#778 Send pro-Palestine activists to Gaza? What could possibly go wrong?

Plan B

Apr 03, 2025•21 min•Season 4Ep. 778

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Ex-NMP Calvin Cheng likes to comment about Singaporean affairs online, but this week his controversial post offering to buy airplane tickets to send pro-Palestine activists to Gaza crossed the line for many people. But that's not all - the post was liked by the accounts of Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan and Senior Minister of State for Digital Development and Information Tan Kiat How. Both have tried explaining it away, but the mess keeps getting worse with police reports and defamation lawsuits filed left right and centre. The power of a Facebook post.

(0:35) Who exactly is Calvin Cheng?!

(05:00) Controversy erupts as 2 PAP ministers caught “liking” the post

(09:45) How Cheng’s post became Islamophobic

(12:15) Is a boycott coming for an event allegedly hosted by Cheng?

(15:45) Jufrie Mahmood’s police report

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