{"id":101308,"date":"2013-08-20T02:18:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T20:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=101308"},"modified":"2013-08-21T16:09:51","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T10:39:51","slug":"netanyahus-social-media-director-suspended-for-offensive-facebook-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/netanyahus-social-media-director-suspended-for-offensive-facebook-posts\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspended For Offensive Facebook Posts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daniel Seaman slammed Japanese nuclear-victim commemorations, and wondered whether Muslims \u2018stop eating each other\u2019 during Ramadan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s new social media chief was reportedly suspended for making inappropriate statements on his personal Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/netanyahus-social-media-director-suspended-for-offensive-facebook-posts\/screen-shot-2013-08-16-at-7-44-33-pm-e1376671587427-635x357\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-101311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-101311\" title=\"Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-7.44.33-PM-e1376671587427-635x357\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-7.44.33-PM-e1376671587427-635x357-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-7.44.33-PM-e1376671587427-635x357-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Screen-Shot-2013-08-16-at-7.44.33-PM-e1376671587427-635x357.png 635w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Daniel Seaman, the prime minister\u2019s recently appointed director for interactive media, suggested that Palestinians who commemorate the Nakba, an Arabic word referring to the \u201ccatastrophe\u201d that is Israel\u2019s victory in the 1948 war, may want to reflect on how \u201cstupid\u201d they are.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1328660580467-1\">Seaman, former head of the Government Press Office, and a deputy director-general in the now extinct Ministry of Public Diplomacy, also wrote he was \u201csick\u201d of commemorations for the victims of the nuclear bombs dropped in Japan during World War II because \u201cHiroshima and Nagasaki were the consequence of Japanese aggression. You reap what you sow.\u201d\u00a0He added:\u00a0\u201dInstead, they should be commemorating the estimated 50 million Chinese, Korean and other victims of Japanese imperial aggression and genocide \u2013 not to mention nearly 120,000 Allied military casualties who fought to defeat the genocidal Japanese. These are who deserve to be and should be remembered this week.\u201d<\/div>\n<p>Israeli media quoted unnamed officials as saying that Seaman, a member of Netanyahu\u2019s Likud party, was suspended from his post.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese diplomats had reportedly contacted the Foreign Ministry to ascertain whether Seaman\u2019s August 8 post reflected official policy.<\/p>\n<p>In previous posts, Seaman had slammed the Church of Scotland for a report which rejected Jewish rights to the Holy Land: \u201cThe Church of Scotland? The Calvinist, Presbytarian [sic] Church of Scotland? Why do you think we give a flyin **** what you have to say?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And last month, at the beginning of Ramadan, he asked whether the month-long Muslim fast meant \u201cthat Muslims will stop eating each other during the daytime?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A post in May read: \u201cPalestinian chief negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said his side would only agree to renew peace talks if Israel ceased all settlement activity and openly declared that a future state of Palestine would be created on the 1967 lines adding that this should not be viewed as a precondition to talks but rather as an Israeli duty. Is there a diplomatic way of saying \u201cGo F*^&amp; yourself\u201d?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another the same month stated: \u201cThe Palestinians commemorated the Naqba with a 65 second siren in Ramallah. That\u2019s not nearly enough time to stop and pause to think about how stupid they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister\u2019s Office distanced itself from the statements and said they were \u201cnot acceptable\u201d and did not represent government positions.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday,\u00a0Seaman had posted on his Facebook page: \u201cIn light of the sudden interest in my facebook page I would like to stress that what I write here are my personal opinions which in no way reflects official positions of the State of Israel. As I will be soon be joining the Prime Minister\u2019s office I will keep my private opinions to myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The news came soon after reports that\u00a0Seaman was working to set up a network of advocacy units in Israeli universities, operated by studentswho will receive scholarships for their efforts totaling nearly NIS 3 million ($845,000).<\/p>\n<p>Courtesy Times of Israel<\/p>\n<p>Related posts;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Bandula On The Rampage Against Tamil Journos\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/bandula-on-the-rampage-against-tamil-journos\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Bandula On The Rampage Against Tamil Journos<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"Sri Lankan Diplunacy: Stray Dogs, Pricks, Tigresses And CHOGM 2013\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/sri-lankan-diplunacy-stray-dogs-pricks-tigresses-and-chogm-2013\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Sri Lankan Diplunacy: Stray Dogs, Pricks, Tigresses And CHOGM 2013<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":101311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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