Media Research Center of president for business and culture Dan Gainor issued this retweet:
While the message being conveyed isn’t controversial, the person who originally made it very much is.
As we’ve detailed, David Ha’ivri is a far-right Israeli activist who has organized numerous protests at Jerusalem’s Temple Mount, the ancient site of a Jewish temple that is now the site of a mosque. Eden Natan-Zada — the AWOL soldier who slaughtered four people on a bus in Gaza in 2005 — joined in one of those protests before he committed his massacre.
Ha’ivri was a follower and sympathizer of the Kach/Kahane Chai movement — he’s also a brother-in-law to the son of movement founder Meir Kahane. which has been outlawed in Israel for its links to anti-Arab and anti-Palestinian violence. And Ha’ivri refuses to condemn such violence; Ha’ivri appeared in a 2007 CNN documentary on religious extremism in which he refused to criticize a plot by Jewish extremists to detonate a bomb outside a Palestinian girls’ school.
Additionally, according to the New York Times, Ha’ivri celebrated the assassination of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and has served a six-month jail term in connection with the desecration of a mosque.
In short, Ha’ivri is a terrorist sympathizer, if not an actual terrorist. This is hardly the kind of person who deserves attention. Too bad Gainor didn’t check him out before retweeting him.