد ولاقصور باخوانه اعضاء مجلس الادارة
مبروك للعربي وهاردلك للكويت pic.twitter.com/mMuaH36TWx— خلف العنزي (@Khalafm) September 21, 2020
Amir Cup 2019-2020 finals was held on 21 September 2020 in Kuwait. As the football club “Al-Arabi” won over another club from Kuwait, the owners and office bearers of the club were joyous and celebrated their team’s victory.
ردة فعل مجلس إدارة النادي العربي وجمهوره بالمنصة مع هدف الفوز pic.twitter.com/bFnruG9rBu
— Goalna (@Goalna) September 21, 2020
A video can be found in a post dated 22 September 2020 by a Twitter user named Khalaf Enezi. In addition to that, a Kuwait-based football site ‘Goalna’ has shared the video on its Twitter page on the same day.
Conclusion
The video circulating with a claim that Arabs are celebrating India’s win over Pakistan in the ongoing Asia Cup 2022 is fake. A 2020 video taken in Kuwait and a clip from the India-Pakistan clash in Asia Cup are edited together and is being spread with a false claim that Arabs are celebrating India’s win over Pakistan.
