Democratic Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown took action against a member of his own hate crimes task force on Tuesday after numerous anti-Semitic posts by the member emerged on social media, including a claim that babies killed in the brutal Hamas attack on October 7 were “false.” “
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.
“The Attorney General’s Office became aware last week of personal social media posts by a member of the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention, Zainab Chaudry, Executive Director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations – Office of Maryland,” Brown said in a news release. .
“Attorney General Brown has determined that Ms. Chaudry’s social media posts risk disrupting the work and mission of the Commission, and is announcing the steps he took today to ensure that the Commission’s vital work and mission of the Commission can continue without interruption,” he said. she said, adding that Chaudry’s membership on the commission would be “temporarily suspended.”
He went on to say that his office would “develop a draft values statement” regarding the personal communications of commission members, and called on those members to “take great care in their communications and conduct.”
Democratic Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown suspended a member of his hate crimes task force. AP Zainab Chaudry claimed that the babies killed in the brutal Hamas attack on October 7 were “fake.” Getty Images
In a Facebook post dated October 26, Chaudry wrote: “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.”
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In an October 17 post, Chaudry wrote: “[T]That moment when you become what you hated most,” and 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 of a ceremony in 1936 when it was decorated with the flag of Nazi Germany during the Olympic Games that year.
Other images from the weeks after the attack showed Chaudry sharing a quote celebrating “Palestinian martyrs.” Zainab Chaudry / Facebook
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.
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.
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. He also said that he condemned the killing of Israeli and Palestinian civilians.
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