Nas Daily accepts award from Israel’s genocide lobby

from Mondoweiss

Nuseir Yassin, the Palestinian viral video maker better known as Nas Daily, has been a useful tool for the Israel lobby as the Israeli government commits genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

This month Yassin accepted an award from the Anti-Defamation League “for his work in building bridges of understanding between Jews and Muslims,” the right-wing group said.

The ADL, an Israel lobby group that also masquerades as a civil rights organization, sent notices to US universities urging them to punish students who are protesting Israel’s slaughter in Gaza and designate them as “terror supporters.”

The video blogger gave an acceptance speech talking about promoting “peace” between Muslims and Jews in the region.

The award was presented to Yassin by Duke University professor Abdullah Antepli, himself a previous awardee. Antepli co-directs the Muslim Leadership Initiative, which promotes faithwashing junkets to Israel operated by the Shalom Hartman Institute, an organization with ties to the Israeli military.

Also co-directing the Muslim Leadership Initiative is the American-born author Yossi Klein Halevi, a former adherent of genocidal anti-Palestinian rabbi Meir Kahane. The organization is also bankrolled by anti-Muslim extremists...

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