Follow the Middle East Forum MEF Home  |   Research & Writings  |  Donate Muslim Media Darling: Hitler Spared Some Jews 'So We'd Know Why He Killed Them' by Raheem Kassam  •  May 21, 2016 Cross-posted from Breitbart http://www.meforum.org/blog/2016/05/muslim-media-darling Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. Originally published under the title "Media-Darling Muslim Selfie Girl: 'Hitler Left Some Jews So We'd Know Why He Killed Them'." Zakia Belkhiri, lauded by the Western media for taking a "defiant" selfie at an anti-Islam protest in Belgium, is apparently a raving anti-Semite. A Muslim girl who took a "defiant" selfie at an anti-Islam protest in Belgium allegedly posted anti-Semitic comments on her Twitter, Facebook, and Ask.fm accounts, according to a Belgian former soldier and a leading Dutch website. Zakia Belkhiri, 22, was lauded as an "inspiration" by the media as her picture next to Vlaams Belang (Flemish Interest) protesters went viral. But web sleuths have now claimed that Ms. Belkhiri's "peace sign" in the picture is perhaps out of character for her. They claim she tweeted in 2012: "Hitler didnt kill all the jews, he left some. So we [would] know why he was killing them." The tweet (seen in the below screengrab), which appears to have been sent on December 19, 2012, is now circulating on social media as people attempt to draw attention to Ms. Belkhiri's alleged racist views. As Ms. Belkhiri has now deleted her account it is not possible to verify these tweets. An apparent tweet from Zakia Belkhiri, sent on December 19, 2012. Shortly before she deleted her accounts, Ms. Belkhiri tweeted: "I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING AGAINST JEWS THOSE TWEETS ARE FAKE THEY ARE PHOTOSHOPPED BUT if you don't believe me that's your choice people." But social media users are also claiming her Ask.fm account allegedly read: "fuck that Jewish language" when she was asked if she wanted to learn Hebrew, while critics claim her Facebook account expressed her hatred for Jews. Immediately after the incident, Ms. Belkhiri deleted her Twitter account and told BBC Trending that she "didn't want to look like a girl who seeks attention." It is unclear as to whether she told the same thing to the cameramen when she posed for pictures at the protest. Zakia Belkhiri on Ask.fm: "Fuck that Jewish language." The initial story was lauded by Buzzfeed, whose writers called Ms. Belkhiri an "inspiration," and by the BBC, the Telegraph, the Huffington Post, Vox, Mashable, Mic, and hundreds of other websites around the world. NBC's Jake Heller was shocked to hear of these past alleged postings by Ms. Belkhiri. But the Dutch website Geenstijl, which delivered a Dutch referendum on the European Union earlier this year, was less shocked: Do you remember? The Muslim girl... what a mischievous opposition, when this innocent girl clearly demonstrated of all that white fascism. Unfortunately, she proved no exception, she proved the rule. She is the rule. The rabidly hating Jews rule where the average Muslim is concerned... The Internet does not forget. And screenshots are eternal. Oh yeah Zakia, you want fame? Enjoy it girl. We'll keep an eye on you. And while Ms. Belkhiri claims that she wanted to avoid fame, it does not explain her tweet as she was first going viral, which read: "I ain't a diva but don't push me fame is like the sweetest joy next to getting money." Ms. Belkhiri's social media accounts were first subject to mass deletions and now have been deactivated in their entirety. Raheem Kassam is a Shillman-Ginsburg fellow at the Middle East Forum and editor-in-chief of Breitbart London. Related Topics:  Antisemitism, Media, Muslims in Europe  |  Raheem Kassam To subscribe to the MEF mailing lists, go to http://www.meforum.org/list_subscribe.php The Middle East Forum