Thread by @emanumiller

Hi Tala,

I'm the writer whose work exposed your antisemitism to a global audience.

I can understand anger when your people are under attack.

When I was a student, I was near the site of an IED that detonated in Jerusalem in 2010. A student at my university was killed.

https://twitter.com/HalawaTala/status/1415269328560218119

But I did not respond with hatred.

I remember when my brother was sent to fight against Hamas in 2009 and was saved from almost-certain death, I was shocked.

But I did not respond with racism.

And I remember when three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered by Hamas terrorists in 2014.

But I did not suggest the genocide of Palestinians is the answer.

That you did is to your eternal shame.

After I discovered you had been fired, I wrote a post describing my feelings as mixed, proud and sad, because I do not desire for people to lose their jobs.

All I, and many other Jews, want is for people like you to take full responsibility for your precious expressions of hatred, not make excuses, and commit not to engage in antisemitism in future.

Even now, you seek to downplay your antisemitism. Your tweets made fun of the massacre of orthodox Jews in prayer months later, for crying out loud. Yet most of your statement serves to portray YOU as the victim.

You're not. You got what you deserved, as harsh as it may be.

Now stop making excuses.

P.S.

I'm part-Iraqi. My grandfather was born in Baghdad. The whole "of colour" thing doesn't wash.

We Jews are not white. We certainly weren't white enough in Europe, and we certainly weren't equal to our Muslim neighbours in the Middle East.