Posted on 11/21/23
| News Source: The Baltimore Banner
Baltimore, MD - Nov. 21, 2023 - Attorney General Anthony Brown has suspended a member of the Maryland Commission on Hate Crimes Response and Prevention, citing personal social media posts that he said “risk disrupting the work and mission of the Commission.”
Brown’s office learned last week about Zainab Chaudry’s Facebook posts, according to a press release.
The Facebook page of Chaudry, who is also the Maryland director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, is filled with posts related to the current Israel-Hamas war. CAIR is a Muslim civil rights and advocacy group.
An Oct. 26 post by Chaudry reads: “I will never be able to understand how the world summoned up rage for 40 fake Israeli babies while completely turning a blind eye to 3,000 real Palestinian babies.”
Another post, from Oct. 17, compares the actions of Israel to Nazi Germany. It shows images of Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, one with Nazi flags flying from it in 1936 and one with Israel’s flag on display this year, and says: “That moment when you become what you hated most.”
Many countries showed solidarity with Israel after a surprise Hamas attack that killed about 1,200 people on Oct. 7. Since then, the Hamas-controlled Palestinian Ministry of Health estimates, more than 11,000 Palestinians have been killed in counter-attacks by Israel.
It is estimated that Nazis and their allies killed more than 6 million Jewish people during the Holocaust.
Brown stressed in a written statement that the commission “must serve as a model for the entire State on how to respond to incidents of hate and bias.”