Yesterday, Samuel Tadros reported in the Weekly Standard that John Kerry was handling his transition to running the State Department about as adroitly as one would imagine. He had an idea, and Foggy Bottom sent out a press release excitedly announcing that First Lady Michelle Obama was going to enthusiastically partake in this idea. The State Department would confer Women of Courage awards on several worthy recipients. Unfortunately, one of them happened to have a bad habit, apparently, of proclaiming viciously anti-Semitic hate speech on Twitter and was pretty happy, according to her timeline, about the September 11 terror attacks. Tadros wrote:
On July 18 of last year, after five Israeli tourists and a Bulgarian bus driver were killed a suicide bombing attack, Ibrahim jubilantly tweeted: “An explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.”
Ibrahim frequently uses Twitter to air her anti-Semitic views. Last August 4, commenting on demonstrations in Saudi Arabia, she described the ruling Al Saud family as “dirtier than the Jews.” Seventeen days later she tweeted in reference to Adolf Hitler: “I have discovered with the passage of days, that no act contrary to morality, no crime against society, takes place, except with the Jews having a hand in it. Hitler.”
Ibrahim holds other repellent views as well. As a mob was attacking the United States embassy in Cairo on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, pulling down the American flag and raising the flag of Al Qaeda, Ibrahim wrote on twitter: “Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning.” Possibly fearing the consequences of her tweet, she deleted it a couple of hours later, but not before a screen shot was saved by an Egyptian activist.
Tadros’s report stirred up appropriately negative reaction and Ibrahim tried to save her award by claiming her account was hacked. But the offending tweets were sent at very different times, left undeleted, never acknowledged before as fake, and didn’t appear terribly out of character for Ibrahim. The State Department announced it believed Ibrahim’s story about the tweets being fake. Since this was incredibly insulting to the intelligence of everyone the State Department thought would buy that excuse, people went about working to debunk that claim too.
At the Times of Israel, Arieh Kovler looked into the coding of the tweets and showed that the offending tweets were sent from the same platform as Ibrahim’s other tweets. Additionally, the tweets were sent from a phone application, and Kovler explained why it’s extremely unlikely a hacker would use a phone instead of a computer. It’s not definitive proof Ibrahim lied about being hacked, Kovler admitted. But the preponderance of evidence is difficult to ignore.
Tadros’s story now seems to have helped the State Department avoid a much more embarrassing spectacle were this all to come out after Ibrahim was scheduled to receive the award from the first lady and secretary of state tomorrow: McClatchy journalist Hannah Allam reported they will “defer” the award. Presumably the others will still receive their Women of Courage awards, but this incident will likely dim their excitement. After all, the fact that the State Department is conferring this honor on them doesn’t seem to mean the State Department actually knows anything about them.
It's so sickeningly tiresome that Michelle Obama feels the need and avails herself of the opportunity to have her face on virtually everything, ranging from her intrusive mandates about what our children are fed in school to a feature role in the Oscar award presentations and now this. nDon't they vet these candidates before announcing their names, or did Michelle Obama just try to get away with this flagrant attempt at awarding such a flaming anti-Semite?
The higher one is in the echelons of the ruling class the less competence matters.
jeremiah wright didn't bother moochelle for more than 20 years, why should this. nsame views, no?
Since American Jews have shown that the Democratic Party will pay NO price for doing something Jews might not like, why should Michelle Obama, Kerry, or Hillary care? Just assume you will always have Jews with you no matter what, and then act out of other agendas–winning over Arab opinion, for example. Can you imagine that they would honor someone who has routinely made racist comments directed at blacks or Hispanics?
The Dems are scrupulous about black racism to the point of being reverse-racist, but that is where it stops. They take Blacks for granted much the same as Jews and pay no price. They give Blacks no school choice, and thus keep them as ignorant as possible; they “bless” them with welfare, and thus keep them dependent upon the Democrats and their programs; they “bless” them with the affirmative action, and thus enshrine low expectations and keep Blacks from reaching their full potential. The Democrats do everything they can to break up and destroy families (all families, but black families are most affected) – not only free contraception and abortion on demand (which is closest thing to Black genocide our government has to offer) but in fact the whole gamut of programs and agenda items favoring sexual dissoluteness, all of it contributing to the destruction of the family, black, white, and every other color in the rainbow. And thus the Dems keep Blacks as unstable as possible. And to top it off the Manipulated Stories Machine does everything it can to convince Blacks that all the things Democrats do to the Blacks are blessing that the evil opposition wants to take away. And it all works to the benefit of the Democrats in power, at least for the present. Someday I expect there will be a reckoning. I wonder how it will play out.
Excellent synopsis!
James Baker, as Secretary of State said something to the effect of, “F the Jews, they don’t vote for us”
and the Democrats say, “F the Jews, they’ll vote for us anyway”.
the real issue is that this community activist thinks we are as dumb as sh*t as are his previous constituents n nhe doesn;t have to DO anything, just show up and look like he is listening
She hates America and so does Kerry (or did). Give her the award.
I'm getting mighty tired talking to the wall, so I think I'll just wait a year or maybe two, and see what happens. I bet anything that something will blow out inside of two years !
This administration isn't dumb. They're simply indifferent and only react when there's some cost free way to back away. It was easy for them to offer this stupid prize and then yank it back because 998 out of 1000 people don't care. It's only their craven nonsense gets splattered across the news like Bengazi that they dig in their heels. But make no mistake, they reviewed this loon and passed her along. They never find anything particularly outrageous about people like that. It's not that they have a tin ear to public sentiment, they believe this IS public sentiment, having lived in their anti American bubble their whole lives.
Terminal decine of the ancien regime, our clueless mandarins get their tickets punched with the same useless credentials and set out to make everything good with their bull sh*t, more sh*t, piled higher and deeper.
Anyone who knows what the name Kerry means in Hebrew will not be surprised at the slipshod and inattentive manner that our new Secretary of State handled this. n nOf course, his predecessor, while a Senator, kissed Suha Arafat right after the latter claimed that the Jews were using nerve gas to murder 'Palestinian' children, but Sen. Clinton claimed she had not understood Mrs. Arafat's words. (Apparently Sen. Clinton was unfamiliar with the concept of translators.)
what difference does it make? noops! that was benghazi
Good one. Note to self: do NOT drink coffee while reading comments here
LOL
I frequent a number of left and far left web sites, always wanting to see what they're up to and this morning I find them just as incredulous about this as folks here are. Well almost. They're main point is who the heck is vetting these people and they're actually looking for heads to roll. Dream on. Then of course you get folks out there like this 'gentleman': n n"Her points of view are largely irrelevant to me, though at a glance I can easily discern a few points where I diverge greatly from her. Though on the whole, I am still more offended at the wider practice of putting a few of the natives on some propaganda pedestal because the self-important conquerors see a few of their own supposed values at work. Somehow, that routine is still more patronizing and arrogant than whatever bile she could crank out. " n nSomehow indeed…. LOL
Well, what can you expect from a Secretary of State whose name means (in Hebrew) contrariness, accident, random chance?