An individual who tweeted about putting “bullet[s] to the head” of Jews cost a Canadian anti-racism group its government funding.
By United with Israel Staff
The Canadian government recently suspended funding for a group called the Community Media Advocacy Centre (CMAC) after the virulently antisemitic statements of senior consultant Laith Marouf were exposed.
Marouf’s Jew-hatred was well documented on a Twitter account he attempted to keep private. His tweets included statements such as “I have a motto: Life is too short for shoes with laces or for entertaining Jewish white supremacists with anything but a bullet to the head.”
Marouf also tweeted, “You know all those loud mouthed bags of human feces, aka the Jewish White Supremacists; when we liberate Palestine and they have to go back to where they come from, they will return to being low voiced [expletive] of [their] Christian/Secular White Supremacist Masters.”
Another one of Marouf’s vile screeds read, “The Jewish White Supremacist Summit hosted by Apartheid Canada PM @JustinTrudeau, was the brain-child of @IrwinCotler the Grand Wizard of Zionism in this Colony. Note that he looks like a [expletive] without makeup, as he spews his [expletive].”
Some of Laith Marouf’s tweets. (screenshot/The Simon Wiesenthal Center)
Marouf also called French Canadians “frogs,” deemed the U.S. a “shi**y colony,” and declared that he wished America suffered more casualties in the Vietnam War in a post featuring a photo of the memorial to soldiers who perished in that conflict.
CMAC represents itself as a group that confronts “barriers experienced by Racialized Canadians (including BIPOC, Black, Indigenous and People of Color) in media access, representation and employment-related practices.”
The group received more than $133,000 from a government arts and culture agency called Canadian Heritage via a grant designed “to provide media training as a part of the agency’s Anti-Racism Action Program, which the government sees as an important tool to combat racism and remove barriers to employment, justice and social participation among religious minorities, indigenous peoples and radicalized communities,” JNS reported.
“We have provided notice to the Community Media Advocacy Centre that their funding has been cut and their project has been suspended,” Ahmed Hussen, Canada’s Minister of Housing and Diversity and Inclusion, said in a statement, adding that Marouf’s comments were “reprehensible and vile.”
“We call on the CMAC—an organization claiming to fight racism and hate in Canada—to answer how they came to hire Laith Marouf and how they plan on rectifying the situation, given the nature of his anti-Semitic and xenophobic statements,” he continued. “We look forward to a proper response on the next steps and clear accountability regarding this matter.”