Former "Donald Duck" parlays his Israel-hate into hosting X-Factor Arabia

Remember Wael Mansour?

He caused a stir as year ago with this tweet:

Here is the tweet that lead Disney to end my role as Donald Ducks official voice in Arabic dubbed cartoons in the ME pic.twitter.com/ZLdpN1NrMF
— Wael Mansour (@WaelMansour0) February 6, 2014

Upon further research, we saw that Mansour's original tweet was from six months earlier, and he was never employed by Disney - he was a third party contractor.

In other words, Mansour made up a story about being fired from  Disney for hating Israel - and got lots of publicity for the lie.

His stunt just paid off in spades.

Wael Mansour was just named the host of X-Factor Arabia. The headlines about this story all note that he is an important anti-Zionist. It is his main claim to fame!

So there you have it. Saying you hate Israel, and making up a story about how it hurt your career, is a great way to get ahead in the Arab world.

(h/t Shawarma News)