Meet Michael Zananiri:
A Chef and “Queer Social Rights Anarchist”, Michael enjoys all the benefits of living in Israel. Including the ability to be openly gay without being thrown off the top of a building.
Alas, he spends a lot of time demonizing the Jewish state, which includes filming unsuspecting Israelis and ridiculing them:
Meet Michael Zananiri, the gay palestinian Arab, who spends his days and nights trying to demonize the Jewish state in which he lives freely and unafraid. Alas, he inadvertently ends up revealing how the idea of "apartheid" in Israel is utter nonsense pic.twitter.com/LEVv4WaogI
— David Lange (@Israellycool) January 11, 2026
Note how he only makes himself look ungrateful and bad, while inadvertently revealing just how much freedom he has in Israel. In fact, his entire Instagram showing his life is the greatest rebuttal to his propaganda. I mean, imagine posting a video showing Christmas being celebrated openly in Israel, or one in which you – a Christian Arab – are receiving your degree at an Israeli university, and thinking these are helpful to your anti-Israel cause.
According to his LinkedIn, Michael Zananiri used to be a pastry chef at Jerusalem hotels like the Inbal, David Citadel, and the Waldorf Astoria until mid 2022. His anti-Israel posts precede this, so one can only speculate whether he was contaminating the pastries and with what.
When someone uses the extraordinary freedoms of Israel to stalk, harass, bait and publicly humiliate random civilians in the street for political clout, that isn’t “activism.” It’s intimidation and incitement.
Free speech is not a licence to target people, provoke confrontations, or create hostile situations that can escalate into violence. If Michael wants to campaign against Israel, he is free to do so. What he is not free to do is to turn ordinary Israelis into props for his online hate theatre.
The police and relevant authorities should take a close look at what he is doing, how he is doing it, and whether it crosses the line into harassment, disorderly conduct, or worse.
Because a society that protects freedom also has a duty to protect its citizens from those who abuse that freedom.
