{"id":45368,"date":"2016-08-13T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=45368"},"modified":"2016-08-13T17:27:31","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T15:27:31","slug":"11-05-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=45368","title":{"rendered":"The Israeli Origins of Anti-Israel Bias"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The Israeli Origins of Anti-Israel Bias<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Seth Frantzman <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The international media’s anti-Israel bias is a story of detached liberal elites in Israel and abroad reinforcing each other’s prejudices.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Gaza War has sparked a major debate about the anti-Israel bias of the international media \u2022 But the bias would not be so powerful were it not for an influential group of Israelis in the local media and political scene who readily supply the ammunition for painting Israel in the worst possible light \u2022 Seth Frantzman on a curious phenomenon<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nFraming the story against Israel. A photojournalist covering a Palestinian protest. Photo: Flash90<\/em><\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the recent Gaza war many media professionals and pro-Israel advocates began to search through the rubble of the media\u2019s portrayal of Israel to understand how, once again, Israel was portrayed in a negative light and numerous facts, such as those relating to civilian casualties, seemed to have been manipulated. Matti Friedman\u2019s piece \u2018an insider\u2019s guide to the most important story on earth\u2019 seemed to reveal the secret \u201canswer\u201d to what many felt was a biased media: The media gets Israel\u2019s story wrong because it is basically anti-Semitic.<\/span><\/p>\n

This mantra \u2013 that the media hates Israel and there isn\u2019t much one can do about it \u2013 creates an easy scape-goat. Blame the New York Times for the coverage of Israel. Blame the Guardian and BBC. Blame \u201cthem.\u201d But it misses the forest for the trees. The fact is that almost every anti-Israel story originates in Israel, not in the conspiracy minded editorial offices in New York or London, and many of those stories are the result of Israeli media and Israeli NGOs. When I raised this point to a media professional here he replied \u201cIsrael is a free country with a free press.\u201d Israel is a free country, but some of its critical press is unrelenting in creating well-packaged stories to feed to a salivating foreign media.<\/span><\/p>\n

Liberal Western Angst\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

To understand the problem we should begin by parsing Friedman\u2019s allegations.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIsraeli actions are analyzed and criticized, and every flaw in Israeli society is aggressively reported,\u201d he alleges. He notes that stories about Israeli corruption get traction but no one reports about Palestinian corruption. He argues that the AP and others focus on \u201cmoral failings of Israeli society\u2014proposed legislation meant to suppress the media, the rising influence of Orthodox Jews, unauthorized settlement outposts, gender segregation, and so forth.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore; \u201cMost reporters in Gaza believe their job is to document violence directed by Israel at Palestinian civilians\u2026Our narrative was that the Palestinians were moderate and the Israelis recalcitrant and increasingly extreme.\u201d Israel is \u201cthe pool into which the world spits\u201d and the international press is \u201cthe tool\u201d by which the modern anti-Semite bashes Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Amazingly Steven Gutkin, the AP Bureau Chief in Jerusalem from 2004-2010, wrote a reply to Friedman on September 6th. Gutkin reveals something fascinating about his view of the Israeli \u201cstory.\u201d For him \u201cit\u2019s also a story about the persecuted becoming the persecutors. All of this, of course, is happening to the people of the Bible, the descendants of the Hebrew slaves who were led out of Egypt by Moses and from whose ranks emerged Jesus Christ. It\u2019s as if a new chapter of the Bible is being written in our times.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Gutkin claims \u201cI have no doubt that my Jewishness gave me a keener appreciation of the Israeli cause. I also know that my intense feelings about Jewish persecution \u2013 and the fact that much of my own family was murdered in the Holocaust \u2013 made me even more sensitive to the plight of the weak, no matter who they were.\u201d Gutkin reveals that those who most affected him included a \u201cdevout Muslim\u201d AP colleague in Afghanistan, \u201ca Palestinian colleague in Gaza\u201d and another \u201cformer colleague in Gaza.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"The Palestinians are always victims, Israelis aggressors \u2013 and the stories designed to reinforce that prejudice. Photo of a house destroyed in the Gaza War. Photo: Flash90<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

read more: The Israeli Origins…<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Israeli Origins of Anti-Israel Bias Seth Frantzman The international media’s anti-Israel bias is a story of detached liberal elites in Israel and abroad reinforcing each other’s prejudices. The Gaza War has sparked a major debate about the anti-Israel bias of the international media \u2022 But the bias would not be so powerful were it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[26,24],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45368"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45631,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45368\/revisions\/45631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}