'With or without baking powder': Gaza academic who made fun of fake story of baby stuffed in oven by Hamas is murdered in Israeli strike


Paramedic Eli Beer gave a harrowing description of finding a baby in the oven
Video of his emotional remarks spread on Twitter this weekend as war rages on
Gaza professor Refaat Alareer called it 'Zionist propaganda' and asked: 'What's next? Hamas ate the Jews?
Dr Refaat Alareer was considered as a key figure in Gaza who devoted his life to raising awareness about the region’s situation globally

Alareer was a prominent writer, poet, and activist from Gaza. He was also a professor of English literature at the Islamic University of Gaza, where he taught Shakespeare among other subjects.

Alareer lost his life in an Israeli air strike on his sister's home. His brother, sister and her four children were also killed in the attack.

“For weeks since the start of this war, Refaat has been receiving numerous death threats and hateful messages from Israeli accounts on social media after prominent public figures singled him out for harassment and incitement,” Euro-Med said.

One such public figure was Bari Weiss.

Weiss singled out a tweet Refaat had written about a thoroughly debunked hoax that Palestinian militants had burned an Israeli baby alive in an oven on 7 October.

“Here is Refaat Alareer joking about whether or not an Israeli baby, burned alive in an oven, was cooked ‘with or without baking powder,’” Weiss wrote.


https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12689829/Palestinian-professor-previously-published-New-York-Times-makes-sick-joke-paramedics-Hamas-burned-baby-oven-without-baking-powder.html

https://electronicintifada.net/content/memory-dr-refaat-alareer/42466

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/refaat-alareer-was-assassinated-israel