Website review: Johann Hari: The loathsome smearing...
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- individualathome rated 3 months ago
- The story of a journalist who dared criticize Israel. worth reading. From the page: "My own case isn't especially important, but it illustrates how the wider process of intimidation works. I have worked undercover at both the Finsbury Park mosque and among neo-Nazi Holocaust deniers to expose the Jew-hatred there; when I went on the Islam Channel to challenge the anti-Semitism of Islamists, I received a rash of death threats calling me "a Jew-lover", "a Zionist-homo pig" and more. Ah, but wait. I have also reported from Gaza and the West Bank. Last week, I wrote an article that described how untreated sewage was being pumped from illegal Israeli settlements on to Palestinian land, contaminating their reservoirs. This isn't controversial. It has been documented by Friends of the Earth, and I have seen it with my own eyes."
OliviaB rated 3 months ago- images from palestinian artist tayseer barakat wiht thanks. this is a clear and disturbing account of what happened to one journalist who dared to criticise israel. well worth reading! more here from Nation magazine.
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"The loathsome smearing of Israel's critics"
"In the US and Britain, there is a campaign to smear anybody who tries to
describe the plight of the Palestinian people. It is an attempt to
intimidate and silence - and to a large degree, it works. There is nobody
these self-appointed spokesmen for Israel will not attack as anti-Jewish:
liberal Jews, rabbis, even Holocaust survivors. Any attempt to describe
accurately the situation for Palestinians is met like this. If you recount
the pumping of sewage onto Palestinian land, they claim you are reviving
the anti-Semitic myth of Jews "poisoning the wells." If you interview a
woman whose baby died in 2002 because she was detained - in labour - by
Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint within the West Bank, they will say you
didn't explain "the real cause": the election of Hamas in, um, 2006. And on
and on and on."
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...by the time the armistice lines were drawn in July 1949, Israel had extended its territory to 78% of historic Palestine. 800,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes, 530 villages were destroyed and 86% of the Palestinians who now fell within the 1949 armistice lines were displaced. Of the 14% that remained, 70% of their land was confiscated or made inaccessible to them.
According to UNRWA estimates, there are presently 5.5 million refugees spread across 58 camps in the occupied Palestinian territories, Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
These have been replaced by some 5.5 million Jews living in Israel flourishing in freedom, prosperity and international acceptance in what can only be described as obstinate blindness and pure disregard for the brutality they employed and still adopt today in order to sustain their existence. They maintain that their actions are justified after being subject to worldwide contempt, suffering years of persecution and anti-Semitism. It is as if their unwavering resolve to achieve their goal supersedes Palestinian claims and relegates them to the unfortunate byproduct or obstacle standing in the way of their destiny.
.- images from palestinian artist tayseer barakat wiht thanks. this is a clear and disturbing account of what happened to one journalist who dared to criticise israel. well worth reading! more here from Nation magazine.
- advena rated 3 months ago
- Last week, I wrote an article that described how untreated sewage was being pumped from illegal Israeli settlements on to Palestinian land, contaminating their reservoirs. This isn't controversial. It has been documented by Friends of the Earth, and I have seen it with my own eyes. The response? There was little attempt to dispute the facts I offered. Instead, some of the most high profile "pro-Israel" writers and media monitoring groups - including Honest Reporting and Camera - said I an anti-Jewish bigot akin to Joseph Goebbels and Mahmoud Ahmadinejadh, while Melanie Phillips even linked the stabbing of two Jewish people in North London to articles like mine. Vast numbers of e-mails came flooding in calling for me to be sacked. Any attempt to describe accurately the situation for Palestinians is met like this. If you recount the pumping of sewage onto Palestinian land, "Honest Reporting" claims you are reviving the anti-Semitic myth of Jews "poisoning the wells." If you interview a woman whose baby died in 2002 because she was detained - in labour - by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint within the West Bank, "Honest Reporting" will say you didn't explain "the real cause": the election of Hamas in, um, 2006. And on, and on.
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