A member of a Maryland task force aimed at combating hate crimes published numerous antisemitic social media posts, including claiming that the brutally murdered baby in the October 7 Hamas attack was “fake,” and comparing the state of Israel to Nazi Germany.
Zainab Chaudry, an anti-Israel activist who serves as the director of the Maryland office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), made the post in the weeks after the Hamas attacks, which saw more than 1,200 people killed, including children and babies, as well as numerous rapes. and destruction of property.
“I will never be able to understand how the world is outraged by 40 fake Israeli babies while completely turning a blind eye to 3,000 real Palestinian babies,” wrote Chaudry in a Facebook post dated October 26.
“[T]moment when you become what you hate the most,” Chaudry wrote in an Oct. 17 post, including two photos of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, one showing it lit with an Israeli flag in solidarity with Israel following the attack, and another from a ceremony in 1936 when it was decorated with the flag of Nazi Germany during the Olympics that year.
In another post from November 6, Chaudry appeared to suggest Israel’s existence as a nation was the cause of the ongoing war, writing it was an “inconvenient fact.” He included an image of the words “it all started in 1948,” the year Israel was founded as a nation.
Zainab Chaudry A member of a Maryland task force to combat hate crimes published numerous antisemitic social media posts. Getty Images Chaudry claimed in an online post that the baby brutally killed in the October 7 Hamas attack was “fake.” Zainab Chaudry / Facebook
Others from the weeks after the attack show Chaudry sharing a quote celebrating the “martyred Palestinians,” and a post citing what appears to be an Islamic prophecy that says “the garrison defending the land of Islam will be in Ashkelon,” an Israeli city in north. Gaza Peninsula.
Despite the position, Chaudry has retained his seat on the Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention, a post for which he 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 to “communicate and promote understanding of multiple perspectives in a positive and meaningful way.”
The hate crime task force member even compared Israel to the Nazis in one post. Zainab Chaudry / Facebook Chaudry makes the majority of her claims on Facebook. Zainab Chaudry / Facebook
Brown’s spokeswoman, Jennifer Donelan, told Fox News Digital that “the views and opinions of any individual Commission member do not reflect either Maryland Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention or the Attorney General.”
“We understand that there are many views on the current events in the Middle East. The Commission will do its best to explore the impact of such events on our community, and to determine how best to address the increase in incidents of hate and bias across the state,” he said, explaining that the Commission will “develop policies and protocols governing them. work” and how its members are involved in the issue.
“Just as we urge others to do, the Commission will identify ways in which we can foster productive dialogue and empathy among ourselves 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.
Chaudry (C) is seen with other protesters outside the Supreme Court in Washington on February 25, 2015.AP
When reached 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 the Palestinian people.
“The prime minister of Israel has analogized the bombing of Gaza to the ancient biblical story of the massacre of a city, [and] declaring that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, Israel’s defense minister has justified starving Palestinian civilians by calling them ‘human animals,’ an Israeli military spokesman has said that the aim of their bombing campaign is destruction rather than precision. Some Israeli ministers have called for the ethnic cleansing of Gaza, and some have even called the ongoing war ‘Nakba 2023,'” he said.
“I strongly and unapologetically condemn the racist right-wing government of Benjamin Netanyahu for repeatedly making threats of genocide against the Palestinian people and killing more than 13,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children killed in their homes. Unlike many of the most extreme supporters of the Israeli government, I recognize that killing any civilian is wrong, which is why my office has repeatedly condemned the killing of both 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 hatred here at home, including antisemitism, Islamophobia and anti-Palestinian racism. False smears from anti-Palestinian and anti-Islamic extremists will not stop me from standing up for justice here and abroad,” he added.
Fox News Digital has reached out to CAIR for comment.
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