A member of a Maryland task force aimed at combating hate crimes posted numerous anti-Semitic posts on social media, including claiming that the babies brutally murdered in the October 7 Hamas attack were “fake” and comparing of the nation of Israel with Nazi Germany.
Zainab Chaudry, an anti-Israel activist who serves as director of the Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), made the posts in the weeks following the Hamas attack, which killed more than 1,200 people, including children. and babies, as well as numerous rapes and destruction of property.
“I will never be able to understand how the world went into a rage over 40 fake Israeli babies while turning a blind eye to 3,000 real Palestinian babies,” Chaudry wrote in a Facebook post dated October 26.
“[T]That moment when you become the thing you hated most,” Chaudry wrote in an Oct. 17 post, which included two photographs of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, one showing it illuminated with the Israeli flag in solidarity with Israel after the attack, and another showing her illuminated with the Israeli flag in solidarity with Israel after the attack. another from a ceremony in 1936 when it was decorated with the flag of Nazi Germany during that year’s Olympic Games.
In another post on November 6, Chaudry appeared to suggest that Israel’s mere existence as a nation was the cause of the ongoing war, writing that it was an “inconvenient fact.” He included an image of the words “it all began in 1948,” the year Israel was founded as a nation.
Zainab Chaudry, a member of a Maryland task force to combat hate crimes, posted numerous anti-Semitic posts on social media. Getty Images Chaudry claimed in an online post that the babies brutally murdered in the October 7 Hamas attack were “fake.” Zainab Chaudry / Facebook
Other images from the weeks after the attack showed Chaudry sharing a quote celebrating “Palestinian martyrs” and a post quoting what appeared to be an Islamic prophecy that “the garrisons defending the lands of Islam will be in Ashkelon.” , an Israeli city north of the Gaza Strip.
Despite the posts, Chaudry has maintained her place on the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention, a position to which she was nominated by Democratic Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown in August.
The commission’s goal, according to Brown’s office, is to address hate crime incidents throughout Maryland and “communicate and promote understanding of diverse perspectives in a positive and meaningful way.”
The hate crimes task force member even compared Israel to the Nazis in a post. Zainab Chaudry / Facebook Chaudry made most of the claims about him on Facebook. Zainab Chaudry / Facebook
Brown spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan told Fox News Digital that “the views and opinions of any individual member of the Commission do not reflect those of the Maryland Hate Crimes Response and Prevention Commission or those of the Attorney General. ”.
“We understand that there are many points of view on current events in the Middle East. “The Commission will do everything possible to explore the impact of those events on our community and determine how best to address escalating incidents of hate and bias across the state,” he said, explaining that the commission “will develop policies and protocols that govern their work” and how its members get involved in the issues.
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“As we urge others to do, the Commission will identify ways in which we can foster productive and empathetic dialogue between us that leads to mutual understanding. We, like the rest of the world, must first talk to each other and, most importantly, listen to each other as we work towards the goals of peace and tolerance,” he added.
When contacted for comment, Chaudry told Fox News Digital that the “Nazi post” was originally shared “by a close Jewish friend,” before accusing the Israeli government of wanting to commit genocide against Palestinians.
“The Israeli prime minister has compared the bombing of Gaza to an ancient biblical story about the total genocide of a city, [and] declared that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, Israel’s Defense Minister has justified starving Palestinian civilians by calling them “human animals”, the Israeli military spokesman has said that the goal of its bombing campaign is destruction rather than precision. “Several Israeli ministers have called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and one even called the ongoing war a ‘Nakba 2023,'” he said.
“Nakba” in Arabic means “catastrophe” and refers to the violent displacement of Palestinians that accompanied the creation of Israel in 1948.
Chaudry (center) with other protesters outside the Supreme Court in Washington on February 25, 2015.AP
“I strongly and unapologetically condemn the racist far-right government of Benjamin Netanyahu for repeatedly issuing genocidal threats against the Palestinian people and killing more than 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them women and children murdered in their homes. “Unlike many of the most extremist supporters of the Israeli government, I recognize that killing civilians is wrong, which is why my office has repeatedly condemned the killing of Israeli and Palestinian civilians,” he said.
“There is no conflict between condemning the Israeli government’s genocidal war crimes abroad and opposing all forms of hate here at home, including anti-Semitism, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. The false slanders of anti-Palestinian and anti-Muslim extremists will not prevent me from defending justice here and abroad,” he added.
Fox News Digital has reached out to CAIR for comment.
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