Haaretz (2006-2013)

Haaretz, Gideon Levy, and the Israel apartheid canard

But Haaretz published this week one of the biggest manipulations in the history of incitement against Israel

Oct 26, 2012

... and it turns out that the famed reporter and commentator may have committed full-fledged fraud. For instance, on the issue of separate roads for Israelis in the West Bank, 50% of respondents answered that having separate roads is “not a good situation but there is no alternative,” while another 17% said it was just “not good.” What appears in Levy’s version? Only “no alternative.” The “not good” response was simply omitted. And there are other examples there.

Baron of the Falsehood Industry indeed...

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-gideon-levy-and-the-israel-apartheid-canard/

Haaretz ‘Apartheid’ Survey is False and Biased

by Tom Nisani / Tazpit News Agency

October 30, 2012

Analysis: Haaretz ‘Apartheid’ Survey is False and Biased Oct. 30, 2012.- A recent survey presented by “Haaretz” newspaper claimed that the majority of Jews in Israel advocate the establishment of an apartheid ... http://www.algemeiner.com/2012/10/30/analysis-haaretz-apartheid-survey-is-false-and-biased/

Journalistic Sham: Haaretz Acknowledges False ‘Apartheid’ Survey

30 Oct 2012 — The Haaretz newspaper. A recent survey presented by “Haaretz” newspaper claimed that the majority of Jews in Israel advocate the establishment..

https://www.algemeiner.com/2012/10/30/journalistic-sham-haaretz-acknowledges-false-apartheid-survey/

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An open letter to Gideon Levy - The Jerusalem Post

By Maurice Ost Ostroff.

Oct 17, 2012

[...]

In your September 23 2010 interview, published in Huffington Post you made the defamatory accusation that Yitzhak Rabin’’s peace agreement with Arafat was a scam (that is a swindle or fraudulent deal). Don’t you see the similarity between this type of baseless accusation and the defamation of your late father?...

Don’t you see the similarity between the Haaretz headline “J.. are capable of acting like neo-Nazis” (Meron Rappaport Sep.16, 2007) and the allegation that your late Dad cooperated with Nazis?

I refer to your November 12, 2006..

https://www.jpost.com/blogs/2nd-thoughts/an-open-letter-to-gideon-levy-365256

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Another day, another Haaretz diatribe

|10 October 2012

Iraqi Jews sightseeing in Babylon, 1950s

Another day, another article in Haaretz attacking Danny Ayalon’s campaign for the rights of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Oudeh Barashat’s effort is hard to beat, however – for ignorance, arrogance and sheer dishonesty. My comments are in italics...

https://www.jewishrefugees.org.uk/2012/10/another-day-another-haaretz-diatribe.html

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The court ruled: “Haaretz” will compensate Anat Kam

Kamm, who was convicted of espionage and providing confidential information, sued Blau and the editor-in-chief of “Haaretz” Amos Shocken for damages she suffered after she was exposed as a journalistic source. It was determined that the newspaper will pay an initial sum of NIS 75,000, after which the full compensation will be determined.

Gilad Morag Published: 12.27.18

The District Court in Tel Aviv ruled today (Thursday) that Anat Kamm will be paid NIS 75,000 by the Haaretz newspaper, for legal expenses and attorneys’ fees. The amount of the full compensation you will receive will be determined later.

Kamm sued “Haaretz”, the journalist Uri Blau, the editor-in-chief Amos Shocken and another senior official in the news system for NIS 2.6 million, demanding compensation for damages she claims she suffered after she was exposed as a journalistic source.

https://www.ynet.co.il/news/article/5434606

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Journalist Blau gets 4 months community service

‘Haaretz’ reporter sentenced for aggravated espionage, after pleading guilty to obtaining classified information from Anat Kamm.

By Yonah Jeremy Bob, Sep 3, 2012

https://www.jpost.com/National-News/Journalist-Blau-gets-4-months-community-service-283660

Haaretz reporter convicted of holding secret documents

Uri Blau, who received thousands of confidential IDF files from former soldier Anat Kamm, likely to face four months of community service

By Stuart Winer, 24 Jul 2012

Uri Blau, the Haaretz journalist who used stolen classified IDF documents in reports accusing the army of defying a High Court ruling against targeted killings, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to the charge of possessing classified information without intent to harm state security. (photo credit: Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

A journalist accused of holding secret documents was found guilty by the Tel Aviv’s Magistrate’s Court as part of a plea bargain Tuesday morning.

Haaretz reporter Uri Blau pleaded guilty to holding secret material but without an intention to damage the state. According to the terms of the plea, he will likely be sentenced to four months imprisonment that will be commuted to community service.

The sentence still must be approved by the body that oversees community service sentences.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-reporter-convicted-of-holding-secret-documents/

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“On the three and four sins of Haaretz”

The radical left-wing newspaper has cooked up so much that even decent personalities on the far left shun it

23rd of Cheshvan 5773 - 08/11/12

Menachem Rahat

The post-Zionist newspaper Haaretz has recently surpassed itself in its efforts to discredit the State of Israel and its Jewish citizens.

If until recently, Haaretz only allocated its opinion section to conduct a crusade against the Israeli policy accepted by most of the people living in Zion, on the Palestinian issue, and demarcated a clear line between opinion and news (as is customary in the world, requiring an ethical distinction between News and Views) , Views]), here is the recent fact that the Haaretz will work for its pro-Palestinian propaganda campaign both the news pages and even its headlines.

Within a week, Haaretz published two huge headlines, which are an ‘image attack’: both were apparently intended to serve Palestinian propaganda by disseminating distorted and / or false information, under the guise of impartial journalistic news. They are doing everything they can to tarnish Israeli policy and the people of Zion, who largely support it.

https://www.inn.co.il/Articles/Article.aspx/10772

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Candidly Speaking: Concerning ‘self-hating Jews’

By Isi Leibler, June 13, 2012

Ironically, his interview with Maya Sela appeared in the English Internet edition of the Israeli daily Haaretz, which is probably the most important global media platform promoting the rantings of Jews demonizing Israel.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/columnists/candidly-speaking-concerning-self-hating-jews

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Dr. Roi Petel v. Haaretz

The newspaper is obliged to publish a clarification emphasizing that the published photo has no direct connection to the article it was intended to air...

It is decided that the Haaretz newspaper must publish within 7 days the decision and with a proper highlight - a clarification - in which it will be said that the picture of the Trudy Birger Dental Clinic (DVI) published in the Haaretz newspaper on February 12, 2012, has nothing to do with new articles from the HMO...

Given today 6 May 2012

http://www.moaza.co.il/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=350802

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Teens Charged Over Thrill Kill in Israeli City of Ramle

Eight teens indicted in the killing of 51-year-old Ramle man.

Yaniv Kubovich, Apr. 6, 2012

Eight teens were indicted on Thursday in connection with the murder of a Ramle man, who was shot while walking his dog last month. The court heard that the boys - who are charged with murder, manslaughter and obstructing justice - followed George Sa’adi, 51, while he was walking his dog late at night in Ramle’s Jawarish neighborhood.

According to the indictment, the divorced father of five encountered three of the accused, who started teasing him, but he ignored them and headed off. Before he returned along the same route, the youths had called five of their friends, one of whom had a pistol.

This time, a confrontation ensued, during which the defendants allegedly cursed Sa’adi, hurled racial abuse at him and shouted slogans in favor of rocket fire from Gaza. Two of them, the court heard, kicked the dog and threw stones at it.

As Sa’adi was trying to escape, one of the defendants took out a pistol and said he wanted to shoot him. Two defendants allegedly asked their friend not to, while others encouraged him. Then, the indictment continues, one of the defendants asked the victim whether he was armed and asked him to lift his shirt to prove that he wasn’t.

When he did, the defendant who allegedly held the pistol, shot Sa’adi in the torso, and he fell to the ground. The shooter then fired another two bullets, one of which hit the dog and killed it. Sa’adi, with his last bit of strength, managed to crawl and dragged himself onto Zayit Street, where he collapsed.

An old friend of his found him there, bleeding, and called an ambulance and the police.

Magen David Adom brought Sa’adi to Assaf Harofeh Hospital in critical condition. He was rushed into surgery, but died on the operating table.

[George Sa’adi, a 51-year-old Ramle man who was shot to death while walking his dog on March 11, 2012.]

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[Linda, 29.12.2017.

If this had been Jewish teens killing an Arab man Haaretz would have said racist attack as this should be.]

[Rick, 29.12.2017.

A little help here readers, were the assailants Palestinians or Jews].

https://www.haaretz.com/1.5211872

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Haaretz continues to report on the lynching in Haifa in part

Yishai Goldflam, 27.02.12

After pushing the lynching in Haifa to page 10 of the newspaper, the Haaretz newspaper continues today with the unbalanced coverage and lack of the violent event.

None of the daily newspapers missed the police zigzag regarding determining the background to the incident.

Maariv wrote today:

The police, who initially determined that it was “bullying in its name”, announced in court: “The nationalist direction is not being denied.”

This is how Yedioth Ahronoth opened the report from today:

Misidentification or almost lynching on a nationalist background? In the morning, the police announced yesterday that the apparent background to the attack on two IDF soldiers in Haifa is bullying.

Israel Hayom reported:

A police spokesman contributed to the fog surrounding the case, saying in a court hearing that the attack had nationalist implications. During it, the attackers chanted in condemnation of the Jews and even engraved the word “PLO” on the head of one of the soldiers.

Makor Rishon was the most blatant. Under the main heading:

Conflicting versions in the police regarding the attack on the soldiers in Haifa

The newspaper continued:

Contrary to the police version from Saturday night, which determined that it was a nationalist incident, on Sunday the police claimed that it was an act of bullying. In court, the police prosecutor ruled that the assault was nevertheless of a nationalist background.

The picture emerging from the four newspapers is quite clear - the police are not really closed on the background to the attack, and all options are being examined.

However, a completely different picture emerges from the report in Haaretz, the headline of which is:

The judge likened the attack of the two soldiers to a lynching in Ramallah, the police claim that the background is non-nationalist.

If you look for the later police claim, you will not find it in the body of the report:

… While the police officially announced yesterday morning that this was not a nationalist motive but purely bullying, the judge compared the case to a lynching in Ramallah. While the soldiers who were attacked claim that it was a motive on a nationalist background, the police are investigating a suspicion that it is revenge after the suspects were attacked in their home by unknown individuals. Therefore, the police believe that the suspects were involved in the attack, but apparently misidentified.

Throughout Haaretz’s report, there is no mention of contradictions arising from the police themselves, and the fact that in a discussion on extending the detainees’ detention, the police representative noted that the nationalist symbol also exists in the incident.

If so, a news consumer who only reads the Haaretz newspaper (we assume that there are quite a few such people) knows that there was a quarrel between Jews and Arabs in Haifa, he knows that this is not such important news because the report appeared yesterday towards the end of the newspaper Hubble, he knows that the Jews claim that this is an attack on a nationalist background, and he knows that the police have officially announced that this is not an attack on a nationalist background but on “bullying”. Well, says the reader of Haaretz, just brats. You can browse to the next item.

That news consumer, who trusts the newspaper to give him reliable information, has no idea at all that he is not getting the full picture. Journalism at its “best.”

https://presspectiva.org.il/%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5-%D7%9E%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%99%D7%9A-%D7%9C%D7%93%D7%95%D7%95%D7%97-%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%A0%D7%A5-%D7%91%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%94-%D7%91%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%9F/

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The Truth About the Battle for Netzer | Israel National News - Arutz Sheva

Feb 17, 2012 — Jewish activists describe the battle for control of lands in Gush Etzion, refute Haaretz “lies and propaganda.”

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/152867

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Haaretz: Neeman called us “Der Sturmer”

INN, Jan 5, 2012

The newspaper “Haaretz” claims this morning that the Minister of Justice Ne’eman compared him in closed conversations with ministers to the Nazi party “Dr. Sturmer”

https://www.inn.co.il/news/231341

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Nehemiah Shtrasler in the surreal article: “The disease [sic] is ultra-Orthodox education” - JDN News

Jan 3, 2012 -

Eli Ben David, 8 Tevet 5772 - 03.01.12.

Haaretz’s economic commentator opens his mouth and states: The ultra-Orthodox are a symptom of a [sic] general [sic] illness “The disease [sic] should be treated, not a symptom” • And what does Rabinowitz think of Shtrasler?

https://www.jdn.co.il/archive/%25D7%2593%25D7%25A2%25D7%2595%25D7%25AA/25286

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Parents of a 4-year-old girl from Beit Shemesh: A photographer from the Haaretz newspaper spat on our daughter

Peeked and hit: Haredi parents from Beit Shemesh claim that Haaretz photographer Alex Liebek, who came to photograph in the city last night, spat at their daughter. In a call to Kikar-HaShabbat, Liebek denies that he spat and claims that he only shouted. “I shouted at her, what’s up? What do you want? What is not allowed to shout at children? I did not spit on her, I am not a person who spits.” A complaint has been filed. First publication (in Israel)

Yishai Cohen, 2 Tevet 5772. 28.12.11

https://www.kikar.co.il/87114.html

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Haaretz: The Paper for Thinking People?

by Efraim Karsh, December 16, 2011

Of the countless threats of Arab violence in the run-up to the November 29, 1947 Partition Resolution and in its wake, none has resonated more widely than the warning by Abdul Rahman Azzam, the Arab League’s first secretary-general, that the establishment of a Jewish state would lead to “a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades.”

Unfortunately, the longstanding failure to trace the original document in which the threat was made has given rise to doubts regarding its veracity, and by implication - the murderous Arab intentions: not least since the historical truth has been erased from public memory by decades of relentless pro-Arab propaganda.

Small wonder, therefore, that when the missing document was recently found, with an annotated full translation published in the Middle East Quarterly, which I edit, Haaretz columnist and self-styled “new historian” Tom Segev, who had spent a good part of the past two decades turning the saga of Israel’s birth upside down, went out of his way to whitewash Azzam’s threat and downplay its significance. “There is something pathetic about this hunt for historical quotes drawn from newspapers,” he wrote, without disputing the threat’s contents or authenticity. “Azzam used to talk a lot. On May 21, 1948, the Palestine Post offered this statement by him: ‘Whatever the outcome, the Arabs will stick to their offer of equal citizenship for Jews in Arab Palestine and let them be as Jewish as they like.’” He then quotes Ben-Gurion’s alleged description of the League’s Secretary-General as “the most honest and humane among Arab leaders.”

Azzam might have talked a lot, but there was no contradiction whatsoever between his public threats and private assertions. He privately told his Jewish interlocutors that their hopes of statehood would meet the same calamitous fate as the crusading state, and he reiterated this prognosis in the newly-discovered document. A week before the pan-Arab invasion of Israel on May 15, Azzam told Sir Alec Kirkbride, the powerful British ambassador to Amman: “It does not matter how many [Jews] there are. We will sweep them into the sea.” Even the actual Palestine Post report, from which Segev chose to bring a misleadingly truncated quote, had Azzam describe the Arab-invaded State of Israel as “a bridgehead into Arab territory” (that is, a crusader-like alien implant) that must be fought and destroyed for “otherwise they will be fighting us here, in Transjordan, and elsewhere in the Arab State.”

It is true that Azzam was prepared to allow survivors of the destroyed Jewish state to live as Dhimmis, or second-class citizens, in the “Arab Palestine” that would arise on its ruins (after all, his statement was made in a memo to the UN seeking to justify “the first armed aggression which the world had seen since the end of the [Second World] War,” to use the words of first UN Secretary-General Trygve Lie). But this can hardly be considered an indication of moderation. If anything, it affords further proof, if such is at all needed, that the gap between “the most honest and humane among Arab leaders” and the basic Jewish aspiration for national-self determination was as unbridgeable in 1948 as it is now.

But the story doesn’t end here. For Mr. Segev didn’t content himself with distorting the contents and significance of a key historical document but also sought to besmirch those who brought it to public attention by claiming that they lifted it from Wikipedia, to which it had supposedly been uploaded by one Brendan McKay - a professor of computer science at the Australian National University in Canberra.

This claim is not only false but the complete inversion of the truth. There was no trace of the newly-found document in Azzam’s Wikipedia entry at the time of the document’s publication in the Middle East Quarterly. On the contrary, noting the long-misconceived May 14, 1948, as the threat’s date - it was actually made on October 11, 1947, in the run-up to the partition resolution...

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/2669/haaretz-newspaper

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This is how Haaretz eliminates “controversial” judges. Solberg as an example

Kalman Liebskind, Nov 9, 2011.

In recent years, Haaretz has developed a practice for treating a public employee that does not fit the newspaper’s line. First he is marked as a target for elimination, later anonymous “factors” are cited who criticize him and at the end he is given the title “controversial”, which will accompany him from now until forever.

When it comes to judging the model is even simpler. One of his “problematic” decisions is found out of a thousand, for example one in which a right-wing man is found guilty or a guilty Palestinian, and he is declared a “problematic” judge. And once the label is affixed to it, there is no washing powder to clean him. Released only by death.

This is what happened to Kfar Saba Magistrate’s Judge Nava Bechor, who dared to state that (non Israeli) Palestinian witnesses were unreliable. This is also what happened to Judge David Gadol. A few days after deciding something that did not match the newspaper’s editorial line, readers were given a paparazzi photo, which documented him coming out of morning prayer with his prayer shawl in his hand, just to help them understand the source of his decisions.

When Judge Malka Aviv released a settler from detention, Akiva Eldar “revealed” to his readers the reason: Thirty years earlier, she was one of the founders of an agricultural moshav in the Jordan Valley. “Settler,” I mean.

When Judge Philip Marcus ruled on something the gay community did not like, the Haaretz editorial (staff) crowned him “one of the most controversial judges in the justice system.” When he applied for promotion, the newspaper mentioned that he was an “ultra-Orthodox judge who lives in the Har Nof neighborhood of the capital, the neighborhood where Rabbi Ovadia Yosef lives.” As far as Haaretz is concerned, living in Rabbi Ovadia’s neighborhood, where another 35,000 people live besides the judge and the rabbi, is a contagious disease. Woe to the “wicked” and woe to his neighbor. By the way, if we are already influenced by neighbors, I wonder what says about Akiva Eldar the fact that in the past he lived in the same building with the man of the underworld, Asi Abutbul.

Haaretz recently launched, not for the first time, a campaign against the appointment of District Court Judge Noam Solberg to the Supreme Court. “An alarming appointment,” the editorial stated. What is so worrying? The fact that the judge is a “settler from Gush Etzion.” And because even Haaretz understands that this is not a sufficient reason to disqualify a judge, the newspaper notes that Solberg “provoked criticism due to rulings in defamation cases, which could restrict press freedom” and that he was “responsible for a series of judgments that provoked public controversy.” Freedom of expression, in this case, is the villains’ last resort. Mishael Cheshin had far more harsh and principled rulings than Solberg when it came to freedom of expression, and yet Haaretz never dared to call him a “problematic judge” or claim he had no place in the Supreme Court.

Haaretz also fails to explain what criticism exactly solves Solberg’s ruling. Again and again he repeats the same four examples, out of hundreds or thousands of the judge, describes them in a line and a half and hopes that we will believe him that these are problematic rulings and that no one will bother to check them. I bothered. These are judgments that usually caused a stir, especially in the corridors of Haaretz, and that bringing them teaches more about the newspaper than about Solberg.

Here is an example. “In 2001,” writes Haaretz secretary, “Solberg acquitted three K. movement activists of accusing a riot in court during the trial of MK Ahmad Tibi and injuring one of his aides.” However, it is not worth ignoring the facts. “I am afraid that Tibi’s testimony is difficult to trust,” he stated.

To try to portray Solberg as a glutton of Arabs, Haaretz repeatedly mentions that he was acquitted of killing a Border Police officer who shot and killed a Palestinian. This plot was led two years ago by Akiva Eldar. In a charlatan text of one who was convinced that no one but himself would read the verdict, he presented the decision to his readers, adding to it things that were not in it and removing from it what he was not comfortable quoting.

To this day, in an attempt to make the acquittal puzzling, Haaretz insists on not telling the background to that shooting, which took place minutes after a police force withdrew from an inflamed Arab crowd near Issawiya. During the violent riot, a police car was attacked with stones and iron rods, as the rioters tried to snatch the gun of one of the policemen and they were forced to shoot in the air for fear of their safety.

One police officer testified about a “punch to the abdomen” and “knocks on the vehicle, planks and irons.”

“Someone strangled me,” said another policeman, “they tried to pull the gun out of me.” “They threw stones,” a third witness testified.

“I felt they wanted to lynch us,” another police officer testified.

The deceased arrived at the scene in his car at a gallop and hit one of the policemen, who fell on the road. He got out of the vehicle, ran towards the policeman and then got back in the car. The policeman called him to stop and when he did not stop he shot him.

Solberg believed the policeman who thought, in light of the events, that the man intended to run over him again. Eyewitnesses said that was what they too believed.

Akiva Eldar, who as mentioned published the story in the past, “forgot” to tell then that the Supreme Court also upheld Solberg’s ruling, just as he forgot to elaborate on his personal account with Solberg. A few years ago, during one of his flop series, Eldad quoted a text allegedly said by Aryeh King, an activist for the promotion of Jewish settlement in Jerusalem, in an interview with a Jerusalem local newspaper. But it turned out that these quotes, an act of the devil, were never said. King sued Elder and Haaretz and Judge Solberg ordered them to pay for Elder’s negligent work.

Haaretz emphasized this week, not for the first time, that Solberg served under Advocate Pleia Albeck, one of the former State Attorney’s Office officials, “who was considered one of the instruments of establishing settlements in the territories,” but forgot to mention the warm recommendations given to him by three former legal advisers. Eliakim Rubinstein, Yosef Harish and Michael Ben Yair, the latter, by the way, serves as a member of the public council of B’Tselem.

I have no idea if Noam Solberg is a good judge and if he is suitable for the top. What is clear is that there is no connection between the hunter who is being treated in Haaretz and the press.

https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/app/index.php?do=blog&encr_id=79974780b5e0d394fddbd1a00f4f21d3&id=2973

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Haaretz and Gidi Weitz published a “scoop” that was revealed in News1

How to steal scoops of others.

Haaretz newspaper published this morning a so-called “exposure” about “the connection between Judge Danziger, Lahiani and CEO of Union Bank” * but this is not an exposure, but a recycling of information first revealed in February 2010 on News1 Without shame and without account, enjoy the success * By the way, they mislead the newspaper readers as if they were the first to reveal the triple connection

25/08/2011 | Yoav Yitzhak

https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-63384-00.html

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Haaretz newspaper will apologize to Danny Dayan - Kipa

Uri Polak, 18/09/11. Nineteen in Elul

The Press Council forced the Haaretz newspaper to apologize to the chairman of the Yesha Council, due to incorrect quotations published on its behalf and based on a leak from WikiLeaks documents.

https://www.kipa.co.il/%D7%97%D7%93%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9F-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5-%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%A0%D7%A6%D7%9C-%D7%91%D7%A4%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%99-%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99

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Larry Derfner Should be Debated, Not Fired

By Barry Rubin

Monday, August 29, 2011

The Jerusalem Post columnist Larry Derfner was fired today because he wrote on his blog a statement many readers saw as justifying Palestinian terrorism against Israelis. As so often happens when people focus on a single sentence of an article, they’re missing the point, or at least the most important point. It also throws away what President Barack Obama calls a teachable moment.

The issue here is not “left” versus “right” but rather what is true and what is not.

In addition, columnists should not be continued in their jobs if their writing is not interesting or is factually inaccurate, not because they write something that people don’t like.

All too often nowadays the response to disagreement is to try to destroy people on the other side of the argument, to delegitimize them with name-calling and to silence them. That’s not the way democratic debate is supposed to work. If you think someone is wrong then answer the substance of the statements being made.

I don’t think Derfner should have been fired. Rather the point is that people should have answered what he said. Like Gideon Levy of Haaretz he is still arguing the line that terrorism is basically Israel’s fault. They hate us and want to kill us because we haven’t made enough concessions and because we are oppressing them. That’s the issue, not “justifying” terrorism.

Of course, Derfner’s position implies that if Israel ended the “occupation” and accepted a Palestinian state, terrorism, incitement, and hatred would stop. Many people throughout the world think the same thing.

That is a point worth debating. Since 1993, Israel has been trying out that theory and it has proven to be false. Unfortunately, and I wish things were different, we learned that the Palestinian leadership doesn’t want compromise and is unable to deliver it.

There are two problems here. First, the Palestinian leaders seek to wipe Israel off the map and are not in favor of a lasting, stable, and peaceful two-state solution. We know this by reading their words in Arabic, watching the institutions they direct, and observing their actions.

Secon, the Palestinian leaders—including those like Prime Minister Salam Fayyad—who do want negotiated compromise solution are too weak to bring it about. They fear their own people who they’ve been inciting toward extremism for years; the hardline mainstream within Fatah; and, of course, their Hamas rivals.

So, no, giving more territory; accepting a Palestinian state unconditionally; letting terrorist attacks on Israel go unanswered by retaliation; and so on will not solve the problem. I genuinely wish it were otherwise. It would be far better if Israel’s left-wing was correct and there was an easy and quick way to achieve full peace through a two-state solution this week.

Unfortunately, this wishful thinking is wrong and we have seen massive evidence to that effect. That’s why the vast majority of Israelis—including those who in the past voted for people like Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin, and Ehud Barak to be prime minister (for example, me), also know this is true.

Let’s examine the issue. Derfner says that the “denial of independence” to the Palestinians is so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.

1. But wait! Didn’t they used to say that it was the occupation that is helping drive them to try to kill us?

But now there’s no “occupation” (except in 20 percent of Hebron and east Jerusalem) and they are still trying to kill us!

And guess what? If they get independence they will still try to kill us because it will be Israel’s existence and the status of the “pre-1948” Palestinians that is “so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.”

2. There’s another way to look at this, too. If denying them independence is, “so bad that it’s helping drive them to try to kill us.”

Thus, if they obtained independence would they be so grateful, so happy, or so busy building up their country that they would stop trying to kill us?

No. We know—even many of the most dovish and leftist of us—that they will continue to try to kill us from a better strategic position that would make it more likely they would succeed. So what good would that step do? And that is precisely why Israelis are not eager to support independence without any preconditions.

Indeed, a few minutes after writing this piece, I noticed that Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has stated that even if the UN recognizes the independence of Palestine, he and his government will still demand that all Palestinians who lived within Israel’s borders before 1948 or any descendants of such people can demand to go live in Israel and Israel must let them in. Or there cannot be peace.

[source: http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=235789]

You see, there’s no end to this.

What happens when two weeks after independence there are more cross-border attacks? What happens if incitement continues? What happens if Hamas or radical Fatah forces seize power? What happens if the state of Palestine invites in foreign Arab forces or imports missiles or forms an alliance with Egypt or other sttes? I said “if” but I mean “when.”

And the lack of an agreed and defined border, as well as the presence of Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip (which the Fatah-led leadership of Palestine would support against Israel) would guarantee tension and a likely crisis before long and periodically thereafter.

At that point, if Israel were to retaliate for an attack or act against a build-up of military forces against itself, that would constitute international aggression in the eyes of many, including a majority in the UN General Assembly. Nobody would help Israel deal with this threat, including the current government of the United States,

To leap into such a situation in the hope—without evidence—that they would then “stop trying to kill us” is insane. No Israeli government would do it and that’s the correct decision.

3. And who is “them” when we discuss the Palestinians? Because obviously “them” doesn’t apply to Hamas (the group that happens to run almost half of the Palestinian territories) or to many other Palestinian groups and leaders that aren’t Islamist. It doesn’t even apply to most of Fatah.

In short, Derfner’s formulation is nonsense. And to understand why it is nonsense is the essential point to understanding the conflict, the failure of the “Peace Process,” and the Middle East.

But that doesn’t mean he should be fired.

http://rubinreports.blogspot.com/2011/08/larry-derfner-should-be-debated-not.html?m=1

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Larry Derfner Will Not Be Rattling The Cage Anymore at the Jerusalem Post

August 29, 2011

Larry Derfner’s regular column in the Jerusalem Post , entitled “Rattling the Cage”, was meant to provoke readers. (While we notified the Jerusalem Post in the past about some of his factually incorrect material, CAMERA generally did not bother to monitor Derfner’s over-the-top column.) But after the recent multiple terror attacks against Israeli civilians near Eilat, Derfner went even further in trying to provoke controversy: He essentially justified Palestinian terrorism in a blog post entitled “The awful, necessary truth about Palestinian...

http://blog.camera.org/archives/2011/08/larry_derfner_will_not_be_ratt_1.html

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Terra Incognita: Baseless hatred of the haredim

Aug 10, 2011 — Oh, and of course, they are ignorant donkeys who hate Zionism and are ... Nechamia Stressler [Shtrasler], the usually level headed...

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/columnists/terra-incognita-baseless-hatred-of-the-haredim/amp

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The wonderful story of an Israel hater, who claims that a dark entity, probably Israel, disguised himself as his identity. And the truth? * Citizenship studies and the Palestinian narrative * The law to prevent foreign political interference

17/06/11

The campaign for the upcoming Turkish flotilla continues. According to the bon-tone in some of the world media, as well as the Israeli one, this is a delegation of angels of peace. Followers of the nations of the world. It is not important and it is not clear if the flotilla will arrive. After all, “humanitarian aid” is a fiction. The dehumanization of Israel is the main thing.

As part of the campaign, this week the Swedish author Henning Mankell published an article on a full and respectable page in ‘Haaretz’: “How I got rid of the fake Henning Mankell”. He claims there that someone faked his identity, and sent mail messages according to which he, so to speak, does not want Israelis to be able to read his writings. And he, Mankell testifies to himself, is an enlightened man who wants dialogue. In the name of this enlightenment, he goes to the trouble of turning Israel into an apartheid state, and also accuses Israel of murder. The things were written mainly to explain Mankell’s joining and support in the previous Turkish flotilla, and also in the one that is going to arrive and it is doubtful that it will arrive. After all, this is a great humanist.

Before we examine the claim of forgery, which will clarify who the liar is, it is necessary to mention that the patrons of the rafts are the people of the IHH. Upon their return to Turkey, they rushed to Iran, to announce at a press conference, together with Ahmadinejad: “We are here today with the determination to build a Middle East without Israel and America, and to renew our commitment to continue on the path of the Mawi Marmara.” [http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/5024.htm#_edn2]. On their ship of hatred they screamed “Khaybar Khaybar al-Yahud Jaish Muhammad Sa-Yeud” - the anthem of the extermination of the Jews of Islam. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3L7OV414Kk] And to remove doubts, one of the heads of the organization published an article entitled: “Allah is great, it’s time to eliminate Israel”. But the writer Mankell doesn’t see, doesn’t hear, doesn’t know. He will join these racists, who declare Johnsaid to the State of Israel, and will call his activity “true humanism”. Because useful idiots never die. They just change.

Not just an idiot. Also a liar. In the same article he implies that Israel is behind the emails according to which he does not want Israelis to read his books. Well, it turns out that the same Mankell gave an interview immediately after the end of the first flotilla in which he participated. The things were also published in YNET and Walla. But who knows, the Israeli Mossad may have planted these interviews, and it’s not him at all. So we have to go on. Well, Mankell wrote a particularly venomous diary for the British “Guardian”, about his experiences from the previous flotilla. Among other things, he stated there, that he is “considering ensuring that nothing I write will ever be translated into Hebrew again”. The Mossad may be successful in falsifying emails and interviews, but it is a bit hard to assume that the Mossad also took over the British newspaper.

So the picture becomes clearer: not a lie, not a forgery, not a plot by the Israeli Foreign Ministry and not by the almighty Mossad. The idea is Mankell’s own. If Menkel were to write this week: the idea was mine but I repeat myself - let’s go. But he did something else. He turned his own idea into a lie propagated in his name by the dark forces. The hints are sent towards Israel.

Let’s assume for a moment Lemankel. Let’s also consider the fact that “Haaretz” gives a platform to an article that is seasoned with sayings like “the victory of reason” and “humanism”, when these are at the service of the IHH and Hamas. We are already used to that. The thing is that ‘Haaretz’ is a twin or a family member of ‘The Guardian’. Whoever published Mankell’s article could have done a short and simple test. It did not happen. What does this say about the writer who joins the flotilla whose leaders preach the destruction of Israel? What does this say about that newspaper “for thinking people” that gives a platform, without examination, to the industry of lies?

“History teaches us that liars end up being exposed,” Meakell writes in the same article. Even liars are right sometimes. Menkel the liar was exposed. The problem is that lies, sometimes, win. If you don’t fight them, they win.

https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/app/index.php?do=blog&encr_id=f2b4c1b55be76d1e6d7b777256ea0370&id=2535

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How to refine the word “Nazi”

(26.4.11)

The Arab-Israeli journalist Zohir Andreas published a very scathing article against the State of Israel in an Arab newspaper, including a comparison to the Nazi regime. Haaretz translated the article, omitting and changing most of the harsh expressions that appear in it, and thus presented its readers with objects of knowledge and Hebrew speakers with a washed and fur article that does not faithfully reflect the author’s intention (very unpleasant to Israeli ears).

Efrat Roth-Halevi | 04/26/11

https://presspectiva.org.il/%D7%9B%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%93-%D7%9C%D7%A2%D7%93%D7%9F-%D7%90%D7%AA-%D7%94%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9C%D7%94-%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%A6%D7%99/

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Press Council: Haaretz violated the Code of Ethics in articles about Danny Dayan

The two tribunals of the Ethics Court ruled that the newspaper violated sections 8 and 6d.

In the Press Council’s Ethics Court

Case 39/2011

...

Subject:

Mr. Danny Dayan vs

Haaretz newspaper ...

...revolved around a news item and an article, which were published prominently on the front page of the Haaretz newspaper, on Thursday, April 7, 2011.

http://www.moaza.co.il/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=234346

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(2011)

Thought-emotional elements at the end of a series of mutual appeals:

Itamar B”Z 19.07.2017

...The announcement, which will be published in one of the coming weekend issues, will not be titled “Apology,” as Judge Ehrenberg ordered; Instead, it will bear the title “Amendment in the matter of Natan Levy.” It will be written that from Levinson’s article “it could be understood that Natan Levy, who lives in Kiryat Arba, served as a GSS agent alongside Avishai Raviv” (a statement that the newspaper’s representatives also denied during the appeal), and also that the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ruled that “There is no evidence and it has not been proven that Natan Levy served as a GSS agent, and ordered the newspaper to pay NIS 20,000 in compensation. The system wants to clarify that it had no intention of harming Natan Levy in the publication that was made.”

http://www.the7eye.org.il/256843

Haaretz will compensate a resident of Kiryat Arba he described as a GSS agent who failed to pay NIS 20,000 and will publish a clarification • Prosecutor: To be considered properly derogatory, but reduced the amount of compensation due to the plaintiff’s statements condemning the GSS

Itamar B”Z 07.11.2016

The Haaretz system will pay compensation to a resident of Kiryat Arba who was described in the article as a GSS agent, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court ruled last week. Levy did not deny that he was active in an organization set up by a GSS agent, he claimed that he never acted on behalf of the General Security Service and even refused to cooperate with him.

The article for which the lawsuit was filed was published on November 4, 2011 on the occasion of the 16th anniversary of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin. Along with the description of the experiences of Avishai Raviv, the agent known as “Champagne” and who heard Miguel Amir about his intention to assassinate Rabin, a number of figures who came into contact with Raviv were also mentioned, including Natan Levy.

http://www.the7eye.org.il/224622

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IDF source:

The report in Haaretz - a lie and a falsehood

Sources in the IDF were surprised to read the report in the Haaretz newspaper that about 100 female soldiers had left the second Hakafot after being required to move to a fenced compound.

INN, Uzi Baruch

25 Tishrei 5772, 23.10.11

This is a false report that aims to discredit..

https://www.inn.co.il/news/227496

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Haaretz Criminals

A satanic plot by the Haaretz newspaper to prove that the real government in the State of Israel is not the government elected in the government compound in Jerusalem. Those who really control our lives, in all areas, are nasty media people who operate within a criminal framework to its name.

04/03/2011. Dudu Elharar

Two candidates for the post of National Security Adviser were prime minister until Tuesday. Maj. Gen. (Res.) Amos Gilad and Maj. Gen. (Res.) Yaakov Amidror. The first is secularly enlightened and the second, alas for the eyes, wears a kippah and observances. I can only imagine how Yaakov Amidror woke up yesterday morning, maybe even woke him up to run to the Haaretz newspaper to find a headline on the front page that could ruin his world: “General Amidror: You should put a bullet in the head of a soldier who does not attack.”

Well, General Amidror did not say these things. Clear and simple! did not say. Haaretz knowingly lies. Why? To discredit and frustrate a religious Jew. The Haaretz newspaper knows very well that if you throw slime on the wall, even if it does not stick - it will leave a dirty mark. Amidror denied what was attributed to him, explained what exactly he said a year ago, and claimed that if there is an example of taking something out of context - it is the example. It will now be difficult for the prime minister to elect him to the post of national security adviser, and General Amos Gilad’s chances have improved immeasurably.

Haaretz could have clarified things with the general before they were published, but what? It could have spoiled the plot to stumble a God-fearing Jew secretly and openly, and the Haaretz newspaper would continue to be published in a country where the National Security Adviser prays to the God of Israel three times a day, wraps himself in a tallit, and wraps leather straps on his left hand. This is not journalistic news! This is clearly a satanic plot by Haaretz to prove that the real government in the State of Israel is not the government elected in the government compound in Jerusalem. Those who really control our lives, in all areas, are nasty media people who operate within a criminal framework to its name.

But Haaretz is not content with that. Already yesterday, he presented a “polo-up”: “Mitzna on the words of Amidror: Gaddafi also shoots those who do not attack.” That is, Gaddafi and Amidror in one boat. Beauty. This is the logic of people who think they are thinking and all their thoughts are revered in ignorance as the last gossipers. disgusting! The portrayal of an IDF general alongside a tyrannical and murderous dictator is nothing but slander in the full sense of the word.

If anyone still doubts that this was a nasty plot by the Haaretz newspaper, journalist Gideon Levy comes (3.3.11) and openly admits: “Twice” my colleague, Haim Levinson. “ Twice!

https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-57320-00.html

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On Hate - Posted on December 17th, 2010

Response to Alon Idan, “Everyone hates everyone”, Haaretz supplement 17.12.10

Hatred between groups in Israeli society is one of the most difficult problems in Israeli society, and it is worth devoting a huge article to them, as the Haaretz supplement did. But what a deep dive into the districts of hatred in Israeli society is, if the article completely ignores the disease of settler phobia, the terrible free hatred of the settlers, or as the haters Ltd. used to call them, the despicable nickname “terrorists”, which culminated in the artists’ boycott of over 300,000 citizens Israelis living in Judea and Samaria? This is not an hatred of an underdog, but a hatred of those who see themselves as mainstream of Israeli society, if not “Lords of the Land.” Gideon Levy and others.

In the same issue of the Haaretz supplement, the columnist Neri Livna relied on a dubious quote she heard from some of her wanderers about something that Tabenkin once said, to make it clear that she agrees with the horrible statement that she does not believe in God, “because if he were God he would be send fire that will burn all the rab.... “ Arieli’s wet dream is that all (!) Rabbis will burn. Oh, what would have happened in the country, rightly, if the word rabbis had been replaced by “Arabs,” in some negligible talkback. Therefore, there is no need for an Idan questionnaire to make an “in-depth dive into the districts of hatred in Israeli society.” It will be much easier and more convenient for him to browse through the supplement in which he writes.

https://heitner.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/%D7%A2%D7%9C-%D7%94%D7%A9%D7%A0%D7%90%D7%94/

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‘Haaretz’ reporter lands in Israel, returns stolen files

Dan Izenberg, October 25, 2010

Uri Blau to be questioned under caution, faces charges of possessing secret material; lawyers sign agreement, return 1,500 army documents.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Haaretz-reporter-lands-in-Israel-returns-stolen-files

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UK Jews slam ‘Haaretz’ columnist for book tour

Jonny Paul, Aug 18, 2010 —

Last year the SPSC hosted what it claimed was a Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration with a Hamas follower who supports suicide bombings.

It also fabricated a story that it had successfully persuaded a number of Scottish companies to boycott Israeli water company Eden Spring...

“If you are judged by the company you keep, Gideon Levy has aligned himself with some rather unsavory fellow travelers... It is no surprise that anti-Israel Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy is touring the UK to spread his hatred and misinformation...”

https://www.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-news/uk-jews-slam-haaretz-columnist-for-book-tour

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A matter of credit

Haaretz’s columnists again find themselves included in lawsuits against the newspaper....

Oren Persico 05.12.2010

Last week, the Walla website reported that a defamation lawsuit had been filed in the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court against the Haaretz newspaper. In this, of course, there is nothing out of the ordinary. But a review of the list of defendants shows that in this case, in addition to the Haaretz newspaper and the photographer who took the photo for which the lawsuit was filed, Uzi Behar, the editor of the page where the photo appeared, was also personally sued.

How did the plaintiff’s inability know who the editor was at the desk that went through the page where the photograph that was the subject of the lawsuit appeared? Very simply, they looked at the bottom of the page. It will be recalled that since the change of senior editors at Haaretz and the entry of Avi Zilberberg into the position of head of the newsroom (he is currently the newspaper’s deputy editor), there has been a change in Haaretz’s policy. The names of the page editors began to appear at the bottom of the new pamphlet pages, each page and the editor who edited it, as was the custom in this paper in the past.

“In less than a decade, everyone was fed up - especially the editors themselves, who found themselves squabbling in the courts to testify in lawsuits about what was happening on their ‘pages’ - and it was stopped in the early 1990s, with a sigh of mutual welfare,” the former Haaretz editor wrote. Hanoch Marmari, for the newspaper’s previous attempt to give credit to the columnists.

http://www.the7eye.org.il/13019

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Nehemiah Shtrasler, who taught you math?

There is a small problem Nehemiah. If you restrict the ultra-Orthodox birth, a “two states for two peoples” solution will no longer be required because one of them will disappear.

R’ Aharon Levy, Kikar haShabat, Nov 8, 2009.

https://www.kikar.co.il/%D7%A9%D7%98%D7%A8%D7%A1%D7%9C%D7%A8-%D7%9E%D7%99-%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%9E%D7%93-%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA%D7%9A-%D7%97%D7%A9%D7%91%D7%95%D7%9F.html

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How Haaretz concocted a conflict

By Kalman Liebskind, November 12, 2010

— On July 10, 2008 Ha’aretz’s main section contained a small story. Not small, tiny. 93 words to be precise. “The district committee,” stated the article, “has approved for public hearing the establishment of 920 housing units in the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem.” The industrious journalist also included the city’s reasons for having chosen to promote the project: “this will serve as a housing alternative for young couples, after the controversial Safdie project was struck down.” Back then Ha’aretz did not believe that construction in East Jerusalem was a major story. This article was not even referenced in the front page, which was devoted to a kindergarten teacher who had abused children, a doctor who had been admitted to a psychiatric hospital and then committed suicide, and the important legal ruling that “prostitutes will receive minimum wage from their pimps.”

More than two years have passed since this meeting of the district committee in Jerusalem. The committee’s members, who, as reported by Ha’aretz, approved the plan, have not held a single meetings since 2008. Since that time, the plan has gone through several technical changes. It took nearly two years for the Housing Ministry to approve changes sought by the committee, such as changing the entrance level into the houses, the height of the supporting walls, and parking places.

A few days ago advertisements were published in the newspapers inviting anyone opposing the plan, to do so. Apparently Ha’aretz decided to be the first to voice its objection. Ha’aretz knew that nothing new had occurred. Assuming that they remember what they themselves published two years ago, the paper should have been aware that this was a project that had already been approved. But two years ago Prime Minister Netanyahu was not on his way to the United States, and this time he was. So Ha’aretz must have thought that this itself warranted the recycling of a story, as if it had never been published, while attempting to create a false image of some news event in the making.

Ha’aretz knows well that Barack Obama will not point out their journalist charlatanism. To the contrary. He and the Arabs serve as excellent partners to Ha’aretz’s pyromaniac games. Schocken Publishing tosses the match, while Obama and Saeb Erekat pour the gasoline on it.

This is not political journalism. This is false journalism. Journalism that presents a reality that does not in fact exist. A series of journalists recycled this piece of nonsense without even going to the Interior Ministry to see what this was all about. Some reported new tenders in Har Homa, of which there were none. Amos Schocken knows that even when he concocts stories of this kind he is walking on solid ground. That the papers in Israel love Netanyahu and construction in Jerusalem about as much as he does. That no one will expose him in his shame. And so he goes about and transforms his paper into a machine constantly charged with inciting the entire world against us. All means are justified as he is prepares to ignite the entire Middle East, just so long as Netanyahu is caught in the flame. One can hardly avoid the impression that Ha’aretz has chosen to forgo the journalistic experience and has become an actual player on the political field. […]

https://israelbehindthenews.com/2010/11/12/how-haaretz-concocted-a-conflict/

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Posted: Friday 05.11.10 Post subject:

Haaretz is lying to its readers [Nakim]

While Haaretz has a circulation of about 7% among Israeli readers, it has a circulation of 100% among foreign reporters, thus critically influencing the information to which they are exposed and which they disclose to their readers / viewers. For the most part, it is enough to say in English “according to the Haaretz newspaper” in order to create credibility and credibility among a Western audience.

18:57 (04/11/10) Lilach Moalem

Most of the foreign journalists who sit in Israel and report to the media around the world about what is happening in our places open the day with the reading of the Haaretz newspaper, in English, of course. In doing so, they seek to learn about the mood in the country and even sometimes choose the topic of their articles for that day. This fact is more important than it sounds.

Beyond the spirit of the Haaretz newspaper - in the form of its editorials - which certainly affects the reporters, there is great importance in translating the articles from Hebrew to English. On November 3, 2010, Avi Issacharoff published a dramatic article about its importance. News headline:

“Hamas admits for the first time: more than 600 people killed in Cast Lead were armed”

According to the report, Hamas Interior Minister Fathi Hamad detailed the armed casualties in an interview with Al-Hayat newspaper:

“On Sunday of the war, Israel attacked police headquarters and killed 250 martyrs from Hamas and other factions. This was in addition to 200-300 al-Qassam Brigades operatives and 150 security personnel. The rest of the dead were from the people.”

This confession by the Hamas interior minister is important in that it confirms the IDF’s version that 709 gunmen were killed during Cast Lead. On the Goldstone Report.

However, the foreign reporter or any other English speaker does not know all of the above even if he read the Haaretz newspaper in English today. This is because the main headline of that article (signed by the Haaretz Service and not by Avi Issacharoff ) She:

Report: Hamas admits for the first time that it lost 200-300 people in the war in Gaza

Or in English:

Report: Hamas admits for first time losing 200-300 men in Gaza war

How is it possible? Well, in the body of the article, the figure of 200-300 al-Qassam Brigades operatives appointed by the Hamas interior minister has disappeared. This is not an omission of a sentence, otherwise the title would have been similar to the one in Hebrew. This is a complete article written without significant data. In addition, beyond the dramatic difference in data, the word “armed” has been replaced by “people.”

What adds to the stupidity of knowing the English is the fact that in its body it is explained that the current number matches the IDF Spokesman’s number. However, as mentioned, the IDF is talking about 709 gunmen and not 200-300.

Do the editors of Haaretz in English underestimate their role to such an extent that they do not even bother to check what they are writing? Do they not know mathematics? Are they just not smart? Or maybe they do not want their English-speaking readers to get the right information - a much more serious thing?

In any case, do not be surprised if you read something like this in a newspaper abroad in the coming days: “Some are trying to claim that Hamas admitted that 700 gunmen were killed in the war in Gaza, but according to Haaretz it is only 200-300 people. As human rights organizations have long argued.”

http://www.nakim.org/israel-forums/viewtopic.php?t=268495&s=%D7%A2%D7%99%D7%AA%D7%95%D7%9F_%27%27%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5%27%27_%D7%9E%D7%A9%D7%A7%D7%A8_%D7%9C%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%99%D7%95

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UK Jews slam ‘Haaretz’ columnist for book tour - The Jerusalem Post

By Jonny Paul

Aug 18, 2010 · Gideon Levy has aligned himself with anti-Israel groups.

Promoting his new book ... Levy is speaking at three events in Scotland this week – in Dundee, Glasgow and Edinburgh – with the radical fringe group Scottish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign (SPSC)...

Last year the SPSC hosted what it claimed was a Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration with a Hamas follower who supports suicide bombings.

It also fabricated a story that it had successfully persuaded a number of Scottish companies to boycott Israeli water company Eden Springs...

The Board of Deputies of British Jews questioned Levy’s choice of partners.

“If you are judged by the company you keep, Gideon Levy has aligned himself with some rather unsavory fellow travelers,” said Jon Benjamin, chief executive of the Board of Deputies. “The SPSC has a history of extreme anti-Israel histrionics and Rod Cox’s descriptions on this tour of the situation in Gaza stretch credibility, with third hand accounts of weapons that target children. Mr. Levy should understand that his enemy’s enemy may not be his friend.”

https://m.jpost.com/jewish-world/jewish-news/uk-jews-slam-haaretz-columnist-for-book-tour/amp

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(2010)

Complaint of Prof. Gerald Steinberg, President of NGO Monitor, Department of Political Science, Bar-Ilan University, against Haaretz Online

Appellant: Haaretz Online System

Complainant: Prof. Gerald Steinberg

Discussion summary

At the hearing held on February 6, 2010, in the presence of the appellant’s representatives - Adv. Tal Lieblich and Mr. Liron Maroz, editor of the Haaretz Online website - and in the presence of the complainant - Prof. Gerald Steinberg and his attorney, Adv. Assaf Shaham - the appellant’s representatives decided Motav’s recommendation, to dismiss the appeal filed on their behalf.

The tribunal relied on the appellants’ decision to publish the following notice on the Haaretz website:

Clarification

Haaretz’s website system clarifies: The report on the discussion in the EU Subcommittee on Human Rights, which took place on June 23, 2010, was missing, and there were disruptions in the preparation of this report.

The publication will be made in accordance with section 51 (b) of the Press Council’s Regulations.

Given on February 7, 2011

... Agrees with Adv. Yigal Borochovsky that if the report from the hearing in Europe was made entirely on the basis of reports from interested parties, it would have been correct to state this in the body of the article...

http://www.moaza.co.il/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=128475

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‘Haaretz’ could not be more wrong – or misleading

In its attempts to portray IDF soldiers as violators of judicial rulings and war criminals, the newspaper would not let itself be distracted by the actual facts.

By Ben-Dror Yemini, April 20, 2010

In its attempts to portray IDF soldiers as violators of judicial rulings and war criminals, the newspaper would not let itself be distracted by the actual facts.

Many in the media say that what Anat Kamm uncovered was an important revelation. The IDF, they claim, violated High Court of Justice orders, and conducted targeted killings while violating judicial guidelines. The IDF, they continue to assert, committed war crimes, and there is no journalist out there who would have remained silent, were he or she to receive documented proof of this.

Let us put aside the thousands of documents that have nothing to do with the leaks she gave to Haaretz journalist Uri Blau and which contain military information with no journalistic value. And let us put aside the fact that the IDF was forced to alter its military plans due to the stolen information. And the fact that the possession of such material constitutes a criminal offense, which an Israeli paper is aiding.

Let us deal with the heart of the matter this time. Were the documents revealed and brought before the public indeed proof that the IDF violated judicial orders? The headline, at the time, was “The chief-of-staff and IDF leadership authorized killings of wanted and innocent men.” The word “innocent” appears almost 20 times in the article in which the documents were published. The impression is that the IDF has been committing war crimes, an impression Haaretz intentionally attempted to create.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/haaretz-could-not-be-more-wrong-or-misleading

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‘Haaretz fiddled with Obama poll’

Pollster says paper used figures misleadingly to make Obama look good.

By Gil Stern Hoffman

March 22, 2010

Haaretz misled readers to give the impression that an overwhelming majority of Israelis see US President Barack Obama as “fair and friendly” toward the country, the newspaper’s pollster, Tel Aviv University professor Camil Fuchs, said on Sunday.

Both the English and Hebrew editions of Friday’s Haaretz led with the headline “Poll: Most Israelis see Obama as fair, friendly toward Israel.”

The English edition elaborated near a picture of Obama that “69% say Obama is fair and friendly.”

The story itself gives no numbers, but the lead says “A sweeping majority of Israelis think his treatment of this country is friendly and fair.”

The English edition contains no graphic distributing the actual numbers, either online or in print.

The print and online versions of the newspaper’s Hebrew edition included a graphic indicating that just 18 percent of respondents considered Obama “friendly” toward Israel, 3 percentage points fewer than the 21% who called the president “hostile” to the Jewish state.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Haaretz-fiddled-with-Obama-poll

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Haaretz newspaper presents: “Double Standard”

Amitai Puderbeutel - News1 -

Aug 10, 2010

Haaretz: “All due respect to Palestinian smugglers in violation of the law, the law is not above morality”; And in the same breath: “But the rule of law is more important than the life of a policeman”

https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-50835-00.html

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Police investigating Ha’aretz reporter

Hammerman described illegally helping Palestinian teens into Israel.

By Lahav Harkov, June 18, 2010

Israel Police is investigating Ha’aretz reporter Ilana Hammerman for helping three Palestinian girls illegally enter Israel and disturbing a police officer, The Jerusalem Post learned on Friday.

Hammerman wrote an article entitled “If there is a heaven” in which she described how she brought 18-year-old Palestinian girl Aya and her two cousins into Israel without permits, for “a day of fun” in Tel Aviv, during which she lied to an undercover police officer.

https://www.jpost.com/Israel/Police-investigating-Haaretz-reporter

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Jewish Agency Meetings: Haaretz Gets it Wrong

June 24, 2010

Haaretz Daily Newspaper

Letter to the Editor

Re: False Information Appearing in Today’s Paper

I was very surprised to read Nir Hasson’s article in today’s Haaretz English edition and its translation of the Hebrew edition.

The article states that the Jewish Agency is planning to divert funds to programs in the Diaspora at the expense of educational and welfare programs in Israel, according to the new Strategic Plan just passed at its Board of Governors meeting.

This statement is misleading to your readers and is a mis-representation of the facts. The Board of Governors of the Jewish Agency indeed approved a new Strategic Plan but it did not include any decision on diverting funds or cancellation of projects and there certainly was no decision on diverting funds from youth villages, as appeared in the article.

Not only does the article contain a false statement, it also does damage to the Jewish Agency, in terms of our relationships with our donors but most importantly – it is detrimental to the youth studying in our youth villages.

I request that your newspaper, which has the reputation of truthfully representing the facts, will correct this false statement at once in both the English and Hebrew editions.

Sincerely yours, Richie Pearlstone

Chairman of the Board of Governors

Jewish Agency for Israel

https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/jewish-agency-meetings-haartez-gets-it-wrong/

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Head to head: Margie v. Shtrasler The confrontation

Haaretz published a table showing the level of salaries of religious council employees - Ministry of Religions: If the newspaper does not apologize for publishing the incorrect data, a libel lawsuit will be filed - Is the libel lawsuit on the way? - all the details

Yossi Katz, Behadrei, 27 Tevet 5770, 13/01/2010

https://www.bhol.co.il/news/113914

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The purity of shame

Hanoch Marnari (Haaretz editor 1990-2004), The 7 Eye, Dec 10, 2009.

Today, when I know more about the way in which the Palestinians reflected their disaster, and from the distance of the years and the experience gained during them, I can also openly accept the film of the German journalist Esther Shapira. Today it is clear to me that we bought that story (that the IDF supposedly killed Muhammad a-Durrah), too quickly, and cheaply. We were skeptical of the IDF’s investigation. We showed impatience with tests conducted by those who were perceived as obsessive. A picture, even a video picture, may be the perfect lie. We should have made every effort to investigate the truth in the case. After all, it was our job to tell what exactly happened. And if Not us, we should have openly accepted everyone who is willing to poke a pin in this myth.

https://www.the7eye.org.il/41806

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Haaretz’ articles seen as ‘nuisance’

Eric Fingerhut, Sep 7, 2009 — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called two top aides to Obama “self-hating Jews.” All of these reports appeared in Haaretz.

Are inaccurate media reports hurting US-Israel relationship?

https://www.jpost.com/israel/haaretz-articles-seen-as-nuisance

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Haaretz: Journalistic ethics and integrity

Charges of killing Palestinian civilians - a mere hearsay

To the Letters Editor

Haaretz

March 28 2009

Journalistic ethics and integrity

The headline to Anshel Pfeffer’s article: How IDF testimonies led to the ‘Haaretz blood libel’ (Haaretz March 27) is artfully deceptive. The rambling discussions at the Oranim Academic College as reported in Haaretz, cannot under any circumstances be described as “testimonies” with the implication that they were declarations under oath. To the contrary, no objective reader can disagree with Melanie Phillips’ description of the selected extracts of the soldiers’ discussions as anything but innuendo, rumor and hearsay, demonstrably wrenched out of context. Pheffer’s attack on Phillips demonstrates a dismal lack of understanding of what she wrote in her March 22 blog “The Ha’aretz blood libel”.

The last sentence in Pfeffer’s article succinctly sums up Haaretz’s confused concept of ethical journalism. He wrote “if we were to ask ourselves, before publishing every report, how it will be used by Israel’s ill-wishers, that would surely be the ultimate capitulation to anti-Semitism”. Haaretz may well be unconcerned about, and even relish, the effect of its articles on Israel’s enemies, but it should be concerned about infringing good old-fashioned journalistic guidelines like those of the US Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) that include “Seek truth and report it”, “Minimize harm”, and “diligently seek out subjects of news stories to give them the opportunity to respond to allegations of wrongdoing.”

In particular the SPJ urges journalists to question the motives of sources and to distinguish between advocacy by biased sources such as Danny Zamir and factual news.

- Maurice Ostroff

http://takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=1677

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Letter to Haaretz Editor: MISLEADING TITLE

Letter to the Editor

To: Ha’aretz

Letter Editor, July 24, 2008

Sub: MISLEADING TITLE:

The headline “Soldier filmed shooting bound Palestinian...” (July 21) creates the impression that the soldier shot to kill and the man was killed. This very false impression is reflected by some talkbacks until this moment.

Only when you read the text, as few people do, we see that the Palestinian suffered minor injury. In Paragraph 10 only “Abu-Rahama said he sustained wounds to his left foot”, in Para 11: “doctor who examined him found... ‘very slightly wounded with swelling to a toe on his right foot’ “. The article is full of similar discrepancies, like the soldier shoots once “at point blank”, then “only centimeters away”, then “aiming at his legs” - when in fact we see the soldier in the film firing from one meter distance, at the ground before the Palestinian’s feet. (A direct hit from one meter would have done much more harm than a swollen toe.)

The shooting is obviously culpable and deserves severe punishment.

But why to add tendentious inaccuracies? Worst, your headline is indeed misleading, unduly inciting hatred, as demonstrated by many talkbacks. It deserves your honest expressed correction.

Respectfully,

Endre MOZES

Chairman, Take-A-Pen

http://takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=1116

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Good Lynch, Bad Lynch - Haaretz Displays its Integrity - Israel National News

Jun 20, 2008 — Suddenly, this week the “T” word appears on Haaretz’ front page

AH, Haaretz, the Palestinian newspaper printed in Hebrew, the daily whose idea of journalistic “pluralism” is based on Brezhnev’s Pravda, the newspaper in which Israel (and America) are always wrong and the Islamofascists are always right, the newspaper of Post-Zionism and Post-Judaism, where Israeli survival is an archaic idea whose time has past.

Haaretz, or Al-Ard in Arabic, has for many years adopted the quaint custom of anti-Semitic newspapers elsewhere in referring to suicide bombers and mass murderers of Jews as “activists” and “militants.” You know, like the people who march to defend the self-esteem of dolphins. Yet suddenly, this week the “T” word appears on Haaretz’ front page. “T” as in terrorist...

How come? Well, the news story concerns Eden Natan-Zada, a mentally ill Israeli soldier (actually a deserter) who shot up Shfaram in October 2005 and killed several Druse and Arabs. Shfaram is about 40 minutes outside Haifa. He was then attacked by locals in the crowd who lynched him, killing him.

Ever since, the Israeli Attorney General’s office has been mulling over whether to prosecute the members of the mob who killed the by-then-disarmed Natan-Zada. This week, the prosecution decided not to prosecute. Every second word referring to Natan-Zada in the Haaretz articles about the decision refers to him as a “terrorist.” He of course was not, although he was a killer, and probably was not legally sane.

This is newsworthy because there have been cases in which Arab terrorists were apprehended live after they murdered Jews and who were then summarily executed by those who captured them. In every one of these cases, those who dispatched the terrorists were prosecuted. The most famous incident being the Bus 300 affair.

Now after the Natan-Zada incident, I called for the prosecution NOT to indict those who killed the perp. I also insisted that killing terrorists should never be considered a crime, even when Jews kill captured Arab terrorists, and that the decision not to prosecute Natan-Zada should be regarded as case precedent for ALL who kill terrorists, even when the lynchers are Jews. I thought that those who executed the terrorists in the Bus 300 affair should have been given medals. I am all in favor of lynching terrorists captured immediately after they commit mass murder.

Now Haaretz is also in favor of such lynching, but only when the perp is a Jew and the victims Arabs. Haaretz is NEVER in favor of punishing Arab terrorists who murder Jews, and of course opposes the death penalty for Arab terrorists.

Which brings us to the Haaretz editorial in the very same issue (June 16) in which it cheers the decision by the AG not to indict the killers of Natan-Zada.

In the very same issue, it runs an editorial demanding that a Jewish farmer in the Negev who shot Arab burglars who had broken into his small ranch be indicted! In January 2007 one Shai Dromi shot two Arabs who had broken into his homestead, trying to steal his sheep, and he killed one and injured the other.

The Attorney General prosecuted him. The Knesset decided to take an uncharacteristic stand against this case of prosecutorial politization and judicial tyranny by starting to pass (it already passed its “first reading”) a special law, known in the media as the Shai Dromi Law, declaring that people who kill or injure burglars and intruders into their homes will not be prosecuted. The farm lobby took time off from lobbying for cheap water and subsidies to back the bill.

Haaretz of course is outraged! This law would be nothing less than a “license to kill.” What about their Miranda rights?

I cite the editorial:

‘The new law will lead to killing to no avail, and could include people accidentally harming members of their own family. True, a man’s home is his castle, and he has to be granted the right of self-defense therein, but it is not permissible to shed the blood of someone who enters the house, even if he is a burglar. The place of thieves is in prison, but they must not be turned into the victims of executions. Nor is it reasonable to extend the rights granted to a person in his home to his yard, store or flock as well.’

So when is it okay in Haaretz’ opinion to kill intruders? When they are Jewish “intruders” in “Palestinian lands,” of course!

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Message.aspx/2868

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Antisemitism in Haaretz (2): Is it enough to show a “family resemblance” to Der Stürmer (”The Assailant”)? of course not.

Apr 20, 2017.

And when there were allegations against the generous use of this propaganda term, Schocken had an explanation. Here is an article he published in his newspaper back in July [Jun] 2008:

“Among circles...” That is: to use the insult of “apartheid” against Israel, there is no need for there to be any identity between the regime in Israel and the regime in South Africa called by that name. Suffice it to say that the use of the word constitutes, in Schocken’s opinion, “an absorbing and understandable media headline in large parts of the world, and is therefore useful for conveying the message.”

https://mafyahu.wordpress.com/2017/04/20/%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%99%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%91%D7%94%D7%90%D7%A8%D7%A5-2-%D7%94%D7%90%D7%9D-%D7%93%D7%99-%D7%9C%D7%94%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%95%D7%AA-%D7%93%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%95%D7%9F/

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Haaretz newspaper incites again

Submitted by Israel Bar-Nir, on Wed, 07/02/2008

The “Haaretz” newspaper, in its last weekend edition, returned and incited against the State of Israel. An editorial signed by, no less and no more, Amos Shocken, the editor of the newspaper, bears the title Israel the Apartheid[sic] State.

Although this is not new, it is important to emphasize again and again that this title is false and the whole thing is not intended except for the purpose of incitement for its own sake. In choosing the title of the article, Shocken imitates a well-known “Israeli fan”, former US President Jimmy Carter. Shocken knows very well that Israel is not an apartheid state and that there is no similarity between the legal system in the State of Israel and the apartheid regime that prevailed in South Africa and that to claim otherwise is a blatant lie. So, How does he nevertheless justify his devious statement? He expresses the justification for the baseless accusation in this way: “There should not be an identicalness between the characteristics of apartheid in South Africa and the practices of discrimination concerning civil rights practiced in Israel, so that it is possible to call Israel an apartheid state.” This is an excuse not so original. He learned this excuse from Carter, who responded in a similar way to the sharp criticisms he received about his latest literary work. And really, why would there be an identicalness? If there is no need to be an identicalness, it gives an opening to any tongue-twister to freely lash out as he sees fit, to facilitate those who do not understand on their own (after all, despite the arrogance expressed in the motto “a newspaper for thinking people”, it is not at all certain that the vast majority of Haaretz newspaper readers are indeed composed of people who are capable of thinking), the editor of the Haaretz newspaper explains himself what was the motive that caused him to issue The literal reflection he chose “The word apartheid is the title of a catchy and understandable line in large parts of the world.” This is a really good reason. It really suits a person who claims to be the editor of a newspaper for thinking people. It is worth noting here that Carter also used an almost identical wording to justify the name he chose for his literary work.

Is there discrimination against minorities in Israel? Who has he ever claimed not to be? Is there one of the approximately 200 member states of the United Nations in which one degree or another of discrimination against the minorities living there is not practiced? Sometimes the discrimination is enshrined in law and sometimes, to borrow from Shoken’s statement, it is just a practice of discrimination, but discrimination always exists because it is its nature of man. With the exception of a few exceptions whose number does not exceed the fingers of one hand, in none of these countries are the minorities in question hostile minorities, let alone minorities that deny the very existence of the state. It is a bit difficult to say that about the Arabs of Israel.

There is no similarity between the legal system in the State of Israel and the apartheid regime that prevailed in South Africa and to claim otherwise is a blatant lie.

What is that “practice of discrimination” that turns Israel into an apartheid state in Shocken’s eyes? What bothers him is a section in the citizenship law that prohibits Arabs from the territories of the Palestinian Authority who have married Arab residents of Israel to come and live with their spouses in the State of Israel. When the law was enacted in 2003, as Shocken knows how to tell us, it was based on security arguments, when he adds in a tongue-in-cheek tone “at the risk of introducing terrorists into Israel through marriage ties” as if this claim really has no and never had any basis. With the arrogance characteristic of an “enlightened” liberal, Shokan continues and states decisively that “the security reasoning is eye catching”. A simple calculation can illustrate that if there is eye contact here it is all in Shocken’s “court”. There are approximately 110,000 Arabs living in the territories of the Palestinian Authority who wish to join their spouses in the State of Israel (I am not an Arab for the exact number, but this is what I saw from Uri Avneri the last time he wrote on the subject). If we assume that only 1 percent of them support terrorism (this is a very conservative estimate, because in reality the percentage is much higher), this means that among these brides/grooms there are at least 1,100 who support terrorism. If we assume that only one percent of these supporters of terrorism are willing to translate their support into practical measures (this is also a very conservative estimate, because in reality the percentage is much higher), this means that among these brides/grooms there are at least 11 who are willing to commit terrorist acts, including suicide attacks (And things have happened before - we know of at least one case in which this actually happened).

In the opinion of the genius from the newspaper “Haaretz”, the section in the law designed to prevent the almost certain entry of 11 (most likely many more) active terrorists into the territory of the State of Israel turns the State of Israel into an apartheid state, and the possibility, in fact almost a certainty, of this happening he defines as “ Deception”. But exemption for nothing is impossible. Our Shokan has an original idea of how the State of Israel should deal with a risk which, in his opinion, is just an eye catch. “Examining the security risk in allowing the entry of a Palestinian man or woman into Israel is an individual action” (I am not clear what exactly “individual action” is, although I assume it is intended to refer to one or another individual) and the responsibility of the security forces. Even if I suspected that these words of Shokan were said in good faith, this approach is only eye catching. I cherish and respect the principle of innocence, according to which every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty, but to this day I have not come across a lawyer or a judge who could give me a satisfactory explanation of how the guilt of a suicide bomber could be proven.

After all the swans about blindfolding and whether or not there were security considerations that led to the introduction of this section into the law, Shocken finally gets to what really bothers him in the citizenship law. To prevent the Arabs from changing the demographic structure of the State of Israel, something they are trying to achieve by exercising the right of return under the guise of “family reunification”. What’s wrong with that? Which country in the world does not use immigration and citizenship laws to determine who can and who cannot live in its territory? Why does the honorable gentleman from the editors of the newspaper “Haaretz” think that what is allowed to other countries and peoples is apartheid when it is done by the Israeli government? And again, with the exception of a few exceptions whose number does not exceed the fingers of one hand, none of the countries of the world is in a situation where the minorities living in it They see its very existence as a “Tragedy..” and strive to destroy it from the inside. It’s a bit hard to say that about the Arabs of Israel.

The main mantra in the brainwashing we receive from the left side of the political spectrum is how important it is for them to maintain the Jewish character, or image, of the State of Israel. It is a bit hard to believe that in the concept of “Jewish character”, any of these guys refers to the religion and/or the tradition of Israel. On all the occasions when the topic comes up in conversations and discussions on forums that I have with friends and acquaintances from the enlightened left circles, they talk about a Jewish “majority” (in most cases the exact phrase is “solid majority”, or “clear majority”, or “clear majority”, or another expression has a similar meaning). Since I am not one of the public that regularly reads “Haaretz” newspaper, I probably do not belong to what is called in the circles of the enlightened elite people think, but it seems to me that there is a connection between demographics and the demand for a Jewish “majority”. The question of exactly how many percentages is a “majority” (or “solid Jewish majority”, or “clear Jewish majority” - decide for yourself), never gets an answer (these guys from the enlightened elite are weak in the calculation ). Also to the question of how to guarantee that this situation (a situation of a Jewish majority, or of a solid Jewish majority, or of a clear Jewish majority - decide for yourself) will remain this way for a long time, I never received an answer. The section in the Citizenship Law, against which the editor of the “Haaretz” newspaper is so indignant, is intended precisely to give the answer to these questions — this section is intended to prevent the Arabs from exercising their right of return through the back door. This is Shocken’s real time. He opposes the idea that the State of Israel will have a Jewish character. This, of course, does not prevent him from hiding behind the demand for “Jewish character” when he writes articles justifying the intention to destroy the enterprise of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no clause in the Palestinian Authority’s citizenship laws that prohibits Arab residents of Israel from participating in their elections/elections in the territories of the Palestinian Authority. If they move there they will enjoy all the same rights that the State of Israel denies them and no one will prevent them from living together a long life happily and richly. If it is really so important for them to live together, there is nothing preventing them from exercising the right to family reunification in the territories of the Palestinian Authority. Is it just a case that there are no “buyers” for this idea among the Arabs?

In conclusion, it is worth noting that in Egypt, our neighbor, as well as in Saudi Arabia, there are laws that prevent any Palestinian married to a citizen of that country from receiving the country’s citizenship. These laws apply to every Palestinian regardless of where he lives and what his status is, not only to those living in the territories of the Palestinian Authority, as well as to the descendants of such marriages. To the best of my knowledge, similar laws are also found in the law books of other Arab countries. Even there (at least in Lebanon and Jordan), the reasoning is - lo and behold - demographic. Furthermore, there is no red carpet waiting for those who just want to come and live in one of those countries.

https://www.e-mago.co.il/Editor/actual-2356.htm

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HA’ARETZ, THE LIE OF THE LAND by Andrea Levin - Think-Israel

Oct 8, 2007

... Although Ha’aretz bills itself as “an independent newspaper with a broadly liberal outlook,” many of the opinion writers and some reporters espouse views of the extreme left, and factual accuracy is often sacrificed to their political predilections. Reporter Amira Hass, for example, has just been ordered by the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court to pay $60,000 in damages to the Jewish community of Hebron for her false and incendiary report that Jewish residents there had abused the corpse of a dead Arab shot by Israeli Border police in a violent incident. The allegations were disproved by multiple televised accounts of the event.

The same reporter’s stories, replete with distorted and inaccurate charges that Israel is an “apartheid” state, steals Palestinian water, callously targets Palestinians over the age of 12 with sniper-fire, and generally subjugates Arabs out of sheer viciousness, are posted on countless anti-Israel websites. The commentaries of Hass and a score of other Ha’aretz writers (Gideon Samet, Gideon Levy, Akiva Eldar, Baruch Kimmerling, Ze’ev Sternhell, Joseph Algazy, Danny Rubenstein, Moshe Reinfeld and many more) appear alongside those of Noam Chomsky, Hanan Ashrawi, Edward Said and other favorites of such websites (eg: cesr, pmwatch, globalsolidarity, liberate-palestine).

Indeed, a look at such sites and the content of the Ha’aretz articles posted suggests that Ha’aretz writers are in the vanguard of those making the Palestinian case against Israel.

http://www.think-israel.org/levin.haaretz.html

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Shame on ‘Haaretz’

Isi Leibler, November 6, 2007

Many policies promoted by paper are supportive of Israel’s adversaries.

We frequently boast that notwithstanding its limitations, the Israeli media is unfettered by government intervention and could serve as a role model for a free press in any democracy. As in most Western countries, Israeli journalists are inclined to the Left and substantially outnumber the more conservative-minded. In fact, one constantly hears complaints that to hold right-wing views is a major stumbling block in obtaining promotion in the media world. But that is not unique to Israel. The majority of Israelis who read a newspaper on a daily basis read one of the tabloids. In that sense, the broadsheet Haaretz stands alone. It presents as a serious liberal newspaper and aspires to assume the mantle of a Hebrew-language counterpart to The New York Times. Despite a limited circulation, it is extraordinarily influential and read by most opinion makers. Its news coverage and access to inside information exceeds that of the tabloids. However, whereas it carries superb pieces on culture and society, with especially insightful articles on religious issues, its frequent endorsement of radical policies does tend to increasingly link Haaretz with fringe rather than mainstream opinion. Indeed, many would even argue that a considerable proportion of Haaretz editorials and op-ed columns are politically off the wall. Its op-ed and magazine articles demonizing Israel and inclined toward post-Zionism are increasingly being quoted by Arabs and anti-Israeli propagandists. In fact, a man from Mars observing the level of the newspaper’s frequent vitriolic condemnations of Israeli governments could understandably be misled into believing that some Haaretz writers are consciously acting as propagandists for the Palestinian cause.

CURRENT EDITOR David Landau ..

Since he assumed the role of editor at Haaretz, the newspaper’s traditional bias relating to the Israel-Palestinian conflict has intensified. Landau concentrates much of his wrath on religious Zionists, regarding those who settled across the Green Line as messianic lunatics and the greatest threat to Israel. This obviously makes him a darling of the ultra-Left. Today Landau allegedly even refuses to correct articles containing blatantly false information if they conflict with his political agenda.

According to the Web site of the highly respected American Jewish media watchdog organization CAMERA, not only did Landau decline to consider its complaints regarding alleged falsehoods published in Haaretz, he even went on record informing the JTA that “as a matter of principle” he had instructed his staff not to respond to criticism from CAMERA because they were a “McCarthyite” organization.

NEEDLESS to say, this casts an ugly shadow on a daily newspaper purporting to represent the highest levels of journalistic integrity.

It is now widely accepted that many policies promoted by Haaretz are effectively supportive of Israel’s adversaries. In fact, Nahum Barnea, the distinguished Yediot Aharonot columnist, went so far as to describe senior Haaretz journalists Gideon Levy, Amira Haas and Akiva Eldar as failing to pass the “lynch test” - i.e., even failing to condemn Palestinians when they murdered two Israelis in a lynch mob in Ramallah at the onset of the second intifada. More recently, consistent with frequent Haaretz depictions of Israel as a racist entity, the paper’s chief Arab affairs expert, Danny Rubinstein, told a UN body that Israel was indeed an apartheid state. Of course, behind this torrid situation stands the publisher of Haaretz, Amos Schocken, who is personally convinced that Israel does indeed practice apartheid.

BUT IT was only recently that Landau threw away all semblance of journalistic integrity and publicly confessed to crossing the ultimate red line that distinguishes reputable journalism from propaganda. According to The Jerusalem Post, at the recent Russian Limmud Conference in Moscow, Landau, one of the few non-Russian-speaking participants, dropped a bombshell. He stunned those present by boasting that his newspaper had “wittingly soft-pedalled” alleged corruption by Israeli political leaders including prime ministers Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert, when, in the opinion of Haaretz, the policies of those leaders were advancing the peace process. When participants challenged him concerning the morality of such an approach, Landau responded with the extraordinary assertion that “more immorality happens every day at a single roadblock [in Judea and Samaria] than in all the scandals put together.” He then unashamedly assured those present that Haaretz was ready to repeat the process in order “to ensure that Olmert goes to Annapolis.” Even former Bolsheviks in the audience must have gasped at such views, openly stated, which incorporated all the hallmarks of the Stalinist era. It is surely scandalous for the top editor of what purports to be a reputable and prestigious daily newspaper to publicly proclaim - and take pride in - having deliberately “soft-pedalled” and possibly even covered up acts of corruption by senior political leaders in order to promote his own political agenda, and, moreover, boast that his paper would continue to do so in the future. Could one, for instance, visualize The New York Times suppressing information about an American president involved in corruption out of a desire to promote the administration’s foreign policy objectives? No newspaper of integrity in the world would tolerate an editor making such an outrageous statement.

THE ISRAELI Press Council code of ethics contains clauses explicitly condemning such practices. Article 40 (and 16a): “A newspaper or a journalist shall not refrain from publishing information where there is a public interest in its publication, including for reasons of political, economic or other pressures.” Article 7: “Mistakes, omissions or inaccuracies which are in the publication of facts must be corrected speedily….” If in the face of such violations of their charter by the editor of one of their most prestigious newspapers the Press Council fails to publicly condemn such behavior, it should be dissolved and the public must demand an accounting. Exploiting a newspaper as a propaganda vehicle for a clique of leftist ideologues willing to do anything, including suppressing or “soft-pedalling” information about potentially criminal actions in order to pursue a private agenda must not be tolerated in a country which purports to adhere to ethical and democratic norms of conduct.

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/shame-on-haaretz

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Women protest against Ha’aretz prostitution ads

JPost.com Staff, Aug 16, 2007 — The Center for Combating Trade in Women was holding a protest in front of Ha’aretz offices in Tel Aviv, Thursday evening, for continuing to publish advertisements allegedly encouraging people trafficking. The center had already filed a report in June demanding an investigation into the paper and its owner, Amos Schoken. The advertisements in question offer the services of prostitutes, while other ads call for women to work in prostitution in Israel or abroad.

https://www.jpost.com/israel/women-protest-against-haaretz-prostitution-ads

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[Letters to the editor - Jan.2007]

Jeanne d’Arc would have been ashamed

In Response to “Tali D’Arc” by Gideon Levy (Haaretz, TV Review, 4.1)

It is outrageous that Gideon Levy did not ask a few simple questions before crowning Tali Fahima with a title not hers. Why didn’t Fahima choose to “protect her body” with an old woman searching among the rubble of her home for pieces of her life? Why did she not choose to “protect with her body” an orphaned child lying injured in the hospital? Why did Fahima not choose to “protect her body” on a starving elderly Palestinian?

For reasons reserved with her, Fahima chose to “protect her body” with an armed man who could, with the help of the weapon in his hand, protect his body even without it.

Had Levy asked himself these questions, he would not have been ashamed of Jean d’Arc’s work.

Rachel Yahav.

https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/letters/1.1377587

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[Letters to the editor - Jan.2007]

Out of the realm of auditing

In Response to “Tali D’Arc” by Gideon Levy (Haaretz, TV Review, 4.1)

The daily section “Television” is intended to present a professional review of the broadcasts of the various channels from yesterday. Writing the column by different participants allows the reader to enjoy diverse perspectives.

However, Gideon Levy used the column for an unintended purpose: he published an incendiary publicist article, which has nothing to do with television criticism. To Levy, Tali Fahima is probably Israel’s national heroine, a kind of Jean d’Arc. In contrast, for example, former Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz is issuing a scandalous libel.

Levy has a weekly publicist column in the newspaper, in which he can write his opinions. Please leave the TV review column to those who criticize it for its name.

Galil Elyashiv, Kfar Saba. https://www.haaretz.co.il/opinions/letters/1.1377049

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Neve Gordon can’t take criticism

Nov 8, 2006 — ... professor is denied free speech by a self-hating Israeli academic...

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/op-ed-contributors/neve-gordon-cant-take-criticism/

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(The German publisher Alfred Dumont, one of the owners of Haaretz - Europe, died.

The 88-year-old Dumont headed the German media empire “Dumont Schauberg”, which publishes some of the most important newspapers in Germany. Amos Schocken: A brilliant publisher who was committed to Israel and Haaretz.

Ofer Aderet, 31.05.2015.

German publisher Alfred Neven Dumont, who headed the German media empire “Dumont Schauberg”, which publishes some of the most important newspapers in Germany and owns 20% of Haaretz, died yesterday (Saturday) in Germany at the age of 88.

Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken said that “his death is a loss not only to his family and the newspaper group he headed, but also to Haaretz and me personally.”)

Haaretz’s new German partner served in the Nazi service

The German press concern DuMont Schauberg, which acquired 25% of the ownership of the Haaretz group, collaborated with the Nazis and received a high decoration from Goebbels, such as the one given to the head of the Gestapo. Haaretz publisher, Amos Schocken in response: Today’s owner has no Nazi past and should not be held responsible for his father’s actions.

The new German partner of the Haaretz worked in the Nazis Service The German Press Cardon, which acquired 25% of the Haaretz, cooperated with the Nazis and received from Goebbels high decoration, like the one that was granted to the head of the Gestapo…

Dr. Kurt Neven-Dumont was a member of the Nazi Party from ‘37. Publishing newspapers, like all newspapers allowed to appear at the time, disseminated Nazi propaganda. In August, 1944, the Ministry of Propaganda of the Nazi Reich, headed by Dr. Josef Goebbels, for awarding a very important decoration to Kurt Neven-Dumont (like him also received the head of the Gestapo Heinrich Himmler) for the fact that in extremely difficult conditions, under the heavy bombing of the Allies, he continued to publish his newspapers.

Some historians and journalists claim that the house management has acted to prevent various publications about the problematic past of the family and society. Dumont-Schauberg chiefs also denied investigators free access to the company’s archives. Only recently has the publishing house commissioned an independent German historian to investigate the subject.

“This is one of the only private publishing houses whose work was not banned under the Nazis,” says German historian Ingo Niebel. “In fact, from ‘34, they were part of the Nazi regime and supported its actions.”

Eldad Beck, Cologne

Aug 16, 2006

https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3292130,00.html

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WOOING THE HAMAS by Steven Plaut - Think-Israel

Jan.30.2006

The Israeli daily Haaretz, represented best by its anti-Israel leftist fanatic Gideon Levy, is celebrating the victory of Hamas as a great moral victory.

http://www.think-israel.org/plaut.wooinghamas.html

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Letter to HAARETZ : Who Killed the Arab girl?

Feb 5, 2005

To: letters@haaretz.co.il

Subject: READER’S LETTER: Who Killed the Arab girl?

Date: Saturday, February 05, 2005 10:04 PM

To HAARETZ’ Editor

You may consider my letter for publication as a reader’s letter, but I’d appreciate even more if you accept my remarks, take corrective actions and inform me about it.

Sub.: Who Killed the Arab girl

On Monday (31Jan) you reported, based on Palestinian claims what you never checked with the IDF, that the previous day a 10-year-old Palestinian girl was killed by Israeli tank fire at an UNWRA schoolyard in Rafah. It became a world scoop within minutes. Next day the Palestinians arrested a Palestinian suspect in the little girl’s murder, who shot into the air during a religious celebration and hit her. Your modest corrections of the previous horrible blood libel were hardly noticed by the world.

Many times Israel has been blamed by you and half of the world for brutally killing Palestinians, like the 12 year old Mohammad al-Dura [Durrah] at the start of the armed intifada, or the Jenin “massacre” - that never was, only to be proven false when all the facts become known. Each time several articles of Haaretz and the world media fueled hatred of ‘the brutal Israel’. But when the accusations turned out to be false the clarifications were not loud and clear.

Much of the world’s condemnation and even hatred towards Israel today have grown out of Haaretz’s harsh Israel-criticism. You are of course entitled to your views. However good journalism would require that when the facts justify it, like in the case of this poor Arab girl, you apologize honestly and very loudly, not in 10-words-corrections-on-page-10. In your correction you should turn all your fire against the misinformers or liars who poison the souls of Palestinians, Europeans and more, and thus are an obstacle to peace. You should take disciplinary actions against journalists and editors whose unfounded or unchecked writings besmirch both Israel and Haaretz’s reliability.

Respectfully, E.(Andre) Mozes.

http://takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=810

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HAARETZ Awarded Take-A-Pen’s Liar Of The Month For May 2004

30 May 2004

HA’ARETZ is the liar of the month for May 2004 at Take-A-Pen, for its ‘achievements’ in Amira Hass’ article “One step ahead of the bulldozer”.

The title ‘Liar of the month, published on our site http://www.take-a-pen.org/, is being translated into 15 languages. This is the first time the title goes to an Israeli media organ.

It is not easy to be an outstanding or #1 liar in any month in today’s brutally biased media, over which we, Take-A-Pen!, maintain a constant watch in several languages.

HA’ARETZ has been a runner up for this ‘title’ several times in the past Many readers and media-activists have written objecting to HA’ARETZ articles which they claim frequently quote and promote unfounded and even libelous accusations and stories, without questioning their validity. Letter writers complain that by lending the prestige of ‘Israel’s leading newspaper’ to anti-Israeli lies and libels, HA’ARETZ gives them undeserved credit and earns wider distribution for them than they would otherwise achieve, contributing greatly to the upsurge in hatred against Israel and Jewry.

Before reaching our final decision to award the title to HA’ARETZ, we scrutinized the May 14 and 21 weekend editions.. We selected three major assaults on true and responsible journalism, and sent 3 separate politely written readers’ letters, supported with factual information, in order to give the newspaper a fair chance to reply.. The response we received to all three letters was NIL, indicating a lack of interest by Ha’aretz in establishing the truth by sincere self-examination.

Three instances of bad reporting in one month were bad enough, but HA’ARETZ finally won the title based on the worst of the three, a libelous lie in an article by Amira Hass: “One step ahead of the bulldozer”. See the Reader’s letter below that we sent to HA’ARETZ. You can judge for yourself whether the journalist and the editor did or did not their duty, fully or even partially, to check such libelous claims before publication.

To consider HA’ARETZ a liar is no fun for us, we feel very sad about it. We’d be happiest to see a change in Ha’artez’s policy and see “Israel’s Leading Newspaper” show a sense of balance, avoiding publication of unsubstantiated allegations, misleading headlines and staged Palestinian photographs..

We will gladly cooperate with Ha’aretz by sharing our views for comment before publishing them or, where advisable, even without publishing them. If Ha’aretz wishes to correct or comment on anything we have written we will gladly publish their submissions as we did in the case of a recent response by the Guardian newspaper of London.

Sincerely, Endre Mozes

Chairman, Take-A-Pen

The Award winning article

Amira Hass in “One step ahead of the bulldozer” (May 21) cites in length the story of Mansur from Rafah suggesting that IDF bulldozers intended to kill his family by destroying their house on top of them - after their neighbors hardly “fled for their life”. The 50 members of the Mansur family, the story-teller says, fled exactly 1 second before sure death, on a by-chance-there iron ladder.

Neither the journalist nor Ha’aretz editors asked one single question on the fantastic story, though every child in Israel knows that no bulldozer driver is allowed to operate for a minute without another person checking its route, even on a minor maintenance work. All know that Tzahal gives several warnings before any necessary house demolition and an officer makes it sure that no civilians are caught inside.

Distributing such libelous sensations may earn dubious rating to Ha’aretz, particularly among ‘good old’ Jew-haters or new Israel haters, but this time they earned the title “Ha’aretz Is The Liar of the Month at Take-A-Pen” (in May 2004)

(Read below the Reader’s Letter sent on it to Ha’aretz - and remained unanswered)

READER’S LETTER:

To: Ha’aretz Letter Editor 24 May 2004

Subject: Does IDF deliberately kill civilians?

Dear Editor!

Does IDF deliberately kill civilians? Amira Hass’s “One step ahead of the bulldozer” (May 21) strongly suggests ‘Yes’. Ninety percent of this article cites the story of Mansur from Rafah, how a “large bulldozer rumbled over neighbors’ home, and ...residents fled for their life”. The Mansur family escaped death more closely, because the driver “blocked the entrance”. “We were just a second from being killed - 50 persons, children, the elderly, women, all of us with our backs to the wall”. Their life by mere luck “was saved by an iron ladder” - where 50 people descended, seemingly in that one second left.

Hass did not ask the story-teller one single question! Like: ‘Were you not warned to leave the house?’. Only at the end, does she quote IDF briefly that “claims made by local residents about the demolition of houses are not correct.” And so, unchallenged by the journalist or the editor, one more blood libel against Israel can take off.

Today many people in Europe believe that IDF deliberately kills civilians, even children.

The Swedish ‘Expressen’ called Rafah ‘an Israeli massacre’, while in the same place the US killing 40 at a wedding in Iraq an “accident”. When asked, the editor said he knew the IDF deliberately targeted civilians. Rev. Margaret Oaken, Deputy Chairman of the Danish parliament, said in a conference that the Israeli Army murdered knowingly three times more Palestinian children than the Palestinians did by explosive belts.

Europeans wouldn’t go so far based solely on Palestinian sources. They may remember how Saeb Erekat lied that 520 Palestinian civilians were massacred in Jenin, while a UN’s committee later found 52 killed, out of them 47 young male combatants. But when ‘Israel’s leading newspaper’ is telling Europeans that IDF intends to kill civilians, why shouldn’t they believe?

Respectfully,

Endre Mozes, Haifa

http://www.takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=823

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A CASE WHEN HAARETZ DID ADMIT THEY HAD BEEN WRONG

On the 24th July 2003

Ha’aretz published a typical horror story about IDF behaviour entitled “Anyone who walked by, kicked.” On the 25th Haaretz had to admit it was totally wrong and published a correction in which the IDF proves that Haaretz’s story was completely false.

Unfortunately Haaretz’s allegations are eagerly repeated in foreign media and on the web, while the corrections - if issued at all - are ignored or too late to undo the damage to Israel’s image.

The correction and the original articles are copied below. The title of the correction was Ha’aretz July 25, 2003

Checkpoint horror story false

By Amira Hass

Beaten Palestinian says it was PA security forces, not IDF If you read the articles you’ll notice how cautious Haaretz’s language is in the correction and how outgoing and uninhabited it had been in the accusations. Just watch that Hass, as usual, never asks any question of his only witness to check the reality of his story. In honest journalism, dear Haaretz, all this should be the other way round.

Ha’aretz July 25, 2003

Checkpoint horror story false

By Amira Hass

Beaten Palestinian says it was PA security forces, not IDF

A Palestinian who claimed that he was held and beaten for 30 hours at an Israel Defense Forces checkpoint now admits that it was actually the Palestinian security services who held him and beat him.

For four days, over and over, Afif Barghouti, 31, told family, friends and journalists of how Israeli soldiers had held him at the Qalandiyah checkpoint for some 30 hours, blindfolded and with his hands tied, and beat him. They did not even let him go to the bathroom, he said. He also told the story to an attorney friend, who hurried him to the hospital in Ramallah for a check-up. That was on Sunday, July 20, shortly after the soldiers had allegedly released him.

The Palestinian press ran prominent photos of his bruised and battered back, accompanied by his story. According to these reports, he had tried to pass through the checkpoint on his way to a plastering job in A-Ram. His identity card also contained his membership card in Fatah, and that, combined with the name Barghouti, was enough to make the soldiers decide to hold him and abuse him, he said. (Another Barghouti, Marwan, is a senior Fatah official currently on trial in Israel for alleged involvement in the murder of dozens of Israelis.)

There was certainly no doubt that Barghouti had been beaten. His back was red from the blows, his head bore a round burn mark where a lighted cigarette had been stubbed out on his skin. His hands were swollen, and he had trouble moving both his hands and his head.

Haaretz English Edition published his story yesterday (”Anyone who walked by, kicked,”) along with the IDF Spokeswoman’s response, in which the army said that it was looking into the allegations, and if they were found to be true, they would be “handled with the utmost severity.” The IDF “views with severity any behavior that involves humiliation of or violence toward the Palestinian population,” the spokesman added.

But army officials have now told Haaretz that their investigation has revealed the allegations to be false. They said that from the moment they first learned of the allegations - from the media - last Sunday, sector commanders had begun interrogating all soldiers and officers who could have been involved in the affair, even bringing soldiers on leave back to base for this purpose. They also made intensive efforts to locate Barghouti, so that he could attempt to identify the soldiers who had abused him and finally succeeded, thanks to the numerous interviews he granted, including to the Israeli media. For two days, he refused to meet with the IDF investigators, but finally agreed to come to Qalandiyah to reenact what had happened. There, the officials said, it became clear, “on the basis of the interrogation and the testimony he gave, that his initial version did not match the reality on the ground, and it is evident that the story was not true.”

When confronted with the IDF’s response, Afif Barghouti admitted to his lawyer friend that he had made the whole story up.

What really happened, he said, was that on Saturday, Palestinians he recognized as working for the Palestinian security services had seized him, held him for almost two days and beaten him. He said that they suspected him of being an Israeli collaborator, to which he responded: “I don’t work with the Israelis and I don’t work with the Palestinians.”

His friend said that he cannot understand why Barghouti invented the Qalandiyah checkpoint story.

A senior official in the Preventive Security Service in Ramallah told Haaretz yesterday that the service has no record of Barghouti ever being suspected of collaborating with Israel. The service has no idea who beat him or why, he said, but it intends to summon him for questioning to find out.

Dr. Said Zeedani, director-general of the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights, said that his organization investigates many complaints that Palestinian citizens were abused by the Palestinian security services, and will investigate Barghouti’s claim as well. However, he stressed, the commission also investigates many complaints of abuse by Israeli soldiers that turn out to be true. “There are a few cases of people who make things up, but these cases cannot be allowed to divert attention from the humiliations and physical injuries that occur at Israeli army checkpoints,” he said.

He said that people who do invent stories do so for a variety of reasons, including a desire for revenge, a desire to impress someone and a desire to remove suspicions of being a collaborator

The Original article:

‘Ha’aretz July 24, 2003

Anyone who walked by, kicked

By Amira Hass

The following are two complaints passed on by H a a r e t z t o the IDF Spokesman’s Office in the Central Command at the beginning of the week, to get reactions with regard to the behavior of soldiers at the Qalandiyah checkpoint south of Ramallah and at the mobile checkpoint in the Nablus area.

Three hours of kneeling A., who is 34 (the full details of the complainant have been given to the IDF Spokesman), is a plasterer by profession and lives in Ramallah. His family is from a village northwest of the city. Last week he was offered work in the A Ram neighborhood, south of the Qalandiyah checkpoint.

According to A., for the last two years he was nowhere near the checkpoint and was unaware of the rules and regulations governing it. On Saturday, July 19, he went to the checkpoint. He gave the soldier his identity card. Folded into the card was his membership card in the Fatah movement, which includes his clan name Barghouti which does not appear in his ID card. He says that when the soldier noticed that name in the card, the soldier asked if A. was related to Marwan Barghouti. A. explained he was not directly related and that they come from different villages. The soldier answered something like “so what, Marwan Barghouti lives in Ramallah now,” and ordered A. to stand aside. Afterward, the soldier blindfolded him with a piece of cloth and led him to a hill overlooking the checkpoint. There, he was handcuffed behind his back and told to kneel on the ground with his eyes blindfolded and his hands handcuffed behind his back.

According to A. he was held in that position, under the sky, until the next day, July 20, until four in the afternoon more than 30 hours. He reckons he was held next to a building that serves as an outhouse. The entire time the soldiers ignored his requests to use the toilet and told him to “do it in your pants.” They also ignored his request to loosen or remove the handcuffs. On the Shabbath, they allowed him to drink water once, around two in the afternoon. One soldier held a plastic cup and watered him that way.

Every once in a while, he said, people who walked past would kick him. But when night fell, and there were no more people going through the checkpoint, some of the soldiers got together and in an organized manner beat him. He felt them using fists and a stick on his neck and back. In addition, he felt them putting out burning cigarettes on his head (A. is bald). He said he shouted to please take off the handcuffs, which cut off the blood to his hands.

That night he received a sandwich to eat and for the coming hours another cup of water. The next day, judging by the voices, he could tell the soldiers had been replaced. The new soldiers did not beat him. One asked where he was from and where were his ID papers. He answered, “You have the papers.” No other soldier related to him during all that Sunday, July 20.

A. knew how to tell the time according to the muezzin from the nearby mosque. Around 4:30 in the afternoon, one of the soldiers used a radio to make contact with someone, said “there’s nothing on him,” and then removed the blindfold and handcuffs, ordering him to go home. His ID card was returned to him, but not the Fatah ID card.

He gave this testimony to H a a r e t z about two-and-a-half hours after he was released, at the Ramallah hospital where he was examined. He had difficulty moving his hands after being handcuffed for so many hours. The palms of his hands were very swollen and he had difficulty grasping objects. His upper back was covered with fresh bruises. Round burns marked his head.

First dance, then hop Four soldiers got out of a jeep or an APC in the hilly area northwest of Nablus and for 10 hours held seven passengers of a taxi and the driver, humiliating them.

On Sunday July 20, around 7:30 A.M., G., one of the passengers (all the details without names have been given to the spokesman) left Nablus on his way to the village where his family lives north of Nablus. It is a 20-kilometer trip, involving lengthy walks by foot and taxi tides over hilly dirt roads that bypass checkpoints that Palestinians are usually not allowed to pass through.

G. got into a taxi with seven other people. Soon after, around 11 in the morning, in the area between the villages of Dir Sharf and Nakura, the taxi encountered a jeep and an APC. Soldiers got out of one of the vehicles. The taxi was confiscated, and the driver was told to pick it up at he army camp at Shavei Shomron. Four soldiers remained to guard the eight people, and the jeep and APC continued on their w a y .

The soldiers collected the ID cards and one of the soldiers put them in his pocket. According to one of the Palestinians, during the entire time they were held, there was no examination of the ID cards and their owners, through the radio.

According to one of the passengers, during the hours, about once every half hour, the soldiers made the eight people do all sorts of tasks. Dance, hop on one foot, repeat various slogans in Hebrew, stand up, sit down, stand up and sit down, over and over. Around 4:30 in the afternoon, they were allowed to walk back to Nablus.

The IDF says: “The claims are being fully examined in a context that included questioning of the soldiers and officers who serve in the place by the commander of the zone. For that purpose, the complainant has been invited in to provide evidence and describe the details of the event and the examination will c o n t i n u e .

These are very serious complaints about behavior that has no place in the IDF. The IDF regards with severity any behavior that involves humiliation and violence toward the Palestinian population. The subject will continue to be examined in the most in-depth manner and to the extent that the complaints turn out to be true, the matter will be handled with full severity.” ‘

http://www.takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=84&FID=821

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Blood Libel at Haaretz?

Prof. Steven Plaut

June 24, 2003 - INN

Haaretz is Israel’s most radically Far Left and Post-Zionist newspaper. Its notion of ?pluralism? is to run a single non-Leftist article (often by Moshe Arens) for every 100 or so Leftist articles that it runs. It features among its stable of Near-Solid-Pink commentators such illuminati as Amira Hass and Gideon Levy, people who have never heard of any Palestinian atrocities committed against Jews worth denouncing, or that were not the understandable response to ‘occupation’. My colleague at the University of Haifa, Arnon Sofer, has suggested that the paper change its name to Al-Ard, ‘Haaretz’ in Arabic. Its editorials are generally more pro-Arab than those in Al-Ahram or Al-Jazeera. So I guess the running of an anti-Jewish blood libel in the paper should not come as too big of a surprise....

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/2432

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(2002/6/8)

Menashe Dror Tzadik’s complaint against Haaretz

The court ruled that Haaretz violated the Code of Ethics by publishing a laconic article on the Supreme Court ruling, in which petitioner won his claim for compensation against Haaretz...

Menashe Dror Tzadik (hereinafter: the complainant) filed a complaint with the Press Council of the Press Council (hereinafter: the Court) against the Haaretz newspaper (hereinafter: “Haaretz” or the newspaper) on October 10, 2008 for a photo and two articles published by the newspaper. In Haaretz, on February 22, 2002, the first article on June 2, 2006 and the second on September 1, 2008. The first article is a picture of the complainant, a member of the ultra-Orthodox sector, who set up a holy book distribution booth next to an advertisement And a young man looking at her hidden organs at the Dizengoff Center in Tel Aviv (hereinafter: the photograph)...

(Tel-Aviv, Jan, 2010)

http://www.moaza.co.il/BRPortal/br/P102.jsp?arc=47099

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Privacy protection:

Haaretz photographer Alex Liebek will pay monetary compensation for an offensive photo of an ultra-Orthodox Jew

27/01/2004 | Issue No. 39 | halemo

Haaretz photographer Alex Liebek, who travels around the country and takes surprising photographs for his “Haaretz Shelnu” section, will pay NIS 25,000 compensation to an ultra-Orthodox person who was photographed against his will and in a false manner with a poster of a girl in shorts and legs spread in the background.

Prosecutor: An ultra-Orthodox Jew

Menashe Dror Tzadik is a 37-year-old ultra-Orthodox Jew who does not work for a living but distributes holy books in secular centers in the city of Tel Aviv. Menashe has a religious appearance, has a beard and wigs and is easy to identify because he belongs to the ultra-Orthodox sector.

Defendant: Photographer Alex Liebek

https://halemo.net/edoar/0039/0004.html

Menashe Dror Tzadik v. Haaretz Publishing Ltd. If it were not for the promise given to the applicant, which was violated, then in my opinion the applicant’s hand was on the bottom. Were it not for the promise, I would have ‘increased the hand’ of freedom of expression both on the invasion of privacy and on the invasion of the applicant’s good name “

Principles of the ruling

In the Supreme Court

RAA 6902/06

Before: Honorable Vice President A. Rivlin

The Honorable Justice A. Grunis

The Honorable Justice Y. Alon

The independent media unites and we need you with us! Support us now so we can continue to open a critical, independent and independent eye Support the Seventh Eye

Applicant: Menashe Dror Tzadik

VS

Respondents: 1. Haaretz Publishing Ltd. et al.

On behalf of the applicant: Adv. David Shuv; Adv. Sheli Peled

On behalf of the respondents: Adv. Tal Lieblich; Adv. Tom Neumann

The applicant, an ultra-Orthodox, stood next to a stand he set up to distribute holy books near the Dizengoff Center. The stall stood next to the store where a revealing advertisement image of a young woman was placed. At one point the applicant noticed that Respondent 4 was trying to photograph him. In response to the applicant’s objection to the photograph, Respondent 4 assured him that the photographs would be for personal use only. But the picture was published in the column of Respondent 4 in the newspaper “Haaretz”. The plaintiff’s claim to the Magistrate’s Court, claiming that the publication of the photograph violated his privacy, was accepted. The District Court accepted the appeal...

The appeal is granted in the aforesaid sense. The judgment of the District Court is set aside. The judgment of the Magistrate’s Court, after its aforesaid amendment, shall return to its merits. The respondents will bear the legal expenses as well as the applicant’s attorney’s fee in the amount of NIS 10,000.

http://www.the7eye.org.il/verdicts/20454

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Prof. Tabenkin’s response to an article in Haaretz: Conspiracy? Was never mentioned

Aug 8, 2002

I’m angry at you for exploiting me for the sake of further defaming the medical establishment. If until now I thought there might be something in your articles (which only a small part I read) then it is now clear to me why you are so hated on the medical establishment - and now adding another to the list, I do not hate, but certainly in you for the way you distort everything.

But, as mentioned, I’m mostly angry at myself for being tempted to be interviewed, probably the desire to appear in smart blind media. But since you promised a positive interview and about me - not against who he is - for some reason I believed you.

I have never had a particularly positive opinion of the Haaretz newspaper but after twice being hit I understand that journalistic ethics is the weak part of this newspaper.

I demand the publication of an apology for both the conspiracy theory, the negligence and the class action lawsuit..

Sincerely, Prof. Hava Tabenkin.

https://www.e-med.co.il/emed/new/usersite/content.asp?CatID=6&ContentID=7520

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Dahlan threatens: defamation lawsuit against Haaretz

The head of the Gaza Preventive Facility is demanding NIS 5 million from the newspaper following two reports published about him. This is the first time a senior Palestinian official has threatened a defamation lawsuit against an Israeli newspaper. Haaretz: The complaint is being investigated

Efrat Weiss

Updated 22:02, 30/05/2002

The head of the preventive apparatus in Gaza, Muhammad Dahlan, is threatening to sue the Haaretz newspaper for publishing defamation and harming his status and good name.

In a letter sent this evening (Thursday) to Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken and the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Hanoch Marmari, Dahlan claims that two recently published articles in the newspaper defamed him and harmed his status. Dahlan threatens to file a defamation lawsuit against Haaretz and demands compensation. Of five million shekels.

Dahlan referred to an article that appeared in the newspaper two weeks ago in which it was said that he smuggled his family members abroad for fear of their lives, against the background of power struggles between him and Jibril Rajoub. The US administration. “

Dahlan denies what was said in the news. He claims that the publicity according to which he smuggled his family members abroad was false, and certainly did not meet with senior US administration officials.

This is the first time a senior Palestinian Authority official has threatened to file a defamation lawsuit against the Israeli media. It was learned that his associates were pointing the finger of blame at his opponent, Jibril Rajoub, who was allegedly responsible for the publications.

https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-1919573,00.html

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When the English version of HaAretz differs from the Hebrew version

By Yitzhak Sokoloff, March 29, 2002

[Note from David Bedein: Ever since HaAretz pioneered an English edition for its daily Hebrew paper, with English translations overseen by David Landau, many astute readers who know both languages have noted that the English language version tends to sanitize the PLO.

David Landau was the co-author (with Shimon Peres) of The New middle East, and has served as the bureau chief of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in Israel for the past 25 years, and has also worked for many years as the Israel correspondent for The Economist. Previous critiques of Landau’s JTA editorial policies can be found on this site...

https://israelbehindthenews.com/2002/03/29/when-the-english-version-of-haaretz-differs-from-the-hebrew-version/

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The court: Haaretz will pay NIS 250,000 to Hebron settlers

The settlers filed a defamation suit following an article published by Amira Hass. Haaretz did not file a letter of defense - and the lawsuit was accepted. Settlers: “We won.” Haaretz: The statement of claim has not reached us - so we will seek to set aside the ruling.

Anat Ro’ah - June 7, 2001

https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-801928,00.html

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