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Tuesday, April 02, 2024

Gazans are still afraid to say anything negative about Hamas, yet most reporters accept their anti-Israel allegations as untainted

Occasionally, videos pop up of Gazans expressing their anger at Hamas. Yet the mainstream media - who rely on Gaza-based stringers who are afraid of Hamas - steer away from any stories that show both how Gazans are angry at Hamas and how they still fear the group, which makes the quotes of all Gazans suspect.Haaretz' Amira Hass, to her credit, reports that Gazans are deathly...

Hamas Has A History of Threatening Those Who Report The Truth From Gaza (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosThese days, along with the rush to condemn Israel in its war to eliminate the Hamas terrorist threat, there are instances of retractions and deletions of hasty anti-Israel posts. One of the more unusual and unexpected examples is Ilhan Omar backtracking on her accusation that Israel bombed a hospital:While Omar has reacted to pressure, Tlaib is still at it.Another...

Amnesty's position on "freedom of expression" in films is curiously one-sided

Today, Amnesty International tweeted this:Amnesty is saying that banning a movie is a violation of freedom of expression. Amnesty is against all forms of censorship - the allegation that the movie promotes homosexuality does not seem to be the issue at all, just freedom of expression.However, when Lebanon bans movies for having Israeli actors or producers, Amnesty has not...

Hamas brutally represses Gaza demonstrations. Media nowhere to be found.

Last week I reported that Gazans planned a major anti-Hamas rally on Sunday, July 30. I also noted that this news was essentially censored from all Palestinian Arabic media, even Hamas' archrival Fatah did not report on these plans.A lot of what happens in Gaza is simply not reported by the media.Thankfully, Gazans publish their own videos and photos on Telegram and similar...

Islamic Jihad threatens reporters who take photos of terrorists

The Al Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad - Jenin Brigade today issued a warning, and a not so veiled threat, to any media that reports things it doesn't like:In the name of God, the most gracious, the most merciful* Notice issued by the Jenin Battalion - Military Media *Media brothers, institutions and individuals,We note to you that it is forbidden to carry out any media activity...

Man plans to burn Jewish holy books in Sweden outside Israel embassy - proving anti-Zionism is antisemitism

From Times of Israel:Outrage mounted in Israel on Friday after Swedish police accepted a request to allow the burning of a Bible outside of the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Saturday, just weeks after Quran burnings took place in the city.Local police confirmed two weeks ago to Sweden’s national public broadcaster that it had received an application from an individual in...

You just KNEW that Jews would be blamed for the Quran burning

From Iran's PressTV (no surprise here):Following the desecration of the Holy Qur'an in Sweden, the leader of the Yemeni popular resistance movement Ansarullah says the West allows the perpetration of the heinous crime under the Zionist lobby's influence.Abdul-Malik al-Houthi made the remarks on Tuesday, less than a week after two men stood outside the Swedish capital of Stockholm's...

The Palestinian Authority has its own law to severely restrict all NGOs - and no one reports about it

Cover of PCHR's "Annual Reprot" [sic]Remember the huge amount of outrage last year when Israel shut down the offices of seven PFLP-linked NGOs? It was condemned by the UN, political leaders and human rights groups. Well, buried in the Palestinian Center of Human Rights 2022 annual report we see something that didn't generate a single headline in the West.This year witnessed...

Roger Waters supports free speech, but only that he agrees with

In April, when the city of Frankfurt planned to cancel their Roger Waters concert for antisemitism, he wrote on Instagram:ROGER WATERS FRANKFURT SHOW UPDATEFRANKFURT COUNCIL WERE LEGALLY REQUIREDTO RESPOND TO ROGER WATERS INTERIM INJUNCTIONBY MIDNIGHT APRIL 14DID THEY?NOBODY KNOWS?WE CAN ONLY GUESS ATWHAT’S GOING ON IN FRANKFURT?ARE THEY PLAYING FOR TIME?WHO KNOWS?NOT THAT...

Kuwaiti journalist who has denounced Hezbollah is barred from entering Lebanon

From Arab News:There was uproar in Lebanon on Thursday after Kuwaiti media writer and producer Fajer Al-Saeed was prevented from entering the country.Al-Saeed was stopped at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International Airport on Wednesday evening, with Lebanon’s General Security rejecting a request from Kuwaiti Embassy officials to allow her to spend the night there before leaving...

Palestinian artists call to boycott Captain America

Remember last September when Israel haters went crazy with the announcement that the upcoming Captain America movie would include an Israeli superhero?Since then, the Israeli actress Shira Haas who plays the role of Sabra has apparently already done her scenes, so the campaign has now shifted from trying to pressure Marvel not to have the character to saying that the movie...

He wrote an op-ed supporting judicial reform. So Haaretz fired him.

Earlier this week, Daled Amos wrote about how Haaretz has dropped all pretense of journalism and objectivity, based on my tweet of a letter from Haaretz's publisher Amos Schocken:Dear Haaretz reader,Despite the hopes – and votes – of nearly half of Israel's electorate, Benjamin Netanyahu won Israel's last election and, since taking office as prime minister, he has spun into...

Freedom of the Press, Palestinian style

This morning, ahead of a planned press conference at the Watan Media Network in Ramallah, Palestinian security services in plainclothes stormed in and shut it down.According to Watan, the security forces, some of whom were armed, tried to expel a number of journalists who were present to cover the press conference. They also attacked Watan employees when they objected...