Miss France beauty pageant runner-up gets anti-Semitic hate online after saying father is Israeli

[Behind the Aegis]

The runner-up in the Miss France beauty pageant received a torrent of anti-Semitic tweets and other online messages after telling a judge in the contest that her father is Israeli.

“I have an array of origins: my mother is Serbo-Croat, my father Israeli-Italian. This gave me a passion for geography and the discerning of other cultures,” April Benayoum told the contest’s audience Saturday night, according to the Jerusalem Post.

The tweets, including one in which the author wrote “Hitler forgot about you,” provoked condemnations from some of France’s top politicians, including Marlene Schaippa, the minister delegate in charge of citizenship.

“MissFrance2021 is not a contest in antisemitism,” Schaippa wrote. “Full support to April Benayoun, who has been the target of unprecedented anti-Semitic hate speech after revealing her origins.”

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[kirkuchiyo]

1. Why are beauty pageants still a thing? nt

[frazzled]

2. Why is anti-Semitism still a thing?

I’m kind of stunned that the beauty pageant aspect is what you got from this, and not the hate.

[Behind the Aegis]

3. Thank you!

I figured THAT would be MORE important to more than a few. Glad you called it out.