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UK’s Guardian publishes major article on terrorism, omits Israel

Feb 6, 2018 2:15 pm By Robert Spencer

It’s not surprising that any British paper would be anti-Semitic and anti-Israel, and the Guardian in particular has always been a strong foe of opponents of jihad terror. So this is not surprising, but it is nonetheless a grave omission. Israel faces jihad terrorism on a daily basis. No one can claim to have a comprehensive understanding of the jihad terror threat, and no one can claim to oppose it (of course, the Guardian cannot justifiably make either claim), without supporting Israel. The ideology and belief system of those who constantly preach and celebrate the murder of Israelis is exactly the same as that of Islamic jihadis the world over. Their frenzied opposition to Israel is based upon the Qur’anic command to “drive them out from where they drove you out” (2:191), even though the claim that Israel drove out the “Palestinians” is a propaganda fiction, just as the “Palestinian” nationality is as well.

“UK newspaper publishes major article on terrorism, omits Israel,” by Becket Adams, Washington Examiner, February 5, 2018 (thanks to Blazing Cat Fur):

The United States government defines terrorism as any activity that is used to “intimidate or coerce a civilian population,” to “influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion,” or “to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping.”

Using that definition, one can then say the Israelis have been victim to multiple vicious acts of terrorism in the last 40 years.

Yet, late last month, when the Guardian published a major 2,200-plus-word article exploring the history of urban terrorism, there was not a single mention of the many recent acts of terror experienced by Israelis.

The article, titled “Cities and terror: an indivisible and brutal relationship,” posits that cities are the traditional targets of terrorist attacks. It has been this way for more than a century and we shouldn’t expect it to change any time soon, the author argues.

The article mentions the Fenian bombing campaign of the 1880s, which mostly targeted London. It mentions the 1920 Wall Street bombing. It mentions the 2016 Berlin attack, in which a motorist drove a truck into a crowd of Christmas revelers, killing 12 and injuring 56. It mentions recent terrorist attacks in London, Manchester, Paris, Nice, Brussels, and Barcelona. It mentions Algeria’s war of independence against France. It mentions the German and Italian left-wing terrorist groups of the 1970s. It mentions bombings and assassinations by Basque nationalists. It mentions high-profile bombings in Kuwait and Lebanon in the early 1980s. It mentions the 1993 bombings in New York City. It mentions Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City bombing of 1995. It mentions the Islamic State, al Qaeda, and Pakistani jihadists.

There is not, however, a single mention of the many documented terrorist attacks on Israelis, carried out by groups like Hamas, al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

Perhaps because the Guardian article deals specifically with terrorism in urban areas, it omits the many attacks over the years in the West Bank. But this still doesn’t explain why the article makes no reference to Jerusalem’s many brushes with terrorism.

It seems hard to leave out the 1995 Ramat Eshkol bus bombing, which killed five, but they did. There’s no mention of the Jerusalem Central Bus Station bombing of 1996, which killed 26, or the 2003 Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing, which killed 23. There are no mentions of the 2004 Gaza Street bus bombing, which killed 11, or the suicide bombing of a Sbarro pizza restaurant in 2001, which killed seven children, a pregnant woman, and seven additional adults.

The article does mention, however, that Jewish terrorists targeted British troops in Jerusalem in 1946, before the establishment of the state of Israel, killing 91 people in one bomb blast. So, it’s not that the author forgot Jerusalem exists. It’s just that the author and his editors didn’t think it was worth mentioning the many acts of terrorism or the hundreds killed in the city following establishment of the state of Israel.

A Guardian spokesman did not response to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment….

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  1. RichardL says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 2:35 pm

    I truly admire people who have the guts to read the annoying lies of the enymedia.

    • Andy says

      Feb 6, 2018 at 8:47 pm

      The Truth About the UK

      • Andy says

        Feb 7, 2018 at 12:47 pm

        “Where are all the English people?”

  2. esther says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 2:41 pm

    that’s THE GUARDIAN——keep the fact in mind when reading ANY of its articles

  3. pat mott says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 2:47 pm

    I won’t have the lying rag of the Guardian over my threshold ! I won’t weep if any of their contributors suffer in a terror outrage because they deserve it in my eyes!

  4. Jayell says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 3:15 pm

    “It’s not surprising that any British paper would be anti-Semitic and anti-Israel….”

    That’s a truly APPALLING thing to say, and it’s even more appalling because it’s absolutely true. The UK establishment has gone absolutely rotten to the core. In fact, they’re so rotten that they haven’t got the first clue what ‘rot’ is because they’ve become so infected by it and corrupted by their own twisted delusions of entitled self-interested PC pseudo-righteousness. They think they can get away with saying and doing the most heinous things, and they usually succeed because anyone tries to raise objections is shouted down, ridiculed or harassed through the courts. We need someone like Donald Trump to clear the place out. Or something stronger.

    • J D S says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 10:05 am

      What has happened, not only to America , but the rest of the world since WW2? Those of that era are fading and that’s probably the answer. God was in the forefront during and before that time….Non Christians, atheist etc. are more prevalent now than then and as one can see the whole world is the worse for it. Crime and all other sorts of mayhem are also more prevalent….Before and during WW2 Christianity and it’s respect for our fellow man held the world together. Even those who did not profess to be Christians respected and honored those who did and the world was better for it..I dare anyone to prove that America and the world was and Is not better off if Godly values are the standard…Now we can partly blame the Supreme Court for degrading Our Godly values…But WE have allowed much ourselves. We like to place blame when things go wrong so guess we can just blame EVERYTHING in the Jews..as some are doing…
      God help us…We sure can’t help ourselves.

  5. Andy says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 3:29 pm

    It is terrible and shameful at how low Great Britain has fallen, crazy stupid Immigration policies that have been put in place decades ago on the lands of the Judeo-Christian Civilized western world.

    The UK (and all western world societies) should be very careful and take heed in what it does and remember where the blessings of the land come from.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKaJ4b0XYmI

    THOSE WHO BLESS ISRAEL WILL BE BLESSED, THOSE WHO CURSE ISRAEL WILL BE CURSED

    “I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you.”
    – Genesis 12:1-3

    • Andy says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 12:55 pm

      UK REMEMBER YOUR JUDEO-CHRISTIAN HERITAGE!!!

      Before it’s too

  6. Ibrahim itace muhammed says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 4:09 pm

    The Guardian knows that fascist evil zionist state of Israel is leading world terrorism with Isis as its death squad. Hamas and Hizbullah are fought this evil group and the war is won. No more evil Bagdadi (Elliot) the mossed dog.

    • Jack Dawkins says

      Feb 6, 2018 at 4:21 pm

      Just explode yourself for the glory of your Arabian puppet masters

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 6, 2018 at 7:39 pm

      Uh huh. Ibrahim itace muhammed has said that no on has any right to defend against Jihad terror, and that he looks forward to taking part in the genocide of the Jews.

    • Jayell says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 1:24 pm

      My God! Does Mr. Muhammed read The Guardian? I suppose they both make about the same kind of sense.

    • don vito says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 5:18 pm

      -38&1/2

  7. Bryce says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 5:11 pm

    Since the articile focuses on terrorism in Europe, did it mention the Nazi holocaust attrocities that killed millions of Jews (“from the City”) and force millions more into mass migration to Israel and elsewhere? It all began with Hitler’s “terrorism in the city”.

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 6, 2018 at 7:46 pm

      I think this article is mostly about contemporary threats of terrorism.

  8. Max Publius says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    The author, some Jason Burke, starts out with terrorism in the 1880s and proceeds to blame terrorism on something to do with cities: ” The history of terrorism is the history of our cities.” Is Burke naturally an effete scribbler who misses consistently misses the point, or was it nurtured into him, a monetary and survivalist desire to not want to offend or put himself in danger?

    • gravenimage says

      Feb 6, 2018 at 8:00 pm

      What a idiot, The only reason cities are more of a target is the greater concentration of victims.

  9. gravenimage says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    UK’s Guardian publishes major article on terrorism, omits Israel
    ……………………

    Just repulsive. Not a surpise, though.

  10. Flavius Claudius Iulianus says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 7:17 pm

    http://www.breitbart.com/london/2018/02/06/revealed-britains-foreign-office-promotes-world-hijab-day-attempts-to-avoid-public-disclosure-of-staff-event/

  11. MFritz says

    Feb 6, 2018 at 11:57 pm

    Just ignore the Guardian. It lost ANY credibility a LONG time ago.

  12. R Russell says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 5:30 am

    Why wasn’t this brought to our attention at the time?
    JW readers could have joined the post-ers on the online copy of the Guardian to draw it to every reader’s attention.
    Imagine a few hundred JW readers stating the obvious to the Guardian for the world to read.

  13. Bindon Blood says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 5:42 am

    In Britain the Marxist Guardian newspaper and its bourgeoise Left reporters and journalists is known as a greasy , detestable rag that in reality is dying on its feet ,so to speak. Very few people read it ; it appeals mainly to bougeoise lefty city dwellers and their equivalent in a few trendy rural areas where these types move when the number of migrants gets too high in their London suburb. It goes without saying that it and they are the most agregious hypocrites.
    The Guardian is the BBC’s “Bible” and spouts their favourite paper’s poisonous bile daily. But 99 % of the population ridicule it and ignore it. Of course the wealthy left wingers regard the people as the great unwashed and are rather proud to get their daily top up of left wing garbage from such an “exclusive” newspaper; exclusive because it is is ignored rather than admired. Hopefully the day will soon come when it’s circulation doesn’t cover the cost of paper and it will cease to exist.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 2:56 pm

      +1

  14. WorkingClassPost says

    Feb 7, 2018 at 8:03 am

    Strange, how the Guardian’s obsession with Political Correctness doesn’t extend to Historical Correctness.

    • don vito says

      Feb 7, 2018 at 5:19 pm

      +50

  15. Charles says

    Feb 8, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    British imperialists are always fond of portraying other imperialists in the worst light possible while “forgetting” their own atrocities. Among many others: the 1746 battle of Culloden massacre that gave them Scotland territories .and a couple of years later the James Wolf bombardment of peaceful and vulnerable French Canadian villages along the Saint-Laurent river before the Plains of Abraham battle.

    • LeftisruiningCanada says

      Feb 8, 2018 at 8:37 pm

      The writers at the Grauniad are often the first to condemn Britain for anything and everything it has ever done. I’m sure they would have loved to do so again, had this particular article not confined itself to ‘urban’ terrorism.

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