Haaretz (2016-2021)
Sela Meir Publishing (@SellaMeirPress) Tweeted (Jan 14, 2021):
Wow! Apparently Amos Schocken, publisher of the Haaretz newspaper, took the book The Workshop for Consciousness Engineering hard ...
https://twitter.com/SellaMeirPress/status/1349653413215281153?s=20
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‘The Consciousness Engineering Workshop’
Author: Hanan Amior (2020)
The workshop for the engineering of consciousness is a thorough, reasoned, angry document, and no less - amusing, about the complete failure of the institutionalized media in Israel to carry out its mission. Hanan Amior invites the reader on a behind-the-scenes journey of the newspaper systems and news studios, and provides a rare glimpse into the variety of measures that journalists take to distort the description of reality and use the stage given to them for their personal and political needs.
Throughout the book, the reader will find a wealth of sources, stories and anecdotes that will teach him about the poor ethics of Israeli journalists and the lies, rhetoric, conflicts of interest and radical agendas that prevail above and below the surface of the Israeli media. Amior knows these things personally, and he combines in the book many passages he made with the “heroes of the book”: Nahum Barnea, Amnon Abramovich, Ben Caspit and many others.
- What is the connection between the organizations “Breaking the Silence” and “B’Tselem”, to the exposures that are published in the major newspapers?
- What an embarrassing incident happened to the Haaretz newspaper with a neo-Nazi website?
- Who is behind the anonymous sources quoted by Nahum Barnea and Amnon Abramovich in their reports?
This is an eye-opening book: if you read newspapers, listen to the radio or stay up to date on news sites - you are about to discover with it the “secrets of the profession” and all the ways in which journalists engineer the public consciousness: using anonymous sources, collaborating with civic organizations, closing mouths, ignoring Basic rules of ethics and more.
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Book Review: The Consciousness Engineering Workshop
Moshe Ifergan 12/01/2021
In the book, Amior presents a serious indictment of the media in Israel, and contributes to the development of a sense of criticism and skepticism among his readers, consumers of the media. If you have not read yet, it’s time.
Hanan Amior’s book, “The Workshop for the Engineering of Consciousness,” deals with media criticism in Israel, especially in recent years. Hanan Amior is the editor of the media review site Perspective, and has been involved in media research and politics for more than two decades. He brings to writing a great deal of practical experience, of one who follows the media regularly and for a long time and comes in contact with the media and its people, whom he criticizes. The book also includes media responses to Amior’s questions, which make an important contribution to the credibility of the author’s facts and claims.
The book’s subtitle is “The 6 Ways of the Israeli Media to Work on You”, and indeed, the book has six main chapters: 1. Anonymous sources, used unprofessionally and non-transparently, raise suspicion to the point of inventing sources to produce information that fits the journalist’s position. 2. Clogging of mouths, which has been a tradition since the establishment of the state, and is currently used against the right-wing camp. 3. Psychological warfare, in which Amior blames the media, as the one waging a campaign against the public. 4. Cooperation with civic propaganda organizations, a method by which left-wing organizations exploit the economic weakness of the media and its political bias to advance their agenda. 5. Ethics that is ethics, a chapter that indicates the lack of any commitment to media ethics. 6. The best ‘Haaretz’ opinions, which presents the section that has become the lodge of the most advanced radicals.
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Continues to make us happy: The anti-Israel newspaper in Hebrew - eliminates its local newspapers. The collapse there continues: | Gplanet
Dec 26, 2020 - The anti-Israel hate newspaper in Hebrew, continues to disappear from within...
[https://m.facebook.com/GuyBechor/posts/3647386505344076?_se_imp=0q2aSl16XqXDXBuwC]
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The web is angry: Is Trump worse than Hitler?
Israel Cohen, Nov 2, 2020
Rage on social media against the Haaretz newspaper that published an opinion column by Rogel Alpher under the title: “Trump is worse than Hitler and Stalin.” The reactions are furious...
https://buzznet.co.il/news/local/86208
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ZomerG @zomer_g
Today, the Haaretz newspaper, sponsored by a publicist from the Ministry of Health, published the sensation that there is more sticking to public transportation than synagogues. So it is important to say that this is a complete lie, that no one has any idea, and to illustrate a little bit the understanding of the places of infection, I have created a very sophisticated graph of the number of cases by each category published in the country.
Oct 9, 2020
https://twitter.com/zomer_g/status/1314595672558112768
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Israel Police @IL_police Tweeted:
Following the false publication this morning in Haaretz, regarding alleged agreements with Hasidim in Jerusalem regarding violations of the law, we would like to clarify: these are false allegations and we reject them outright. The police did not allow the Hasidic representatives to hold mass events during the holiday and did not condition any permission.
Oct 6, 2020
https://twitter.com/IL_police/status/1313371225385820160
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[Globes publisher]
Alona Baron @alonabaron
Apr 30, 2020:
In my eyes, over the years Haaretz has become an organization that chooses not only to allow and finance this autoimmune hatred, but to produce it and make it stand out on purpose. Self-hatred against our parents, against our fallen and against our symbols.
https://twitter.com/alonabaron/status/1255758130585223168
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Zvi Houser @ZviHauser Tweeted
Sep 1, 2020:
‘Fake-news for thinking people’. Things that were never said became a title in my direct quote. (You are welcome to listen to the podcast) The Haaretz newspaper.
https://twitter.com/ZviHauser/status/1300790625902776322
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Simon Riklin @ Riklin10 Tweeted:
Hanan Amior compiled the way Haaretz marks Holocaust Remembrance Day:
Sympathy for the Nazis.
And this terrible confusion happens because Schocken and his friends are unable to say a bad word about the Germans.
Only about the Jews.
Because hatred of the Jews is all that is left for them from the desperate and miserable desire to be German.
Haaretz as a machine of self-destruction.
Haaretz as a machine of self-hatred
April 21, 2020
https://twitter.com/Riklin10/status/1252479431412789250
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DESPICABLE! Haaretz Caricature With Age-Old Anti-Semitic Trope Of Jews Carrying Disease
August 4, 2020
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Again: Storm over a cartoon in the Haaretz newspaper: “Apologize”
Srugim News
04.08.20 |
Although thousands of non-Haredi people are also expected to enter the country in the near future, the Haaretz newspaper chose to present the Haredim as the ones who bring the corona with them in their suitcases.
https://www.srugim.co.il/?p=476630
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Watch: MK Pindros “Haaretz newspaper spreads lies and there is no compensation here and beeps”
MK Pindros in a speech today in the plenum said that “The people of Yisrael Beiteinu spread lies yesterday and saw it as a miracle that the Haaretz newspaper turned this lie into a caricature. Haaretz is not interested in the truth. They published a cartoon about how the ultra-Orthodox bring the corona to Israel, and no one protests. “ | Watch
Chezki Lifshitz -
HaMechadesh, Aug 4, 2020
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Storm: The antisemitic cartoon and the answer from Yated - in ultra-Orthodox rooms
[BeChadrei]
Aug 4, 2020 - An antisemitic cartoon from the brain of Haaretz illustrator Amos Biderman caused a big stir this morning on social media, Margie: “Be ashamed”...
https://www.bhol.co.il/news/1124389
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A lawsuit in the amount of NIS 8 million against Haaretz: “Journalists threatened the subjects of the investigation”
The businessman Dan Gertler filed a lawsuit against the publication of Haaretz newspaper - In the lawsuit a transcript was brought from which it appears that the journalist Haim Levinson urged one of the subjects of the investigation to sign a false affidavit against him - “Globes” has information that proves the opposite
Avishai Grinzaig, 21.07.2020 https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001336683
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Neo-Nazi website shared hundreds of anti-Israel content published on the Haaretz website
One cartoon that Y. N. shared (and later deleted) was indeed a partner on a neo-Nazi site. And how many times did anti-Israel content published in Haaretz on the same site?
This is the website The daily stormer (its name is based on the Nazi propaganda magazine ‘Der Sturmer’).
Rotter News, 06.05.20
https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/626486.shtml
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Incitement Live: Nehemiah Shtrasler uses Deri’s remarks to defame
[May 10. ‘20]
Minister Deri was interviewed over the weekend and admitted that the ultra-Orthodox are to blame for the outbreak of the corona in their concentrations. Haaretz’s economic commentator used his remarks to incite severely against the ultra-Orthodox public...
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@newyamin_ Apr 5, 2020
Tday too, an anti-Semitic cartoon from the creator of Haaretz newspaper.. Illustration of hate: Amos Biederman.
https://twitter.com/newyamin_/status/1246914544527605760
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The pictures in Haaretz’s or Der Sturmer’s exhibition
Jacob Kory, News1, 22/02/20
Close to International Holocaust Day, I went to a lecture in the Rappaport Hall in Haifa, when I saw a display of photos in the exhibition that I was convinced were taken from Der Sturmer or another anti-Semitic newspaper and were displayed to illustrate the hatred of the Jews. After I asked, it became clear to me that it was a journalistic photo exhibition in honor of the 100th anniversary of Haaretz newspaper..
https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/0026-D-139320-00.html
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Haaretz is not in favor of terrorism, only giving a free stage to justify it
Akiva Bigman, 09.01.2020
The dangerous anarchist Yonatan Pollak, who is employed by the newspaper, documented a participant in riots against IDF soldiers, and published an article calling for joining the “Boys of Stones and Molotov cocktails” - Any wonder that theses are the publisher’s opinions…
The “Haaretz” newspaper suffered a severe blow a few years ago, when following the coverage of Operation Tzuk Eitan (and especially Gideon Levy’s .. column) many subscribers left it. The newspaper has since thought, changed its course and decided that instead of justifying Hamas and supporting terrorism, it should play more to the .. taste and support Hamas while it justifies terrorism.
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/722921
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Amos Schocken does not disregard the provocative words of Jonathan Polak
The anarchist Polk published an article in Haaretz in which he called for breaking the law and joining the Arab rioters. The hard lines were deleted but the publisher of the newspaper emphasizes that the deletion was made due to “change of work arrangements” only and that the content of the article has not changed.
Yehuda Pearl, HaKol haYehudi, Jan 7, 2020
The publisher of Haaretz does not disregard the provocative quotes.
During the arrest of the anarchist Yonatan Pollak yesterday, the Haaretz article was published on the Haaretz website, at the end of which he called for joining the “Palestinian struggle” and breaking the law. The organization ‘Up to Here’ has filed a complaint with the State Attorney’s Office. Meanwhile, Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken does not shake things off at all.
After a long period in which Polak escaped from his court hearings, Polak was arrested on Monday at the entrance to his workplace, at the Haaretz newspaper’s offices. This follows a criminal complaint filed by the organization ‘Up to Here’ in which Polak is accused along with other activists in the organization ‘Anarchists Against the Fence’ of the organization and participation in violent demonstrations on Fridays in Arab villages...
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Season of Plagues and Freedom | The Jewish Press - JewishPress.com | Vic Rosenthal
Apr 12, 2020 · But Israel also has (in Ha’aretz, naturally), Gideon Levy, the anti-Jewish Jewish journalist..
https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/abu-yehuda/season-of-plagues-and-freedom/2020/04/12/
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Haaretz and Der Sturmer: Take a magnifying glass and find the differences
Haaretz is once again setting a record this morning in factions and incitement. Back to the cluster of their crocodile howls about the incitement on the right from recent times, illuminating the newspaper in a ridiculous light
Hanan Amior 04.02.20 |
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Haaretz: Israel has prohibited on parents of a patient Palestinian girl to accompany her in the last moments, the claim in the headline is shocking in its cruelty petition. Did it publish it around the world in a clear knowledge that there was not even one word of truth? Following the publication here, Haaretz corrected the mistake.
Hanan Amior |
Mar 12, 2020
A story of a Palestinian child from Gaza, Miral Abu Amsa, 10, who died recently carcinogenic in the Hospital in Nablus. The heart goes out. However, the journey of propaganda is a continuous lies that the Administrative ‘Haaretz against Israel also raised this sad story, as usual in distributing false glazing on Israel, as usual in English edition in a more nasty form in Hebrew.... In the version published in the English edition of Haaretz, as is known to defame Israrl globally, its cruelty is even more shocking. Already in the title notifify the country to the world not only from the father of Israel prevented the entry...
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Palestinian television uses a cartoon in the Haaretz newspaper promoting a blood libel in which Israel uses body parts to tarnish Israel
Official PA television - 26/02/2020
Palestinian TV, “Palestine This Morning” program
The Haaretz cartoon promotes a blood libel according to which Israel uses body parts (just want to take a cornea).
Faiz Abbas, an expert on Israeli affairs: “Cartoonist Eran Wilkowski expressed in this cartoon that Israeli crimes are unprecedented even in the most horrific regimes in the world.”
https://www.palwatch.org.il/main.aspx?fi=776&doc_id=27856
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Criminal probe launches against Haaretz writer for incitement to terror
Yonah Jeremy Bob, Feb 20, 2020
The Attorney-General’s Office on Thursday ordered a criminal probe of left-wing activist Jonathan Pollack for an article he published in Haaretz, calling it incitement to terrorism and violence. It also froze a private criminal-style proceeding against Pollack by right-wing NGO Ad Kan. There is no probe against Haaretz... Nizri reached the decision after Pollack published multiple controversial pieces in Haaretz and based on allegations of violent or illegal actions he has taken. In one article, Pollack calls for Israeli citizens to “cross the lines and break the law. Despite the price, we need to join up with the teens throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails.” Pollack has also been the head of digital graphics for Haaretz.
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Yaron Saban - (@SabanYaron) Tweeted:
[Feb 4, 2020]
Haaretz newspaper in one cartoon shows more than 1,000,000 Israelis as bitter religious monsters.
Incitement, anti-Semitism and a little more racism for “thinking people.”
https://t.co/doLGNxM8sh https://twitter.com/SabanYaron/status/1224766717768929283?s=20
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Haaretz website: Trump is the enemy of democracy more than Hitler and Stalin
Feb 11, 2020
https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/664561.shtml
Ricklin: For Haaretz, Trump is worse than Hitler
Storm on Social Networks Right-wing media outlets attack Haaretz’s decision to compare US President Trump to Hitler and Stalin: “Haaretz systematically forgives the Nazis and downplays their horrific actions”
Yehuda Levinger 2/11/2020
... in the opinion section, Rogel Alpher compared the president of the United States to Hitler and Stalin. Yinon Magal commented on this on his Twitter account: “Damn villains”, and Shimon Riklin also called the site: “Smartuton” (rag).
https://www.ice.co.il/social/news/article/790703
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Left-wing activist probed over op-ed backing Palestinian violence
Jonathan Pollak investigated for inciting terror after calling on people to ‘join the children of stones and Molotov cocktails’
By TOI Staff, 24 February 2020
A left-wing activist and Haaretz employee was questioned by police on suspicion of incitement to terrorism, after publishing an opinion piece in which he called on people to join those who attack Israeli soldiers with rocks and Molotov cocktails.
Haaretz reported that Jonathan Pollak was being investigated after he said in a piece that appeared on the Haaretz website: “We must cross the lines and break the law. Despite the price, we must join the children of stones and Molotov cocktails. We must walk in their path.”
Haaretz noted that the piece was accidentally uploaded to the site without staff editing it. It said the sentences were removed from the piece shortly after it went online and did not appear in the paper’s print edition.
The paper itself is not being probed in the case.
Pollak is also currently being investigated over allegations for years that he participated in violent protests against security forces organized by an anarchist group.
Pollak is a longtime campaigner against Israel’s policies toward the Palestinians, and is the founder of “Anarchists Against the Wall,” an anti-Zionist group opposed to the security barrier in the West Bank and to the fence separating Israel from the Gaza Strip.
In January, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett ordered security forces to issue restraining orders barring members of Anarchists Against the Wall, including Pollak, from the West Bank.
Bennett accused the group of initiating “violent provocations” each week in a number of Palestinian villages. He said that according to information he was shown, including by disabled IDF veterans, the alleged violence was aimed at hurting Israeli soldiers, damaging property, and causing “serious public relations damage” to Israel across the globe.
Pollak has participated for many years in weekly Palestinian protests near Nabi Saleh in the West Bank, and in 2011 served three months in jail for taking part in illegal gatherings. He supports the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel.
He serves as a graphic designer for Haaretz.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/left-wing-activist-probed-over-op-ed-backing-palestinian-violence/
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The anarchist Jonathan Pollak was arrested, at the same time the inciting article in Haaretz was altered
Srugim News
07-01-2020
The arrest of left-wing activist Jonathan Pollak, who called for joining the stone-throwers and Molotov cocktails in the Palestinian struggle has been extended. Meanwhile, a criminal complaint was filed against him alleging that he attacked soldiers in protest demonstrations in Judea and Samaria...
https://www.srugim.co.il/?p=407502
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MyIsrael (@MyIsraelorgil) Tweeted:
Jan 6, 2020
Haaretz encourages terrorism, employs terrorists and gives them a free platform to incite.
This hate article was written by Jonathan Pollak, an anarchist who has been running away from the police for 6 months. Today he was arrested, at a good time.
And in Haaretz? .. gave him a free stage.
Listen, it’s unbelievable. @Haaretz https://t.co/2U2YqZk3Nd https://twitter.com/MyIsraelorgil/status/1214276752710815744?s=20
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Does not stop in red: Jonathan Pollak’s activities will lead to a trial
After years of participating in violent demonstrations against the IDF, an article published on the Haaretz website in which an explicit call for violence led to the interrogation of the extreme leftist
By Yishai Friedman -— Monday, 27/02/2020.
Jonathan Pollak, one of the founders of the Anarchists Against the Fence organization, has been spending almost twenty years in violent demonstrations against the IDF throughout Judea and Samaria. Following his activities, Pollak is familiar with the Israeli prison cells, but now he may also appear in court following an article he published in Haaretz, in which he called for joining the violent Palestinian struggle against Israel, last week was questioned by the police about his article, which caused a stir on social media...
In the past, he even sat in jail for several months for sabotaging a security fence.
But Pollak refused to appear in criminal proceedings in court and to recognize his authority, following which he was sent to prison. As part of his struggle, he published the article in question on the Haaretz website, entitled “Why I refuse to cooperate with the court.” Among other things, he expressed his view that Jews in Israel must join the violent Palestinian struggle themselves.
After a few hours, Haaretz censored Polk’s violent reading, and the convicting lines were deleted and not even published in the print edition of the newspaper. However, the storm surrounding the article quickly flared up on social media. Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken, who is also Polak’s employer who works as a designer on the Haaretz website, came to his defense. ...
the Attorney General, it seems, was not impressed by the words of the defense attorney of the publisher of Haaretz...
Not theoretical statements
Following the decision to open an investigation against Pollak, Haaretz published an article reprimanding the Attorney General. Under the headline “Persecution in the Spirit of Time,” it is written that Nizri’s decision is “extreme in its severity” and “severely infringes on freedom of expression.” Regarding the publication of Polak’s call to join the stone throwers and dumpsters and Molotov cocktails, Haaretz’s editorial stated that this was done by mistake and mistake. “Once the mistake was clarified, it was uploaded to the edited website, which may not be construed as a call for violence. However, the very accidental publication of the article in its initial version, for several hours, is, in the opinion of the Ministry of Justice, sufficient cause to open a criminal investigation.” ...
But the claim of bias in favor of the right in this context is inaccurate, to say the least. Investigations have been opened and indictments have also been filed against right-wing elements following the publication of articles that implied a call for violence. For example, the prosecution filed an indictment against Yosef Elitzur following an article he published after the murder of Eviatar Borowski, which implied support for ‘price tag’ actions. The prosecution filed indictments and even convicted two of the founders of ... website of publishing content it defined as supporting violence and racism.
The State Attorney’s Office rejects the accusations of the Haaretz newspaper. According to them, the reason for opening the investigation against Pollak is his explicit and clear statements in favor of acts of violence, and the blatant and unusual call he made to act by violent means against the State of Israel, the security forces and even civilians. Polk expressed himself clearly and left no room for doubt as to his intention. From the general level (”should actually support the struggle”) he went on to state that one should “cross the lines” and from there to precise detail: “We must join the children of the stones and the throwers of Molotov cocktails.”
Another important point: the law against incitement, which was amended a few years ago, stipulates that calling for violence is a violation of the law even if it is unlikely to have a real impact on one of the readers. According to the amendment to the law, the very act of calling for violence constitutes an offense. Indeed, some indictments have been filed against those who published inciting posts, although the number of likes they received was meager and they did not receive significant exposure. Pollak’s original article was actually published on a watched stage and received significant exposure, as evidenced by the storm that followed...
An explicit call for joining the Palestinian violent struggle is also an unusual matter in Haaretz, but over the years an understanding and even justification for Palestinian violence has been expressed between its pages. In 2013, Waal al-Arja, a Palestinian Authority policeman was convicted of murder, who threw stones at the car of the late Asher Palmer and caused his own death and that of his toddler son Jonathan. Haaretz journalist Amira Hass wrote at the time that One who is under foreign rule. “Throwing stones as simple as necessary, a metaphor for resistance.”
Recently, Prof. Mordechai Kremnitzer wrote in Haaretz, following the harsh words of the Supreme Court president against MK Hiba Yazbek, that “Palestinian terrorism that does not belong to Hamas is not directed against Israeli democracy, but rather the opposite: against an occupation regime in which there are no civil rights.” The passage, which implies that Fatah terrorism (”which does not belong to Hamas”) is legitimate, was later changed to a text that states that “Palestinian terrorism that does not seek to destroy Israel is not directed against Israeli democracy.”
“Pollak’s statements are not just a ‘theoretical discussion,’” says Gilad Aach, founder of Ad Kan [Up to Here]. ...
In 2011, in a discussion held at the University of Cape Town in South Africa between Pollak and a pro-Israel representative, Pollak clarified that, just like Hamas, he too believes that “Israel should not exist.” The remarks were made in response to the pro-Israel representative’s statement that organizations such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad do not want Israel to exist. “I can show you the Hamas charter, and I am sure Jonathan will agree with me that the Hamas charter states that Israel has no right to exist,” the same representative said. To this, Polak replied simply: “I also say that Israel should not exist.”
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/news/207461/
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The Arab MKs and Haaretz repress the arrest of the senior terrorist who previously won their support
At least five editorial articles were dedicated in Haaretz for the release from prison of Khalida Jarrar, who this week turned out to be the head of the network that murdered the late Rene Shenrav
By Yishai Friedman -—
21 Kislev 5780 (19/12/2019)
It now turns out that the “freedom fighter,” the object of Haaretz’s concerns, was at the head of the terrorist organization that is responsible, among other things, for the murder of the young Rene Shenrav in Maayan Dani near the settlement of Dolev last summer. She allegedly took advantage of her role as a politician to obscure her involvement in illegal activities.
Khalida Jarrar is the representative of the Popular Front organization in the Palestinian parliament. In 2015, she was imprisoned for 15 months after preaching the abduction of IDF soldiers for the purpose of releasing terrorists.
... According to the GSS announcement on Tuesday, among the many detainees who operated under Jarrar’s leadership were a number of other members who worked simultaneously in human rights organizations, such as Squad leader Samar Arbid, who actually carried out the attack in which the late Rina Shenrav was killed. Arbid and Jarrar worked for the human rights organization Adamir, which is affiliated with the Popular Front.
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/news/191587/
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Why is the Haaretz newspaper so anti-Israel, and why is it so un-newsworthy?
Argarar Leibovitch, Dec 19, 2019
(Former Israel Retired Telecommunication product manager1968–2007 ; Lives in Israel1945–present).
For several years I was subscribed to Haaretz. Daily I got the newspaper.
No anymore...
Haaretz has a political agenda. It is OK to have a political agenda - but not to invent fake news, and ignore my people
suffering done by the Arabs. It is not my cup of tea.
So - Why I am not anymore, an Haaretz subscriber?
I found out that Haaretz fabricates news to support its political agenda and I don’t like to support fake news.
Examples:
1: Shimon Peres was Israel president and as such he flew to USA for meetings- including presided Obama. Haaretz was against Netanyahu policy regarding Islamist Iran NUKES.
On the day Simon Peres departure, the main title was that the president is going to tell Obama a long list of points he stands against Netanyahu policy.
In evening the presidents meet. The news agencies published that Shimon Peres told Obama that he supports Netanyahu policy to contain Islamist Iran.
The next day Haaretz didn’t print a single word about Peres’ visit.
2: Haaretz published an in deep reportage of an international anti-terrorist convention.
Most of the coverage was dedicated to the Israeli representative speech. From my point of view the Israeli speech was not in line with Israel policy.
Only on the last sentence of the long article I found out something like this:
All those points the repressive was obliged to say- but he preferred present others ideas. Even a single idea of what the Israeli rep said was not included.
3. I attended the France- Israeli relation conference in Tel Aviv sponsored by Haaretz.
The opening was done by one of Haaretz directors.
His opening was something like this:
France betrayed Israel with De Gaule arms embargo.
Since that time Israel is “betraying” France with the settlements policy.
4: PLO general meeting (rarely occurs) was in Ramallah. One of the PLO representative was a terrorist who was a member of the terror group who committed the main terror attack in Israel- where 35 civilians were murdered – including many children, women and old people.
The terrorist was caught, sentenced to life – but freed in a prisoner exchange. I don’t remember where to he was expelled.
During the PLO convention, Haaretz published 2 large interviews with the terrorist.
Haaretz didn’t publish even a small interview with one of the family members of the 35 murdered.
I was furious.
5: Once I opened the Arab league web site. They have an international news papers archive.
I browsed the archive and find out the Haaretz articles were one of the main starts of the anti-Israeli publications.
I ended my Haaretz subscription. I will not fund fake news and anti-Israeli policy. (It is not anti-government policy, which i can accept - it is against my own people policy, which I cannot.
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-Haaretz-newspaper-so-anti-Israel-and-why-is-it-so-un-newsworthy
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Haaretz propaganda leaflet presents: 3 lies in one sentence
Is there anything false, ridiculous and easy to refute as it may be, that the superficial Arab nationalist Oudeh Basharat will still write and Haaretz will not print?
Hanan Amior - Dec 11, 2019
We have previously seen Haaretz state that most Arabs in the country did not oppose the partition plan, that Hezbollah is a defensive organization, suffering from harassment by the Israeli occupier, who murdered three members of the Solomon family inside their home in Halamish was a “peaceful” protest And for its editors at Haaretz.
But what makes this week’s performance spectacular is the success of putting three different lies into one sentence.
The first lie: “Most of the Palestinian people were deported from their homeland to Arab states”
Not true. A large majority, about two-thirds of the refugees from 1948, actually remained within the borders of Israel, and only about a third found themselves at the end of the war in Arab countries. (I intentionally write ‘found himself’ and not ‘expelled’, because that is already the next lie) Refugees. 530,000 of them, about two-thirds, remained here, in the Gaza Strip and in Judea and Samaria, 280,000, about a third, exiled to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Not a majority but a minority.
The second lie: “Deported from his homeland”
Not true. A large majority was not expelled at all but left on his own initiative, or for fear of the impending war or at the behest of the Arab leaders, who encouraged the Arabs to leave so as not to complicate the war effort, and even assured them that they would return after the great victory, not only to their settlements. Morris describes the escape of the Arabs as follows:
‘Infectious disease, which spread from house to house, from neighbor to neighbor, from street to street, from neighborhood to neighborhood and later also from village to village.’
The first months of 1948 for the Arabs of the Land of Israel, Morris described as follows:
‘Feelings of general breakdown and disintegration. In many places a small spark was enough to motivate the residents to pack their belongings and flee for their lives. The residents of the Arab cities were miraculous for their lives and thus dragged with them the entire rural environment of the city, whose residents joined the escape.’
And in this article published in the British Guardian newspaper, he even adds an interesting statement about the impact of the escape on the results of the entire war, according to which the Palestinian leadership:
‘It encouraged or ordered many villages to send the women, children and the elderly, to get them out of danger. Entire villages, especially on the coastal plain controlled by the Jews, were also ordered to evacuate. There is no doubt that in general, the abandonment of the dependents [i.e., the non-combatants] harmed the morale of the men who remained and eventually paved the way for their own abandonment as well.’
If Oudeh Bisharath and his editors are not impressed by Prof. Beni Morris (who by the way was described in Haaretz as “the pioneer of Israeli-Palestinian conflict investigators, one of the most prominent Israeli historians of his generation”), should look here [https://presspectiva.org.il/%d7%94%d7%90%d7%95%d7%9e%d7%a0%d7%9d-80-%d7%9e%d7%94%d7%a4%d7%9c%d7%a1%d7%98%d7%99%d7%a0%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%92%d7%95%d7%a8%d7%a9%d7%95-%d7%9e%d7%91%d7%aa%d7%99%d7%94%d7%9d-%d7%91-1948/] at a collection of 1948 Arab international reports The largest from the country.
To sum up: the Palestinian people have not been “expelled from their homeland” nor have shoes. The vast majority fled on his own initiative before and during the War of Destruction, which he initiated and lost.
The third lie: “Still sitting in the refugee camps in appalling conditions”
The conditions in the refugee camps are indeed shocking, but why are they shocking? Is it the fault of the occupier, the Zionist governor? Here too the answer is no. In a despicable and cynical decision on the backs of the camp residents, the Palestinian Authority deliberately prevents any restoration of the infrastructure in the refugee camps, out of a strategy that leaving the unfortunate residents in appalling living conditions would be a propaganda weapon among the imaginary and useless they run for the right of return.
And in the words of researcher Michael Milstein, head of the Palestinian Studies Forum at the Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University: ...
‘The refugee camp is actually a living memory of ‘48, a place that is supposed to preserve the same reality but in a very sad state, in distress, in a very poor infrastructural reality, to remind those who are there that it is not their natural place’
And to sum up: not a majority, not expelled, and in his appalling living conditions to blame only himself.
We turned to Oudeh Bisharath and asked for his response. He chose not to comment.
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Amnesty lied: “Israeli attack” on Gaza office was from Palestinian missile - UN Watch
13 Nov 2019 — Yet in a report today by Amira Hass, Haaretz’s veteran correspondent in the Palestinian territories, the explosion was caused by a “missile ..
https://unwatch.org/amnesty-lied-israeli-attack-on-gaza-office-was-from-palestinian-missile/
UN Watch’s Top Tweets in November 2019 - UN Watch
22 Nov 2019 — As Haaretz reports, the “attack” on the Gaza human rights office was not from an “Israeli missile” but from a Palestinian terrorist group
https://unwatch.org/un-watchs-top-tweets-in-november-2019/
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Doesn’t give a...: Did Gideon Levy publish false propaganda serving the Palestinian Authority?
Rotter News
Sep 25, 2019
“The fake olive trees of Gideon Levy in Haaretz
Gideon Levy in Haaretz writes about how cruel Israelis destroy Palestinian olive trees, ostensibly for no other reason than to persecute their owners
https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/577822.shtml
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Our understanding of Ethiopian Israelis must improve
Jul 5, 2019
Statistically, Arabs who get furious might kill; Jews who get furious damage property. But anti-Zionist Haaretz lies as if the police have shot at violent Arab mobs because they were Arabs, not because they were a danger to life.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/our-understanding-of-ethiopian-israelis-must-improve/
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An Essential “Privilege”
By Vic Rosenthal, 24 Sivan 5779 – June 27, 2019
Gideon Levy is an antisemitic misozionist* who is paid for his poison by an Israeli newspaper. He is a truly despicable human, but sometimes he’s useful as an exemplar of the extremist Israeli please-cut-my-throat Left.
https://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/abu-yehuda/an-essential-privilege/2019/06/27
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Haaretz presents: Hatred of the ultra-Orthodox under the auspices of liberal values
April 7, 2019
The Ha’aretz newspaper, which boasts of being the “newspaper for people who think”, is again raising wild incitement against the ultra-Orthodox public in Israel. In an editorial published by the newspaper over the weekend, it was claimed that the ultra-Orthodox are “parasites.”
“Netanyahu hides from the public the prices of his election for a fifth term, which all Israelis will pay,” Haaretz states. “Expanding ultra-Orthodox parasites, trampling on Arab society, deepening the mouths of mouths, crushing the law and justice authorities and justifying corruption as a way of life.”
https://www.hidabroot.org/article/1123660
Haaretz newspaper in an editorial dripping with hatred
Apr 3, 2019
The Haaretz newspaper in an article dripping from hatred in the Haaretz, an article was performed this morning with difficult incitement against the ultra-Orthodox public, with the peak of the article, they define the segment “Parasites” ... Despite the requests, publisher Amos Schocken refused to apologize.
https://www.bhol.co.il/news/988760
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Avri Gilad to Haaretz journalist: “Not being interviewed by enemy media”
revolting...
July 8, 2019
...And I tried for you, Mr. (Oudah) Bisharath, and you got a super pampering interview, and a delightful gargle, and thanked in every language. And you just got a false chance to stab me in the back, that’s what you did. You used my disconnected statement from a bad hand to sew a “racist” case for me, and you attacked me, even though you yourself experienced my non-racism on your flesh. revolting.
Yesterday, a journalist from Haaretz approached me and asked for an interview. I told her I was not being interviewed for this newspaper and the Al Manar network. I am not interviewed by the enemy’s media. And the truth that calling the Diaspora newspaper a media outlet is an exaggeration, and in fact it is a newsletter that is losing its readers, and ends up closing, and its writers will travel to Berlin, where they will continue to publish Israeli libel in broken German...
https://m.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2357783467647903&id=442617815831154
https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/562567.shtml
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Haaretz the real villain between the Israeli news outlets? I think so
Mar 6, 2019 · The headline of the latest anti-Semitic story in Haaretz is ...
How does Haaretz manage not only daily to spread it’s extremely anti-Zionist views around the globe but also lies, propaganda and anti-Israel blood libels with impunity? And the handful of loony leftists could never finance such an enterprise. It has several tricks.
1. It has a Hebrew version printed and delivered in Israel that pays for its hate-filled English online edition. It tickles intellectuals with excellent stories about archeology, medicine, science and art. It also has hateful headlines as the online version but less so. And it doesn’t matter anyway because intellectual academic subscribers take extremism from the left with a truckload of salt as just youthful rebelliousness, it seems.
2. The English online version hides all its anti-Zionist articles behind a paywall. This way, paying subscribers can read as many lies and fables about Israel and the Middle East as they want while the average Internet browser only sees the decent or intellectually tantalizing articles. Just go to its homepage and click on any article about Israel; almost always: only for pay. The rest can be read by anyone. Try it yourself at any day.
3. It is extremely difficult to prosecute hatred. Freedom of the Press in the democratic world is so holy – and rightly so – that slander and lies generally go unpunished. That is self-defeating but that’s the situation. The Press is important in the free world but it answers to no one.
Forget about Haaretz having a democratic bent. It never allows any comment by me on its site, even on non-political articles.
And now they want us to believe that Haaretz is going to permit the academic world to put all their hundred years online for all to see. It will not happen. The older issues, why not? But the recent news, no way. And not for the money. It asks a truly minimal fee for reading their anti-Zionist propaganda. But it will not go public. That would reveal for all to see that what many outside of Israel regard as critical but fair Middle-East reporting is, in fact, worthless hatred put to words. You can quote me.
Maybe you would think that I’m a rabid hater of the left. That would be strange because I blog all the time against sexism, racism, homophobia, etc. And you should see my seething blog posts against the Jerusalem Post. No, I hate dishonesty and Jews’ hatred (as my bio below says) from wherever it comes. I have nothing against an honest extremist pose (if it’s not oppressive or violent). But I can’t stand people who defend their positions with lies or oppression.
I did a lot of hasbarah and so I learned how much damage Haaretz does abroad. That deserves to be fought, like any bigotry or slander.
Haaretz is Haman.
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Unreliable Haaretz deceiving headline about Arabs who fought on British side in WW2 (Abbasi theory)
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
Unreliable Haaretz deceiving headline about Arabs who fought on British side in WW2
On (2019) Haaretz “celebrating” a headline about Arab Palestinians fighting on British side based on shaky “research”.
Many Arabs were not from Palestine but came over from Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Many did so with the intention to get arms.Jews paid Arabs to be enlisted. Abbasi chose selective sources, yet neither the quantitative nor the qualitative aspect of his theory is supported by the evidence.
Shukairy’s own testimony in his book states that (1940) almost no one adhered Britain’s call to join a Palestine force to help the Allies.
Conclusion: The patched up concocted Abbasi theory is so weak, with so many holes.
And it can never even poke a hole in the over 80% of Arab Palestinians pro Nazis - per February 1941 poll for example.
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Palestinian Arab Volunteers in the British Army in WWII: A Reality Check
By Col (Res.) Dr. Raphael G. Bouchnik-Chen, December 9, 2019
professor Mustafa Abbasi views that history differently. In April 2019, he published an article (in Hebrew) titled “Palestinians fighting Against Nazis: The Story of Palestinian Volunteers in the Second World War” (Cathedra Quarterly). ....
Taking this claim for granted, the Israeli leftist daily Haaretz seized the opportunity to ridicule PM Benjamin Netanyahu’s ...
Notwithstanding Abbasi’s claim to have based his research on a variety of primary and secondary sources, he seems to have chosen his sources selectively, presumably to service the theory of a significant degree of Palestinian Arab resistance to the Nazis. Neither the quantitative nor the qualitative aspect of this theory is supported by the evidence.
Gen. Archibald Wavell, commander of the British forces in the Middle East, opposed the formation of a Jewish regiment in the British army. According to historian Marcel Roubicek, the British High Commissioner for Palestine also feared that Jewish enlistment would inflame Arab anger. To solve that problem, he made it a condition that Jews wishing to join up find an equivalent number of Palestinian Arab volunteers to join up as well.
To accomplish this, the Jews of the Yishuv offered financial compensation to Palestinian Arabs to enlist. They ultimately succeeded in raising enough manpower from both communities to permit the formation of a Jewish regiment.
The opportunity for Palestinian Arabs to join the ranks of the British Army was thus a direct outcome of the Jewish desire to render its utmost assistance to Britain in every sphere of war activity, a point Abbasi ignores.
He is similarly fuzzy on Palestinian Arab motivation. He states, “Most of the [Palestinian Arab] volunteers were villagers and of the urban lower class, and…the economic motive played a central role in volunteering,” noting that these “motives…differed from [that of] their Jewish friends, who enlisted in the army mainly because of opposition to Nazi Germany and its racial policy toward their people, besides other motives such as the revival of a Jewish army, and the serious employment situation in the country at the beginning of the war.”
Compensation as the prevailing motivation for Palestinian Arab enlistment is supported by the evidence, but Abbasi claims their motives were in fact manifold and varied. Some Palestinian Arabs, he states, enlisted for ideological reasons, to express their opposition to Nazi ideology and loyalty to the British and their values. This motive was especially true of the urban elite and the intellectuals, he alleges, who were highly influenced by British education and culture. He does not substantiate this point sufficiently and ignores available evidence documenting contemporary Palestinian contempt for the British Army (see, for example, Prof. Kimberly Katz’s A Young Palestinian’s Diary 1941-1945, The Life of Sami Amr).
Abbasi laments that “there is hardly any reference to the thousands of Palestinian volunteers, some of whom fell in battle, while others are still listed as missing in action, and no commemoration of the fallen can be found anywhere.” He suggests this “evil” is explained by “what the Palestinian people experienced during the Nakba and its aftermath, the destruction of archives and records in addition to the loss of personal documents, and the fact that no organization was established to commemorate the volunteers and their deeds.” He thus accuses Israel of covering up the Palestinian Arab role in defeating the Nazis.
It should be noted that Abbasi persistently uses the term “Palestinians” rather than “Palestinian Arabs” in his article, starting with the title. This manipulation services the popular narrative denying any linkage between the Jewish People and Palestine. In her book World War II – The Story of a Jewish Soldier, Jewish Women of Mandatory Palestine Serving in the British Army, Esther Herlitz (later an Israeli diplomat and politician who served as a member of the Knesset) wrote, “As far as the British were concerned, we from the Jewish Yishuv, and some Arabs, were Palestinians.”
https://besacenter.org/palestinian-arabs-british-army/
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“Haaretz”: one hundred years of seclusion - first source
Yair Sheleg, Jun 16, 2019
Today, Ha’aretz, the oldest of Israel’s newspapers, celebrates one hundred years since its founding; A newspaper that Zev Jabotinsky was one of the founders of, and probably also gave it his name. In a normal situation this should be a celebration for every Israeli. One hundred consecutive years of a daily newspaper in Hebrew are signs of the miracle of the revival of the Hebrew language, which itself is an important pillar in the miracle of the Zionist revival. This should surely be the celebration of every person who holds a free press dear to his heart: in 2019, it is no small thing that a newspaper manages to survive a hundred years.
But in practice, over the years Haaretz has become one of the most controversial institutions in Israeli society. Full disclosure: I worked in Israel as a journalist for ten years, and for another 14 years I also wrote opinion pieces there. Most Jews in Israel, including those who have never read it, are sure that it is a newspaper that “hates Israel,” if not downright anti-Semitic.
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/opinion/146415/
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The editor of ‘Haaretz’, Aluf Benn Shuleh, attacks the ultra-Orthodox - and does not apologize
The editor of ‘Haaretz’, Aluf Benn, wrote an inflammatory article this morning against the ultra-orthodox public...
Hanani Breitkopf, kikar haShabbat, 08.05.19. https://www.kikar.co.il/haredim-news/316165
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Haaretz presents: To tell the truth is racism
Amir Levy 30/05/2019
TV critic Ariana Melamed attacked the news company for broadcasting an article in which an infiltrator was seen rioting in south Tel Aviv, and wondered where “his right to compassion and inclusion” was.
Who is to blame and who is the victim? The infiltrator and the vehicle damaged in south Tel Aviv | Screenshot
Is it more forbidden in the State of Israel of 2019 to tell the truth? According to the TV critic and columnist for the Haaretz newspaper, Ariana Melamed, the answer is yes.
In a particularly angry text published this morning in the newspaper, Melamed refers to a short article that aired last night on the news margins in which an infiltrator (police claimed he was unsettled) was reported to have rioted in south Tel Aviv and documented jumping on a car roof and then landing directly in the driver’s seat.
So what did Melamed’s foam come out of? Did she mourn the bitter fate of the residents of southern Tel Aviv groaning under the yoke of the illegal infiltrators and the abundance of negative phenomena they brought with them? Did it come out with an excited call on the Israeli government to resolve the issue once and for all and return the infiltrators to their countries? Not this time.
Melamed’s holy wrath focused precisely on the very broadcast of such an article (”a sickening, racist story, unrelated to anything and crazy in itself”) as part of a news release, “all of a sudden out of nowhere and without warning.” In other words, the TV critic states that there are news worthy of broadcasting and some that are not, and disturbing documentation of daylight crime in the heart of the first Hebrew city is simply not important enough for you to know about. Moreover - according to Melamed, broadcasting the documentation and bringing it to the public’s attention is the really troubling issue.
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G. Arwell @AllOftheTruthIS Replying to @amiramlevin:
Denying history? What an audacity! How stupid , oh Gd? Is the IDF indiscriminately killing Palestinians? Did the Jews in Germany declare their intention to occupy all of Germany? Did they murder Germans indiscriminately? Did Hitler offer them a third of Germany for “peace with them and they refused?” Incomprehensible.
May 2, 2019
https://twitter.com/AllOftheTruthIS/status/1123867049682526213
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2019
United for Israel Salvation, June 24, 2019.
You pay, Leah Tzemel wins, there are things that Erella from the Lottery will not call to tell you about ...
In a recent interview with Haaretz, she was asked about the lynching in Ramallah; Tzemel’s answer was: “Yes, Lynch, you really think?”
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Sara Ha’etzni Cohen (@SaraHaetzniCohe) Tweeted (May 15, 2019):
https://t.co/6dfVo6HYLk https://twitter.com/SaraHaetzniCohe/status/1128743748245049344?s=20
Okay, okay, I just read the interview with (lyncher’s lawyer) Adv. Leah Tzemel in Haaretz.
So here’s the punch that sums it all up:
“Such a poor man.”
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Erel Segal (@ErelSegal) Tweeted (May 15, 2019):
https://twitter.com/ErelSegal/status/1128754608879353856?s=20
“What lynching? you really think?”...”
That’s it. There is no point
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Haaretz Newspaper is Fake News - The Weekly Report* [16th-32rd May 2019)
Boomerang Fighting for Israel. May 23, 2019
IDF troops shot at terrorists who threw stones at Jews, but the Haaretz newspaper presented them as boys who went on a picnic and were shot in cold blood.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbB847pCefs
https://m.facebook.com/Boomerang2017/videos/haaretz-newspaper-is-fake-new/611026566040492/
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Anti-Haredi incitement
Disgrace: Haaretz in a cartoon about the R. of Gur
The degrading cartoon (Photo: from Haaretz. Illustration: Amos Biderman)
Against the background of the ‘Phenicia’ factory storm and its desecration of the Sabbath, the Haaretz newspaper publishes an article attacking Gur Hasidism and Yaakov Litzman, with a contemptuous and humiliating figure beside him, the Rebbe himself (News)
May 15, 2019
https://www.kikar.co.il/316954.html
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Notable German journalist under fire for comparing Israel to its enemies
“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...”
Notable German journalist under fire for comparing Israel to its enemies
Benjamin Weinthal, April 7, 2019
Prof. Gerald Steinberg, the head of the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor, told The Jerusalem Post: “Unfortunately Esther Schapira failed to fact check the propaganda claims in the Haaretz article. Haaretz echoes the false claims of an NGO linked to the PFLP terror network (Defense for Children International Palestine). And the ‘evidence’ from the local UNICEF branch (from 2013) is also based on the same DCIP demonization.”
Steinberg, who is a political studies professor at Bar Ilan University, added “If Schapira is seriously interested in the treatment of minors worldwide, including by Israel, she should look at the facts, and not propaganda. And she should apologize.”
Esther Schapira, a journalist with the German public television network, Hessischer Rundfunk, tweeted on March 16: “I love Israel and I hate when it is acting like its enemies. Heartbreaking and appalling. Israel jails hundreds of Palestinian boys a year. These are their testimonies.”
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The Haaretz newspaper presents an editorial dripping with hatred: “The ultra-orthodox are [Haaretz. sic] parasites”
Apr 3, 2019 — Haaretz newspaper presents an editorial dripping with hatred: “The ultra-orthodox are parasites”. This morning an editorial appeared in Haaretz newspaper containing harsh incitement against the ultra-orthodox public.
https://www.kore.co.il/viewArticle/50558
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Amit Segal is suing former “Haaretz” executive Yitzhak Laor - Israel Hayom
25 Feb 2019 —
A News 12 person filed a lawsuit for NIS 140,000 after Yitzchak Laor called him “A. Hitler”
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/635969
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[Israeli literary editor, translator, blogger, publicist and social activist]
Dalit (Laub) Soter Bat Horin - Ms. @nfsgalibh Tweeted:
So, what do you say - Haaretz newspaper manages to produce an incited Nazi mob? In the next stage - readers of the country will take part in the pogrom. The Israeli government, how much longer will it finance the newspaper out of its own pocket and who there thinks that decision-makers should be exposed to the propaganda that produces such commentators? By the way, in this world it is the favorite newspaper of all the Nazis.
[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dy9ESKOX0AAruAy?format=jpg&name=small]
Feb 9, 2019.
https://twitter.com/nfsgalibh/status/1094168745117974528
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Haaretz (Arab) journalist: The Jews are the only people who are ordered to destroy babies and keep the order.. - Schocken’s brother gave him a Like.
01/22/19
Reporter - ISRAELY
Abed L. Azab posted on his Facebook page a post full of hatred and lies about the Jewish people: “He is killing the babies in Gaza. His leaders are proud of it, show their crimes in videos, and his people are dancing around them.”
Abed L. Azab, an Arab journalist from the Haaretz newspaper, posted a post full of hatred and lies about the Jewish people on his Facebook page tonight (Monday) - this is what the ‘Palestinian Lies’ website revealed for the first time.
https://www.patrioti.co.il/Article.aspx?guid=b67be2e9-b987-412e-bd40-4d48f8263a40&app=1
Haaretz journalist Abed L. Azab posts lies on Facebook about the State of Israel and Judaism...
“... The Mongols roasted Arab babies and ate them. We are not far from that today.”
And look well (at the bottom of his post) who liked him, brother of Amos Schocken, the publisher of the Haaretz newspaper... shocking...
There is no command to destroy other peoples, we are not Arab Muslims. The commandment is: “Whoever comes to kill you, kill him”.
21-01-2019
https://www.fxp.co.il/showthread.php?t=19423827
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Thank you Gideon Levy, keep on writing!
You have exposed the untrammeled hate of the hard Left better than any pro-Israel writer or investigative journalist ever could.
[Tags: Haaretz Gideon Levy Left Wing Ngo’s]
Daniel Pinner, 2018-12-20
[Haaretz Q: with New Israel Fund event at Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan]
Recently in these columns (/Articles/Article.aspx/23172), veteran journalist and commentator Yochanan Visser wrote an article under the headline “Why Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy should be fired”.
He cited Levy’s recent scurrilous – indeed, obscene – article written the day after the young couple Shira and Amichai Ish Ran, married for less than a year, were shot and badly wounded in a terrorist attack. Shira was 30 weeks pregnant; and the doctors in the Sha’arei Tzedek Hospital in Jerusalem did sterling work, delivering the tiny baby prematurely and desperately fighting to keep him alive.
Tragically, the infant died, less than four days old, surrounded by his parents’ love, and the prayers of countless Jews and supporters of Israel, both in Israel and abroad.
When the baby died, Levy wrote a now-notorious op-ed in Haaretz under the headline “I feel no sympathy for the settlers”:
“I have no sympathy for the settlers, not even when they are hit by tragedy. A pregnant woman was wounded and her newborn baby died of its wounds – what can be worse than that? Driving on their roads is frightening, the violent opposition to their presence is growing – and I feel no sympathy for their tragedy, nor do I feel any compassion or solidarity.”
Of course any decent person shudders in disgust at Mr Levy’s callousness, his sheer inhumanity, his empathy with murder. You don’t have to be Jewish, or to support Israel or Zionism, to regard My Levy and his ideology as beneath contempt. You have only to be human.
And of course Israel National News’s op-ed writer Yochanan Visser’s reaction that Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy should be fired is eminently understandable.
But with all due respect to Mr Visser, I beg to disagree.
First of all, it is unrealistic to expect Haaretz to fire Levy. Haaretz is, after all, the putrid swamp from which noxious weeds like Gideon Levy and other hate-filled fanatics sprout and flourish. Why should this gutter-rag fire one of their own for expressing their very own poisonous ideology?
Seven years ago, the Jerusalem Post fired a fanatically left-wing op-ed writer, Larry Derfner, after he wrote an article justifying Arab terrorism against Jews and blaming Arab terrorism on Israel.
But the Jerusalem Post is a serious newspaper has some sense of national responsibility. Haaretz, apparently, doesn’t even understand what the words “national responsibility” mean. Of course they won’t fire a writer for being anti-Israel and pro-terror.
Gideon Levy, on the other hand, has done us all an invaluable service. Through his writing, he exposes the utter evil of the extreme Left in Israel. The Jew-hatred, the treason, the embracing of Jew-killing terrorists, the ultimate betrayal of everything Jewish – Mr Levy lays this bare for all to see.
He has exposed the untrammelled hate of the hard Left better than any pro-Israel writer or investigative journalist ever could.
In this context one remembers the once-famous and popular Israeli entertainer Dudu Topaz, who took centre stage in a Labour Party rally in Tel Aviv three days before the 1981 elections...
By exposing Labour’s real attitude towards non-Ashkenazi Jews, Dudu Topaz led Shimon Peres and Labour into yet another election defeat, and handed Menachem Begin and the Likud to yet another election victory.
(It was also the beginning of the end of Dudu Topaz’s career.)
Gideon Levy, with his forthright honesty about his feelings, not even bothering to try to conceal his hatred for Jews and his contempt for human life, exposes the real face of the Left – the face which other, more polished and less honest, writers and politicians on the Left attempt to conceal. Gideon Levy is doing to the Left today what Dudu Topaz did to the Left 37 years ago.
Gideon Levy has made a career of writing articles designed to infuriate Israelis and Jews everywhere. His lies, his distortions, his rants against Israel – these have contributed in no small measure to tens of thousands of ordinary Israelis cancelling their subscriptions to Haaretz over the years.
Haaretz has made gallant efforts over decades to acquire its reputation as an utterly untrustworthy publication. Few Israelis believe anything they read in its pages.
It is no wonder that without its English-language online edition, Haaretz would long ago have gone bankrupt. And it is no coincidence that Haaretz’s English-language readership consists largely to self-professed Jew-haters, Holocaust-deniers, Hamas-supporters, and the like.
(To verify this, just go to any article and read the comments from the readers. Never a pleasant bunch.)
About the only Israelis who still trust Haaretz are the outer fringes of the anti-Zionist Left – those who inhabit a bubble so impenetrable that they are not even aware of the contempt with which the vast majority of Israelis regard them.
In this, they are eerily reminiscent of white supremacist and neo-Nazi groups in Europe and the USA. The kind who chant slogans denigrating African-Americans (of course, they use far more offensive terms than “African-Americans”), and fail to grasp that far from convincing anyone, they succeed merely in alienating virtually everyone whom they encounter.
This is what Haaretz in general, and Gideon Levy in particular, succeed in accomplishing.
So no, Gideon Levy shouldn’t be fired. With all the pain and hurt which he deliberately causes, he is ultimately doing far more good than harm.
In other countries, at other times, this was the sort of rhetoric which influenced the masses and brought some of the vilest and most destructive governments ever into power.
But the Israeli public is better than that. Gideon Levy’s violent and hate-filled words will convince virtually no one of the righteousness of his cause.
He will – and indeed does – succeed, however, in discrediting his repugnant ideology and the equally loathsome newspaper which publishes him.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/23193
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[Relatives of Amichai and Shira Ish-Ran attend the funeral of their baby, who died after being delivered prematurely after Shira was wounded in a drive-by shooting by a Palestinian. Dec 12, 2018. AFP]
Opinion Gideon Levy’s Views on Dead Settlers Are Incomprehensible, Inexcusable and Unforgivable
It is clearly possible to bear vehement political hostility to the political settlement movement, but not to murdered settlers. That Levy is no longer able to do so indicates he’s lost his humanity
James Adler, Dec. 18, 2018
I often admire Gideon Levy’s columns and their forthright, outspoken courage. I can also see how his countless experiences and the countless events on which he has reported with such justified outrage, and seemed to have had no effect, have perhaps even made him bitter. And even this is actually understandable.
But I found his recent op-ed, I Feel No Sympathy for the Settlers, humanly incomprehensible and - to the deepest possible extent - objectionable.
There is a fundamental difference, which Levy seems to overlook, between no political sympathy for the Settlement Movement – for which I have none either, nada, zilch - and no human sympathy for most of the individual settlers.
Some settlers live in the West Bank for reasons of ideology, some for economic reasons, some didn’t go there of their own accord - spouses, children, teens, young adults who were taken or born and raised there. Most have, or were raised with, political opinions that are not saturated by hate of the Palestinians; some do, of course, embrace execrable hatred.
But in most cases it is a question of settlers holding different political opinions from us. And for that they putatively deserve to be stabbed in bed in their beds at night, as were three children from the Fogel family in 2011 in Itamar?
[The victims of the Itamar settlement attack, 10-year-old Yoav Fogel, Udi Fogel, 37, four-year-old Elad Fogel, three-month old Hadas Fogel and Ruth Fogel, 36. Emil Salman.
Related Articles: Settlers’ Lives Matter Too.
Amjad and Hakim Awad were convicted of murdering Ehud and Ruth Fogel, along with three of their six young children, Yoav, 11, Elad, 4, and Hadas, 3 months old (the infant was decapitated) before fleeing the scene. ]
Whatever mindset was behind was unimaginably monstrous. I have zero sympathy for the political settlement movement - in fact, I bear vehement political hostility to it. But on the human level, my sympathy for innocent civilian victims and their families and loved ones is, well, infinite. Just as my human sympathy for the - many - Palestinian victims in this conflict is, well, also infinite.
Soon after the attack on the Fogel family at Itamar, Haaretz reported that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas “condemned the murder of five members of a single family in the West Bank settlement of Itamar over the weekend,” telling Israel Radio that it was “a despicable, immoral, and inhuman act. ‘A human being is not capable of something like that. Scenes like these - the murder of infants and children and a woman slaughtered - cause any person endowed with humanity to hurt and to cry.’”
In an op-ed, Larry Derfner wrote that the “cold-blooded murder of children cannot be mitigated by anything. It is outside of politics, outside of anything the ‘other side’ does, no matter who the other side is and what he does. When children are murdered, the blame belongs to the murderer, not to any enemy he might have had.”
Sara Hirschhorn wrote: “Today, settlers are barely viewed as human beings to many on the left…Believing that all human beings - even those with controversial ideologies - deserve equal protection doesn’t mean one subscribes to ultra-nationalist politics. You are lying to yourself if you say you are a liberal but don’t actually think all peoples are deserving of the same dispensations…
‘Thou shalt not kill’ isn’t conditional: The fresh graves of Haya, Elad and Yossi, 3 members of the Salomon family stabbed to death in the Neve Tsuf settlement. Modiin, Israel. July 23, 2017 RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS
“It is sheer hypocrisy to decry the death and disenfranchisement of a [Palestinian] population under occupation on a daily basis, while turning a blind (even benevolent) eye to [Palestinian] terrorists who would do the same to their neighbors in their own homes…If we allow human rights to be applicable only to some of history’s subjects, we will all have lost our humanity.”
That Levy can’t even bring himself to make this simple distinction, between the political tragedy and the human tragedy, is beyond my own ability to imagine.
Levy writes: “I have no sympathy for the settlers not even when they are hit by tragedy. A pregnant woman was wounded and her newborn baby died of its wounds - what can be worse than that? Driving on their roads is frightening, the violent opposition to their presence is growing - and I feel no sympathy for their tragedy, nor do I feel any compassion or solidarity.”
So please let me say, both with frequent disagreement but also often - at least back in the past - admiration for some of what Levy writes: This is unconditionally inexcusable and unforgivable.
James Adler holds a Master’s Degree in World Religions from Harvard Divinity School, is a religion cataloger in a university research library and lives in Cambridge, Mass.
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Manufacturing Falsehoods
By Jeffrey Herf
December 12, 2018
...Yemini is furious with the editors and writers of Haaretz:
In the last decade, Haaretz, the most widely read Israeli daily newspaper in English, has become a central pillar for the industry of lies. The problem is not the opinion pieces. The problem lies in the biases, distortions, and falsehoods, as well as in the encouragement of Palestinian intransigence and violence that Haaretz supports.
While parts of paper remain serious, “unfortunately, the core of writing on the conflict” in recent years has been “dominated by people on the outer margins of the radical Left.”
“While they cloak themselves as progressive and democratic,” Yemini writes, “Haaretz seeks to ‘detour around’ Israelis’ decision-making machinery (in essence, to cancel-out self-determination by the body public and its elected leaders) by selling movers and shakers abroad (both opinion-makers and policy-makers and world public opinion) a bill of goods with three messages about Israel, that need refutation: (1) that Israel commits war crimes (2) that Israel is an apartheid state (3) that Israel refuses to make peace, not the Palestinians.”
Yemini’s examples of erroneous reports along these lines in Haaretz include Gideon Levy’s report of Israeli border patrol soldiers tying prisoners to donkeys that are then sent running until the victims die of wounds and Yitzak Laor’s claim that Israeli soldiers blew up a mosque “with hundreds of people inside, including children.” Yemini also cites Levy’s claim in 2012 that a survey showed that most Israelis supported an apartheid regime and his favorable articles about Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, after the latter made widely-reported anti-Semitic comments. Then there is Amira Hass’s 2008 comment in the face of the Palestinian intifada that “[t]hrowing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule.” Fourteen Israelis had been killed by rocks. Yemini cites Levy’s claim in an interview with the British paper, the Independent, that during Operation Cast Lead in 2008-09, a picture of a dog appeared on front page of “the most popular newspaper in Israel” but nothing was there about the “tens of Palestinians killed” that day. None of the authors were fired or disciplined. He adds that Haaretz “no longer represents the liberal or left-wing of the Israeli public—wings that support both human rights and a Jewish and democratic state. There is a Left that rebuts lies and falsehoods about Israel, and there is a Left that disseminates them.” Yemini may exaggerate somewhat about Haaretz, but it doesn’t matter as much as it did when the book was written—not outside of Israel anyhow. For many years now, between the conservative Jerusalem Post and the centrist, increasingly comprehensive Times of Israel, not to speak of the explosion of social media, English readers have other sources.
Some readers may be put off by the strength of Yemini’s rhetoric, but the facts are on his side and, unfortunately, little has changed since he wrote his book. If anything, at least on American campuses, the false image of Israel as a uniquely malevolent state has gained even more ground over the last few years, and Yemini’s review of the evidence up through 2014 remains deeply instructive about how that has happened.
https://jewishreviewofbooks.com/uncategorized/4892/manufacturing-falsehoods/
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According to Israeli Writer, West Bank Jews Have It Coming
Dec 18, 2018 · Gideon Levy hates Jews living in the West Bank. He hates them so much that he feels no sympathy for them when they
https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/12/18/according-to-israeli-writer-west-bank-jews-have-it-coming/
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Haaretz should be stopped
Nov 18, 2018
...And outside of Israel, it gets respectability because it’s written from Israel, Jews themselves say so and outside, few know the real situation here. It turns respectable people into anti-Semites. Its anti-Israel Internet pieces in English can only be read by whom pays for it, so that they reach the motivated anti-Zionists, hidden from everyone else.
Because it presents itself as serious? That also could play a role. It has always lots of excellent archeological and scientific pieces, especially those that would make fundamentalist Bible-thumpers squirm.
Because of freedom of the press? That’s a tough one. Our laws make it hard to silence journalists — and they should. But agitation, hatred and libel should not fall under such protection. Just like anti-democrats should not be allowed to be on the ballot. Those who use democracy to fight democracy itself should not be entitled to democratic privileges.
Besides, Haaretz on Israel does not report the news but creates it.
Don’t confuse Haaretz with what I call Israel’s Loony Left. The latter are IMHO idealistic idiots, but the former are clearly self-hating Jews. There is a giant difference, though Israel’s far-right doesn’t think so.
Besides, Haaretz does not report the news on Israel but rather creates it.
Pity that Israel lacks an English left-wing daily. TOI, I see as mostly central.
Let me suggest that there is another reason, possibly more important than all of the above together. Same reason why hasbara has such poor government support. Haaretz generates and stirs up anti-Semitism in the whole world. This makes Jews outside of Israel feel unsafe and move to the Jewish State. That’s a clear motive for Israel...
I want publications like Haaretz to be shut down. It will then probably start publishing from London or Teheran but that’s OK. It will have lost much of its undeserved credit for being Israeli and become clearly a voice of the enemy – which it is. Like Hamas TV and any other form of hate speech. So please, outlaw Haaretz and any other anti-Semitic publication.
In my experience s relationship counselor, when I would be tough on a tough client, the timid partner would get afraid that I would be tough on both of them. I won’t. Same thing here for all Israeli news outlets. I’m not pleading to close down any other one, including those that I dislike, that manipulate the reader, print falsehoods without corrections, eject slurs against certain politicians, or Arab papers being anti-Zionistic, etc. I’m not railing here against unreasonableness, dishonesty, slander, etc. I don’t want a certain political view silenced. I only want an end to the daily unrestrained spreading of Jew hatred by one exceptional Israeli Jewish paper that frankly puts all other media and journalists to shame.
It’s not clear to me if many countries would do such a thing of closing down an anti-Jewish paper. But Israel takes the lead in many ways, so why not here? Listen to how antipathetic Europe is about people in public or at work wearing religious symbols while we Israelis don’t get excited about them at all. Look at how much trouble good-meaning people have with racial profiling while it works well for our security.
The same democracy that will not allow racist parties should also ban anti-Semitic publications. Particularly, when they stir up the whole world.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-should-be-stopped/
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In the fight against the right-wing government, it is permissible to whitewash American anti-Semitism
Haaretz newspaper published articles claiming that the right-wing government is closer in its values to the killer from Pittsburgh than to the murdered, but actually Gideon Levi was a guest of honor at conferences where distinct anti-Semites spoke.
by Yishai Fridman, 20 in Marchasvan 5779, Oct 29, 2018
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/news/87301/
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Shaked calls Haaretz article ‘anti-Semitic disgrace’
Justice Minister attacks Yossi Klein’s Haaretz article that claims national religious judge cannot judge fairly.
Mordechai Sones, Sep 27, 2018
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/252479
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Gideon Levy on a killer terrorist: “A brave warrior”
The far-left man is furious at the decision to demolish the building where the terrorist who murdered Ronen Lubarski lived. Levy claims that the terrorist “tried to protect his home.”
Ido Ben Porat - Channel 7, 15 Tishrei 5778 - Sep 24, 2018.
https://www.inn.co.il/news/382824
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Israel’s Left Discovers a New Hero: Jeremy Corbyn
In ‘Haaretz’ and on campus, nothing but love for the embattled Labour leader
Bu Liel Leibovitz
Sep 07, 2018
... Also in Haaretz, the columnist Gideon Levy made his admiration for the dear leader known in stentorian terms...
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/israels-left-discovers-a-new-hero-jeremy-corbyn
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion published by Schocken
Lavie organization, Sep 9, 2018
Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken justifies the antisemitic display in Khan al-Ahmar, and claims that an octopus painting with a Star of David is a poignant description of Israel’s actions, “which sends arms everywhere in the world.”
In recent days, the NGO-MONITOR organization and the journalist Yishai Friedman firsthand have revealed the existence of an exhibition of antisemitic cartoons in the village of Khan al-Ahmar that is to be evacuated. The exhibition, which presented Israel as a formidable octopus, was attended by representatives from European countries and UN organizations such as UNESCO and UNICEF.
An antisemitic cartoon in Khan al-Ahmar
In response to the exposure of the antisemitic exhibition and the participation of a UNICEF representative in the exhibition, the organization condemned the exhibition and announced that “the art exhibition is shocking and very unworthy, and more so because this exhibition was presented in close proximity to the school. “Children must be protected from violence and not be exposed to violent representatives or messages that promote hatred and intolerance.” According to UNICEF, the organization’s representative, Genevieve Botin, who was present at the performance, “expressed her concerns to the event’s organizers.”
Despite all this, the exhibition received a recommendation of honesty in the form of the publisher of the Haaretz newspaper, Amos Schocken, who wrote last night - September 8, 18 that “drawing an octopus with a Star of David is a good description of Israel sending arms everywhere in the world.”
[https://m.facebook.com/lavi.cr/posts/2226658190901819/?refsrc=deprecated&_rdr]
[https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/500246.shtml]
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See this title in Haaretz? It is false! To believe in the version of a shameless and arrogant German family and not the GSS version, is one thing, legitimate. To present a denied claim as a fact, is another matter, completely not legitimate.
Hanan Amior | 28.08.18.
...And only he who crosses all the first 1500 words of empathy and reaches the back of the story, discovers to his surprise two interesting things:
The first - that the headline presents an undisputed, false fact. There is an argument and a counter-argument here. The GSS, in its counter-argument, flatly rejects the allegations, meaning that the whole story is a lie, adding that the citizen we thought was innocent, refused to cooperate with his interrogators, treated them aggressively and hostilely and aroused suspicion that he was involved in hostile activity against Israel.
The second: What described all the article was a migrant shrub and intensified between the facts of the Neighborhood in the role of aggressive villain and the unfortunate family, which fell victim to their nation, was not exactly that. Her marginalization was so extreme until it was created to consider calling for a police place. This subject, incidentally, is not a “claim” fence and does not meet the debate, since it is refined, following the State’s response to the story, the family admits it, although in the citrus, things were said, “the moment of boiling and frustration.” Thus, that ‘Haaretz lies twice:
First, in the wording of the headline, according to which the German citizen’s version of Palestinian origin is a fact, while it should have been presented as an argument, and already in the subheading, at the latest, to bring the GSS ‘denial into account.
Second, in the impression created by the text, according to which the German citizen and the family with whom they behaved exemplary, when it finally turns out, according to their confession, that he is far from it.
“Haaretz is allowed to decide that he believes the grassy Palestinian family version of the burning and the mash, not the version of the Sheva and the Population Authority and the Immigration Authority.
What is forbidden, is to prevent its reader in a manipulative way the full picture, according to which the newspaper does not describe anything in happening, but rather a position on the issue of debate. This is not a press.
This is already propaganda.
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Column - Martin Sherman
‘Haaretz’ vs. Sherman: The anatomy of ‘fake news’
Had the newspaper wanted to give a fair portrayal of my policy proposal, instead of alluding to “Transfer,” the headline would have read “Evacuation-compensation for Arabs: An answer to Israel’s geographic and demographic imperatives.”
(August 23, 2018 / JNS)
https://www.jns.org/opinion/haaretz-vs-sherman-the-anatomy-of-fake-news/
INTO THE FRAY: Haaretz vs. IISS-The anatomy of “Fake News”
Had Haaretz wanted to give a fair portrayal of my policy proposal, instead of alluding to ‘Transfer,’ the headline would have read ‘Evacuation-compensation for Arabs: An answer to Israel’s geographic and demographic imperatives?’
Dr. Martin Sherman
Aug 25, 2018
Truncated and twisted
The almost 5000 word article (almost 4000 in Hebrew) appeared in the weekend supplement of Haaretz (August 18 in the electronic edition)—which included reports on other proposals from Education Minister Naftali Bennett, columnist Caroline Glick, Islamic scholar Mordechai Kedar, Jerusalem Affairs Minister Zeev Elkin, veteran publicist Elyakim Haetzni, Ambassadors Alan Baker and Yoram Ettinger and economist Amatzia Samkai: .
I was shocked and appalled at the grossly truncated and twisted manner in which my views were conveyed to the reader.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/22651
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Sagiv Steinberg @sagivsteinberg Tweeted:
There is no danger to democracy (in Israel), there is freedom of expression, there is incitement on the left, there is no apartheid ... At Schocken they do not know how to ‘eat’ the demonstration that proves that all the things they shout (I forgot the expression ‘Nazi’) do not exist in reality. I wonder if such a thing (demonstration) could happen in “Palestine.”
Aug 11, 2018
[Quote Tweet Barak Ravid @BarakRavid
Haaretz editorial: The demonstration led by the High Monitoring Committee of the Arab Public in Israel, which will be held tonight in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, is the most important demonstration in wave... ...
Aug 11, 2018]
https://twitter.com/sagivsteinberg/status/1028349258624389122
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[Marketing writing/linguistic editing specialist].
Enta G. @enya1911 Replying to @LealIris_ @IRISLEAL15 and 2 others
Jul 7, 2018:
You should spell it correctly ... before spouting the word with the rest of your despicable hate speech. Shame on you! This is the current generation of Haaretz newspaper - full of hate. Journalists on their own behalf who are unable to fulfill their role professionally. In my day they would not be accepted into any newspaper.
https://twitter.com/enya1911/status/1015612742508666881
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Chabad: “Antisemitic cartoon in Haaretz”
Haaretz newspaper as a policy, despises everything that is sacred
Zeevi Segal , 13 Tammuz 5777 - 26.06.2018
This morning, the newspaper “People Think” publishes an antisemitic, shocking and humiliating cartoon against the late Chabad Rebbe following the storm caused by the court ruling...
http://www.kolhazman.co.il/317300
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May 13, 2018
Michael Ben Ari (@drmichaelbenari) Tweeted:
Haaretz knows this is a lie, but the command to incite exceeds any ethics or commitment to truthfulness.
No way.., the social coordinator of the secular high school, decided on her own initiative to sit the boys next to the boys of the Noam seminary and the girls next to the girls of the Harel studios, that’s the whole disaster.
On her own initiative! And no. They were not removed.
https://t.co/nFtInMoN8W https://twitter.com/drmichaelbenari/status/995746384958640133?s=20____
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The flood disaster, there are also rejoicings
Ofer Drori, May 1, 2018.
An entire country sank into deep sorrow over the hard loss of ten boys. The disaster is known to have resulted from the unfortunate decision of elements in the military preparatory school who ignored all the warnings and allowed this journey to take place and its tragic consequences.
But the very next day, before the victims were laid to rest, Haaretz published an article on its website and the comments that the newspaper is known to have responsibility for their contents testify to a thousand witnesses about Haaretz readers and the newspaper’s system that leaves comments ....
Haaretz is a newspaper for “thinking” people (Elik) and its readers reveal hatred, rage, brutality and racism that are hard to find in the media today, perhaps in “Der Sturmer”. The hateful readers and the newspaper that does not bother to delete such abusive words and hatred are among the worst haters of Israel and the joke that they consider themselves enlightened and thinking. How blind the stupidity and condescension ...
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Amos Schocken’s Schocking Racism
Haaretz’s publisher takes to Twitter to accuse a Mizrahi woman of swinging from trees
By Liel Leibovitz, April 16, 2018
As Haaretz is fond of reminding its readers and its critics alike, the Israeli broadsheet is the voice of the nation’s embattled intelligentsia, an unabashedly progressive publication that spends much ink criticizing Israel’s faults, small or large, real or imagined...
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/amos-schockens-schocking-racism
Haaretz publisher derided for ‘racist’ tweet
Responding to commenter criticizing a Haaretz weekend supplement that crowned Israel’s national anthem the ‘most hated Israeli song,’ publisher Amos Shocken tweets, ‘My family was part of Zionism’s leadership while you were still climbing trees’; after public outcry, Shocken backtracks and claims he meant to point out ‘ignorance.’
Raz Shechnik | Published: 04.15.18
Scathing criticism on social media over a Haaretz article prompted publisher Amos Shocken to tweet a racist attack over the weekend, only to delete it later.
https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5230971,00.html
Haaretz publisher removes tweet after charges of racism
Amos Schocken says ‘swinging from trees’ jab was meant to demonstrate reader’s ignorance, not a racial slur
By JTA - 17 April 2018
The publisher of the left-wing Israeli newspaper Haaretz deleted a response to a critical reader that many took as racist.
Amos Schocken was responding on Twitter to reader Ravit Dahan, who tweeted at him that it was because of the ideology of those on the right that he was able “to continue and live here like a king and publish your surreal newspaper without interruption.”
Schocken responded: “Insolent woman. My family led the Zionist movement when you were still swinging from trees. The Schocken family has been here for 83 years, and we got along very well without your ideology, and we will continue to do so.”
Readers suggested that Schocken had chosen the insult because Dahan is a traditionally Sephardi surname.
He later deleted the tweet, though it was captured in screenshots by several Twitter users.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-publisher-removes-tweet-after-charges-of-racism/
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Senior minister slams ‘antisemitic’ Haaretz over ‘Israel Massacre Forces.’
Gill Hoffman
Apr 1, 2018 · Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) wrote a scathing letter to Haaretz publisher Amos Shocken Sunday, expressing outrage at a headline in the newspaper calling the IDF “The Israel Massacre Forces.”
In the column of Haaretz editorial board member Gideon Levy, he wrote that “the shooting on the Gaza border shows once again that the killing of Palestinians is accepted in Israel more lightly than the killing of mosquitoes” and “there’s nothing cheaper in Israel than Palestinian blood.”
Levy complained that Palestinians who returned fire at Israeli soldiers were termed “terrorists” by the IDF Spokesman’s Unit, and accused Israelis of being brainwashed and “enthusing the mass murder of Egyptian babies” at their Passover Seders, referring to the 10th plague: the killing of the Egyptian firstborn.
Erdan, whose ministry fights efforts to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel, accused Levy of adopting the narrative of Hamas, comparing the column to the antisemitic blood libels of Jews during Passover. He said Shocken’s father and grandfather, who bequeathed the paper to him, would be ashamed to find out that an antisemitic headline was printed and circulated in English to the world..
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Haaretz: Abu Mazen is not anti-Semitic. (We are actually a bit yes)
Haaretz states that Abbas is not anti-Semitic. An examination of the official definition of anti-Semitism reveals that it is impossible to be more anti-Semitic than Abu Mazen, and that Haaretz itself also publishes anti-Semitic content.
Hanan Amior
March 26, 2018
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Didi on Haaretz: “A newspaper that cultivates hatred, it should not have readers who justify its existence”
Didi Harari talks about the competition held in the Haaretz newspaper to choose the most hated song on the newspaper’s editorial board
15/04/2018
https://103fm.maariv.co.il/programs/media.aspx?ZrqvnVq=HFJGKL&c41t4nzVQ=EG
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An agreement without understanding
Netanyahu’s show makes it clear that the heads of the IAEA signed the nuclear agreement knowing it to be false - Despite this, the Iranians will not withdraw
Amnon Lord, 5/3/2018
... The pro-Iranian lobby that arose in liberal circles in Israel and the US brings us back to the betrayal of John Amery, the British broadcaster who called to switch sides and join the Nazis.
A note to the candidate for Chief of Staff Major General Yair Golan: Here is the similarity to the 1930s. The newspaper “Haaretz” supports Iran’s position. The segments of the population that are fed by “Haaretz” support Hamas and the organizations that represent Hamas...
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/553205
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[Israeli literary editor, translator, blogger, publicist and social activist]
Dalit (Laub) Soter Bat Horin - Ms. @nfsgalibh Tweeted:
Goebbels’ propaganda apparatus did not rest for a moment. Look at how they brainwash people’s with an image designed to evoke salute associations with a (fake) raised hand. Antisemitic slime.
Feb 14, 2018
https://twitter.com/nfsgalibh/status/963730458667376641
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Chargé d’Affaires
@USAmbIsrael tweeted:
What has become of .
@Haaretz? Four young children are sitting shiva for their murdered father and this publication calls their community a “mountain of curses.” Have they no decency?
Feb 9, 2018
https://twitter.com/USAmbIsrael/status/961838004305149952
U.S. Ambassador Slams Haaretz Writer for ‘Har Klalah’ Comment | Hamodia.com
Feb 9, 2018 · U.S. Ambassador to Israel on Friday slammed far-left Ha’aretz columnist Gideon Levy for his comments on the terrorist attack in Samaria this week, in which Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal of the Samaria town of ...
https://hamodia.com/2018/02/09/u-s-ambassador-slams-haaretz-writer-har-klala-comment/
The Difference Is Heart | Hamodia.com
Feb 13, 2018 · Gideon Levy, the far-leftist columnist for Haaretz, took offense at the ambassador’s donation of an ambulance to Har Brachah, which he blasphemously dubbed “Har Klalah.” ...
https://hamodia.com/2018/02/13/the-difference-is-heart/
Israel News | News From Israel, Middle East, Jewish Politics | Hamodia - Hamodia.com
Feb 11, 2018 · U.S. Ambassador to Israel on Friday slammed far-left Haaretz columnist Gideon Levy for his comments on the terrorist attack in Shomron this week, in which Rabbi Itamar Ben-Gal, Hy”d, of…
https://hamodia.com/category/israel-news/page/430/
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“Defamatory lie”: Makor Rishon correspondent against Haaretz newspaper - Kipa, 23 Jan, 2018 - “Disgraceful lie”: Makor Rishon reporter against Haaretz newspaper.
The editorial in Haaretz criticized “journalists identified with the right” who allegedly incorrectly reported on the demonstration against the ombudsman on Saturday, and ignited a riot about nothing. Ariel Schnabel, who reported from the scene, attacked back
Kipa News, 23/01/18
“Haaretz crossed the line this morning. An editorial is published in the editorial that concerns me personally, which is all a disgraceful and disgusting lie,” Makor Rishon correspondent Ariel Schnabel accused this morning (Tuesday) following criticism of the transfer of reports from the demonstration in front of the synagogue of Spokesman Mandelblit. Saturday night.
“I demand from Amos, who is responsible for this disgrace, to read my tweets and reports from the synagogue in Petah Tikva, and that after realizing that there was no siege or security, no riots, no rescue or disaster - to apologize publicly,” Schnabel tweeted.
https://www.kipa.co.il/amp/920065
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Avitan Dudi @avitandudi Tweeted:
Jan 12, 2018
Haaretz newspaper is lying again. And this time: in Lebanon they managed to put all conflicts aside and in Israel dangerous and unsafe following the occupation of the territories. So I went and checked the Peace Rank of the Institute of Economics and World Peace. There Israel is ranked as safe in every parameter above Lebanon, which is divided by many wars and casualties. Including the assassination of the Prime Minister in ‘05.
https://twitter.com/avitandudi/status/951773270302515200
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Pini Ezra @e_pini Tweeted (Jan 4, 2018):
Haaretz reveals a new low of hatred and incitement against anyone who is not part of the Tel Aviv state, where have all the heart bleeding who shout about incitement gone? It seems that it is okay against the ultra-Orthodox.
The racist criterion borders on incitement to assassinate a minister in Israel.
https://twitter.com/e_pini/status/948912835568029708?s=20
“Incitement to serious murder”
Storm: Shas chairman Aryeh Deri was presented in Haaretz as a suicide bomber.
Amos Biderman published in Haaretz a cartoon of Minister Aryeh Deri arrives with an explosive belt at the AM: PM store, which is open on Saturday, but eventually explodes on his own.
Yair Toker, 17 Tevet 5778, 04.01.18
https://www.kikar.co.il/262422.html
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Hanan Amiur @hananamiur:
MK Hanin, if you have already mentioned the story, at least tell it all. Muhammad Tamimi participated in the attack on the IDF post. Hit by a rubber bullet while attempting to penetrate the post.
Feb 26, 2018
https://twitter.com/hananamiur/status/968041374129049601
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Yaara Zered (@YaaraZered) Tweeted:
@Ahmad_tibi @gideonle
Not to believe that Haaretz is cooperating with this wretched propaganda. It’s embarrassing @ AmosSchocken1. Why did you not bother to attach the IDF response? Why present Muhammad Tamimi as a poor boy and not tell how many actions he took against the IDF fighters, he and his antisemitic family?
Jan 5, 2018 https://twitter.com/YaaraZered/status/949221647805972482?s=20
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Amit Segal on Haaretz: “a journalistic trash can”; Shoken: “a liar in the guise of a journalist”
The commentator of “The News” [haChadashot] was outraged by a headline of the Haaretz website about the incident in which Palestinians attacked settlers. The publisher of the newspaper did not remain liable, called him a “propagandist” and claimed that it was a mistake.
A confrontation on Twitter between the political commentator of “HaHadashot”, Amit Segal, and the publisher of “Haaretz” Amos Shoken. The background: the title given on the “Haaretz” website to a news story about the settlers who were attacked by Palestinians south of Nablus. Segal uploaded a photo to Twitter with the title in English, which (falsely) said that “a Palestinian was shot and killed by a settler in the West Bank” and said that this was a “journalistic trash can”.
Ma’ariv Online, 11/30/2017
https://www.maariv.co.il/news/israel/Article-612022
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“A woman who has been harmed by harassment should know how to deal with it in real time...”
Nava Boker broke into our lives involuntarily, after losing her husband, Lt. Gen. Lior Boker, in the Carmel disaster • She entered the Knesset in 2015, and since then she has not had a moment of silence • It’s convenient for them to take me out, because I’m a Likud MK.
Nitzhia Yaakov, Dec 6, 2017
I received quite a few threats on my life following the flag law, and it came back even when I supported Alor Azaria. They wrote to me, ‘You stinking J.. whore’ ...
“A few weeks ago I threatened Haaretz with a lawsuit because of unprofessionalism and dishonesty, after they attached a quote to me that was not and was not created, as if I said the president is a ‘stinking traitor’. In the end they apologized, but why do it in the first place? And lie?
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/519947
Nava Boker threatens to sue Haaretz: I never said of Rivlin a “stinking traitor”
Deputy Speaker of the Knesset: “The newspaper and commentator Zvi Barel mislead the public and attribute to me serious things that I allegedly said against President Reuven Rivlin. There is no connection between the things attributed to me and the truth, and if necessary, things will be clarified and clarified in court. “
Noa Price, November 23, 2017
https://b.walla.co.il/item/3113867
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Before a defamation lawsuit: Nava Boker demands an apology
Srugim News, Nov 23, 2017
An opinion piece published in the Haaretz newspaper under the headline: “Give us a F..rer” quoted statements directed against President Reuven Rivlin that was allegedly said by MK Boker. In response, Boker goes against the newspaper and demands an apology before a libel suit
An opinion piece published yesterday (Wednesday) in the Haaretz newspaper under the headline: “Give us a F..rer” quoted statements directed against President Reuven Rivlin that the deputy speaker of the Knesset, Nava Boker, allegedly said.
Among other things, the newspaper wrote: “’He is the president of terrorists,’ ‘he is a stinking traitor,’ in the heavy language of MK Nava Boker, he abandoned our soldiers on the battlefield.”
In a letter before a lawsuit sent today by MK Boker to Haaretz, she demanded the apology of the editor and commentator Zvi Barel for deliberately or accidentally attributing to her the statements: “He is a president of terrorists,” “He is a stinking traitor.”
Boker came out strongly against the allegations, claiming that Haaretz and the commentator, Zvi Barel, are misleading the public and attributing to me serious things that I allegedly said against President Reuven Rivlin.
There is no connection between the things attributed to me and the truth, and if necessary, things will be clarified and clarified in court. “
She said, “This is a malicious attempt to attribute to me vile statements that never came out of my mouth. Haaretz has proven over the years that it misleads and feeds the public with lies and lies. And as in many other times in which the Haaretz newspaper and the Schocken network were forced to leave the courtrooms covered with heads, so it will be this time as well. “
https://www.srugim.co.il/?p=224256
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Why did an Israeli newspaper blame black women for long lines at checkpoints?
November 20, 2017 · by Seth Frantzman · in Racism. ·
By Seth J. Frantzman
“The young women do everything intentionally more slowly. The most politically incorrect thing to say is that when the young woman checking the cars is of Ethiopian origin, the line gets even longer,” reads an article at the Israeli newspaper Haaretz on November 20th. Titled ‘Politically Incorrect in Palestine,’ the article consists of a series of observations about the West Bank. One of these has to do with checkpoints.
The author asks “How is it that a young woman – a member of the Military Police or a security company – is stationed at a checkpoint and her line of cars is always longer than the nearby line, where a young man is stationed?”
Then the author goes on:
“The young women do everything intentionally more slowly. The most politically incorrect thing to say is that when the young woman checking the cars is of Ethiopian origin, the line gets even longer. We’re talking about the checkpoints where only cars with Israeli license plates are allowed to pass…The soldiers and security people stationed at the checkpoints must develop skills in the realm of racial doctrine and a canine sense of smell to distinguish between a Jew and an Arab…But leave it to the young women at the checkpoints. They’ll check the accent, slowly open the trunk or send the car for a check for explosives, stare with hostility at the occupants, all the while chewing gum with their mouths open, talking on their cellphone and giggling.”
The passage appears to focus on women and stereotype them...
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Fake News: Netanyahu speaks and mocks news in Haaretz newspaper that he will not speak - JDN News
Nov 15, 2017 -
Fake News: Netanyahu spoke and mocked an article in the Haaretz newspaper that reported that he would not speak...
https://archive.jdn.co.il/video/908112/
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Shlomi Benshabats [the Likud]
Oct 24, 2017
Haaretz sows hatred destroys the state does not like right-wing religious and ultra-Orthodox Jews, yesterday it was Tzadika Sivan Rahav Meir who took the hit... The loathing and hate newspaper ... and most of the things in the article are false.
https://m.facebook.com/shlomi300508/posts/1845113992485752
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“Religious people will receive money to host secular people”: Haaretz newspaper lies
The newspaper for thinking people published that the Ministry of Religious Affairs would pay families for proper Jewish hospitality. Ran Khoury thought, explaining why this is not true and what the newspaper’s interest is in the conflict between the factions
Ran Khoury, Mako, Judaism | Published 11.06.17
The feed shouted, the feed rumbled. It seems that all the people of Israel, religious, traditional and secular, have united in their disgust at Or Kashti’s publication in Haaretz about funding from the Ministry of Religious Affairs, which states that religious people will be paid for hosting secular Shabbat meals. “Mom, you promised us a seculars for Shabbat.” “I am willing to host even without receiving money from the state.” “Enough of the commercialization of religion.” There is nothing left to say.
We tend to be sensitive to patronage. There is something annoying about this superiority, the feeling that the other side is better, the absolute and unequivocal recognition of an unfounded priority. But in this case it is not the religious who are the patrons. The real patronage in this story is that of the media. To be more precise: of the Haaretz newspaper, which lied to its readers. Stay with us.
The agenda of the distribution of funds
For those who have somehow missed out: Government ministries distribute money, lots of money: to public bodies. Museums, women’s organizations, proud youth aid organizations, Torah nuclei, theaters, yeshivas, associations to commemorate prime ministers, public libraries, and a very large variety of associations of all types and genders. There will be those who will argue that the state should not spend money on such activities, at all. Completely legitimate. But in practice, in the reality of the State of Israel in its seventy years, it spends, and a lot. This column was written against the factual background.
This column was written against the factual background ...
Instead of presenting the public with a clear and true picture - Haaretz chose to wear the hat of the omniscient, and lie to the public in a particularly patronizing pose…
https://www.mako.co.il/judaism-religious-news/Article-87da7006c469c51006.htm
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Haaretz’s Textbook Case of Media Bias | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
Sep 27, 2017 · Haaretz reports: Over 50 Christian and Muslim sites have been vandalized... since 2009, but...
Here is the bias:
At no point does Haaretz investigate how many times the arson of Jewish sites resulted in indictments or convictions.
Haaretz is trying to say that the Israeli police do not prioritize hate crimes against Muslims and Christians, but the implication is that this isn’t the case for Jews.
Haaretz is also trying to say that the 53 incidents over 8 years is a huge number — but it doesn’t give a comparable accounting of how many anti-Jewish incidents there were...
Perhaps there is bias in favor of crimes against Jews. Certainly more resources could be used to find these criminals. But without knowing how many Jewish sites were attacked and how many attackers were caught, this story is innuendo — not news...
In 2007, I visited the burial place of Samuel the Prophet, right after it was vandalized by Arabs. Torahs were desecrated, books were destroyed, the Ark badly damaged. The story was barely reported in Arutz Sheva, and ignored by all of the other Israeli English language media outlets. Haaretz certainly didn’t report on it. The people at the site described the attack to me as a “pogrom,” and told me that this wasn’t the first — or only — time that it had happened.
Were the vandals caught? I have no idea. But I doubt it.
There are plenty of arson and vandalism attacks against Jewish sites in Israel, from the desecration of graves on the Mount of Olives by Arabs, to attacks by bored teens, to attacks by atheists against synagogues, and intra-Jewish attacks as well. I don’t know how many are committed by Arabs, and how many by Jews. I don’t know how many attacks were only graffiti, and how many resulted in actual damage done to holy objects on either side.
But that’s the whole problem. A real newspaper would compile all these statistics. A newspaper with an anti-Jewish bias, however, would do exactly what Haaretz did.
Not surprisingly, the Arab media is republishing the Haaretz report as gleeful proof that Jews are constantly attacking Muslim holy sites — using the below photo as being representative of “Jews.”
While any attack is too many, 53 attacks over 8 years is about one every two months — hardly an epidemic.
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/09/27/haaretzs-textbook-case-of-media-bias
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Begin annexes the Golan to cancel the peace agreement with Egypt [sic] - Fake News in Haaretz
Conspiratorial nonsense in the Haaretz newspaper
In the Saturday issue of Haaretz, journalist Amir Oren published a crazy conspiracy theory that Begin’s goal in annexing the Golan was to get Mubarak to cancel the peace agreement and thus avoid completing the withdrawal from Sinai - the fantasy continues to hope that the Syrians will attack Israel and thus accept the law. Israel has reason to invade Lebanon.
Uri Heitner, September 17, 2017.
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“Haaretz newspaper suffers from auto-anti-Semitism”
Channel 7, 5 Elul 5777 - 27/08/17
Education Minister Naftali Bennett, chairman of the Jewish Home Party, today (Sunday) sharply attacked the Haaretz newspaper, claiming that the newspaper deviates from the legitimate discussion space between right and left.
Bennett wrote on his Facebook page that “this morning the newspaper attacked Miriam Peretz (!) Who lost her two sons (the late Uriel and the late Eliraz) for the existence of the State of Israel and so that we can all live here.
Haaretz compares it to the mother of Muslim jihadists, and at the same time despises IDF casualties. “From the point of view of this newspaper, there is no difference between the bereaved mother of an Israeli hero and the mother of a killer-terrorist,” Bennett said.
https://www.inn.co.il/news/353920
“In 1947 non-racist Zionism died” [sic]
A series of tweets that Asaf Ronel, Haaretz’s foreign news editor, managed on Twitter this week opens a window into the post-Zionist radical consciousness at the top of the newspaper, and raises the question of what all of this is expressed in the publications.
Shlomi Ben-Meir 18.07.17
... Haviv Rettig Gur: You missunderstand. The these are your authentic views is what makes this an important argument about Haaretz’s editorial vision.
Haaretz Editor: I’m Anti-Zionist and Yes, Israel=Ap...
Daniel Pomerantz, July 17, 2017
https://honestreporting.com/haaretz-editor-im-anti-zionist-and-yes-israel-apartheid/
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Shocken’s silencing tactic?
What is the real reason for the recycled questions about Eliezer Fishman that reached the “Globes” editorial from “The Marker”?
Eli Tzipori, Globes, 06.30.2017.
This happened 24 hours after I exposed here the conduct of Amos Shokan, the publisher of “Haaretz-De Marker”; one day after the version of Amir Zohar, a former “Haaretz” investigator, was published here (Sunday evening), who claimed that an investigation His 7-chapter pen, which exposed serious flaws in the conduct of attorney Ronal Fisher, underwent editing, graphic design and was on its way to print - then it was stopped and its publication was blocked by “above” officials. Not only that, Zohar added that “the investigation included all the accepted journalistic evidence, official documents, written complaints, recordings and interviews with the ‘victims’ of attorney Ronal Fisher.” Indeed, Zohar presented an impressive array of detailed evidence. https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001194898
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Are Beatles to Blame for the Occupation?
Yes, says a Haaretz writer. Sgt. Pepper, apparently, is to blame for the Six-Day War.
By Liel Leibovitz
June 13, 2017
If Sgt. Pepper symbolizes anything,” Shor wrote, “it symbolizes the Israeli culture of uniformity and its absolute normative sense, not to say hetero-normative, of hegemonic groups within the mainstream that seek to defend their values in an ever-changing reality in which nothing is obvious.”
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/237199/are-beatles-to-blame-for-the-occupation
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Shouts of contempt and salute to Bennett: “You would let Barghouti speak”
Dana Yarkechy, June 12, 2017
Education Minister Naftali Bennett said this morning (Monday) at the Haaretz conference that a united Jerusalem is better than a political agreement. “We need a right-wing peace, out of power - not a political settlement, but a lack of war.” Bennett made the remarks at the Haaretz peace conference. He received contempt from the crowd - and said: “You would let Barghouti speak.”
“The Jewish people do not have the authority to give up any part of the country,” Bennett quoted Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. “No one has the authority to give up this right, until redemption. “A second Palestinian state will not be established.”
https://news.walla.co.il/item/3072410June 2017
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Lost in Translation: Haaretz English Omits That Fatal Strike Aimed at Islamic Jihad Target
By Tamar Sternthal, June 12, 2017
In a column looking back on 30 years of reporting, veteran Haaretz writer Gideon Levy last week described the particularly heartrending case of the 2006 Israeli air strike in Gaza that killed multiple members of the Aman family and left then 4-year-old Maria Aman with critical injuries, leaving out entirely that the key information that the strike was aimed at Islamic Jihad commander Mohammed Dadouh, who was also killed in the attack (“No greater lie,” print headline, available online..
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The People vs. Haaretz
By Shmuel Rosner
May 11, 2017
TEL AVIV — Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper. Admired by many foreigners and few Israelis, loathed by many, mostly Israelis. Read by few, denounced by many, it is a highly ideological, high-quality paper. It has a history of excellence. It has a history of independence. It has a history of counting Israel’s mistakes and misbehavior. It has a history of getting on Israel’s nerves.
Still, it is just a newspaper. The story of the people vs. Haaretz — that is, of a great number of Israelis’ growing dislike for the paper — is worth telling only because it tells us something about Israel itself: that the country’s far left is evolving from a political position into a mental state and that the right-wing majority has not yet evolved into being a mature, self-confident public.
Consider an incident from mid-April. Haaretz published an op-ed by one of its columnists. It made a less-than-convincing argument that religious Zionist Israelis are more dangerous to Israel than Hezbollah terrorists. And yet, the response was overwhelming. The prime minister, defense minister, education minister and justice minister all denounced the article and the newspaper. The president condemned the article, too. The leader of the centrist party Yesh Atid called the op-ed “anti-Semitic.” Leaders of the left-of-center Labor Party called it hateful. The country was almost unified in condemnation.
Of course, not completely unified. On the far left, a few voices supported the article and the newspaper. Some argued that the article was substantively valid. Others argued that whether the article was substantive or not, the onslaught on Haaretz is a cynical ploy to shake another pillar of the left — maybe its most visible remaining pillar.
If there is such ploy, it doesn’t seem to be working. Last week, on the eve of Israel’s Memorial Day, a day of somber reflection, Haaretz was at it again. One article by a leading columnist explained that he could no longer fly the Israeli flag. Another seemed to be calling for a civil war. These are not exceptions; they are the rule for a newspaper that in recent years has come to rely on provocation.
Its provocations aim to serve its ideology. Haaretz and its core readership are fiercely opposed to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, to the government’s support for settlers there, to the government’s recalibration of the High Court, to Israel’s state-religion status quo and to other conservative trends.
Four factors have converged to make Haaretz more annoying to Israelis today than ever before. First, the country is less receptive to a left-wing agenda as most of its citizens tilt rightward. Second, the country feels it is under an unjustified and hypocritical international siege and so is less forgiving when Israelis are perceived to be providing Israel’s critics with ammunition. Just recently, Jewish Israelis ranked “left wingers” as one of the groups contributing least to Israel’s success. Third, Israel’s left is very small, and also feeling under siege. Fourth, the left’s frustration with Israel makes it bitter and antagonistic. It makes it more prone to test the patience of other Israelis by upping the rhetorical ante in its criticism of country, leaders and groups.
The result of this increasingly provocative discourse is often pathetic, at times comical and occasionally worrying. Haaretz irks the majority of Israelis by giving voice to preposterous descriptions of what Israel is or does (“fascism,” “apartheid”), and the majority and its leaders never fail to take the bait and fly into a rage. It is a childish game and, in the long run, Israel loses. Its quality newspaper of coherent dissent, necessary in a pluralistic society, has become a platform for juvenile contrarianism. Its left-wing opposition, to which Haaretz gives voice, has become synonymous with needless antagonism; public debate has been made blunter and less constructive; the public is angrier and less tolerant of dissent.
Tempting as it is, the story of the people vs. Haaretz is not a story of a country whose public is no longer willing to tolerate debate. It is a story about a group within Israel that is losing its ability to communicate with the rest of society and have any chance of influencing its future. It is a story about a group within Israel that finds its relief in provoking the rest of us until we snap.
I worked at Haaretz for more than a decade, as features editor, head of the news division and, for three years, chief United States correspondent. My stint in Washington ended in 2008 when my employment was terminated. But I always valued Haaretz’s independence from dogma and its professional excellence, even though I wasn’t always comfortable with its ideological bent. The fact that I no longer consider it a must-read paper is probably for the same reason most Israelis are uncomfortable with it: Haaretz still employs good journalists, and on some of the issues these writers make strong cases, supported by evidence. But all in all, reading Haaretz in the last couple of decades is increasingly an exercise in anticipating a nearing demise.
The paper gets many specific stories right, but it gets the larger arc of Israel’s story wrong. It tends to paint a bleak picture of Israel’s actions, and it goes overboard in predicting grave consequences for Israel that rarely materialize. It tends not to notice that Israel today is a country more powerful militarily, economically and culturally than it was when the newspaper and its circle of loyal readers began explaining how almost every choice that the country is making is wrong.
And maybe that’s the source of Haaretz’s frustration: It is not that Israel does not listen. It is that Israel does not listen and still succeeds.
Shmuel Rosner is the political editor at The Jewish Journal, a senior fellow at the Jewish People Policy Institute and a contributing opinion writer.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/opinion/the-people-vs-haaretz.html
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Haaretz analyst taken in by joke column about Jared Kushner (update)
Apr 22, 2017.
Amir Oren is a senior correspondent and columnist for Haaretz and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board.
He writes in Haaretz:
‘Foreign visitors stream to the White House, but there is an embarrassing emptiness there behind the power of Trump’s son-in-law-adviser, Jared Kushner, who boasted that, while waiting to board ski lifts on vacation, he read up on the Middle East on his smartphone.’
The source for this story? A joke column written in The New Yorker [http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/jared-kushner-says-he-read-up-on-middle-east-during-minutes-waiting-for-ski-lift?mbid=nl_040417] by Andy Borowitz:
This is the quality of Haaretz’ analysts... Some say Haaretz is an actual newspaper.
https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2017/04/haaretz-analyst-taken-in-by-joke-column.html?m=1
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Israeli journalist calls religious Zionists more dangerous [sic] than Hezbollah
By Gil Hoffman, April 13, 2017
Defense Minister Liberman called for a boycott against Haaretz...
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Please meet: Haaretz newspaper in its ugliness
April 16, 2017
It is clear from the publications that the composition of the newspaper’s controlling entity included in the past and perhaps even today a family with a Nazi past and an oligarch who was defined as a fugitive criminal at the time.
Haaretz newspaper desk
I do not remember that anyone bothered to concentrate on one list the abominations associated with the “newspaper for thinking people” that in recent days has once again increased to publish in his article an inciting hatred against the Jewish faith, pioneers of the generation and builders on the way to redemption. These were “described” by the author of the article - verbatim: “National religious people are more dangerous than Hezbollah.” By the way, as far as the “danger” of eradication of evil, burglary, abomination and hatred of Judaism and Jews from our holy land is concerned - the author is right. But that is not the intention ...
Anyone who follows this manifesto of hatred, which calls itself a newspaper, easily discovers an ugly face, incitement and stir-up, an anti-Jewish, anti-Zionist and certainly anti-religious line. Identifying with the “narrative” of the various Arab murderers, from Arafat to Mahmoud Abbas, both will be erased there, the newspaper has long since crossed all lines and there are still Jews who purchase it and support its owners. Among the buyers of the newspaper for its “thinking” commanders is the Israel Defense Forces ... Oh, dressed.
I will approach the matter - warning !! - For those ‘faint hearted’ and their mental strength is low - it is recommended to read after consulting a doctor .....
I will open with the ownership of the newspaper. Similar to the entire industry that ran into financial difficulties, owner Amos Schocken joined the newspaper about ten years ago (at a rate of 20%). As was announced at the time, the new partner in Haaretz is the German press concern Dumont Schauberg. It was widely reported that this concern had previously collaborated with the Nazis and even received from Goebbels an erased name and high decoration, such as the one awarded to the head of the Gestapo.
In 2011 another partner was announced for the Knesset - Leonid Nevzlin, who compared to the above German partner seems like an angel on earth. Da-Aka said that this “angel” had previously been convicted in Russia of murder and other serious offenses. His appeal was rejected there and Russia’s request to extradite him was rejected. I did not continue to follow the descent of Danan, may have won and proved that we are dealing with a great righteous man.
I do not know exactly what the state of ownership is today, but it is clear from the publications that the composition of the controlling shareholders in the newspaper included in the past and perhaps even today a family with a Nazi past and an oligarch who was defined as an escaped criminal.
Let’s continue: did we talk about crossing lines? And you have more than that. A well-known journalist and publicist, Amira Hass, became very famous for being associated with the Haaretz newspaper. In her writing, she covers the Arabs whom the world calls distortedly “Palestinians” and is politically identified with the radical left. How radical? The lady also lives in Ramallah and most of her writing supports the famous “narrative” of the murderers ... (Abbas & Co. ...). Among the “pearls” that Hess managed to produce was her support for stone-throwing, which she called “the innate right and duty of one who is under foreign rule” (she later added reservations to her sweeping and outrageous statement). Whoever wants will search and find many more examples.
The name Gideon Levy who is very much associated with this newspaper is very familiar. I will not go into detail, just saying that it is clear that his identification is with the Arab enemy. Wearing glasses that reflect their “distress,” “their hardships,” and the “injustice of occupation,” he often presents positions that describe the IDF as an immoral army that kills Arabs, children and infants. The “root of the problem” and the forceful rule of the “army of settlers” according to his distorted view are the causes of all this (needless to say that He does not engage himself in the Arab terror before “occupation” in 1967 ...). “In 2013, Levy wrote that he was waiting for a” violent revolt of the Palestinians and Israeli Arabs against the Israeli regime ... which is more cruel than the regime of Libya and Syria. “Levy often expressed support for the boycott. On Israel (who “will stop the occupation”),
Levy also published lies, such as in 2005 when he wrote that Border Police officers abused a “Palestinian” to death by tying him to a donkey...
In a candid letter written by Irit Linor to the publisher of Haaretz, this article about Gideon Levy “In a private conversation with him, he once told me (Gideon Levy-B.S.) that he would not travel a hundred meters to save the life of a settler.” This is Levy and this is his newspaper. ...
A newspaper is allowed to have an agenda. He must not shed poison, incite hatred, instigate and slander, and identify with the enemy. He must not exclude himself by completely neglecting fair coverage and editing accordingly. I remember that after the shocking murder of members of the Fogel family from Itamar, the headline in the Haaretz newspaper reported that tens of thousands were missing in the disaster in Japan...
The language used by Haaretz is usually harsh, false and inciting, many times against IDF soldiers.
The newspaper also has a sharp anti-religious and anti-ultra-Orthodox agenda, in this way the description with which we have opened above reflects the tip of a glacier of burning hatred that is consistently expressed over days. This is how the newspaper reported in the past that an ultra-Orthodox student receives a monthly allowance of six thousand shekels (I wish), and is constantly at the forefront of a defamatory power struggle bordering on anti-Semitism against believing-Jews wherever they are. Thus, the “newspaper” did not find it difficult to publish a headline in which in a single strike of a pen is mentioned the coming of the Messiah and quotations from Hitler. more and more...
It is simply that Haarerz leads in a permissive and postmodern line with break-ins, sexual promiscuity, abnormal “family cells” and so on. All of these in his eyes are legitimate and even desirable. Since this is how I even hint at the next story that is not pleasing to the ear ...
Some time ago, a friend sent me a video that was perceived as “underground” ...Disgusting. Did I already said that?
In light of the above, the fact that Haaretz chose a pornographic video (in which a half-naked couple is having an affair) is seen as a sales promotion for its website - as trivial ...
In the above-mentioned open letter written by the municipality of Linor, the lady concludes as follows: “After decades of daily reading in Haaretz, I come to the conclusion that you and I do not live in the same place. “A growing part of the articles and articles in your newspaper smell of foreign press, which treats Israel as another distant and repulsive territory ... and I do not want to subscribe to a newspaper that tries in any way possible to make me ashamed of my Zionism, my patriotism and my intelligence.”
Here seems to me the place to end, hoping the message is well understood!
https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-119375-00.html
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Baruch Kra @baruchikra
Apr 12, 2017:
Klein’s article in “Haaretz” is a racist, despicable article, full of hatred for humans. He is not attacking an ideology, not even a camp, but people, beliefs, appearance. Sad.
https://twitter.com/baruchikra/status/852233111370956801
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Haaretz must not be silenced, even while the left is sinking
Yossi Klein’s opinion column is a shame and a disgrace. The entire chain of command of Haaretz has failed here. The elite of the left is collapsing. It is a sad and spectacular spectacle at the same time, but it is important to remember that sinking elites can still do a lot of damage
Ariel Schnabel 13/4/2017...
Not many people read Haaretz. Whenever verbal feces of this kind are published there, many dismiss the matter with a dismissive hand gesture and say - “Leave you, who reads this at all”. So it is, that the decision-makers and the Israeli elite still read in the newspaper every morning. A matter of tradition, of conservatism, of cultural codes that takes time to change.
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/1/ART2/873/887.html
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The HAARETZ has turned from just a racist newspaper into an antisemitic pamphlet.
The same demagoguery of Schocken the father on the eve of the Six Day War also characterizes Schocken the son. Yossi Klein should have given the balance and sanity after the generation of veterans left, but it turns out he just wants to be famous
Amnon Lord 13/4/2017
Haaretz’s history is replete with scandalous, racist, and often tedious writing. As early as the late 1940s and early 1950s, the most prominent writers in the newspaper at the time - Aryeh Gelblum and Amos Ayalon - published a series of articles on immigration from Arab countries, especially Morocco.
These articles smelled of racism and disgust towards the immigrants from Morocco. This of course does not prevent the descendants of immigrants from North Africa from pushing elbows in a pathetic attempt to get a few inches of opinion column in Haaretz, the newspaper that documented in detail the hygiene habits of their parents.
An article like that of Yossi Klein is both an overly visible sign of the role of the newspaper today and a testament to its deterioration. As long as the paper had senior functionaries like David Landau or Zeev Schiff, or even when Ari Shavit and Joel Marcus were in…
Today it is fashionable to ask - who gives the money? So if a German publisher whose family has a Nazi past controls a quarter or more of the land, there is no reason why he should not get his money’s worth. Who is Nevzlin?
People were excited about the blatant attack on religious Zionism, but earlier this week Gideon Levy wrote an article that actually downplayed the chemical attack in Idlib, and the transfer of accusations against the United States means he supports the gas attack. Because just like Hadash and the joint list, those who are unable to condemn the use of weapons of mass destruction support the act...
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/HP_0.html
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Play: Anti-Semitic incitement or an excerpt from an article in Israel?
Apr 13, 2017 —
Srugim | Following the column of reporter Yossi Klein from Haaretz newspaper...
https://www.srugim.co.il/?p=191616
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Because of Rogel Alpher’s column: “Haaretz” will compensate an engineering company with 50 Thousand Shekel.
The subject is a column published by Alpher in December 2015, in which he called to contact the Paz Engineering company with the demand to remove an advertising sign of the ImTirzu “If You Will” movement from its construction site. According to Paz Engineering, following the column, company personnel were harassed and threatened.
Yonatan Kitain, 04.04.2017
“Haaretz” newspaper will pay NIS 50,000 to the Paz Engineering and Building Company and its owner Yosef Paz, due to an article written by Rogel Alpher - this is what the Tel Aviv Magistrate’s Court ruled last month, based on a settlement reached by both parties.
https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001183996
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Yoav Yitzhak@YoavNews1
Mar 24, 2017:
The double standards of the Shocken group: when Arden calls Haaretz newspaper fake news, it’s a threat; And when they call Arden a fake-minister that’s a legitimate criticism. Did we say hypocrisy?
https://twitter.com/YoavNews1/status/845259707157811201
Gilad Arden - Haaretz newspaper is disconnected from reality in Israel. A newspaper that calls to Israelis...
March 27, 2017.
(Haaretz - Also fake news and also backing the BDS
https://m.facebook.com/gilad.erdan/photos/a.225201850853267/1570811912958914/?type=3
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MK Glick: “Haaretz publisher Amos Schocken asked me to support laws that would help him”
Arik Bender, Jan 14, 2017
https://www.maariv.co.il/news/politics/Article-570232
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[Journalist Haviv Rettig Gur]
To my liberal friends abroad who fear Israel is collapsing into fascism because, well, they read Haaretz.... - Haviv Rettig Gur | Facebook [January 28, 2016 at 12:45 PM]
To my liberal friends abroad who fear Israel is collapsing into fascism because, well, they read Haaretz, here’s the latest evidence that reading Haaretz can be hazardous to your capacity to actually understand (as opposed to just rail hysterically about) Israeli society and politics.
Haaretz, like others in that wing of the left, are fighting a vindictive, bitter culture war, that is emphatically and explicitly disdainful of Israeliness itself. Here is one of Haaretz’s senior columnists arguing without the slightest sarcasm or irony that an Israeli NBA coach *should* be fired and explicitly for his Israeliness, because - are you sitting down?- Israelis emotional attachment to other Israelis in the NBA is ipso facto fascism.
Last month, Haaretz used the word “fascist” five different times in a two-week period to describe Israel.
For many Haaretz writers, Israeli cultural touchstones are fascist not because they are fascist, but because they are Israeli.
It is often argued among Israelis that Haaretz has adopted this strange political identity for sheer clickbait, prostitution their intellectual integrity and journalistic seriousness for greed. That, at any rate is the optimistic interpretation.
As long as Haaretz itself isn’t ashamed of its willful decline, no real harm cam come to Haaretz from this sort of journalism.
But, inasmuch as it is identified with the broader Israeli left, it is hard to think of any single voice or political actor that has done more damage to that left’s prospect in the only arena that counts: the mind of Israeli voters.
In Haaretz, the right is given, miraculously, reification of its own caricature of an incompetent, intellectually dishonest, utterly unelectable, jealously vindictive Israeli left.
I have no evidence that Rogel Alpher and his like-minded friends work for Benjamin Netanyahu. But they do. They are the enemy he yearns for, the enemy that makes his campaign slogan of “It’s me or them” an election winner.
I hope he at least goes to the trouble of sending them flowers every time he wins another round at the ballot box.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=728853997249105&id=274139392720570&refid=52&__tn__=-R
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The Haaretz team, which preaches peace with the enemy, carries the banner of hatred towards its people
Amos Schocken (Photo: Flash 90)
Yossi Klein is not the issue, but the fact that in Haaretz it is allowed to write about Jews what is forbidden to write about terrorists. A self-respecting newspaper does not publish everything that freedom of expression allows to say Kalman Liebskind 15/04/2017
https://www.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-581271
Haaretz newspaper: Tolerance of the enemy, hatred of his people
Yossi Klein has the right to say his opinion, and his outrageous expression does not incite. But “Ha’aretz” is becoming the marginalized newspaper by the day.
Kalman Liebskind, April 13, 2017
https://www.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-581200
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Haviv Rettig Gur
July 17, 2017 at 10:32 AM
Continuing yesterday’s saga, Haaretz’s world news editor literally declares himself an anti-Zionist.
Progressive friends, critics of Israel who nevertheless respect and love this nation, Haaretz is not your newspaper. Keep reading it, certainly, but don’t make the mistake of thinking what you’re reading is filtered through editorial judgment that deserves your trust or agrees with your ideals.
Something dishonest is happening at Haaretz, and it’s a damn shame. We need a progressive voice in this country that doesn’t let itself turn into a fawning parrot for the latest anti-Zionist fashion abroad, but speaks to us Israelis, to our experience and concerns, and tries to convince us its vision is better. That’s not Haaretz, at least not anymore.
If all you know about Israel is filtered through Haaretz, then alas, despite some wonderful and indispensable journalists who work there, your view of Israel is being shaped by a disdainful elitism that has largely given up on this country and is uninterested in explaining it beyond the bounds of its narrow ideology.
https://www.facebook.com/haviv/posts/10155329844880792
Haviv Rettig Gur (@havivrettiggur) Tweeted:
I know, I know, it’s getting tiresome. Just pointing out that Haaretz’s world news editor literally declares himself anti-Zionist. https://t.co/Xom8CEZLqy https://twitter.com/havivrettiggur/status/886891001738133504?s=20
Jul 17, 2017
Judean Peoples Front (@JudeanPF) Tweeted [July 17, 2017]:
@havivrettiggur Not just anti-Zionist, but claims it’s racist for Jews to marry other Jews.
https://t.co/roPm2B0itW https://twitter.com/JudeanPF/status/887065911462678533?s=20
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Is Haaretz hated by Israelis? [2017
Elke Weiss, lived in Israel (2014-2015)
Haaretz enjoys the freedom of the press, a fundamental right guaranteed in Israel.
A lot of people criticize Ha’aretz for basically abandoning the Israeli left and becoming a paper that no longer represents those like myself who want democracy, and a two state solution, and freedom of speech. It’s basically a paper that is the Israeli version of Electronic Intifada.
[...]
Let’s play a game. I’ll give you two titles.
“Stop living in denial, Israel is an evil state.”
“Israel: The house of hate”
Without Googling, which one was a feature in an Israeli newspaper of Haaretz and which one was written in a foreign press by the counsel for Hamas?
If you are unsure…that’s a problem
https://www.quora.com/Is-Haaretz-hated-by-Israelis
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Sheftel on Haaretz: “How much anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel, what a scoundrel”
The lawyer opened his program on 103FM in reference to the storm surrounding Yossi Klein’s article: “How much moral filth, even Al Jazeera would not dare make such a comparison”
103FM 13/04/2017 12:32
The storm surrounding Yossi Klein’s column in Haaretz on the issue of national-religious people is not off the agenda, and today (Thursday) Adv. Yoram Sheftel addressed this in his program on 103FM.
https://www.maariv.co.il/news/politics/Article-581151
Storm following a column in Haaretz against “Hezbollah’s national religious people”
Politicians on the right and left condemned things. Minister Shaked quoted an SMS from the mother of the late Banya Rein: “Tell him that my son was killed by Hezbollah so that he can continue to be a journalist”
Ran Boker - 13/04/2017
The Minister of Justice, Ayelet Shaked from the Jewish Home, wrote: “While a ‘journalist’ was writing, I received this text from Hagit Rein, the mother of the late Major Banya Rein, who was killed in the Second Lebanon War: ‘I do not know the racist reporter from Haaretz “If you know him, tell him in my name that my son, Major Banya Rein, is a settler... killed by Hezbollah, when he volunteered for the war to save the residents of the Galilee and all the people of Israel, including him, so that he could continue to be a journalist ... ‘”Shaked added:” And I tell Haaretz, apologize to Hagit and remove the disgrace.”
https://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4948596,00.html
Burning hatred: It is impossible to read Yossi Klein’s words without being ashamed.
Meir Uziel 23/04/2017
In the ... daily newspaper Haaretz, the editors decided to publish an article sent to them by the Klux Klein line. This is an article in which Yossi Klein claims with foam on his lips and steam from his nostrils that the national religious are more dangerous than Hezbollah and the terrorists who stab Jews in the streets of our cities and villages. I did not invent. Here is the opening quote that has become infamous: “National religious are dangerous. More dangerous than Hezbollah, more rapacious customs and girls with scissors. The Arabs can be neutralized, they are not. “
By the way, he originally wrote to kill, not neutralize, but censored this passionate antisemitic text a bit. Klein is small, as is well known, and I would not discuss his article, but the publicity that things received and the support for him made it part of a dangerous trend for Israel and freedom-seekers. The Ku Klux Klan are also sure that they are working for America, and Klein probably thinks so too, but it is accepted in the cultural world that ardent sacred thought is not a reason why responsible editors will publish general hate speech in print.
https://www.maariv.co.il/journalists/Article-581994
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Baruch Kra (@baruchikra) Tweeted:
Klein’s article in Haaretz - A racist, despicable, hateful article for human beings. It does not attack ideology, not even camp, but people, beliefs, looks. sad.
Apr 12, 2017
https://twitter.com/baruchikra/status/852233111370956801?s=20
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Amos Schocken on Twitter: “The right and duty of the conquered and dispossessed to throw stones (and to ignite fire).”
In response to Amir Ayelet’s tweet: “Hagai Segal brings Shabbat edition in “Makor Rishon” an excerpt from a letter published in the Haaretz letter section,” A letter of sympathy for the latest wave of arson “written by a resident of Omer Dov Seton”:
Dec 10, 2016
https://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/366312.shtml
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Sources Slam ‘Nazi Haaretz’ Over PM’s ‘Media Obsession’
Dor Halavy, Nov 3, 2016 — In response, sources close to Netanyahu were quoted by Israel media as saying that they hoped the newspaper’s “Nazi ties” were not influencing
https://hamodia.com/2016/11/03/sources-slam-nazi-haaretz-over-pms-media-obsession/
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Sep 2016
CAMERAorg @CAMERAorg Sep 21, 2016
Haaretz smears CAMERA and makes it free to read - and then hides CAMERA’s rebuttal behind a paywall. http://bit.ly/2cp0LSe
https://twitter.com/CAMERAorg/status/778640929662070785
CAMERA Response to Haaretz: We’re Not a Right-Wing Media Watchdog
Haaretz is out of touch with the non-profit world realities if it expects organizations like CAMERA are obliged ethically or professionally to disclose their roster of donors. This is an absurd expectation.
Andrea Levin, Sep. 19, 2016
Haaretz’s September 5 front-page story (”Times of Israel Cofounder Gave $1.5 Million to Right-wing Media Watchdog That Routinely Goes After News Outlets”) attacking CAMERA offers not a single fact to buttress its claims the organization is politically “right-wing” or motivated by financial incentives to criticize certain media outlets.
The assertions are false. First, CAMERA’s non-partisan stance is evident in the literally thousands of media critiques and other material on the CAMERA website by staff writers. Nothing there advocates politics or policy – not regarding preferred solutions to the Arab-Israeli conflict, settlements, political candidates and so on. We advocate only for the media’s accurate rendering of events. Naturally, this applies to Haaretz coverage as well.
Likewise, the claim that CAMERA’s criticism of Haaretz coverage is guided by its having received support from one of the founders of The Times of Israel (launched February 2012) or the publisher of Israel Hayom (launched July 2007) is belied by, among other things, the fact that long before either of them existed we were actively criticizing Haaretz. The first item on the CAMERA website about Haaretz is dated 2001, six years before Israel Hayom was founded, eleven years before Times of Israel appeared on the scene.
And CAMERA’s “Lost in Translation” articles – about Haaretz stories that are straightforward in the Hebrew original and become skewed against Israel in the English version – were first published in 2005, again years before the debut of the two new Israeli media outlets. Yet a key allegation of the article is that proof of CAMERA’s compliance with donor agendas is that the advent of these “right wing” media outlets supported by some of the same donors who give to CAMERA — essentially prompted CAMERA’s criticism of Haaretz.
The article deceptively states that “for the past four years” CAMERA has targeted Haaretz for its Lost in Translation distortions. What about the previous seven years?
Moreover, while Haaretz’s story mentioned the “Lost in Translation” phenomenon, it notably ignored the public uproar and widespread criticism of Haaretz it generated. No doubt, it’s uncomfortable to be challenged on the air by fellow journalists in Israel indignant that the nation is being smeared internationally by false assertions in Haaretz. Responding to CAMERA’s work, an interviewer on Army radio declared on May 2 that “Haaretz in English is the fuel of BDS and anti-Semitism.”
The tortured nature of Haaretz’s attempt to tie an objective monitoring process to alleged donor preference can be seen in a further observation. It’s been reported that Times of Israel co-founder Seth Klarman has endorsed and contributed substantial financial resources to Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. If he has also supported CAMERA does that mean the organization must, therefore, have a left-ward pro-Democratic Party bias?
Haaretz seems equally out of touch with the realities of the non-profit world in its notion that organizations such as CAMERA are obliged ethically or professionally to disclose their roster of donors, which number in the many thousands of individuals. This is an absurd expectation.
Two final points about the Haaretz story on CAMERA. It relied on multiple anonymous sources to malign the organization. One nameless foreign journalist charged that CAMERA staff “browbeat,” “intimidate” and “harass” journalists. This cartoonish picture bears no resemblance to the normal, courteous relationships CAMERA has with many journalists.
At most media institutions, the use of anonymous critics is disallowed. The New York Times’ policy is that “a denigrating, anonymous quote” would be excised. Haaretz allowed anonymous voices to denigrate CAMERA extensively.
It’s also routine to include balance. Did the story’s author seek comment from anyone admiring of CAMERA’s work and its right to speak out and hold journalists to their own codes of ethics? There are many such individuals. Reporter Uri Blau’s quote from a lengthy 2003 Boston Globe feature on CAMERA by media critic Mark Jurkowitz suggested the story shared Haaretz’s derogatory view of CAMERA. In reality, it was clearly respectful of the organization’s professionalism and impact. We’ve reproduced thousands of the Globe story to distribute to the public.
The hollowness of the Haaretz story, its hyperbole and timing point to the true motivation of the piece. The intent is evidently to smear CAMERA because the organization has alerted Israelis to the damaging impact globally of defamatory falsehoods in Haaretz.
Andrea Levin is the Executive Director and President of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA).
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Surprise, Surprise. JStreet U Officer Supports Black Lives Matter Platform on Israel
Posted on the 22 August 2016 by Mikelumish @IsraelThrives
Sar Shalom
Tablet Magazine ran a few great takedowns of Black Lives Matter’s platform as it concerns Israel. Unfortunately, they were followed by an article by Daniel May, a past Director of JStreet U, essentially saying that Israel’s occupation policy is responsible for BLM’s platform. While nearly every paragraph of May’s deserves criticism, in particular his parroting of Haaretz’s lies, I’d like to focus on his original sin. In the final paragraph, May writes:
‘Palestine will never advance so long as .... independence was won only through the dispossession of another nation.’
Everything in the case against “the Occupation” stems from the accusation the Jewish sovereignty was won by dispossessing another nation. From the dispossession narrative comes the “right to resist” which justifies Palestinian terror and, with such actions being justified, delegitimizes Israel’s countermeasures. Hence we see the one-sided description from JStreet and their ilk.
To understand dispossession as it pertains to the “Palestinians,” consider a counterfactual from American history. Suppose that when the Pilgrims came to Massachusetts (for simplicity, I will be using present-day names for places), the population of Indian tribes native to Massachusetts was small. However, just before then, a handful of tribes from Quebec had started migrating to Massachusetts and accelerated during the Pilgrims’ lifetimes. Subsequently, the Pilgrims’ descendants stopped the inflow from Quebec and imposed population controls on the Indian population in Massachusetts, affecting the Quebec tribes because they were the larger presence. Would such an action constitute dispossession for the Quebec tribes? Such is the case with the Palestinians.
While it is true that Arabs were the majority of the population of the southwest Levant before the advent of Zionism, it does not follow that all non-Jewish population change was the result of natural growth. In the decades before the first Aliya, the Ottomans started moving population from other parts of its empire to the southwest Levant. A larger impetus for immigration was the economic development created by the Zionists. The result is that as the Jewish population rose due to Zionist immigration, so did the Arab population due to Arab immigration. Neither the Ottomans nor the British attempted to document how many Arabs thus entered Palestine. Thus, we have no reliable numbers for how many entered or what percentage of those claiming to be Palestinian have actual ties to the southwest Levant from before the first Aliya.
Thus, the dispossession narrative claims that denying sovereignty to immigrants from Arabia and Egypt is dispossessing those immigrants.
A larger flaw in the dispossession narrative is common accounts miss in how the conflict started, where “how the conflict started” means what changed from when there was relative calm. ...
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Jeffrey Goldberg causes stir with online jabs at Israeli media
In Twitter fight, US journalist says he may stop reading left-leaning Haaretz; calls Jerusalem Post ‘nuts’ and Times of Israel ‘very reliable’
By JTA - 2 August 2016
— In Twitter fight, US journalist says he may stop reading left-leaning Haaretz; calls Jerusalem Post ‘nuts’ and Times of Israel ‘very
“I like a lot of the people at Haaretz, and many of its positions, but the cartoonish anti-Israelism and anti-Semitism can be grating. Jeffrey Goldberg (@jeffreygoldberg) | TweetSave
https://tweetsave.com/jeffreygoldberg
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jeffrey-goldberg-causes-stir-with-online-jabs-at-israeli-media/
Jeffrey Goldberg: “To read anti-Semitic articles I do not need the ‘HAARETZ’” Aug 9, 2016 - In a conversation with Walla Branja The senior commentator of Atlantic who tweeted last week against the newspaper Not only does he not retract, but even basing them with additional arguments...
https://b.walla.co.il/item/2986807
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‘Haaretz legitimizing Neo-Nazis’ anti-Semitism’
American journalist rips left-wing Israeli daily for visceral anti-Israel articles, delegitimization of Jewish state.
Tags: Haaretz Jeffrey Goldberg
Arutz Sheva Staff , Aug 10 , 2016
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216179
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News Israel 13 (@newsisrael13) Tweeted (Oct 30, 2016):
Following the exposure of the alleged harassment he committed, Ari Shavit ends his work at Haaretz and Channel 10: “I am ashamed of the serious mistakes I made in my relationship with men in general and women” https://twitter.com/newsisrael13/status/792699788399632385?s=20
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Leading Israeli Politician Slams Haaretz Newspaper for Appointing New Editor With Ties to Radical Anti-Israel Group Breaking the Silence
by Lea Speyer, July 7, 2016
Lapid accused Haaretz... of spreading lies about Israel, including that “the majority of Israeli citizens support apartheid and that Israeli soldiers slaughter Palestinian children.”
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Translation errors or trending editing? “Haaretz”, in English it sounds bad
The gaps in the versions between “Haaretz” in Hebrew and English provoke criticism of the extreme left line that sometimes appears again and again in the English version
Yonatan Kitain, 14.07.2016
When Amior is asked to point out obvious mistakes he and his men found in Haaretz in English, he does not know where to start. “They constantly make mistakes, and always ones that create a bias against Israel compared to the original report in the Hebrew version. They correct many times after we comment on them, but unfortunately we catch them with one mistake without much time.”
Indeed, entering the presspectiva site quickly leads to pages where you can find many dozens of translation errors, which the site has reported over the years. The topical one of them - which may also clarify something about the differences between Haaretz in Hebrew and its English counterpart - concerns a soldier who shot to death a terrorist in Hebron, whose case is currently being discussed in a military court.
The Perspective website provides examples that show how headlines in the Hebrew edition, from which it can be understood that Azaria shot a terrorist, are presented in such a way that it will not be possible to understand this in English. One time “killing the terrorist” becomes “shooting in Hebron”, another time the “terrorist” in the Hebrew title is “the wounded Palestinian” in English, and so on.
And if that’s not enough to convince you that it’s a consistent editorial decision, you can look at the tag that combines these stories on both sites. On the site in Hebrew it is “The soldier shot a terrorist”, while in English it is called “The shooting in Hebron”.
Amior mentions another notable case. In 2014, Amira Hass and Yair Ettinger published an article stating that settlers chose to mark Lag B’Omer by lighting a fire in an olive grove belonging to a Palestinian family. In English, however, the headline reported that “settlers burned an olive grove in Hebron.”
The site published a correction to the article following a request from Perspective, but in the meantime Peter Bainert, a renowned American journalist who also writes for Haaretz, has already sent more than 24,000 followers on Twitter to the article, which he crowned with his own headline: “Lag B’Omer Pogrom” Later he also returned to it.
“I mean,” says Amior, “we have settlers here who lit a Lag B’Omer bonfire in an olive grove, not a single tree was burned there, as is known in Hebrew, and within two steps, it becomes no less than a pogrom.”
- Could it be that the problem is simply a not good enough translation from Hebrew to English?
“This is what they tried to claim, that it is random. But it is impossible to continue to claim it when all the biases are always in one direction, alongside more criticism of Israel.”
- And when you turn to them, do they correct?
“In a large part of the cases, yes, we had an open line with them. If you read our review, you see that this is not an inciting talkback, it is a matter-of-fact discussion. And they really corrected many times, until Amos Schocken (Haaretz publisher, Y.) “He told me that he was opposed to it at all, and that if he had a claim, it was not towards the editors in English - but towards ‘Haaretz in Hebrew’.”
Schocken confirmed that he said the things about two cases.
“Attempt to pass journalistic criticism to politics”
Another scathing critic of the English edition of Haaretz is Yedioth Ahronoth journalist Ben Dror Yemini. Yemini, who in recent years has been involved in pro-Israel propaganda around the world, knows how to tell that the difficult questions he encounters during his lectures on campuses around the world are often based on things that the questioners read in Haaretz. “I come across questions that are between difficult and hostile, and in many cases, when you want to prove the claim, the reliance is on articles from Haaretz.”
- If there are biases in Haaretz in English, why do you think this is happening?
“I do not know, I do not understand them, as I do not understand the Israeli left. After all, there are enough good arguments against the right and against what the right does to us. I am not a right-wing man, I wrote against the settlers more than anything I wrote against the Israeli left. “Favors. Making Israel a monster only distances peace and only perpetuates the occupation.”
- And in “Haaretz” do not understand this?
“I think they think this is the right thing to do. I mean, for them we are forces of progress, we belong to the international community that is very hostile to Israel, and we provide it with exactly what it wants, because we are the main source of information. They are not fighting the occupation, they are fighting Israel. “.
When Schocken is asked about the gaps, he explains an important point: “The sites are edited separately. When a site or newspaper has an English title, it is not necessarily a translation of the Hebrew title, because the Hebrew article reaches both sites, is sent for English translation. That she thinks it suits her audience. “
- And yet, as the follow-up shows, there are a lot of mistakes in the English edition.
“I think there are really not many such mistakes. In general, looking only at headlines is incorrect, we are not a headline newspaper, and any content can be given more than one headline. In any case, I completely deny that there is a trend in the English language to make Israel worse or be More critical, because the Hebrew newspaper is critical enough.
“We know what Israel’s main problem is, and Haaretz criticizes it in Hebrew and English. Because they can not attack us for the serious stuff, we are looking for this nonsense.
Schocken is a publisher whose media openness is exceptional in the local media landscape. Needless to say, he is an eloquent and monolingual man.
This is how it sounds in necessary abbreviations:
Is it not a problem that in English they insist on not calling a “terrorist” a Palestinian whom Azaria killed?
“What do you think it should be called?”.
- Why do you need my opinion, I’ll tell you what it’s called on the Haaretz website in Hebrew. The tag is “The soldier shot the terrorist.”
“The term ‘terrorist’ is attributed in the Anglo-Saxon world to someone who does what they did in Paris or Belgium or something like that, right? It’s not attributed to someone who does, let’s say what this soldier did. Who do it.
“And if you are already careful about this, then decide: you could have defined the soldier as a ‘killer’, and then you can at the same time call the Palestinian ‘the terrorist.’ Judgment before a lawsuit. And the terrorist already had a lawsuit? “
- But there is no dispute that he stabbed a soldier.
“No dispute? I do not know if there is no dispute, there was no legal discussion about it.”
- According to Haaretz in Hebrew there is no dispute, such a thing has never been claimed there.
“I agree with you, but I say there is also no dispute that the soldier killed in cold blood.”
A legal proceeding is currently underway in this regard.
“So there’s a legal proceeding, and there’s no dispute that he killed him in cold blood. There can be all sorts of disputes about motives, about things like that, but there’s no dispute that that’s what was there.”
- But it is a bit difficult to reconcile these two approaches, the consistency, of the Hebrew edition with the English edition. Maybe your criticism is actually about the Hebrew version?
“There is no need to settle. Both versions are possible and acceptable in journalistic work. If the English system made a decision not to call him a ‘terrorist’ - although I’m not sure, because there are also examples who called him an ‘attacker’ - then it is a decision “Professional is legitimate in my eyes. I do not think this is a decision that cannot be defended.”
https://www.globes.co.il/news/article.aspx?did=1001139726
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Analysis: Can Ha’aretz Be More Racist than Donald Trump? You Betcha
By David Israel - 4 Sivan 5776 – June 10, 2016
Late last month, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was condemned universally, when everyone but Ann Coulter called him a racist and a bigot for suggesting federal Judge Gonzalo Curiel should have recused himself from the Trump University trial because his parents were born in Mexico, and he, Trump, as he so aptly put it, is “building a wall.” Trump went on to tell various reporters that although the judge was born in Indiana, he must be a Trump hater, on account of “I’m building a wall.” He also told one reporter that the same obligation to recuse themselves should also apply to Muslim American judges in Trump-related cases (the candidate generates thousands of them, literally).
The fact that both House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R- Kentucky) called on their party’s nominee to tone down the racism should tell us just how much they loathed his outburst.
On Friday morning, Ha’aretz op-ed writer Uri Misgav, in reviewing the recent Supreme Court decision that sided with the Chief Rabbinate and against the AG in prohibiting “alternative” kosher certifications, wrote the following:
“The ruling was by a majority of two to one. The two judges who preserved the corrupting power in the hands of the Rabbinate were Rubinstein and Noam Sohlberg. Both wear a yarmulke, [and are] religious Orthodox, who grew up and developed on the high road of Religious Zionism. They put the cats in charge of the cream. This was a very strangely composed panel. In fact, it was so strange that it’s not strange at all: of course it was intentional. With the assumption that it’s better to let the religious handle these issues which are close to their hearts. Except that the logic should have been the complete opposite of that. There’s a clear conflict of interests here. At stake was the tension between state and religion. The secular judge, incidentally, had the minority opinion.”
The paragraph above is dripping bigotry, not only accusing supreme court judges of being unable to examine a case on its merits, suspending their personal views—which is something we expect of every judge in every trial—but that somehow the powers-that-be on the court assigned the two religious Orthodox judges because the case belongs in their ghetto. The root of Trump’s bigotry and the root of Misgav’s bigotry are the same: they both assume that judges belonging to the group they hate are inevitably partial, interested parties in the cases they try.
But then Misgav focuses on Judge Sohlberg, calling him a criminal, because he resides in Alon Shvut, at the heart of Gush Etzion, an area which even Misgav agrees will never be handed over to Arab rule, even as part of a two-state agreement. Writing for a newspaper that has printed many miles of allegations against rightwing activists and politicians who have threatened the Supreme Court for its unprecedented activism, Misgav actually exposed Sohlberg to prosecution by a European court as a war criminal. The scenario is simple: Judge Sohlberg lands in Brussels, someone on the same El Al flight identifies him and calls over the Gendarmes, showing them the English translation of Misgav’s attack, demanding that Sohlberg be taken into custody until the war crime charges against him are verified. Unrealistic? Probably, but when MK Moti Yogev (Habayit Hayehudi) last summer announced, “We have to take the blade of a D-9 [bulldozer] to the High Court of Justice,” Ha’aretz took his expression of rage at face value.
It appears Ha’aretz is willing to see Israeli high court justices’ lives be put in jeopardy just to advance the paper’s political ends. So much for tolerance and liberalism.
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Ayelet Shaked v. Haaretz
The Minister of Justice attacked the newspaper following an opinion column that a judge called an “international criminal” • Shaked: “Haaretz newspaper is a mouthpiece of incitement”
By Israeli Hayom - June 10, 2016
The Minister of Justice sharply attacked the Haaretz newspaper and its publisher Amos Schocken in a post she posted on her Facebook page, following an opinion column published in the newspaper calling the Supreme Court Justice Noam Solberg an “international criminal.”
Haaretz’s wild incitement against Supreme Court justices.
Haaretz turns out not to be a left-wing newspaper for people who feel they are “thinking people.” Neither protects the Hall of Justice nor shoes. He is a mouthpiece of incitement. What drives him out of his mind is — OMG — that one of the Supreme Court judges lives in a settlement in Judea and Samaria.
Suddenly, when the same judge dares to rule according to his professional positions contrary to the worldview of the country, the “newspaper of justice” does not mince words to discredit a Supreme Court judge ...
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/article/388383
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Haaretz plumbs ‘new low’ after calling terror victim a ‘racist’
12 Apr 2016
Hezki Ezra
Deputy Defense Minister Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan (Jewish Home) harshly criticized Haaretz Tuesday, after television and film critic Rogel Alpher called a film shown in memory of terror victim Dafna Meir “racist.”
“It seems that there’s no limit to the lows Haaretz can reach,” Ben-Dahan stated. “Haaretz stopped being Zionist a long time ago.”
“As is typical of leftists, Rogel Alpher — instead of dealing with the unique character of Dafna Meir — threw around the usual leftist accusations, ‘racism’ and ‘occupation’,” he added.
A Palestinian teenager stabbed Meir, a mother of six, to death in Othniel in January, in front of her children. “Dafna Meir was an icon for the Jewish people, and she will continue to be.” ...
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210775
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“Haaretz” magazine of a radical left “ - N12
Lapid. “I canceled the subscription to Haaretz”
MK Yair Lapid continues his harsh attack on Haaretz: In an interview with Ulpan Shishi, he stated that the newspaper “went off the rails,” adding: “Freedom of expression does not allow lies and slander. I will not be silent”
News 2 | News | Posted 04/15/16
“When I am interviewed around the world and defend Israel, I am presented with what the Islamists say and I explain that freedom of expression is not a freedom to lie and slander - and this also applies to the Haaretz newspaper,” the MK added. “It’s in silence. It’s not a press, and I say that as someone who has been a journalist for many years.”
According to Lapid, “This newspaper is translated into English and distributed all over the world, and people read it and think it’s the truth - because it comes from an Israeli newspaper! Please honor the Knights of Freedom and also absorb my freedom of expression,” he added.
https://www.mako.co.il/news-military/politics-q2_2016/Article-dac2ab1375a1451004.htm
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Lapid v. Haaretz: A newspaper that has long since gone off the rails
Lapid’s remarks were made in response to an opinion column by Gideon Levy, who claimed that IDF soldiers were shooting helpless Palestinian boys. In response, Lapid said: Haaretz is anti-Zionist, anti-Israeli, and is no longer really a newspaper.
nrg News | 4/14/2016
Tags: Haaretz, Haaretz newspaper, Gideon Levy, Yair Lapid
MK Yair Lapid (Yesh Atid) sharply attacked the Haaretz newspaper on his Facebook page this afternoon (Thursday). In response, Lapid wrote: “This is a monstrous text of a newspaper that has long since gone off the rails. Later on, he also accuses me of this killing, but I am sorry for my honor. Not for the honor of IDF soldiers.”
A column published in Haaretz reads: “Nothing bad will happen to you if you kill the body of a Palestinian boy in his escape with three bullets at short range - your commanders and Yair Lapid will applaud you...
“Anyone who presents our soldiers as indiscriminate killers knowingly lies and also allows their blood. In all the history of the wars, there has not been an army that has done more to maintain the morale of the fighting and the purity of weapons, but Haaretz is not interested,” Lapid said in response. “This is a leaflet saturated with extreme self - hatred of the far left, and this article - like many other articles - is a way to train terrorism. For reasons of self-defense, “wrote the chairman of the Yesh Atid party...
“They are in a hurry to shout ‘Freedom of expression!’ “One hundred percent, but freedom of expression belongs to everyone, and if in his name they are allowed to lie, then of course I am allowed to tell the truth: Haaretz is anti-Zionist, anti-Israeli, and it is no longer really a newspaper,” Lapid wrote.
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/1/ART2/769/470.html
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Haaretz and Hate Speech: The Price of Leniency
Simon Hardy Butler, Mar 26, 2016 (TOI)
“There’s freedom of speech, and then there are some things you can’t say.”
That was a comment made to me by a staffer at the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation after I reported an individual who made a disturbing threat of violence against Jews on Facebook. The remark is telling, because it suggests that even in the Land of the Free, where one is allowed to say almost anything in public, some talk can go beyond the inalienable right to self-expression—and provide authorities with a reason to take action. It suggests that there are standards people must adhere to in civilized society, limits to their liberty, and if they don’t follow these rules, they could find themselves dealing with punitive repercussions.
I thought about these concepts recently after reading a comment sent to me by Simon Spungin, managing editor of the English-language version of Israeli newspaper Haaretz—a response to my inquiry as to why there is so much anti-Semitic hate speech on Haaretz‘s Facebook page and why most of the main offenders haven’t been banned from commenting on it … despite numerous reports to the publication citing specific examples. Here is his reply...:
“Haaretz condemns all forms of hate speech and racism, .. However, the principle of free speech prohibits us from deleting comments – however distasteful – which do not violate our guidelines. Our social media editors act to the best of their ability to delete any comment which does violate these guidelines and to ban those responsible from commenting on our Facebook page.”
That’s all well and good, but the preponderance of virulently anti-Semitic hate speech on Haaretz’s Facebook page—which dwarfs that on the pages of the Times of Israel, the Jerusalem Post and Ynetnews, where such content is much less prevalent—begs the question: How does the publication’s editorial team actually determine what should be removed and what is merely “distasteful,” and what benchmark of morality is used to determine such criteria? Spungin did not respond to my request for clarification on what Haaretz‘s guidelines on hate speech are … as well as why people who have had content removed and, oftentimes, banned for periods of time by Facebook for violating its guidelines via the posting of hate speech are still allowed to comment on Haaretz‘s page on the site, despite reports to the publication notifying it of these situations? He also did not respond to a request for comment on why some individuals operating multiple Facebook profiles only have certain ones banned from commenting on Haaretz’s Facebook page after posting anti-Semitic hate speech, while they’re able to use other accounts to continue their offensive remarks with impunity.
The ambiguity of Spungin’s statement suggests either one of two conceivable things: There are no established guidelines dictating what is and isn’t hate speech at Haaretz, or such guidelines are arbitrarily generated and subject to the whims and vicissitudes of the editorial team. I suspect it’s the latter, and the content appearing on the newspaper’s English-language Facebook page points to that. How else can one explain the presence of a comment by one “Daniel Lane” recommending to a Jewish individual posting a response to an article on notorious Nazi Josef Mengele that he should be turned into a “lampshade,” as well as another noting that Jews have a “stranglehold on all of the Western World”? Or the existence of comments from “Leki Don” opining that Israel “is a colonized country of some white European religious extremists” who “claim” to be Jewish while actually being of “Khazarian” ancestry … the fundament of a long-disproved theory espousing the non-Middle Eastern origins of Jews? Or, for that matter, the myriad other posts demonizing people who share my religion and culture, who blame the Jews for getting expelled from countries in Europe throughout their history, who espouse Holocaust denial, who label Zionism as “filthy,” and who even call for the destruction of Israel and violence against Jews? The fact is, anti-Semitic hate speech is pervasive on Haaretz‘s Facebook page, and someone isn’t doing his or her job in mitigating it. One look at any random sampling of the responses to any article on the site will tell an observer that. Anti-Semitic hate speech doesn’t “occasionally” appear on the page, as Spungin claims. It’s constant, and the site is overrun with bigots expressing their prejudice clearly and coherently. Haaretz obviously is not addressing this problem as much as it should.
This brings me to another issue reflecting Spungin’s assertion that its “social media editors act to the best of their ability to delete any comment which does violate these guidelines and to ban those responsible from commenting on our Facebook page.” I’ve reported plenty of anti-Semitic comments via the message system incorporated into the page’s fabric, and on one such occasion, where I suggested that the bigots disseminating hateful comment should be banned owing in part to the fact that they don’t contribute to any civil conversation, I was met with the following response from an unidentified Haaretz social media staffer: “If we banned everyone who doesn’t contribute, we’d be banning 80 percent of the people on our FB page.” Such a reply smacks of specious reasoning; it indicates that the publication would rather have a significant amount of commentary on its page rife with hate speech than a paltry amount containing minimal bigotry. The staffer who provided me with this explanation, by the way, may be the same person who, under the Haaretz name, recently posted a response mocking a long-winded, incoherent comment on the page … an unprofessional bit of behavior that could have been better spent deleting more offensive content and banning the perpetrators. A quick look at Haaretz’s editorial staff reveals that “Allison Kaplan Sommer” is listed as the English-language version’s social media editor; an email inquiry sent to her, as well as a request made via the Facebook message system on Haaretz‘s page on the site as to who was the individual who made the “80 percent” comment, elicited no response at press time, so it could not be determined whether it was one and same person. Nevertheless, it’s clear that the social media editor at the newspaper is not thoroughly checking and mitigating the hate speech on its Facebook page, given the infestation of such commentary there. Again: Someone is not doing his or her job.
Or perhaps he or she is doing it a little too well. In light of Spungin’s vague statement about Haaretz‘s guidelines, it’s possible that the social media team is abiding by these parameters—which are so lenient as to allow the horrifically offensive remarks frequently posted on the page. Maybe these guidelines are more rigid than they need be; hate speech on Facebook is extremely creative, and bigots rarely post things such as “I hate Jews” online. Instead, they may say, as “Daniel Lane” did, that someone should be turned into a “lampshade” … a reference to the Nazi’s villainous practices directed at Jews during the Holocaust. Anti-Semites also frequently disguise their hatred of Jewish culture and proponents of it with attacks on “Zionism,” a sophistic differentiation given the fact that Zionism is the idea that Jews should have a state of their own; if one rejects Zionism, one rejects the idea that Jews should have a country, and that’s a root principle of traditional anti-Semitism. Clearly, however, guidelines on hate speech may vary from publication to publication, and it’s obvious that Haaretz‘s, if they exist, don’t reflect reasonable standards. The social media editor of the Jerusalem Post once informed me that anti-Israeli content also may be construed as hate speech, and this is often deleted from the newspaper’s Facebook page; as a moderator for the Times of Israel’s Facebook page, I’m attuned to the capriciousness of bigots and delete and ban accordingly. The standards I adhere to: Comments expressing any sort of prejudice, ranging from racism to misogyny to homophobia to anti-Semitism and Islamophobia, are deleted, while the offenders may be banned from commenting further on the page if their comments are particularly virulent. Are there guidelines here? Sure. Do they match Haaretz‘s guidelines? Obviously not, and that’s disturbing—especially when one considers the fact that many of the individuals I and the JPost’s social media editor have banned from commenting on our respective pages have migrated to Haaretz‘s in an effort to continue propagating their hate speech. It’s apparent that Haaretz marches to a lax drumbeat. Unfortunately, this tactic only hurts its readers.
What can be done about this? If I were in Haaretz‘s shoes, I’d seriously reconsider its social media strategy. The publication should employ more specific, transparent guidelines against hate speech on its Facebook page that also address the “creativity” of individual expressions of bigotry. The social media team should be more proactive in mitigating such content on the site—with thorough, daily scrutiny of great importance. Because protecting a newspaper’s readers and keeping a social media site safe for posters to comment without being harassed or subject to abusive, offensive behavior shows that the publication cares about and respects its clientele, and that it won’t tolerate attacks on it. Right now, the quality of Haaretz‘s Facebook page doesn’t suggest as much. It has a long way to go. There’s still time, however, to correct it.
The principle of freedom of speech is a valuable one, and I’m fortunate to live in a country, the United States, where this policy is a fundamental part of the nation’s heritage. Still, as the FBI staffer once told me, there are some things you can’t say, and if those things threaten or cause harm in any way to people, they may be countered by the authorities. Haaretz is such an authority when it comes to the content on its Facebook page, and no amount of spin-doctoring will cover up the fact that it hasn’t taken action against most of the threatening, harmful comments on that site. Will it do so in the future? I’m certainly hopeful. There’s no reason why it should keep the status quo in the interest of hazy, ill-conceived ideals. And it’s for the benefit of its readers that it address anti-Semitic hate speech more dynamically. After all, such intolerance causes harm to others. It’s more than just not contributing to the dialogue among disparate parties—it’s hurting people, verbally and psychologically, and fomenting an unsafe environment. A good social media team will address that.
Methinks the potential end result—a Facebook page where anti-Semitism and all other forms of hate speech are minimized to the point of insignificance—is worth it.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/haaretz-and-hate-speech-the-price-of-leniency/
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Sick performance at Ha’aretz conference
Performer who made disgusting use of an Israel flag was booed and had to stop his show.
Gil Ronen , Mar 06 , 2016.
A sick performance that was part of the Ha’aretz Israel Culture Conference at the Tel Aviv Museum Sunday was cut short and the “artist” made to leave the stage.
The performer, Ariel Bronz, inserted a flag into a part of his nether anatomy in front of the crowd, which predictably reacted harshly. According to Israel Hayom’s Dror Eidar, the flag was an Israeli flag.
According to some reports, the artist also threw juiced oranges at the audience after he was booed.
A sick performance that was part of the Ha’aretz Israel Culture Conference at the Tel Aviv Museum Sunday was cut short and the “artist” made to leave the stage.
The performer, Ariel Bronz, inserted a flag into a part of his nether anatomy in front of the crowd, which predictably reacted harshly. According to Israel Hayom’s Dror Eydar, the flag was an Israeli flag.
According to some reports, the artist also threw juiced oranges at the audience after he was booed.
In a Ha’aretz interview in October, Bronz said that he sees his art as a form of terror and that he sees Israelis as embodying “all that is ugly in the human race.”
“I see mountains of stupidity and nothingness gushing inside them every morning as they leave their poor houses and swamp the streets,” he elaborated. “Zombies, people with nothing inside them.”
In a previous conference in New York, the leftist Ha’aretz accommodated Palestinian Authority (PA) chief negotiator Sa’eb Erekat by taking down an Israeli flag, after he made clear that he would not speak otherwise. The flag had been draped across the stage, behind the speaker’s podium.
Erekat demanded that event organizers take the flag down as his price for gracing the event with his comments – and they complied, upon which Erekat agreed to make his prepared speech.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208965
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Undeterred by Facts, Leftist Pundit Scorns Historic Owners of Jewish Land He Dubbed ‘Palestinian’
By David Israel -
26 Adar I 5776 – March 6, 2016
The willingness to admit mistakes is almost a lost art in Israel’s media. In most cases, Israeli opinion makers, when proven wrong, prefer to ignore the whole thing and just move on, nothing to see here, folks. One exception to the rule is Gideon Levy, Haa’retz’s leading anti-Zionist columnist, who used an embarrassing error he had made in his column last week to blithely move the debate’s goalposts to an entirely different part of the field, and ram a new ball through. As victories go, this one required double the lying power and did little to promote dialogue inside Israel’s society. Of course, Gideon Levy to Israeli dialogue is what Sweeney Todd is to haircuts.
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Contempt for the Holocaust in the Haaretz newspaper
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked accuses the Haaretz newspaper of sponsoring the contempt and incitement of the Holocaust, in articles published in the newspaper.
Chezki Baruch, INN
9 Adar 5776 - Feb 18, 2016
... “This is not just the constant incitement against Education Minister Naftali Bennett. He is strong enough, he will continue on his way and I do not worry,” Shaked wrote on her Facebook page. “This is the ongoing contempt for the Holocaust, this is the terrible use that is being made of the Holocaust.”
https://www.inn.co.il/news/316480
The ‘Elders of Zion’ reborn at the University of Kent
Jan 27, 2016
Yesterday, 28/01/2016, I was at the University of Kent to hear a talk by Amira Hass titled ‘Israel and the Palestinians: Colonialism[sic] and Prospects for Justice[sic]’. The event itself was a collaboration between The Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies at Kent University and the Palestine Centre at SOAS, University of London. One of these universities, SOAS, is already a notorious hotbed for extremism, the other, Kent, seems to be desperately trying to catch-up.
Dr Bashir Abu-Manneh is the head of the centre for Postcolonial studies at Kent, like other academics of his type, it can be seen from his own activity that he has long lost sight of what academia and critical thinking is about. This event, following one just the evening before attempting to create BDS activists on campus, is simply a sign of a deteriorating environment.
Amira Hass is an Israeli columnist at the Haaretz newspaper. For the last 20 years she has lived in the Palestinian areas, originally in Gaza, but more recently moving to Ramallah in the West Bank. Amira is an example of one of those Israelis nobody should have heard of. Standing for politics that receive no support in Israel, Amira’s opinions reflect none but a handful of oddballs. Every nation has people like Hass hidden in the shadows. What makes her ‘special’, what makes her a marketable commodity, are hundreds of millions of people outside of Israel that simply want Israel gone. The audience of Amira Hass are not peacemakers, but warmongers.
... The talk itself was relatively predictable and in 45 minutes, she did not mention Arab violence once. The intifada’s, both of which apparently were ‘benign’, were mentioned in name twice but never detailed. Rather, the violence, all of it, was (supposedly) “Jewish.”
In usual fashion, events in Israel were taken out of context, exaggerated, misrepresented, and as one would expect from an activist who long ago forgot how to actually ‘report’ a news item, important details were either deliberately sidestepped or completely forgotten. Sleight of hand in her description of events with the Bedouin of the Negev, allowed Hass to suggest that it didn’t matter which side of the 1967 border was being discussed, the end result for an Arab is always the same. Gross distortion of a deliberately sinister kind, and an unforgiveable misrepresentation of the simple fact that Arab Israelis are *factually* living as equal citizens in a liberal democracy.
At events like this I always feel sorry for the uninformed in the audience. They are vulnerable to a propaganda exercise that is designed to spread lies and hatred. Although that, I suppose, is the sole purpose of the talk in the first place. I also resent the idea that a university in the UK can give a platform to such distortion without feeling the need to provide an alternative voice.
The argument that a university is there to hear all voices is an acceptable theory, but is simply not one that holds up to inspection. As we have seen recently elsewhere, these anti-Israeli activists disrupt and silence pro-Israeli speakers wherever they are due to speak, and one campus event in the past few weeks, even saw violence.
Free speech only works when it works for everyone. If you hide behind free speech when it suits you, but employ the heckler’s veto when it doesn’t, you simply engage in a form of ‘red fascism’, which is precisely the tactic currently being used by anti-Israeli activists. The university, any university, should make permission for these one-sided events conditional on a free speech for all platform. If they do not respect free speech for others, they shouldn’t have any themselves.
So the evening went on, and Amira Hass had been discussing Israeli ‘war crimes’ for 40 minutes, and the majority of the audience were hanging on her every faltering word. When suddenly, without warning, I heard mention of the ‘Elders of Zion’. As had occurred with me at a different event when Gerald Kaufman had mentioned ‘Jewish money’, I got lost between the sentences as I tried to make sense of what I was hearing. Hass was discussing a hidden agenda, a secret group of Jews, plotting and planning beyond the reach of Israeli democracy – by extension, this secret group were to blame for the ‘war crimes’, for the death of innocent Palestinian children. Hass was spinning tales of a Jewish cabal, of shady secretive control, of unworldly plots and sinister deeds. A road that leads to dead children. Hass was resurrecting a classic historic antisemitic blood libel in a British university.
Hass had stepped back in time to explain the perpetual occupation, to present a reason why after 49 years, no movement had been made towards peace. Without Palestinian violence, Israeli actions become irrational, with Israeli democracy, they become inexplicable, and someway, somehow, this illogical unreasonable position needed to be explained away. All that is left is conspiracy. This is what she said:
“And I ask myself did the Elders of Zion really sit together at the beginning of the Seventies and then during the nineties, and plan, and have all these military orders, all these changes? I believe that they knew for sure that they don’t want to give back the land and in the Nineties, my conclusion is that they wanted to do everything possible to stop(?) the two state solution.”
Beyond Israeli democracy, beyond the will of the voters, beyond the desires of peacemakers like Rabin and Peres, there are invisible Jewish decision makers. They planned from the early 1970’s, never to let the territories go, they manipulated, they connived, they controlled as puppet masters do. A conspiracy of a Jewish cabal that places the profit to be won from the occupation above the will of the electorate and the lives of innocent children. And it is called the ‘Elders of Zion’.
I missed many of the following comments as I tried to come to terms with what I had just heard, as a Jew in the UK in 2016. In a university. Hass continued about freedom of the press, about how she came to live in Gaza and then I began to find my bearings again as she turned to a question on BDS.
This too was informative. Amira Hass began to promote BDS but with a clear failure to understand its central ideas. She told the crowd that BDS makes Israelis nervous, but suggested identifying strategic targets rather than a strategy of ‘random fire in all directions’. Hass suggested petitioning European governments to remove the visa waiver for Israelis, so they would need to apply to travel. She reinforced this by mentioning this is what she already tells foreign diplomats when she gets the chance. And then another stroke of strategic brilliance. She put forward that attacks against Israel as a whole can be seen as antisemitic, so it is far more productive just to target settlements.
This instruction tells you everything you need to know about BDS. As a movement BDS is not about the 1967 occupation, but what they see as the occupation of 1948. The enemy of BDS is the entire state of Israel. But to state this out loud is to invite criticism, to expose the antisemitic underbelly of the entire boycott movement, so it is best to try to hide this goal. Here was Amira Hass in public admitting she is actively promoting BDS, actively petitioning foreign governments and winking and nodding at other activists, showing them the way to avoid the antisemitic label...
https://david-collier.com/elders-zion-reborn-university-kent/
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Haaretz’s Owner Proves Paper Has an Anti-Israel Political Agenda
by Simon Plosker - Jan 25, 2016
... For the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign, Israel is also an illegitimate apartheid state that deserves to be destroyed. If Schocken has adopted the narrative and language of BDS, then, presumably, he is content to see Israel as the pariah amongst the nations. Haaretz then becomes the token Jew, much like those small yet very vocal anti-Zionist (and sometimes even antisemitic) Jews who serve as fig leaves for the BDS campaign. After all, if Jews and even a major Israeli newspaper are in favor of boycotting the Israeli “apartheid state,” then this form of assault on Israel’s wellbeing must be legitimate in the eyes of the uninformed observer.
Haaretz is striving not for objective and accurate reporting but for promoting a political agenda. It is incumbent, therefore, that the foreign media see Haaretz as a political entity rather than a primary news source. Using Haaretz as a cover for biased reporting is unacceptable.
While Haaretz is a product of Israel’s vibrant democracy and free press, it also plays a major role in the demonization of Israel. Amos Schocken’s latest opinion piece sadly acknowledges that Haaretz is anything but an unwilling accomplice.
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Acting editor of “Ovda” to General Ben: “Haaretz is running an aggressive and unethical campaign against the program”
A new clash in a skirmish over a Navy investigation: In a letter sent by Shachar Alterman to the publisher and editor-in-chief, which reached Walla Guild [Branja], he accuses the newspaper of revenge and “hysterical, dishonest discourse of people walking around as if a butter factory is on their heads.”
Maya Mena, Sunday, 31 January 2016
...Acting editor of the program, Shachar Alterman, accuses the Haaretz newspaper of campaigning against the program, following an Ezra Navi investigation. Alterman wrote to publisher Amos Schocken and its editor-in-chief…
In a letter sent today to Schocken and White, which reached Walla Branja, Alterman wrote: “My expectations of Haaretz have fallen sharply in the past month...
Alterman goes on to say: “I suppose you too could not help noticing Haaretz’s aggressive campaign in recent weeks against ‘Ovda’ following the article prepared by Omri Assenheim and giving gas to Ezra Navi and his associates to extradite a Palestinian land trader to preventive security. I just wonder if you signed “This campaign must cross every boundary of journalistic ethics - collegiality has no point in exaggerating empty words - out of passionate intent or out of omission and disregard. And I also wonder which of the two options is more serious.”
https://b.walla.co.il/item/2930483
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Ovda: Catch the leftist for a change
Nava Koren, 18/01/2016
“I hope that Ilana Dayan will not be frightened by the threats of the bullying and violent left in understandable panic, so they will not stop terrorizing ‘fact’ investigators lest they reveal more details in their possession, about the betrayal and exploits of left-wing activists against IDF soldiers.”
“There is no crime, no crime at all that can not be forgiven when ‘our-side’ commits it. Even if we do not deny that the crime was committed, even if we know that it is exactly the same crime we condemned in some other case, even if we admit intellectually that it is unjustified, still “You can’t feel bad. Loyalty is involved, so compassion stops functioning.” (George Orwell ‘Under Your Nose’)!
I have no idea how the contemporary left will be taught in future schools and universities in future generations. One thing I have no doubt, George Orwell like Uri Zvi Greenberg who were good at diagnosing the intellectual left in their generation, will be considered prophets who watched and prophesied about the left in our generation-do not know what I would do without them to understand the contemporary left and what is happening here ?!
On January 7, 2016, Channel 2 aired on Ilana Dayan’s popular program ‘Ovda’, an unusual investigation that reveals for the first time the shame of the far-left organizations whose activists make a living from the blood libel under ‘occupation’ under the guise of ‘human rights’ activists. To the left and most to the Israeli media and its researchers.
Except for the chilling testimony of the far-left activist known by Zehava Gal-On: ‘Empire’ - after all, it is Ezra Nawi, chairman of the Taayush association who testified, among other well-known activities of left-wing activists against IDF soldiers by provocations and libels - for a fee - who also informs and betrays Arabs who trade with settlers, to the Palestinian Authority for torture to death in his literal language: “First Zobor and then Gazanga”!
As long as Taayush activists, Yesh Din, B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, the New Foundation and Peace Now acted in Israel as they Esau, a knife in the back of the nation and persecuted, slandered, slandered and caught the Jews de-jour : a bird did not tweet and no outcry was heard, not even when Adv. Roni Aloni-Sedovnik, revealed here on the website on September 20, 2010, a chilling article entitled:
“The betrayal of the left in peace activities that were sexually harmed” - including rape, by Arab left-wing activists, and they were silenced by their “Jewish” activists who prevented them from complaining to the police so as not to harm their livelihoods from the “lie industry” and “anti-occupation” enterprises. And all this under the guise of ‘peace,’ ‘Brotherhood of Nations’ and ‘Human Rights’ - ‘never happened!’
It was a terrible article, which was supposed to shake the thresholds of the Knights of the Rule of Law, the left-wing feminists who swallowed their tongues and the monopolists on: ‘Wisdom’, ‘Morality’, ‘Justice’, ‘Conscience’, ‘Truth’ and ‘Peace’ ‘- and the story as I well remember was unanimously silenced as expected from a Bolshevik recruiter recruited on the left - just as the prophets George Orwell had predicted and prophesied:
“Everyone will react in more or less the same way. One sad stab of nationalism and intellectual fairness may disappear, the past can be changed, and the most obvious facts can be denied”!
And Gideon Levy’s red response to the above exposure in ‘Ovda’!
The exploits of the ‘righteous’ from left-wing organizations could be learned long ago, the brilliant and evidential number of the undercover on his own behalf, Tuvia Tenenbom, who impersonated the ‘German Toby’ journalist as the Palestinians prefer and love ‘Germans’, and as such did a wonderful job, and if it were not for us we would die of laughter. Tennenbom revealed the hypocrisy, stupidity and ignorance of those left-wing activists who make a living from selective anti-Semitism, and even interviewed Gideon Levy, Uri Avnery, Amos Oz, Merav Michaeli, the useful rabbi Arik Asherman and others in his wonderful book: “Catch the Jew” - a must read!
It was possible to learn how the method works in left-wing organizations, as well as his equally important book by Joan Peters ‘book Since and Promoting, by the decent leftist and straight-forward Ben-Dror Yemini, who I think should combine his book, ‘The Industry of Lies’ with ‘From Time Immemorial,’ in the Ministry of Education for future generations...
When Gideon Levy swears to Rick ‘in the lives of his children’
At the end of the broadcast of “Ovda” investigation, Gideon Levy from the “Haaretz” anti-Semitic newspaper was honored to respond. Despite Ilana Dayan’s ridiculous apology to her leftist friends before and after the article aired, Levy did not calm down. He was furious as expected from a common Bolshevik - and not about the horrific interrogation he was angry about, but about Dayan’s ‘impudence’ who dared to broadcast the article at all?
It was not the shocking article that bothered the monopolist about the rights of the wild man in Israel, but the very broadcast that he said: “I was bothered by a few things here, but more than that, with all the appreciation, Ilana, did it bother me that you broadcast this article”? Really! in these words !.
This is how Levy attacked Ilana Dayan in order to protect the “our” people. An article that was supposed to first shock the “beauties of the soul” who boast in vain of “enlightened” values such as: “morality”, “conscience”, “equality”, “truth”, “justice”, “human dignity and liberty” and other rubbish, nonsense as only the left knows how to sell and can!
The main thing that ‘democracy’ and freedom of expression ‘exalt in the throats of our leftists, but in the territory as we know, is the sword of Bolshevism, hypocrisy, double standards and omission for Jews: in their language, in microphones, in their pens and in their blood!
The despicable attempt of Gideon Levy, who he said used to ‘walk around in a van with Ezra Navi’, to shake it off and reduce the well-known and overt deeds since the Oslo scam, of those far-left activists to: “one man”? An insult to intelligence! And it’s like abandoning a ‘wounded’ friend in a typical and predictable treacherous act-area. Expected from a leftist fanatic caught in his perversion !.
Levy increased his swearing “in the lives of his children” to convince Ilana that he did not know what would happen to Arabs who traded land with Jews when they were handed over to the Palestinian Authority?
Is there a single citizen, regardless of religion.. who does not know what happens to an Arab suspected of collaborating with the Zionist enemy?
Let alone investigative journalistic material like Gideon Levy? Even if he, to his shame, does not understand a word in Arabic. Is this a journalist who has spent almost his entire life in this field and more than others? Where did you get this Gideon Levy from? And swear by your children?
“A person has to belong to an intelligence in order to believe such things, but an ordinary person cannot be so stupid”! Also in the opinion of George Orwell!
Only they will not tell us that Amira Hass also does not know what happens to Arabs who trade with Jews?
In conclusion, I very much hope that Ilana Dayan will not be intimidated by the threats of the bully and violent left in understandable panic, so they will not stop terrorizing ‘Ovda’ investigators lest they reveal more details about their betrayal and the exploits of leftist activists against our IDF soldiers. For his sake, and against innocent Jews, but will continue to do its work faithfully without fear and without prejudice towards all without religious, ethnic and partisan distinction — as equals of equal...
By the way, I heard the journalist Ari Shavit in ‘Diary Friday’ on 1/15/16 warns us against using the word ‘traitors’ against those far-left activists. And in one breath, like many on the left who automatically remind us of the ‘incitement that preceded Rabin’s assassination’ in order to silence the right, despite the fact that the incitement to Rabin’s assassination was done by one man, according to Gideon Levy, by the inciter, openly instigator to the assassination of Rabin who was Gilon’s ‘champagne’ in the Rabin / Peres / Oslo government named Avishai Raviv, and despite the fact that the then attorney general, Menachem Mazuz, investigated this incitement well and concluded that: “I know it is customary to repeatedly mention the assassination of the Prime Minister as an outgrowth of incitement, to this day no one has proved it!” (August 2005) !!
Nor does this fact prevent that Bolshevik left from continuing to slander and incite against the right for no wrongdoing, automatically, and without letting any fact and no conclusion confuse them!
I would like to refer Shavit and his tribe to the Ibn Shushan dictionary to internalize and learn once and for all what the word ‘traitor’ means: “Breach of trust, a person who acts against his friends, against his people, or against his country and helps the enemy.”
On the contrary, Ari Shavit is honored to answer us honestly: Who in our homeland meets this criterion?
Finally, it bothers me that the media has never engaged in research on those malignant associations and organizations called by the left: ‘Human Rights’ - No way!, and the New Foundation headed by those who work in their eyes “for our benefit” as if... And in the question: To point out one bright spot that worked for Israel in exchange for their activities here and in the world?
One ‘bright spot’ that ‘benefited’ our international outreach and ‘our good’? Who contributed to our ‘peace’ and security and ‘our good’? Who acted for the belief in the righteousness of our factual way? The public’s right to know!
I have noticed, since the establishment and activity of all Israeli left-wing organizations for generations, and the lucrative and profitable ‘peace’ institutes here and around the world - the world remains against us and even becomes much larger anti-Semitic than it was...
https://www.news1.co.il/Archive/003-D-108975-00.html
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Not the Israeli left, but Palestinian nationalists
Dror Idar, Monday, January 18, 2016
Black on top of a newspaper around the world, the “Haaretz” newspaper published (again) a bad slander of Israel. Gideon Levi “hurts” for our neighbors and on the way loses his temper and discernment: “Israel executes(sic) without trial, almost every day.” And he added: “Any other description is a lie.” no less! Now the haters of Israel and the conspirators against her will cite his absurd statement ...
What happened to the Israeli left, that a natural and just act of protecting the life turned into an indictment against us? “execution” means deliberate action. Who put Levy to judge people at the moment of their attack, is the soul free then to check subtleties of proper under laboratory conditions?
“They shoot to death indiscriminately - at women, men, girls and boys,” Levy wrote, “shoot to kill, punish, consume the rage and take revenge.” An accurate description of the Arab barbarism of the past years specializing in the murder of Jews wherever they are. But Levy was referring to the security forces and the people of the House of Israel who face continuous assassination attempts. He brought in the B’Tselem organization as assistance, which “documents” additional cases of “executions”. I don’t understand, if there is a case of wrongdoing outside of a trial, be respectful and complain to the police. It seems that Levy is making accusations that are “out of court”.
Levy claimed the dubious honor of Swedish Foreign Minister Margot Wallström, “one of the few conscientious jobs in the world.” We didn’t hear the “woman of conscience” from Sweden tweeting anything in the face of hundreds of murders that happened just last week at the hands of jihadist Islam and its metastases around the world.
If someone had managed to kill the abominable knifeman before murdering Dafna Meir hy”d in front of her children at Atniel - isn’t it reasonable to assume that the circles of “Haaretz” and the Swedish Foreign Minister would have added him to the list of “executions without trial”?
Because this is the depth of the story of the group of European anti-Semites: they are not interested in benefiting human lives, nor in Muslim rights. Israel is their goal, because in pseudo-liberal circles - from Sweden to ours - an 8th war order has been issued for the Jews’ right to their own country and their right to protect their lives. Voluntarily (or not), the Swedish Foreign Minister joined a large camp that fights to the bitter end (and boycotts!) the only stable historical law in the last two hundred years: the return of the Jews home to Zion.
“Execution” is the regular action of those who see the murder of a mother in the eyes of her children as an act of heroism, and receive applause from their society. Parts of the Israeli left have reached such a deep identification with the other side that their actions testify: we are not facing an Israeli left, but Palestinian nationalists.
https://www.israelhayom.co.il/opinion/348723
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Biased and stasis coverage: On Nawi, Levy and Breaking the Silence
In Haaretz, Ezra Nawi’s conviction for sodomy against a minor is framed as irrelevant. Gideon Levy’s insult from the investigation that was broadcast in fact is a strong expression of the media’s bias. “Breaking the silence” are not opponents of a regime, but doers of other regimes
Tal Raphael | 12/1/2016
1. Ezra Nawi
As is well known, in the past Ezra Navi was convicted of an act of sodomy on a minor, and in 1997 even ran for this offense a sentence of actual imprisonment. For Amira Hass from Haaretz, this is merely an ancient and marginal conviction, which she vaguely calls: “solicitation and the cause of a minor.” There is no definition in the law of “minor cause”, and “solicitation” is not exactly an offense in itself (solicitation for what?). Apparently, Hess is playing with the terms in order to avoid the legal definition of an “act of sodomy,” which may sound threatening to her. She frames the “ancient” conviction as some sort of irrelevant item in Navi’s biography, one that helps attack him for no wrong in his palm. Just like the fact that he wears “headgear that deviates from his nerdy standard of appearance” (yes, so originally).
By the way, Nawi is not clean of convictions to say the least. A few years ago he was convicted of participating in a riot and assaulting a police officer. Nawi appealed, and the judgment on appeal read as follows: “In his (Nawi-TR’s) past violent offenses unrelated to his political doctrine. Public, various drug offenses and transportation of “Shavim”.
After all this, Amira Hass thinks it is easy to treat him because he is “gay, oriental, aging”. Oh, so that’s the reason?
2. Gideon Levy
Among right-wing circles, there is often the claim that the media is unbalanced. In order to prove the claim, it is customary to count the number of right-wingers participating in the panel, or to highlight in a red line “convicting” words in biased coverage. But a strong expression of the media’s misrepresentation could be found in the astonishment that gripped Gideon Levy at the end of the broadcast of the investigation in “Ovda.” “I was bothered by a few things here,” he said in the studio. “But more than that, Ilana, with all the appreciation, bothered me that you broadcast this article.” In other words, Levy told Dayan, we are old friends. There is an unwritten covenant between us that you have just broken.
He continued to express the insult even in his column in Haaretz: “The story is how the deadly virus of distraction in the propaganda service also penetrated into the almost last outpost of the real press in the tribal bonfire,” Levy wrote of “Ovda.” “How did a right-wing McCarthyist organization, whose motives are clear (and vile) and whose origins are unknown, manage to easily seduce such esteemed journalists as Ilana Dayan and Omri Assenheim.” They are ours, Levy shouts. Although Dayan answered him nicely (”We do not work for you”, she wrote in a column published following the review), but the point lies in Levy’s assumption: after all, communication and truth research is a game we all play here, why, Ilana, violated the rules of the game.
3. Stasi
“We do not work for the Stasi and do not respond to the Stasi,” Breaking the Silence responded to an investigation into them, in which it was revealed that the organization transferred funds to Nawi and Guy Botvia. The Stasi, the secret police of East Germany operated since the 1950s. Its job was to locate the perpetrators under the government and punish them.
Ostensibly, they will say in “Vouchers”, we are brave opponents of a regime and in front of us a thought police. But in practice, these opponents of the regime are not exactly opponents of the regime, but the doers of other regimes, from which they receive a budget and in spite of which they are secretive. The NGO Monitor Institute recently revealed that donors to the Breaking the Silence organization have in the past conditioned the transfer of money on obtaining a certain number of negative testimonies. For example, the aid organization ICCO (funded by the Dutch government) required Breaking the Silence to interview at least 90 soldiers in 2009. Breaking the Silence also signed another contract with the British organization Oxfam (funded by the UK government), which requires them to conduct interviews with “Some That more “soldiers who testify to the performance of” immoral “acts that violate human rights.
In other words, “Breaking the Silence” are working to fulfill the will of these “regimes,” to whom they report regularly. If what was revealed in the investigation is true, then in “Breaking the Silence” they paid money to Palestinian activists in order for them to attend the demonstrations. Photographs, which show the reactions of IDF soldiers to rioting demonstrators, are regularly transmitted by a variety of organizations to the authorities of the defending and funding countries. So who is working against whom and on a mission?
https://www.makorrishon.co.il/nrg/online/1/ART2/748/054.html
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