Or no one at all, as Joseph’s Tomb apparently caught fire spontaneously. CAMERA says in the headline of its piece that this is “Bad Writing,” but it is much more insidious than that. This is a concerted and conscious endeavor to divert attention away from “Palestinian” jihad violence, and to give readers the impression that the Israelis are killing innocent “Palestinians” arbitrarily — which is, of course, the line of Islamic supremacist groups in the U.S., such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
“Wave of Palestinian Violence Accompanied by Spate of Bad Writing,” CAMERA, October 14, 2015 (thanks to Inexion):
Some correspondents and headline writers are doing a fine job reporting on the outbreak of terror in Israel, but all too many others are failing at this task. Journalists in the latter category have relied on the passive voice, euphemism, and imprecision — reportorial smoke and mirrors — to obscure Palestinian terror attacks and even recast terrorists as victims of arbitrary Israeli violence. Below are a few examples. (This piece will be continuously updated.)
CNN: Joseph’s Tomb site spontaneously combusts.
“Fire broke out overnight at the compound housing Joseph’s Tomb, a religious site venerated by Jews, the Israel Defense Forces said Friday,” CNN’s story begins. And it’s true. The holy site did catch fire. Right around the time Palestinian arsonists set it on fire.
CNN’s headline is one of the worst examples yet of obscuring violence and concealing the identity of the perpetrators. And as one observer on Twitter noted, such opaque writing seems reserved for Palestinian attacks. When the roles were reversed early last year, a CNN headline clearly noted, “West Bank mosque attack blamed on Israeli settlers.”
(Update: After CAMERA pressed editors, CNN amended its headline to “Joseph’s Tomb site set ablaze amid wave of Palestinian-Israeli violence.” It’s a step in the right direction, but still fails to note the identity of the arsonists.)BBC Headline: “Palestinian shot dead after Jerusalem attack kills two.”
Could you tell from that headline that the Palestinian who was shot dead is the very same Palestinian who killed two? (Killed two Jews, we should add, since the headline only noted the ethnicity of the Palestinian victim, also known as the attacker.)It took much outcry and three BBC revisions before the headline finally relayed the news in a straightforward way: “Jerusalem: Palestinian kills two Israelis in Old City. (See details here.)Wall Street Journal Facebook post: Palestinian teens shot. Separately, a “knife-wielding assailant” is on the loose.
Also relevant, but inexplicably unmentioned in the post: The Palestinian teenagers shot by the police are actually the very same knife-wielding attackers described in the vague Facebook blurb. One of those attackers had just stabbed a 13-year-old Jewish boy on a bike. The newspaper eventually revised its headline to “Israeli Police Fatally Shoot Two Palestinian Teen Attackers, Injure Two Others.” See? That wasn’t too hard.MSNBC: He was in a rush.
“Man shot after rushing past police in Jerusalem,” is the way MSNBC headlined its report about a Palestinian who was shot. While wearing army fatigues. While brandishing a butterfly knife and, yes, “rushing” toward Israeli security guards with that knife.Although MSNBC headlines continue to cast this as the shooting of a rushed man, the heading on subsequent television broadcasts improved: “Israeli police kill man after attempted stabbing.”Reuters: “Israelis kill Jerusalem knife man.”
Who is this Knife Man, and why did Israeli kill him? Is he a knife salesman? A juggler? A superhero? You need to look for the fine print to learn that he’s actually “a Palestinian man who tried to stab a trooper who tried to search him in Jerusalem.”Los Angeles Times: “Israeli violence” strikes down Palestinians.
Yes, there’s a pattern here. Headline writers seem to have an aversion to mentioning “Palestinian violence,” even though that is the main story coming out of Israel this week. CAMERA contacted the newspaper, and to its credit, it revised the headline to explain that violence (not “Israeli violence”) left six dead, “including stabbing suspects.” (Two were killed after stabbing attempts; two were involved in violent rioting; and two were civilians that tragically died when their house, next to a Hamas training facility, collapsed after an Israeli air strike on that facility.)New York Times: The asphalt is under attack.
“Pelted the road“? The newspaper couldn’t bring itself to admit, either in the headline or the lede, that Palestinian attackers stoned Israeli cars, not Israeli “roads.” The identity of the “attackers,” moreover, was not specified anywhere in the article….








nicu says
How long will Muslims – the cancer of the Earth – still be protected and treated as Holy Cows ???
What’s wrong with the world ???
Surrendered all to Saudi Arabia for oil ? Or President OSama ?
Paul says
After Hamas had called for “Friday confrontations” and a
“day of rage” – in the full knowledge that Western professional
bleeding hearts would rally to their cause against Israel – they
managed to achieve precisely that. Who’d have have seen that
coming? If only lottery numbers were that easy to predict. Lo and
behold, I saw very one-sided reporting on Sky News, complete
with a sorrowful, mournful and condescending tone coming from
the alleged reporter. So much for impartiality. Most forms of MSM
are a complete joke without any integrity.
dsinc says
The enemedia, as Pamela so rightly calls them, have been infiltrated by Muslims as part of Islam’s goal of conquering the West.
Paul says
It’s a pretty toxic mixture whereby Saudi and Qatari money is
buying up our media and our academia, where these bourgeois
left-wing journalists are indoctrinated.
Rsklaroff says
As noted @Facebook, MSNBC eyewitness, Arabic, had to be corrected by José Belart during the 9 a.m. broadcast.
Robert B. Sklaroff, M.D. says
http://conservativevideos.com/msnbc-anchor-corrects-reporter-on-air-when-making-false-leading-assertion-about-palestinian-terrorist/
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
As we read these man bites dog accounts, let us recall the reason for that:
Abraham was not a Jew nor a Christian but he was an upright man, a Moslem…
— Allah confiscating Abraham in Holy Ko-Ran 3:67, and implying that Jews & Christians are not humans
The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle and strive to make mischief in the land is only this, that they should be murdered or crucified…
— Allah talking Jews & Christians as making war on the Religion of Peach in Holy Ko-Ran 5:33
those Jews who incurred the curse of Allah and His wrath, those of whom some He transformed into apes and swine, those who worshipped evil; these are many times worse in rank, and far more astray from the even path!
— Allah claiming he turned Jews into apes and pigs in Holy Ko-Ran 5:60
When in their insolence the Jews transgressed all prohibitions, We said to them: “Be ye apes, despised and rejected.
— Allah calling Jews dirty apes in Holy Ko-Ran 7:166
And the Jews say: Uzair is the son of Allah; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of Allah; these are the words of their mouths; they imitate the saying of those who disbelieved before; may Allah destroy them; how they are turned away!
— Allah commanding that Jews & Christians be murdered in Holy Ko-Ran 9:30
In summary, the Jews did many things that made Allah furiously angry, and he issued these and other corrective and punishing commands. Observant Moslems follow Allah’s commands, and thus when they stab or meat-cleave or otherwise harm or kill Jews this is not attempted murder or murder, it is the Moslems observing their religion.
DeMolay says
What next?
‘Jews jump onto the tips of Palestinian knives?’
‘Palestinian suicide bomber dies as a result of using Israeli technology?’
‘Israelis provoke attack by sipping tea in an aggressive manner’
There has to be relentless and continuous pressure on the media to report accurately, or else we will continue to see tens of thousands turn out to anti Israel rallies and 3 people and a dog to anti jihad rallies.
Shmooviyet says
Bravo to JW for re-posting this coverage of these filthy, acceptably-racist ‘news’ sites and their BS.
‘Headlines’ phrased to shout out how the ‘reporters’ are in on the slicked-up, age-old Jew-hatred; forced rewrites to come closer to the truth, only after the outlets are contacted and complaints registered…
What has happened to Journalism 101?
Apparently it’s just outdated to think there is still such a thing.
Katnis says
Right. It just seems like the MSM is trying to make this into a tit for tat kind of thing. As if both sides need to learn how to get along. In fact, we know in 1967 eight Arab heads of state (Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Egypt, Jordan, etc) met and declared their three no’s: “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with Israel. The truth is that the muslims have been persecuting the Jews for centuries.
It stinks that our journalists are either:
1. Not doing their homework
2. Being instructed to present a balanced fight (which is inaccurate)
duh_swami says
‘Just the facts Mam;,,Most posters here understand the facts. Most facts of the errant MSM are Chubby Checker….That is, twistin this way and twistin that way, but always twistin…I don’ twist5, but I do the ‘mashed potato’ every now and then…I never watch CNN…there’s too many twists and sharp curves..
sally says
The worst is to see how the Jews in the newsroom sit quietly and seeth.
fidobite says
I NEVER visit any of those sham outlets for “news” so I wouldn’t have noticed the laughably bias reporting. Thanks for bringing attention to it. Such slanting of the news is validation of my choice to avoid these propaganda outlets and their advertisers / suporters.
Angemon says
Good to know there’s someone watching the watchmen.
Larry A. Singleton says
Media Against Jews 11-18-14
A good piece of ammunition for the media and academic propaganda:
Islamophobia: Thought Crime of the Totalitarian Future by David Horowitz and Robert Spencer (Booklet)
Wave of Palestinian Violence Accompanied by Spate of Bad Writing 10-14-15 CAMERA–Some correspondents and headline writers are doing a fine job reporting on the outbreak of terror in Israel, but all too many others are failing at this task. Journalists in the latter category have relied on the passive voice, euphemism, and imprecision — reportorial smoke and mirrors — to obscure Palestinian terror attacks and even recast terrorists as victims of arbitrary Israeli violence.
http://www.camera.org/index.asp?x_context=2&x_outlet=118&x_article=3132
HonestReporting: Watch the difference in CNN’s coverage of Israeli and Palestinian recent attacks.
https://www.facebook.com/HonestReporting/videos/10152933489329954/
Blog: Why Did Israel Provoke the Latest War? 8-11-14
http://www.amazon.com/forum/politics?
Sixties fan says:
http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/ForeignPolicy/Issues/Pages/Testimonies-from-Gaza-and-Hamas-intimidation-of-foreign-journalists.aspx
Testimonies from Gaza and Hamas intimidation of foreign journalists
What explains the absence of investigative reporting into Hamas crimes in the Western media? Part of the answer seems to be fear.
France 24 reporter live from Gaza
Several Western journalists working in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge have been harassed and threatened by Hamas for reporting cases of the involvement of civilians in warfare against Israel.
Migrant Crisis: The Footage the Media Refuses to Broadcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=39&v=ZV315xqbRK8
Why are mainstream media outlets like CNN and BBC only broadcasting footage which shows the migrants in a positive light?
African Tourists See the Samaria “CNN Lies About”
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/47272/african-tourists-see-the-samaria-cnn-lies-about/#pOooGXapMQZWJX2z.97
Video: Raymond Ibrahim on how the Western establishment conceals Muslim persecution of Christians (Jihad Watch)
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/08/video-raymond-ibrahim-on-how-the-western-establishment-conceals-muslim-persecution-of-christians
New York Times
letters@nytimes.com
Indicting Israel: An in-depth study of New York Times’ coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict by Ricki Hollander and Gilead Ini (Aish)
http://www.aish.com/jw/mo/Indicting-Israel.html
Indicting Israel: New York Times Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (CAMERA pdf)
http://www.camera.org/images_user/pdf/NYT%20study%20exec%20summary_ind.pdf
The Blatant Anti-Israel Bias at The New York Times
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/04/the-blatant-anti-israel-bias-at-the-new-york-times/
How The New York Times Deflects Attention From Jewish Victims by Jerold S. Auerbach July 11, 2014 (Algemeiner)
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/07/11/how-the-new-york-times-deflects-attention-from-jewish-victims/#comment-4428128
The New York Times Defends Al-Qaeda by Raymond Ibrahim (Gatestone Institute)
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4353/ny-times-al-qaeda
REJECTED! What the NY Times WON’T Run: Counter-Jihad Facts What the NY Times Will Run: Anti-Catholic Smear Ads by Pamella Geller (Atlas Shrugs)
http://pamelageller.com/2012/03/counter-jihad-offense-afdisioa-counters-new-york-times-anti-catholic-ad-with-same-only-accurate.html/
New York Times Shills for Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood by Raymond Ibrahim (Frontpage Magazine)
http://www.frontpagemag.com/2012/raymond-ibrahim/new-york-times-shills-for-egypt%E2%80%99s-muslim-brotherhood/
Frontpage Magazine Articles Re NY Times
http://www.frontpagemag.com/tag/new-york-times/
Doesn’t Israel Fund Hamas? by Francisco Gil-White (Historical and Investigative Research)
http://www.hirhome.com/israel/cia.htm
The Big Lie and the Media War Against Israel: From Inversion of the Truth to Inversion of Reality by Joel S. Fishman (Daniel Pipes)
http://www.danielpipes.org/rr/4465.php
Repulsive Guardian op-ed justifies Palestinian antisemitism (CiF Watch May 15 2014)http://cifwatch.com/2014/05/15/repulsive-guardian-op-ed-justifies-palestinian-antisemitism/
BBC refuses to allow Israeli minister to show victims of synagogue jihad attack — had no problem showing Gaza victims
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2014/11/bbc-refuses-to-allow-israeli-minister-to-show-victims-of-synagogue-jihad-attack-had-no-problem-showing-gaza-victims
“The Christian Aid Conference on Peace and Justice in the Holy Land” by Denis MacEoin (Gatestone Institute) (See “Wafa al-Biss”)
I would STRONGLY urge you to first read the Appendix at the end of the article: “From a letter to an anti-Israel activist, to be published in 2013”
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3529/christian-aid-conference-holy-land
New Anti-Semitism Tailored for Evangelicals by Christine Williams (Gatestone Institute)
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4230/christ-at-the-checkpoint
“For any self-respecting person, the endorsement of terror… at a Christian conference is obscene.” — Kay Wilson, tour guide attacked by Palestinian terrorists.
The New York Times’ Wretched Anti-Israel Bias Comes in All Too Clear by Clay Waters (MRC NewsBusters)
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/clay-waters/2014/07/11/new-york-times-wretched-anti-israel-bias-comes-all-too-clear
Israeli Watchdog NGO Monitor ‘Censored’ by AP and Other Major Outlets (Algemeiner)
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/12/01/israeli-watchdog-ngo-monitor-censored-by-ap-and-other-major-outlets/
Until Proven Innocent: Political Correctness and the Shameful Injustices of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case by Stuart Taylor Jr. and KC Johnson (Another book explaining how our universities are totally out of control and taken over by liberal fascists and the America hating lynch mob that is our media today.)
Did you know that the Russians sent us this Tear Drop memorial after 9/11? It has all the names of the people who died at the Trade Center on it. Why haven’t we heard about it before? I am just hearing about this today.
Thank you to the people of Russia!
~
An excerpt:
I got to admit – I didn’t even know this memorial existed. However, it took me two seconds to realise why – it received zero publicity. Now why do you suppose that? Why hasn’t the media expressed their gratitude? Name me another country that’s done more?
About 50 million people visit New York every year & more than 8 million live there but no one seems to have heard of The Teardrop…. yet it’s a 100ft tall, 175-ton memorial to those who died on the city’s blackest day.
http://www.911monument.com/history.cfm
katnis says
That’s quite a list! I checked out a few links. It’s amazing to see the bias in the NYT. Once the stories are stacked against one another, the bias becomes quite clear.
I also like the video on the migrant crisis – the one the MSM doesn’t want us to see.
On another note, I never heard about the teardrop memorial either. Wow! Why wasn’t this covered? What an amazing memorial. And yes – thank you, Russia.
somehistory says
Makes one wonder just what the headlines would have said about 9/11 had it been in Israel.
One must search for truth. Especially where members of islam’s beast are concerned.
richie says
Its even worse in England. Muslim butchers are called anyrthing except Muslim(usually “Asians”)
Gary says
To the Islamic supremacist groups in the U.S., such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
A few questions regarding Palestine:
1- When was Palestine founded and by whom?
2- What were its borders?
3- What was its capital?
4- What were its major cities?
5- What constituted the basis of its economy?
6- What was its form of government?
7- Can you name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat?
8- Was Palestine ever recognized by a country whose existence, at that time or now, leaves no room for interpretation?
9- What was the language of the country of Palestine ?
10- What was the prevalent religion of the country of Palestine ?
11- What was the name of its currency? Choose any date in history and tell what was the approximate exchange rate of the Palestinian monetary unit against the US dollar, German mark, GB pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on that date
Shmooviyet says
I’d like to see the extremely well-fed, Minnesota-muslim ‘Dougie’ Hooper answer 2 or 3 questions from your list– LOL.
Lookmann says
The MSM can never mend its ways .Look at the latest item
Four Palestinians killed in anti-Israeli knife attacks
http://news.yahoo.com/two-palestinians-tried-stab-jews-shot-dead-075134736.html
So the anti-Israel knife attackers killed four palestinians , I guess.
Does that mean anything else to anyone?
In their bid to defame Israel, MSM also murders English!