Al Jazeera today has
an article about how evil Chabad is and how it performs its "Talmudic rituals" in Gaza, the West Bank and now Syria. It starts off:
Just three days after the fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria was announced, a number of rabbis from a Jewish movement calling itself Chabad performed prayers and Talmudic rituals in the village of Hadar, located in the buffer zone in the Golan Heights between Israel and Syria.
The official website of this extremist Jewish movement confirmed, on December 12, that a group of its followers performed their prayers with their children in the Syrian territories that were recently controlled by Israeli forces.
This is then a springboard into attacking Chabad and all religious Jews as expansionist fanatics.
This is not the first time Al Jazeera showed its disgust at Jews supposedly "performing Talmudic rituals" in Syria. It published the same story in December when the videos started circulating.
However, the videos were jokes. The Jerusalem Post headline was "
Faux 'Chabad house in Syria' causes uproar on social media" and reported that it was a lighthearted video that Al Jazeera and other outlets condemned.
Times of Israel confirmed that no Chabad members were given permission to enter Syria (let alone bring children!) and the video was taken in Israel. even the video itself doesn't seem to say that the were physically in Syria, only at the (Israeli) foot of Mount Hermon, to emphasize the Chabad teaching that its seminal work the Tanya must be read everywhere on Earth.
After a month, during which Al Jazeera reads all Israeli media, there is no way that the Qatari media outlet doesn't know that the story was false.
The story itself is unimportant. But it proves, yet again, that no one should trust the reporting at Al Jazeera.