cross posted from DP

ZIO WEBSITES ATTACK JOURNALIST WHO DARES TO WRITE THE TRUTH
April 23, 2010 at 10:51

For those of you that might not be aware, the journalist spoken about on this post is Khalid Amayreh. Khalid has been an Associate of this Blog for quite some time. An attack against him, verbal or otherwise is an attack on all of us…..

Jewish Settler website attacks, incites against Palestinian journalist
Occupied Jerusalem

An Israeli news-and-views website affiliated with the Nazi-minded Gush Emunim movement, which spearheads the manifestly- fascist settler movement, has attacked and incited against a Palestinian journalist for criticizing Ed Kcoh, the supremacist Jewish ex- mayor of New York.
Koch, a notorious Israel-firster and supporter of Jewish territorial aggrandizement, recently urged President Obama to give Israel a free rein to steal more Arab land in the West Bank and build more Jewish-only settlements in occupied Arab-East Jerusalem.

The journalist, Khalid Amayreh, described Koch in a recent article as “an irredeemable liar who lies as often as he breathes Oxygen and who tries to brainwash people’s minds about the reality of Israeli Nazism as embodied by the Satanic creature known as Israel.”

The religious-Zionist website pointed out that Amayreh’s view amounted to an incitement against Israel’s efforts to annihilate the national existence of the Palestinian people by way of expanding Jewish-only settlements on occupied Palestinian territories.

The “Arutz Shiva” website is run by fanatical Jewish settlers affiliated with Religious Zionism which teaches that non-Jews living in Israel-Palestine must either be expelled, enslaved as “water carriers and wood hewers” or physically exterminated.

The group, which has infiltrated the Israeli occupation army and is believed to have been responsible for the cold-blooded murder of numerous Palestinian civilians, also advocates the demolition of Islamic and Christian holy places in al-Quds al Sharif.

The mostly messianic settlers are racist to the hilt. Their ultimate mentor is the mystical figure known as Abraham Kook who taught that the difference between Jewish genes and Gentile genes is very much like the difference between human genes and animal genes. Hence, many religious Zionists adopt a murderous and Nazi-like ideology which views all non-Jews as non-humans and calls for murdering them since their lives have no sanctity.

A few years ago, a Jewish settler who had just immigrated from France murdered an Arab cabbie in cold blood after the taxi driver gave the settler a ride. When the settler was interrogated by the police, he told them that “I didn’t kill a human being, I killed a beast.”
Khalid Amayreh reacted to the settler incitement against him, saying that he was “not surprised by the way these racist thugs react to criticisms of Zio-Nazism.”

“I believe these settlers represent the Nazis of our time. Just compare their mentality and worldview with the ideology of the Third Reich and you will see the striking similarity. These people, given the brutal ugliness of their mentality, are a danger not only to Palestinians, but to Jews as well.

“Remember, the Holocaust didn’t start with Auschwitz or Bergen Belsen, but with ostensibly innocuous behaviors such as the settler behaviors we see today.”

Censorship~Acquired Target America

I write quite a lot of posts about the Zionists attempting to expand it's agenda of censorship. Today there is an excellent op-ed by Jeff Gates over at Middle East Online regarding the new push by the ADL for a re-write of the laws governing "hate crime." You see, the term "hate crime" is the pretty wrapping paper that covers the deeper nefarious agenda of "America's Best Friend"

To betray, you must first befriend. To defraud, you must first create trust. Accountability for this trans-generational duplicity will commence as the ADL’s true motives become transparent and its supporters apparent. The restoration of national security requires that those complicit in this covenant—including cooperative lawmakers and their staffs—are held accountable for their support of this statute. read it all HERE

Israel has a long standing "censorship" policy. For those who think Israel is a democracy like America, think again. Just take a gander at this report from 2006 for a shocker:

Israel's chief military censor, who has -- in her own words -- "extraordinary power." She can silence a broadcaster, block information and put journalists in jail.

"I can, for example, publish an order that no material can be published. I can close a newspaper or shut down a station. I can do almost anything," Col. Sima Vaknin said Wednesday.

Get ready America, your freedom of speech will soon be gone...........

Pope Visit~Israel Controls the "News" ALL the "News"

In a further attempt to make trouble for the Pope and Palestinians in the upcoming "Pope Visit" to the region. Israel has shut down a media area where Palestinian and Arab reporters and journalists were to report on the Papal visit. If you recall Israel has made every effort to block the Pope from visiting Palestine or Palestinians.

Jerusalem – Israeli police and intelligence forces raided the Ambassador Hotel in East Jerusalem early on Monday morning, shutting down in advance a Palestinian Media Center planned in advance of the pope’s visit to Jerusalem.

The Israelis handed the management of the hotel an order signed by the Israeli internal security minister closing off a conference room that had been planned to be used as a media center, offering visiting journalists resources to cover the pope’s visit.

Pope Benedict XVI will arrive in Jerusalem later on Monday on his first visit to the Holy Land. Most of the Jerusalem holy sites the pontiff will visit are in East Jerusalem, which Israel occupied in 1967 and later annexed. The international community does not recognize Israeli control over the area.

The director of the Media Center, Ahmad Ar-Ruweidi, said they have assigned an attorney to follow up on the case, saying the Israeli raid was “illegal,” and signaled an intensification of Israel’s prohibition of Palestinian civil society in Jerusalem.

He stressed that the media center was a temporary installation, not a permanent institution.

The Palestinian Media Center commenced its activities on Sunday with two press conferences organized in cooperation with politicians and religious figures during which they criticized Israeli policies ahead of the papal visit.

For its part, the Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights condemned the shutting down of the media center as a violation of press freedom and a restriction on civil activities.

The Jerusalem Center’s director, Ziad Al-Hammouri called on the Israeli authorities to reverse the order. source

Reporters Without Borders on Durban II

Reporters without borders have issued a very long press statement on the Durban II conference on racism. Below are some very interesting excerpts that seem to be directed at Israel's attempts to close down any talk of it being racist, LOL Imagine that!!! Reminds me of South Africa years ago, deny, deny, deny, deny and if that does not work, what do you do? Deny and censor whilst crying anti-semitism at the same time.............

Appeal for freedom of expression

Appeal to international bodies and NGOs participating in 2nd World Conference against Racism.
Reporters Without Borders and the Doha Centre for Media Freedom are concerned about the threat to free expression that arises when the media broach religious issues. They therefore urge on the Member States of the United Nations and the international and regional organisations and NGOs attending the 2nd World Conference Against Racism (Durban II) to respect the following principles.

Convinced that an in-depth dialogue between cultures and religions favours the development of a tolerant and multicultural society;

We confirm our support for these principles:

The right to freedom of religion, as enshrined in international law, above all protects the individual and to a certain extent the rights of religious and belief communities, but not the religions themselves. It guarantees respect for believers, not beliefs.

It is neither useful nor necessary to impose more binding and repressive limits on free expression that those envisaged by international law, namely the prohibition of incitement to national, racial or religious hatred and incitement to war. The adoption of additional restrictions would pose a threat to the - very fundamental - freedom of expression and to related freedoms including freedom of religion.

Freedom of expression should only be subject to the restrictions imposed by law, namely the laws on defamation and insult, and the restrictions that are necessary for protecting safety and public order and the fundamental rights and freedoms or others.

Introducing or re-introducing “defamation of religions” and “blasphemy” as crimes in national or international legal documents would represent an unacceptable restriction on the right to free expression.

The dissemination of misconceptions about religions or members of religious communities may shock and elicit disproportionate reactions. But the response to hurtful comments is not to adopt laws restricting free expression but rather measures to foster a climate of tolerance and inclusiveness in which religions can be practiced without risk of stigmatisation or discrimination.

Analysis and evaluation of a religion’s content, including criticism, satire and disparaging comments, are part of the practice of freedom of expression, thought and opinion. source

Zionist Pigs At It Again

Despite some gleeful reactions suggesting the contrary, the BBC report does not say its Middle East editor is biased against Israel

Critics who claim the BBC's Middle East editor, Jeremy Bowen, is biased against Israel are delighted with the news that, as the Times put it, he "breached BBC impartiality rules in Middle East coverage". Or if you prefer the Jerusalem Post headline: "Complaints of BBC bias partially upheld". Some of these critics are now baying for his blood. The Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland (ZF) said Bowen's "position is untenable".

But even though the "judgment" has been handed down by the BBC Trust, after the publication of a 118-page report (pdf) by its editorial standards committee, the critics are not satisfied. The ZF said their report "fails to offer correctional steps" and "the committee's performance was lackadaisical in processing complaints". Jonathan Turner, a member of the ZF who lodged the complaint together with the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (Camera), said "it is very difficult to see how he can be trusted to get anything else right in relation to Israel". Referring to Bowen's "chronically biased reporting", Camera said "There's good reason to be sceptical of" what it called Bowen's "chronically biased reporting", "and by extension, the reporting of BBC reporters who are subordinate to him".

All this sound pretty heinous. So what did Bowen do wrong? According to the ESC, he breached accuracy regulations by not properly sourcing an assertion he made in a report for Radio 4's From Our Own Correspondent that the settlement of Har Homa, near Jerusalem, was considered illegal by the US. Of two other complaints – about historical interpretations he made when describing the legacy of the 1967 war for a BBC online news report – one was partially upheld on the grounds of impartiality and inaccuracy, the other was upheld with regard to impartiality and partially upheld with regard to accuracy. Still with me?

You might reasonably ask: why 118 pages to rule on three complaints? Well, certainly not in order to reach the conclusion of "bias". Nowhere in the ESC's report is there any admission that Bowen is biased against Israel. >(It seems this minor fact escaped the Jerusalem Post's headline writer.) The report runs to so many pages because, first, contrary to the impression given in most news reports, there were not three single complaints: each complaint consisted of a number of items. The Har Homa complaint consisted of four items. The first online report complaint consisted of 11 items, and the second of nine items. The ESC "guilty" findings referred to three of these 24 items. The second reason for the report's length is because of the incredibly detailed scrutiny to which every single one of the items is subjected. A doctoral thesis would not have been given this much attention. And remember, we're talking about an online report of 1,500 words and a radio "essay" of no more than that.

Step back for a minute and think of just how many words Jeremy Bowen has to produce over any four-week period, and especially during a four-week war; and also frankly note that no journalist is immune from occasional inaccuracies and less than perfect interpretive historical comments – and you'd be forgiven for reading the ESC report as an exoneration of Bowen and utterly removed from the wholesale damnation of him that the partisan media monitor complainants believe it licences.

No one reading the ESC report could reasonably complain that the BBC failed to take the complaints seriously. They acted according to their published guidelines and deserve credit for that. Yet there's something faintly distasteful about the whole exercise. Let such partisan organisations express their views in whatever way they like, but one wonders whether people behaving like vexatious litigants should really be given such credence.

There are plenty of absurd claims in the itemised complaints, but for me, there's one nugget in the report that Camera and the ZF use as ultimate proof of the rightness of their charges, but which only reveals the bankruptcy of their approach. One of the expert academic historians consulted to assess Bowen's historical prowess was Avi Shlaim, Professor of International Relations at Oxford. On one item Professor Shlaim agreed that when Bowen wrote that "the Israeli generals ... had been training to finish the unfinished business of Israel's independence war of 1948 war", it was "not accurate and is a bit misleading". Jonathan Hoffman, co vice-chair of the ZF was clearly pleased at Professor Shlaim's verdict. Professor Shlaim, widely regarded as an internationally respected historical authority on contemporary Middle Eastern history, is, however, vilified by the likes of Camera and ZF supporters for his alleged anti-Israel positions. Suddenly, all his past transgressions and distortions are forgotten, and his judgment is kosher. Hypocritical? Judge for yourself.

And as if we need reminding that such partisan media monitors always have other axes to grind, the complainant Jonathan Turner, in criticising the BBC for taking so long to deal with the complaints, said this allowed "Mr Bowen and his colleagues to continue their biased coverage of Israel, which I believe has been a significant factor in the recent serious rise in antisemitic attacks in the UK." This unfounded slur is sadly typical of many whose undifferentiated support for Israel leads them to lash out so indiscriminately at perceived enemies.

If any of this leads to the curtailment of the role of Jeremy Bowen it will be a sad day for enlightened BBC coverage of the Middle East. If you want a true exemplar of the attempt by the public broadcaster, in very restricted time-slots, to give a sense of what ordinary and extraordinary Israelis and Palestinians feel and think about the conflict, and to convey the complexities and nuances of the political and diplomatic goings on – and anchor the whole thing in some stab at balanced historical references – I don't think you'll find better than Bowen. And judging by his masterly piece on the challenges facing the US Middle East envoy George Mitchell as he was about to meet Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, broadcast on BBC Radio 4's Today programme on the day the BBC Trust released its ESC report, it seems that Jeremy Bowen is not cowed and that his professionalism is undimmed. link