I've been interested in this news story here:

Woman who performed Nazi salute at protest is unmasked as owner of two kosher cafés inside Jewish hospital

Newspapers are reporting on the irony of this woman doing Nazi salutes, yet owning the Second Cup café inside the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada. Basically she was calling for the "final solution" and making a bunch of Nazi salutes.

Based on that title alone, one might be tempted to conclude that this woman is Jewish and therefore cosplaying as a Nazi, but please keep reading because that probably isn't the case.

The woman's name is Mai Abdulhadi and that's definitely not a jewish name. It's arabic, and not Mizrahi.

So how has Reddit handled this news? Mostly by implying that Mai Abdulhadi is jewish and acting as a false flag operation.

1. Here's how r/therewasanattempt handled the news:

A) "There was an attempt to be a N__i" - but this got deleted, probably because people reported it.

One of the mods said, "All those abusing the report function by getting upset at criticism of Zionism and its leveraging of Judaism for its means, are getting reported to Reddit."

- The implication is that this woman is Jewish and therefore simply pretending to support the Final Solution. When in fact, this is not the case. Also note that even taken at face value, this is not a critique of Zionism, this is a hit-piece on a woman behaving abhorrently at a protest, where no one is really stopping her or disagreeing with her.

B) "There was an attempt to make Palestinians Look bad" - a day later we got this spin. By now, some of the commenters have looked up this woman's name, but these are not the top comments.

Again, the title implies that she is Jewish, or at least a Zionist plant because she owns a Kosher Cafe. However, as most jews and muslims know, there's a lot of overlap between Halal and Kosher food certifications, so it's not uncommon for jews to own Halal shops or muslims to own kosher shops.

It is entirely possible that Adbdulhadi is Palestinian, especially if we consider how strongly she feels that all Jews should die in gas chambers. There have been famous Palestiniansfamous Palestinians with her last namelast name, so that is a possibility.

2. The r/evilofisrael sub had a similar spin:

Woman who performed Nazi salute at protest is unmasked as owner of two kosher cafés inside Jewish hospital - this didn't get any traction, and was a repost from another sub (see below). Again, why is this evidence of Israel's evil nature? She doesn't seem to have any ties to Israel AT ALL. The implication is that she is Jewish.

3. The r/Global_News_Hub  also attempted to spin this as a secret Jew in disguise. This is a famously anti-semitic subreddit that exclusively posts news stories to make Jews look bad. They pretend to be a news hub, but please don't fall for that. There's a very specific viewpoint here.

Woman who performed N___ salute at protest is unmasked as owner of two kosher cafés inside Jewish hospital

My favorite part of this is the Mod, who back pedals, in the comments, Oh there's no way to know her background!" ok.

With a top comment calling her a Zionist Plant

And a HEAVILY downvoted comment about how she's not jewish and has a history of antisemitism, with a source. You'd think people would be interested in this detail?

For this last one, you might say, "That headline doesn't seem like they're trying to imply this person was Jewish!" Please keep reading. The same burner account created on Sept 30, 2024 was basically spamming this news article across reddit, where it mostly got deleted or rejected for various reasons. Here's an early title that got accepted to r/AskMiddleEast :

4) "They were caught doing this multiple times" - Who's They? I think we can safely assume Jews.

Again, the implication is that a jewish woman pretended to be Palestinian, but there's no basis for believing that.

5. r/JewsOfConscience had a more forgiving title, with a less conspiratorial tone, but still predicated on the assumption that Mai Abdulhadi was a jewish woman.

Be Alert for Infiltrators - again, implying she was a jewish zionist, who was feigning her support for mid century German atrocities.

https://nypost.com/2024/10/14/business/amazon-exec-wears-necklace-with-palestinian-flag-imposed-on-israel/

and this person is still employed at Amazon as a VP.