No, the Middle Easterner in question is not the director of Hamas, Ansarallah, Yemen’s Supreme Political Council, the DFLP, Fatah Al-Intifada, the PFLP-GC, the SSNP, the Iranian army, or even a European hate group. As far as we can tell, he’s a stranger who is no older than twenty, and yet a recording of him cursing Jews and saying ‘free Palestine’ needs seven hundred thousand views. Being (in)famous has never been easier!
Now, obviously it’s uncool to curse Jews, but let’s be honest: the real reason that the capitalist media are blowing this out of proportion is that they’re starved for evidence linking the pro-Palestine movement to antisemitism. That’s why Trump gets let off easy and Stew Peters is largely unknown whereas a presumably Arab or Palestinian stranger gets big within the span of hours.
If you still think that this is more about the misdemeanour than race, check out this small sample of comments:
What on earth is that accent? Why do they all talk like inner city gang bangers? Scrubbers
I am not exaggerating when I say that I have seen a Klan leader (Larry Trapp) treated better than this.