Saudi’s electronic flies incite against a Palestinian cartoonist

The French Francophone Institute for Liberties denounced the exposure of Palestinian cartoonist Mahmoud Abbas to a campaign of incitement and hate speech from the electronic flies accounts of the Saudi regime against the background of a drawing in which he addresses the crisis of low oil prices.

The Paris Institute said in a statement that it continued Abbas’s public threats of murder and incitement to expel him from his residence in Sweden, as well as attempts to piracy his account, and has even evolved into a campaign of hatred against the Palestinians.

Since Abbas published the caricature on his social media accounts, his name was widely circulated in twitter accounts in the Kingdom including comments insulting him and publishing personal information about his family history and the location he is sharing and his attempts to describe him as a terrorist in Sweden.

The Human Rights Institute affirmed that incitement against the background of a cartoon is a form of infringement of freedom of opinion and expression and falls within the intended incitement, which is common in the Kingdom in the absence of taking any legal measures against those involved.

The Paris Institute warned of the danger of continuing hate speech on the already deteriorating human rights conditions in Saudi Arabia and fueling racist rhetoric in social media and the media.

While the Parisian Francophone Institute for Liberties expressed its solidarity with Abbas, he stressed the necessity to confront incitement campaigns and publish hate speech, which is in violation of international conventions.

Saudi activists were attacking the Palestinian cartoonist Mahmoud Abbas, against a background of his drawing dealing with the crisis of low oil prices.

And published “Abbas”, comics that include the image of an Arab man running from a high slope, and from behind him a barrel of oil, in a sign of a sharp decline in oil captures extended to the Arabs.

Abbas was met on his accounts on social media, with comments that included insults against him, and the publication of personal information about his family history, his shared website, and his description as a “terrorist element”.