Wednesday, October 25, 2017

Seething over Saudi writer's pro-Jewish and anti-Pal stance - by Elder of Ziyon

...The cracks in the antisemitic, anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian stances in the Arab world are getting wider every day.

Elder of Ziyon..
25 October '17..

Palestinian Arabs and other anti-Israel and antisemitic Arabs are seething over two tweets by Saudi writer Saud al-Fawzan, a columnist for the Saudi Al Asharq newspaper.

Al-Fawzan's first tweet said:

I rented furniture from a Jewish store, and when my flat burned down, I met the owner of the store, who said (to his workers): “Furnish the flat on my account”. I regretted each time that I “paid a Riyal to save an Arab”

“Pay a Riyal, save an Arab” was the name of a campaign of donations for the Palestinians, conducted in Saudi schools, organized by the Saudi government 30 years ago.

That tweet was met with a torrent of antisemitic replies, but not a small amount of support for al-Fawzan as well.

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