Even Leftist The Atlantic Acknowledges Twitter Double Standard: No to Trump, Yes to Iran’s Khamenei

Twitter’s allowance of terrorist-supporting, anti-Semitic content on its platform is so glaring, even leftist The AtlanticPlatform was attacked for failing to address the matter.

AtlanticWriter Yair Rosenberg stated that Twitter permits hate speech, especially from Iranian Supreme Leaders. Ayatollah Khamenei. “The platform’s decision makers don’t understand anti-Semitism, and they aren’t embarrassed by it,” he wrote. Leftist Atlantic couldn’t resist bashing former President Donald Trump (a very pro-Israel, pro-Jewish president) in the article. But the outlet did at least acknowledge Big Tech’s bias: “Despite what they claim, I’d argue that social-media companies don’t ban people simply for disseminating dangerous misinformation—they ban people whose misinformation makes their leadership uncomfortable at liberal dinner parties.”

The Ayatollah published a June 8th message his latest in a years-long series of anti-Semitic tweets: “Today, #Zionism is an obvious plague for the world of #Islam. Zionists are a plague. This is true even before they established the Zionist fraud. Zionist capitalists had been plagued throughout the world from their inception. Now they’re a plague especially for the world of Islam.” 

As Atlantic explained, “[e]very anti-Jewish bigot” simply replaces the word “Jew” with “Zionist” and thus attracts somewhat less condemnation and attention for their anti-Semitic screeds. Atlantic noted that Twitter “banned another notable world leader” (presumably Trump, whom the article had just discussed) but not Khamenei. “A strong case can be made that given Khamenei’s access to political and military power, the virulence of his anti-Semitism, and the way it defines his global outlook, he is the world’s most powerful anti-Semite,” the article stated. “He denies the Holocaust while threatening another, and deploys the very rhetoric used to incite the murder of Jews for centuries while actively pursuing the nuclear weaponry that might make such murder possible.”

Twitter’s “Hateful conduct policy” states, “You may not promote violence against or directly attack or threaten other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin … [or] religious affiliation.” Yet Khamenei continues to tweet anti-Semitic hatred without consequences.

Twitter’s “Glorification of violence policy” further states, “you can’t glorify, celebrate, praise or condone violent crimes, violent events where people were targeted because of their membership in a protected group, or the perpetrators of such acts.” 

Yet Khamenei has repeatedly praised both the late mass murderer Gen. Qassem Soleimani and “Palestinian” terrorist-affiliated groups. A 2021 tweet praised “Palestinian Jihad’s internal power” and added, “Once, Palestinian youth defended themselves by throwing stones, but today they respond to the enemy’s attacks with precision missiles.” Other shocking posts from Khamenei include two 2020 tweets calling the Israeli government a “cancerous tumor” and “a deadly, cancerous growth.” This is ironic considering the Iranian government has been classified as a “State Sponsor of Terrorism” since 1984.

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