With the three highest ranking Democratic state officials in Virginia facing calls for resignation for racism or sexual assault, a candidate for House of Delegates in this month’s election is apologizing for anti-Semitic social-media posts made five years ago.
Ibraheem Samirah, the Democrat nominee in Virginia’s 86th district Feb. 19 election issued a statement Friday night for virulently anti-Israel and anti-Semitic posts that were published Thursday by Big League Politics. Samirah, a Muslim-American born to Palestinian refugees, said that giving money to Israel is worse than giving money to the Ku Klux Klan and wished for the late Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon to “burn in hell,” in addition to other hateful screeds.
Samirah called the charges part of a “slander campaign,” blaming his statements on the work of his “impassioned college days.”