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Ola Al-Fares Removes her Tweet about Georges Floyd’s Case

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Hala Fayad

3-June-2020

Ola Al-Fares Removes her Tweet about Georges Floyd’s Case

Ola Al-Fares, a Jordanian journalist at Al-Jazeera Channel, was heavily criticized after posting a tweet about an American man of Palestinian origins who was involved in George Floyd’s case, which affected the US and raised a series of protest and riots in many US cities.  

Ola Al-Fares tweeted: "Some countries paid millions of dollars, including Palestine, as a gift for Trump to save their thrones, and a Palestinian man shook Trump's throne with counterfeit $ 20."



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Ola Al-Fares pointed to the American citizen of Palestinian origins named "Mahmoud Abu Mayyala", who is one of the store owners whom one if his employees has called the police about George Floyd, after he suspected that Floyd gave him a counterfeit US $20; The police of Minneapolis. came and arrested him in an awful way, and a police officer choked him till death.

After raising controversy on Twitter and becoming a trending topic in the Arab world, Ola removed her tweet.