Award canceled, Egyptian activist acknowledges anti-Semitism
WASHINGTON (JTA) — An Egyptian human rights activist refused to apologize for anti-Jewish tweets that led the Obama administration to delay honoring her with an award.
“I refused to apologize to the Zionist lobby in America on the previous statements hostile to Zionism under pressure from the American government, so the prize was withdrawn,” Samira Ibrahim tweeted Thursday.
Victoria Nuland, the State Department spokeswoman, had said earlier Thursday that Ibrahim was on her way back to Egypt and would not participate in a State Department ceremony Friday honoring nine other recipients of the International Women of Courage Award.
US Secretary of State John Kerry and First Lady Michelle Obama were scheduled to preside at the ceremony.
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A July 18 tweet on Ibrahim’s feed, first reported by the Weekly Standard, notes the suicide bombing in Bulgaria that day that killed five Israeli tourists and a bus driver: “An explosion on a truck transporting Israelis at the airport of Burgas, Bulgaria, on the Black Sea,” it says. “Oh Wowwww this eases off the day today very nice very nice news.”
http://www.timesofisrael.com/award-canceled-egyptian-activist-acknowledges-anti-semitism/
Cross posting this here, I also posted in GD. This woman is filled with so much hatred it's pathological.
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