Media “go-to voice on Israeli-Palestinian affairs” spreads “vicious Jew-hatred” on Twitter and in world’s top media outlets
Media monitoring organisation Honest Reporting has alleged that the Ramallah-based Mariam Barghouti, whom it describes as “a go-to voice on Israeli-Palestinian affairs” is spreading “vicious Jew-hatred” via social media and her media contributions,
The media-monitor claims that Ms Barghouti spreads “vicious Jew-hatred” on her verified Twitter account which has more than 74,000 followers. In her posts, she has described Israel as “beating Hitler at his own game since 1948,” and has referred to “racist Zionist-Nazi’s [sic].”
In other posts, she has asserted that “Zionism did nothing but exploit the tragedy of the Holocaust,” and claimed that former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “supports racism…and the ethnic cleansing of a people,” adding that he was “a war criminal and a Nazi.” Honest Reporting offers links to the tweets “in case they are deleted,” noting that “they can be viewed here and here.”
The media monitor says that Ms Barghouti’s so-called “accounts of everyday West Bank life” that have been published by many outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian and, most notoriously, Newsweek “provide withering narratives” about Israel, or as Ms Barghouti calls it, the “colonialist project.”
Other pronouncements include a claim that the Israeli army, police and settlers were “working together in tandem” to carry out “ethnic cleansing” of the Palestinians and that Tel Aviv “is a settlement.”
Readers “should never have been exposed to the thoughts and opinions of someone who has harboured such deeply antisemitic sentiments,” declares Honest Reporting, noting that despite her alleged antisemitism, Ms Barghouti continues to appear in “the pages and on the websites of some of the most high-profile publications in the world” allowing her propaganda to be “internalised” by a large number of people.
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