BREAKING NEWS: First Lady, Kerry WON’T Honor Hater of U.S., Jews and Jewish State
Latest update: March 8th, 2013
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Kochava Shriki, killed in Bulgaria bombing by Hezbollah terrorists
BREAKING NEWS: JUST AS THIS STORY WAS ABOUT TO BE PUBLISHED, THE JEWISH PRESS LEARNED THAT IBRAHIM WILL NOT RECEIVE THE AWARD AT THE CEREMONY, PENDING FURTHER REVIEW OF HER ALLEGED ANTI-SEMITIC AND ANTI-AMERICAN PUBLIC STATEMENTS. SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOM OF ARTICLE.
This Friday, March 9, is International Women’s Day. First Lady Michelle Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry will mark that day by honoring ten women with the Secretary of State Women of Courage Award. Very nice. Except one of those women, Samira Ibrahim, hates the U.S., Jews and the Jewish State and she is delighted when Israelis and Americans are killed. Not so nice.
Ibrahim is being honored for doing some very brave things. She took a serious risk when she joined the protests in Cairo’s Tahrir Square in 2011 against the Mubarak regime.
Ibrahim was detained by police and was one of 17 women subjected to a horrifically degrading – both conceptually and in practice – “virginity test,” the goal of which was to humiliate her and to prove that only “bad” women protest. The official reason given was to protect Egyptian military from charges of rape by these women. Ibrahim also claimed to have been tortured and sexually abused while in the prison.
Rather than suffer in silence, as so many victims do, Ibrahim filed a lawsuit against the Egyptian government. “I will not give up my rights as a woman or a human being,” she said at the time.
As a result of Ibrahim’s legal efforts, the Egyptian government banned those tests. Good for her! But based on public utterances Ibraham made, she not only does not care about justice for those different from herself, she actually applauds the death, torture and murder of others – if they are Jews or Americans.
In different statements, over the period of many months, the most recent in September, Ibrahim praised the 9/11/12 murder of four Americans, exulted at the death of 5 Israelis, quoted Hitler in Jews having a hand in all bad things, and said a Saudi official was worse than a “dirty Jew.”
Once these statements saw the light of day, originally in a story in The Weekly Standard, Ibrahim and U.S. officials have offered various excuses. One of her excuses, which her U.S. government backers picked up, is that her Twitter account was hacked and she didn’t write any of the bad things on her account. That doesn’t seem likely as the tweets – which were commented on at the time – remained in her feed without any public protest by her until the Standard story came out.
Charlize Theron, an Academy award winning actress and former super-model, wrote admiringly of Ibrahim in a Time Magazine special on “The World’s 100 Most Influential People” last spring.
When I first heard Samira’s story, it moved me. Not simply because of the abhorrent injustice she experienced but also because of her bravery to speak the truth and to face those who would tell her to stay quiet. It takes a strong person to stand up for what is right in the face of ostracism and public scrutiny. Samira represents the model of how to stand up to fear, and the impact she has made reaches far beyond Egypt. It takes just one woman to speak out, and thousands of others around the world will listen and feel inspired to act.
Theron is a United Nations Messenger of Peace, focusing on eliminating violence against women, according to Time. But not all women, apparently. Because Ibrahim, whom Theron wrote so admiringly about, actually rejoiced when one women was blown to bits this summer. That woman, Kochava Shriki, was one of the five Israeli tourists murdered by Hezbollah terrorists in Burgas, Bulgaria. Just as she was leaving on her trip to Bulgaria, Shriki learned that she was pregnant for the first time.
When Shriki and four other Israelis were murdered, Ibrahim tweeted, “explosion on a bus carrying Israelis in Burgas airport in Bulgaria on the Black Sea. Today is a very sweet day with a lot of very sweet news.”
But it isn’t just the Jews Ibrahim hates. When the U.S. diplomatic mission in Benghazi, Libya burned and U.S. Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans were killed, Ibrahim tweeted: “Today is the anniversary of 9/11. May every year come with America burning.”
tell a friendAbout the Author: Lori Lowenthal Marcus is the US correspondent for The Jewish Press. She is a recovered lawyer who previously practiced First Amendment law and taught in Philadelphia-area graduate and law schools.
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Simply shows the mindset of the obama administration, their Jew hatred, hatred of all things American, and their misogyny – attacking women who would dare defend themselves against rapists yet glorifying a jihadist that calls for genocide.
arie, you're still a racist idiot!
Arie there are many Jew Haters that inhabit all sites that speak for Jews and Israel the above is one of them.
Edward Lobel Edward is the typical cult follower of the church of the holy democrat – the "living g-d" obama presiding. They have no ability to debate when faced with inconvenient FACTS so they stage personal attacks. It's ALL they know. Eddie gets pissed when he believes his EBT card ability at the local strip club is threatened.
Janet Clifford They migrate to Jewish sites because we believe in TRUE Freedom of Speech, unlike the members of the cult of the holy democrat
I didn't think you knew him – I have had to block some of them – my cousin (a survivor) once said to me do not dignify a debate with a Holocaust denier and as Jew Haters are usually both I don't.
May Samira get what’s coming to her soon .
This is the 1st good thing I have read about the administration in 5 years.
More good work, Lori Lowenthal Marcus. I'd just finished reading an email about the fact that this woman WAS receiving the award. I'm grateful for the breaking news update. I'm also intrigued by what appears to be the motivation for deferring the award for new — the need to investigate the woman's antisemitic statements. Apparently it actually can make a difference if people speak out against anti-semitism instead of just hiding under the bed.
And what about our President?
thank you for sharing. very interesting.
And of course, this is the first anyone has heard about her "hacked" Twitter account.
Hacked my ass!
Hacked my ass! Charlize Theron – whom I met once at a film screening – has the IQ of an ashtray.
Baruch Hashem
what do you expect from Theron, she's a drugged out insecure actress whose mother murdered her father.
This is so very sad but remember at some point one was accused of being a traitor and the other had to admit she was finally proud to be an American. These 2 are a black eye to the American people.
Please, In the Name of Yeshua, do not believe ONE word that Obama says, as he is a liar as his father and everything he promises, he renigs on. Don't believe the US media either as Obama has bought them, lock, stock and barrel and has them in his back pocket. He wants to destroy all of us that are christians and jews in america, but we have a God that is of great power and GLORY and he will lose in the end and Edward Lobel, sounds like because of one incident for show, you have been sucked into it already or are you a plant? I mean a WEED, a TARE????? Maybe if you start looking vertical instead of horizonal, you will get some real Wisdom
AS a South African, I am ashemed of Charlize Theron.
This woman is out of her mind. She needs to wake up to reality.
I will boycot her films in future and I hope that millions will also do as I do.
Perhaps late in the process, but at least she will not receive the award. Perhaps Charlene Theron will hear the truth and amend her remarks.
The Jewish Press……. sounds like a defense in a basketball game…. and NOT a good one
What bothers me was this woman was not "vetted" by the State Department or even the CIA.Why did this episode get this far? Was the Obama Administration thinking that people wouldn't notice their stupidity? The Obama Administration needs to do their homework first before they embarrass themselves.
That's because the Obama administration falls over backwards to honor Moslems, and hoping the news would not leak out…
Rubin, do you practice being stupid and ignorant or were you born that way!
Apart from insults do you have anything positive to say?
Read more about the award: http://www.jspace.com/news/articles/egyptian-stripped-of-us-award-refuses-apology-to-zionist-lobby/13187
Edward Lobel I was referring to Cody Flecker's comment. This insult of yours is totally unwarranted. What kind of fakakte Jew are you anyway? I have a few more choice expletives up my sleeve that would fit the ersatz Jew that you no doubt are…!
Edward Lobel Edward is the typical cult follower of the church of the holy democrat – the "living g-d" obama presiding. They have no ability to debate when faced with inconvenient FACTS so they stage personal attacks. It's ALL they know. Eddie gets pissed when he believes his EBT card ability at the local strip club is threatened.
Rubin Katz You are obviously NOT familiar with eddy. To speak ill of obama, even when providing facts, is blasphemy to eddie and like the typical member of the cult of the holy democrat he only knows how to stage personal attacks. It's all they have. Typical Jew hater