Haaretz, Israel’s oldest daily newspaper, turned up the heat in the highly charged debate over the merits of the nuclear pact reached between the U.S. and five other global powers and Iran with an eyebrow-raising Twitter post about U.S. Sen. Al Franken’s announcement of his support for the pact.

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At 5:01 p.m. U.S. Eastern time Thursday, Haaretz tweeted that Franken had endorsed the Iran nuclear deal on pragmatic grounds. But the tweet prefaced the senator’s name with some peculiar descriptors. Here’s a screenshot of the tweet — since deleted:

Franken, who became well-known in the 1970s and ’80s as a writer and performer on “Saturday Night Live,” is a Democratic senator from Minnesota. In one famed bit, he proclaimed the dawning 1980s “the Al Franken Decade.” He is married to his college sweetheart, Franni, according to his website. They married in 1975.

The Haaretz tweet was deleted about 10 minutes after having been posted, but not before being widely seen and remarked upon by Twitter users:

Oddly enough, Haaretz had tweeted the same story earlier in the day — but the earlier tweet made no mention of religious affiliation or sexual orientation.