A Single Retweet Caused Palestinian Envoy To Canada To Be Fired

If this isn’t a key lesson in “watch what you tweet”, I don’t know what is: The (now former) Palestinian envoy to Canada was removed from her post after she retweeted a link to a video that was extremely offensive to Jews.

Canadian newspaper The Globe And Mail reports that Linda Sobeh Ali was removed from her position in Ottawa by the Palestinian Authority to “avoid harming relations with Canada.”

The drastic step to remove this diplomat from her post follows a blow-out over something that she retweeted earlier this month.

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