Principled Dupedom: On the Moral Imperative to be Stupid

I place this post in the Al Durah Journalist category because although it belongs also in Evidence, it’s most important contribution is an analysis of what’s going on with the lethal journalists who got caught up in the hysterical credulity among journalists in the wake of Al Durah.

Principled Dupedom: On the Moral Imperative to be Stupid, Augean Stables, April 18, 2013

One of the major weaknesses of Westerners in the current cognitive war with Islamic imperialism is a seemingly boundless ...

Continue Reading →

How Dare You Deprive us of our Icon of Hatred? A Saudi Writer on Al Durah

The Kuperwasser Committee Report on Al Durah has elicited fascinating and revealing responses. This one from Saudi Arabia permits us to appreciate just how important a role that icon of hatred plays in the consciousness of the Palestinian/Arab/Muslim world.

Muhammad Al-Dura lives

For the general public, the picture of the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza usually conjures up confrontations between Palestinian boys throwing stones at armed Israeli soldiers. But in the one image which more than any other epitomizes the character ...

Continue Reading →

Enderlin: “What would they say in Gaza if I didn’t report that the Israelis killed him?” (from The Augean Stables)

enderlin schwartz quote

One of the more scandalous episodes of the Al Durah Affair came about after the judges saw the rushes and Karsenty won his appeal, much to the astonishment of the journalistic community who, under the aegis of Jean Daniel of Le Nouvel Observateur, put together a petition in his support. Below is a discussion of this development from an earlier post on Public Secrets (“they stage stuff all ...

Continue Reading →

2013 May: NYTimes/Kershner – Israeli Report Casting New Doubts on Shooting in Gaza

May 19, 2013, 8:30 pm
By ISABEL KERSHNER

JERUSALEM — The images seen around the world were shocking: a young boy being shot dead as he crouched behind his father at a dusty junction in Gaza in September 2000. But the facts behind the images have been disputed almost from the start, and on Sunday, the Israeli government asserted that there was no evidence for the original account of the event, which was that the boy was hit by Israeli ...

Continue Reading →

2013 May 19: Report of the Government Review Committee Regarding France2 Al Durah

Prime Minister’s Office – Publication of the Report of the Government Review Committee Regarding the France 2 Al-Durrah Report, its Consequences
and Implications
19/05/2013

The Government Review Committee: “The France 2 report’s central claims and accusations had no basis in the material which the station had in its possession at the time…There is no evidence that the IDF was in any way responsible for causing any of the alleged injuries to Jamal or the boy”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received today the ...

Continue Reading →

2013 Sellem/Times of Israel: Official Israeli government report concludes the « death » of Mohamed al Dura was staged

Official Israeli government report concludes the « death » of Mohamed al Dura was staged
MAY 13, 2013, 12:13 AM

Jonathan-Simon Sellem is a former newscaster in France who made aliya in 2006 as war reporter during the 2nd Lebanon War… [More]

On Friday May 10th, the Israeli weekly Sof Shavoua revealed the imminent release of an Israeli government report on the al Dura affair that will clearly assert that the “death” of the Palestinian youth, Mohamed al Dura, was staged. ...

Continue Reading →

2013 May: PNN: Israel Claims Muhammad Al-Dura Was Not Killed by IOF Fire

Israel Claims Muhammad Al-Dura Was Not Killed by IOF Fire

Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post,published Sunday statements of the Israel’s Defense Minister, Moshe Ya’alon, saying that the 12-year-old Gazan boy who was murdered in a cold blood by the Israeli army forces in 2000, was not killed and that he’s still alive.

Ya’alon claimed that the video featuring the Israeli army firing towards Mohammed al-Dura during the second intifada as he crouched behind his father, Jamal, crying, was within the media war ...

Continue Reading →

2013 May: Times Of Israel: Father of al-Dura disputes Israeli claim, says open to probe of death

Israeli claim, says open to probe of death

Jamal al-Dura rejects report that his son was not shot by Israeli forces and not killed in 2000 incident
By JOSHUA DAVIDOVICH and MITCH GINSBURG May 20, 2013, 1:30 am

The father of a boy whose apparent shooting death in the early days of the intifada became a rallying point for Palestinian activists disputed a report by Israel that his son was never killed and said he would agree to ...

Continue Reading →

2013 May: Israeli panel: Palestinian boy ‘killed’ by IDF at start of Intifada did not actually die

National Israeli panel of inquiry says iconic footage from start of Second Intifada reveals that Palestinian child apparently caught by IDF bullets did not actually die in the incident.

By Barak Ravid
May.19, 2013 | 6:40 PM

Thirteen years after an exchange of fire in Gaza appeared to have resulted in the death of a Palestinian boy at the start of the second intifada, an Israeli investigative panel has found “there are many indications” that Mohammed al-Dura and his father, ...

Continue Reading →
Page 2 of 4 1234