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May 19, 2013 — Scott Johnson
Charles Enderlin is the France 2 Jerusalem correspondent who broadcast the incendiary account of the death of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at the hands of Israeli troops operating in the Gaza Strip in September 2000. Based on film footage provided by a Palestinian cameraman, Enderlin’s report has become infamous among students of Arab propaganda both for its destructive effects and for its probable falsity. The al-Dura affair bids to join the
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March 14, 2013 — Scott Johnson
BBC Middle East editor Paul Danahar was on hand in Gaza at the outset of Operation Pillar of Defense, Israel’s attempt to suppress the firing of rockets by Hamas on Israeli civilians. Danahar was therefore close to hand around the time that the son of BBC Arabic picture editor Jihad Masharawi’s son was killed by a munition that Danahar described as a shell landed in Masharawi’s home, which Danahar visited
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March 13, 2013 — Scott Johnson
A few years back the Daily Mail reported on the BBC’s “impartiality summit.” The story discussed the political correctness that suffocates the BBC. Only a few years earlier, the BBC was publicly disgraced in the Hutton Inquiry. The Hutton Inquiry failed to prompt the kind of historical examination of the BBC that it richly deserves. The institutional rot at the BBC is generations old. Biographies of Winston Churchill note mostly
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March 12, 2013 — Scott Johnson
The photograph of BBC Arabic editor Jihad Masharawi holding the shrouded body of his 11-month-old son, Omar, went viral within hours of the commencement of Israel’s Operation pillar of Defense in November 2012. The photograph depicted Masharawi outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The young Masharawi’s death was attributed to an Israeli airstrike. The photograph was featured on the Web and in newspapers around the world. The Daily Mail published
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March 11, 2013 — Scott Johnson
I wrote about the photograph of BBC Arabic editor Jihad Masharawi holding the shrouded body of his 11-month-old son, Omar, in posts here, here, here and here. The photograph depicted Masharawi outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City early in Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense. The young Masharawi’s death was attributed to an Israeli airstrike. The photograph went viral on the second day of the conflict between Hamas and Israel, being
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November 29, 2012 — Scott Johnson
I wrote about the photograph of BBC Arabic editor Jihad Masharawi holding the shrouded body of his 11-month-old son in posts here, here and here. The photograph depicted Masharawi outside Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. The young Masharawi’s death was attributed to an Israeli air strike. The photograph went viral on the second day of the conflict between Hamas and Israel, being featured on the Web and in newspapers around
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November 21, 2012 — Scott Johnson
The Times of Israel reports along with other media outlets that a bus was blown up in central Tel Aviv and 21 were injured today. The Daily Mail story is vague on the responsibility for the attack. The Twitter feed of BBC Middle East Bureau Chief Paul Danahar, who is stationed in Gaza City, leaves no doubt that Hamas claims responsibility for the attack. Danahar seems to suggest that Israel
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November 16, 2012 — Scott Johnson
…on BBC or CNN. Found on Twitter’s #Gaza hashtag, the photo below of “Isareli soldiers helping Palestinian kids escape the rockets from Gaza.” Found on the IDF Twitter feed, the video below depicts life in southern Israel under fire of the rockets that have rained down from Gaza: “Over the past 12 years, the residents of southern Israel have suffered over 12,000 rockets fired at them from the Gaza Strip.
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November 15, 2012 — Scott Johnson
According to the caption, the Yahoo! News photo of the day depicts Jihad Masharawi weeping while he holds the body of his 11-month old son Ahmad, at Shifa hospital following an Israeli air strike on their family house, in Gaza City, Wednesday, November 14, 2012. According to the The Daily Mail, which has published a virtual time series featuring Jihad from various news services, Masharawi is the BBC Arabic picture
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June 8, 2010 — Scott Johnson
William Shawcross is the son of Winston Churchill’s lawyer, the prominent former Nuremberg prosecutor and Labor MP Sir Hartley Shawcross. He thus provides something of a living link to Churchill whom we are especially proud to claim as a friend of our site. In today’s Jerusalem Post, Mr. Shawcross writes on the “irrational, obscene hatred” evident in the response of the international community to Israel’s enforcement of its blockade of
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January 28, 2008 — Scott Johnson
The death of terror master George Habash is worthy of note. Habash was the founder of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, a Marxist/terrorist group devoted to the destruction of Israel. After its founding in 1969, it helped pioneer the use of airplane hijackings as an instrument of terrorist propaganda. The PFLP joined the PLO and became its second largest faction after Fatah. Habash’s life and beliefs are
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June 3, 2007 — John Hinderaker
Earlier today, Iran’s President Ahmadinejad delivered a speech to foreign dignitaries in Teheran, marking the 18th anniversary of the death of the Ayatollah Khomeini, in which he said that the countdown to Israel’s destruction has begun, and that Israel will cease to exist in the “near future:” “In Lebanon, the corrupt, arrogant powers and the Zionist regime did all they could in an unfair 33-day war. But after 60 years
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August 28, 2006 — John Hinderaker
Yesterday, we posted on the alleged Israeli missile attack on a Reuters “armored vehicle” in Gaza. If you haven’t already read it, you should start by reading that post and looking at the photographs; this is an update. As I said yesterday, the photographs that have been published of the Reuters vehicle do not seem to correspond to the attack described in news reports. That’s a layman’s view, but several
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March 14, 2006 — Scott Johnson
The BBC reports: Israeli troops have stormed a prison in the West Bank town of Jericho, demanding the handover of a Palestinian militant Ahmed Saadat. Mr Saadat, who Israel blames for the assassination of a minister in 2001, has refused to surrender. [See the linked Jerusalem Post story below for the bacground: “Sa’adat, the secretary general of the Popular Front of the Liberation of Palestine is believed to have masterminded
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February 3, 2006 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Post has risen to the defense of the disgusting Tom Toles editorial cartoon that drew a letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “‘Wash Post’ defends Toles cartoon that drew angry protest letter from Joint Chiefs.” By contrast, the Post reporters covering the Islamist response to the Danish newspaper’s Muhammad cartoons cater to the folks who have drawn their guns and threatened kidnappings in response to the letters:
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February 3, 2006 — Scott Johnson
The Washington Post has risen to the defense of the disgusting Tom Toles editorial cartoon that drew a letter from the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “‘Wash Post’ defends Toles cartoon that drew angry protest letter from Joint Chiefs.” By contrast, the Post reporters covering the Islamist response to the Danish newspaper’s Muhammad cartoons cater to the folks who have drawn their guns and threatened kidnappings in response to the letters:
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January 3, 2006 — John Hinderaker
Today in London, thousands of demonstrators marched to protest Israel’s attacks on Hamas. The demonstration was led and organized, at least in part, by a group of celebrities and fringe politicians. The celebrities included Annie Lennox, formerly of the Eurhythmics, a Jewish comedian named Alexei Sayle (wild guess–he isn’t funny), and “human rights activist” Bianca Jagger, whom P. J. O’Rourke described a couple of decades ago as inhabiting the “lonely
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