Samira Ibrahim acknowledges ‘anti-Zionist’ tweet

[oberliner]

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in America on the previous statements hostile to Zionism under pressure from the American government, so the prize was withdrawn," Samira Ibrahim tweeted Thursday.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.

http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/03/08/3121521/samira-ibrahim-acknowledges-anti-zionist-treat

[Behind the Aegis]

1. Pure class! Good for her for standing up to the Zionist Lobby in America.

[oberliner]

2. Did you see her actual tweets?

Disturbing to say the least.

[Warren DeMontague]

3. "...had initially claimed her Twitter account was hacked and that she did not write the tweets"

real profile in courage, there.

[Behind the Aegis]

6. Wasn't that special?

It's everyone's fault, but hers.

[cali]

4. Just read some of her tweets. There's no ambiguity here.

There is no way that these tweets can be considered merely anti Zionist. They are frankly anti semitic. Seems like she wasn't well vetted.

[Archae]

5. Not just anti-Semitic.

Viciously pro-Al Qaeda as well, she said she was gleeful watching 9-11.

[Warren DeMontague]

7. Wow. A real people person, this one.

That's a whole lot of ugly, in there.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/03/08/the-tweets-that-cost-samira-ibrahim-her-state-department-award/

http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/03/samira-ibrahim-refuses-to-apologize-for-her-tweets/273835/

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