Palestinian professor previously published by the New York Times makes sick joke about paramedics saying Hamas burned babies in ovens: ‘With or without baking powder?’

A Palestinian professor once idolized by The New York Times has shocked and disgusted followers with a sick joke designed to discredit a paramedic’s testimony that he found Israeli babies burned in an oven after the attack from Hamas on October 7.

Paramedic Eli Beer heads United Hatzalah, a volunteer medical organization headquartered in Jerusalem that now assists the IDF in treating survivors and victims of the war.

In an impassioned speech on Saturday at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s annual leadership summit in Las Vegas, he described the horrors of what paramedics saw as they responded to the Hamas attack.

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Professor Refaat Alareer dismissed the description as ‘Zionist propaganda’ and made the sick baking powder joke

‘We saw a little baby in an oven. These motherfuckers put a little baby in the oven and turn the oven on.

“A few hours later we found the little boy,” he said, warning the crowd: “These are no ordinary enemies.”

Refaat Alareer, a Gaza-based professor who previously said all Jews were “bad,” dismissed the paramedics’ testimony as “Zionist propaganda”

A video of his comments was shared on X, formerly known as Twitter, where pro-Palestinian commentators dismissed it as “Zionist propaganda.”

Among them was Refaat Alareer, a professor from Gaza, who responded to the oven story with the question: ‘With or without baking powder?’

In another tweet he continued: “The new Zionist propaganda just disappeared. What now, Hamas ate the Jews?’

Alareer, who has previously described all Jews as “evil,” was published by The New York Times in May 2021.

His guest essay, titled “My Child Asks: ‘Can Israel Destroy Our Building If the Power Goes Out?’” describes the many years of Israeli attacks that he says killed members of his family and that of his wife.

He spoke of his love and fear for his six children, and fondly recalled reading them bedtime stories in an attempt to distract them from the atrocities of war.

He was also featured in a favorable article in the November 2021 newspaper.

Reporter Patrick Kingsley called him an unlikely “champion of Hebrew poetry” and presented him as open-minded and peaceful.

The newspaper’s editors added a comment after publication admitting that he had been depicted in a way that was not “complete.”

Alareer was profiled by The New York Times in 2021. He was portrayed as a peaceful, open-minded professor

Beer met with President Biden during his visit to Israel on October 18. His humanitarian organization also provides aid in disaster areas

Earlier this year, before the Hamas attack on October 7, he was scheduled to appear at UPenn for a Palestinian literary festival.

Students protested over his anti-Semitic writings and he was removed from the speaking panel.

Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters, who has been widely condemned for his comments about Jews, was also scheduled to speak at the event.

Beer, the paramedic who spoke evocatively about what he saw, met with President Biden during his visit to Israel on October 18.

The humanitarian organization also provided aid to Moroccan villages affected by the devastating earthquake earlier this year.

Since the war began on October 7, Hamas and its supporters have relentlessly sought to dismiss and discredit testimony of some of its militants’ most brutal acts.

First, there was widespread disagreement over a controversial story that some paramedics had found decapitated babies.

Beer insists it is true and Biden said he had seen photos confirming the claims. A mortuary worker also told DailyMail.com that Hamas had beheaded an unborn baby after tearing it from its mother’s womb.

The origins of a rocket attack on a hospital in Gaza were also widely disputed.

Both the US and Israel say Islamic Jihad is to blame, and that they fired a rocket that hit the hospital and parking lot.

Hamas claims that Israel launched the attack and killed 500 civilians as a result.