“Israel Paid Off Bulgaria”: FT Journo Tweets Conspiracy Theory

Conspiracy theories involving Israel are the usual fare of anti-Semitic Arab media or neo-Nazi websites. Iranian claims that Israel itself was responsible for the  deaths of five Israelis in a bus bombing last summer at Bulgaria’s Burgas airport are unsurprising.

What is shocking, however, is the following tweet from the Financial Times’s Middle East and North Africa correspondentBorzou Daragahi:

 

The Bulgarian authorities investigated the bombing and their conclusions backed Israel’s charge that Hezbollah was behind the terror attack. Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetan Tsvetanov clearly stated: “We have well-grounded reasons to suggest that the two were members of the militant wing of Hezbollah.”…More at Honest Reporting