U.S. Postpones 'Courage' Award to Rabidly Anti-Semitic Egyptian Activist Samira Ibrahim

At WaPo, "U.S. postpones award to honor Egyptian woman activist in light of anti-US, anti-Semitic tweets."

The State Department hilariously claimed the woman's Twitter account was hacked.

Proof of lies, from Arieh Kovler, at the Times of Israel, "Samira Ibrahim is probably lying: technical evidence." (At Memeorandum.)

Of course she lied. But that the State Department tried to foist the lies on the American people is especially despicable. Par for the Obama administration course, that's for sure.

Added: From Jeffrey Goldberg, "Is Michelle Obama About to Honor an anti-American antiSemite?"

More: From Lee Smith, at the Weekly Standard, "Samira Ibrahim Speaks":

Ibrahim claimed yesterday that her Twitter page had been “stolen” and she was not responsible for the hateful comments. Today the State Department announced it was deferring her award pending further review.

Finally, Ibrahim herself has spoken, writing in Arabic on her Twitter page. Egyptian democracy activist Mina Rezkalla provides the translation: "I refuse to apologize to the Zionist lobby in America regarding my previous anti-Zionist statements under pressure from American government therefore they withdrew the award.”

This would seem to settle the question as to whether or not her page had been “stolen.” Now all that’s left is for the State Department to demand that Ibrahim reimburse American taxpayers for her trip to the United States.

Not too smart, obviously.