{"id":90482,"date":"2021-11-03T17:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=90482"},"modified":"2021-11-03T08:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-11-03T06:23:37","slug":"07-00-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=90482","title":{"rendered":"New Twitter Curator for Middle East News Apologizes for Past \u2018Ill-Informed\u2019 Tweets About Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>New Twitter Curator for Middle East News Apologizes for Past \u2018Ill-Informed\u2019 Tweets About Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Shiryn Ghermezian<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Twitter App loads on an iPhone in this illustration photograph taken in Los Angeles, California, U.S., July 22, 2019. REUTERS\/Mike Blake<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Twitter\u2019s newly-appointed \u201ceditorial curation lead\u201d for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) began her new job with an apology after coming under fire for previous tweets about Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fadah Jassem announced her new position on Monday in a Twitter post, saying, \u201cVery excited to get stuck in and delve deeper into the discussions that matter from this diverse and lively region.\u201d The London-based, former\u00a0Al Jazeera<\/em>\u00a0reporter added the emoji flags of 16 countries in the MENA region, as well as the Palestinian one, but the Israeli flag was not included.<\/span><\/p>\n

After Twitter users\u00a0noted<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0the missing Israeli flag, Jassem posted another tweet that featured the flags of Israel, Turkey and Djibouti, adding that she could not access the flag of Oman.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other users resurfaced several years-old posts from Jassem, including a September 2010 retweet that said Israel was \u201cnot born\u201d but instead \u201cdropped like a bomb in the middle of Palestine.\u201d In December of the same year, she quoted Nation of Islam leader and notorious antisemite Louis Farrakhan at least\u00a0four times<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0in posts sigling out Israel, such as \u201cwe give you our tax dollars to support Israel every year.\u201d She\u00a0called<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0his speeches \u201ca great example of faith transcending boundaries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Farrakhan-related posts were uploaded shortly before Jassem was employed as a freelance producer by\u00a0NBC News<\/em>\u2019 London desk, the media watchdog HonestReporting said.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Jassem later issued a public apology on Twitter. \u201cI can see that I have been ill-informed with some tweets when [I was] younger. I apologize for any offense caused by these particular tweets and like I said for forgetting the Israeli flag with reference to MENA as I did others,\u201d\u00a0she wrote<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>in response to HonestReporting\u2019s Emanuel Miller on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n

She has since made her Twitter account private.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to Jassem\u2019s\u00a0job description<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, she will lead efforts to facilitate \u201cthe curation of the best, most relevant, and timely content that reaches, engages and delights one of the largest daily audiences in the world.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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