In recent days, former IBF featherweight world boxing champion Billy Dib, aka “Billy the Kid,” has retweeted more than a dozen anti-Israel tweets, including at least two that referred to Israelis as Nazis and at least one using the hashtag “#GenocideinGaza.”
A retweet isn’t always an endorsement, but Dib, an Australian, has been on an anti-Israel tear of late. His tweet at the top of this post uses the hashtag “#Fthezionists,” for example. More:
https://twitter.com/BillyDib/status/488236887732023296
https://twitter.com/BillyDib/status/489327692722864128
People on twitter make me sick. All these high profile people scared to speak out against the system. Seriously kids are dying. #Palestine
— Billy Dib (@BillyDib) July 17, 2014
https://twitter.com/BillyDib/status/489652532675739650
National Review Online’s Jonah Goldberg debunked the equating of Israelis and Nazis here. As he points out, it’s a moral disgrace that such a debunking is necessary at all.