Muna Hawwa

Muna Hawwa is a Palestinian blogger and journalist from Safed. She has worked as a presenter on AJ+ Arabic and has blogged on .

Biography Muna Hawwa is a Palestinian journalist from Safed. She grew up and studied in Sudan, from elementary school through her masters. She completed her MA in history from the Doha Institute for Studies in Qatar. And a master's degree in political science in African studies from the International University of Africa in Khartoum.

Career On Al Jazeera 's online news service AJ+ in Arabic, she was a producer and presenter.

In February 2019, she got into a dispute with Dhahi Khalfan Tamim on Twitter over his characterization of the Muslim conquest of Hispania as an "occupation."

Suspension from AJ+ On May 17, 2019, the day the German parliament designated the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign as antisemitic, AJ+ Arabic, a youth-oriented online news service from Al Jazeera Media Network, published a 7-minute video presented by Hawwa entitled al-Holokost about the Holocaust and the establishment of the State of Israel. The video was condemned as antisemitic by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and World Jewish Congress. In a tweet, , spokesperson of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, condemned the video as "the worst kind of pernicious evil," accusing Al Jazeera of brainwashing Arab youth and describing the network as "ideological descendants of 'Der Stürmer.'" About an hour later, the official Arabic Twitter account of Israeli Foreign Affairs shared the video, with the text "Lies of Al Jazeera Network (Al Jazeera Plus) about the Holocaust..." , followed by a series of tweets.

Al Jazeera pulled the video within 24 hours, after it had reportedly reached over 1.1 million views, The video was preserved in two parts by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), an organization founded by Yigal Carmon and described by critics as a pro-Israel advocacy group.

Hawwa and her colleague Amer al-Sayed Omar were subject to disciplinary administrative measures from the Al Jazeera Media Network. Additionally, Al Jazeera announced an internal sensitivity training and awareness program, and AJ+ managing director Dima Khatib admitted that the video was produced without the appropriate editorial oversight.