Fred Maroun
Times of Israel, Aug. 25, 2022
“… pro-Palestinian advocacy is centered on an antisemitic lie.”
A few days ago, the Canadian government cut funding to a so-called anti-racism group after it was revealed that one member of the group had posted antisemitic material on social media.
The member in question, Laith Marouf, a “senior consultant”, had tweeted, “You know all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, aka the Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they come from, they will return to being low voiced bitches of [their] Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters.”
One might assume that someone who receives government funding would be more discrete or would disguise his antisemitism into something that at least sounds like legitimate criticism of Israel. But the reality is that pro-Palestinian posts and comments on social media rarely disguise their antisemitism because there is little incentive to do so.
Moderators act only against very blatant antisemitic posts, and even then, not always. Posts that praise terrorists who have killed Israelis are typically not seen by them as contravening the rules, even after many people report the posts. Consequently, anti-Israel activists feel very comfortable posting hateful material.
Criticizing terrorists is in fact more dangerous on social media than praising them. Senior UN official Sarah Muscroft was recently demoted for tweeting, “Relieved to see a ceasefire agreed ending hostilities impacting both Palestinians and Israeli civilians. Such indiscriminate rocket fire of Islamic Jihad provoking Israeli retaliation is condemned. The safety of all civilians is paramount — the ceasefire must be upheld.”
In May 2021, then Canada’s Green Party leader Annamie Paul was vilified on social media by vocal members of her party for not taking the side of Hamas against Israel. From that point on, Paul had to fight to retain her position as leader, and she finally resigned in November of the same year. Paul, who is both black and Jewish, described her time as leader as “the worst period in my life”. Source
