Maram Susli

Maram Susli (Arabic: مرام سوسلي), also known as Mimi al-Laham, PartisanGirl, Syrian Girl and Syrian Sister, is a Syrian Australian conspiracy theorist, YouTube content creator, and political commentator who prepares videos on the Syrian Civil War, United States foreign policy in the Middle East, and the Gamergate controversy.

Media outlets she has contributed to include RT, Press TV and Al Mayadeen.

She has defended the Syrian government of Bashar al-Assad, and criticised ISIS and Syrian rebels.

Susli was born in Damascus; her family moved to Australia when she was a child.

She studied chemistry at the University of Western Australia and has a science degree in biophysics and chemistry.

Susli began writing and speaking on the Syrian Civil War in 2012.

Susli said she speaks out against Syrian rebels, the Islamic State, and the United States after becoming dismayed at seeing her country destroyed.

In a 2013 interview on RT with Abby Martin in 2013 as Mimi al Laham, Susli said that it would be a "grave mistake" for Assad to renounce chemical weapons.

In addition to RT, Susli is a contributor to the Iranian Press TV, and New Eastern Outlook.

She is a supporter of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, has denied the use of chemical weapons by Assad’s forces in the Syrian Civil War, and, according to Bellingcat, "promoted pro-regime propaganda".

According to The Daily Beast, Susli has a positive opinion of Hezbollah.

Over the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, she said "I don't even believe in a two-state solution", instead suggesting there should be "a one-state solution".

In Susli's opinion, the New World Order opposes the Syrian government.

She has said that the Freemasons and the Illuminati collaborate with the governments of the United States and Israel, as well as NATO, in international events; that Al-Qaeda and ISIS are a single front organisation of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); that 9/11 was an inside job; that ebola is possibly part of the United States biological weapons program; and that the United States Department of Defense secretly manipulated the Gamergate controversy.

Via her Twitter account in June 2021, she linked to an article suggesting 9/11 was the responsibility of "Zionists".

In an interview with Alex Jones on InfoWars, following the Ghouta chemical attack of August 2013, she implied the rebels were responsible for the massacre.

Susli's series of video and social media commentaries on her YouTube channel had over 30,000 subscribers and close to 2.5 million views in 2014.

She has contributed to New Eastern Outlook, which is an online pseudo-academic SVR-run disinformation and propaganda journal, as well as the conspiracy website InfoWars, and Russian and Iranian government propaganda outlets RT and Press TV, and occasionally contributed to the Hezbollah-aligned Al Mayadeen.

She was interviewed by white supremacist Richard Spencer.

One of her YouTube videos, If Syria Disarms Chemical Weapons We Lose the War, was viewed 44,720 times by October 2014.

Jordanian news outlet Al Bawaba described Maram as fighting for the future of her country towards what she believes as the best case scenario, saying "Susli's conviction that the best and only future for the Syrian people can exist with Bashar Al Assad at the helm, flanked by his Russian and Iranian allies, is dispiriting."

In 2014, News Corp Australia Network said Susli was a "self-described News Personality" whose Facebook page is "filled with video posts on the current conflict, criticising IS and Syrian rebels".

She has denied the allegations of atrocities and war crimes against the Assad government.

That same year, Susli told MailOnline: "People are dying, and I have a duty as a human being and as someone of Syrian origin to expose the truth about why."

In 2017, along with Theodore Postol, Susli rejected claims that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons in 2017 at Khan Shaykhun.

In a YouTube video, she referred to evidence posted by Postol, suggesting that Khan Shaykhun chemical attack, alleged to have killed 74 people, was not the work of the Assad regime.

While interviewing Seymour Hersh for Prospect, Steve Bloomfield said that Postol "spoke about how he relies for his work on Syria on ... Susli", to which Hersh replied: "He talked to her once on one thing."

In an article for InfoWars, Susli said the White Helmets, the first responder group, had been responsible for the Khan Shaykhun attack.

Postol's reliance on Susli's reputed expertise has been found to be seriously flawed by Cheryl Rofer, a chemical weapons expert consulted by Bellingcat.

After the Skripal poisonings in Salisbury, England, in March 2018, Susli's Twitter account posted 2,300 times over a 12-day period, accessed by 61 million users.

Analysts from the British government briefed selected journalists that they had concluded Susli's twitter account (@partisangirl) was "suspicious and part of a broader disinformation campaign".

The Guardian then described her account as being a "Russian bot"; it subsequently changed its article by substituting "account" for "bot".

In response, Susli said: "I am not a robot; I am a human being."

A fact check by Channel 4 concluded that Susli is a "real individual", remarking that Twitter had issued her account with a verification tick confirming the account is authentic and that the claim that her account is a bot "controlled directly by the Kremlin, appears to be false".

During the 2023 Israel-Hamas war, Susli claimed that footage showed Israeli military helicopters firing on Israelis escaping the October 7 massacre at the supernova festival carried by Hamas.

However, the footage was actually from Israeli attacks on Hamas positions in Gaza three days later.

She posted a photograph of a woman carrying a child's toy car down the stairs of a largely destroyed building, suggesting it was Gaza after Israeli attacks.

The picture was actually an award-winning photograph taken in Homs during the Syrian civil war ten years earlier.

Susli shared a screenshot, which she said was from the account of an "Israeli official".

Fact-checkers determined that the screenshot originated from a fraudulent account.