{"id":72588,"date":"2019-08-22T17:05:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T15:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=72588"},"modified":"2019-08-18T08:11:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-18T06:11:28","slug":"22-05-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=72588","title":{"rendered":"The Washington Post Bars the Truth About Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>The Washington Post Bars the Truth About Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n

Sean Durns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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The late Dvir Sorek. Photo: Courtesy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

You can tell a lot about a news outlet by what it chooses to cover \u2014 and even more by what it chooses to ignore.\u00a0The Washington Post\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0reporting on Israel is a case in point.<\/span><\/p>\n

Take, for example, the murder of Dvir Sorek. The 18-year-old Israeli yeshiva student was found stabbed to death on August 8, outside of the community of Migal Oz. Sorek\u2019s murder \u2014 and the subsequent\u00a0manhunt<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and arrest of two Palestinian suspects, one of them a Hamas activist \u2014 attracted widespread coverage from major US news outlets, including<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The New York Times<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Washington Post\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0Jerusalem bureau, however, declined to file any reports on the terrorist attack, much less highlight the footage of Palestinians\u00a0celebrating<\/a>\u00a0the murder by launching fireworks during Sorek\u2019s funeral. Instead, the newspaper contented itself with reprinting Associated Press (AP) briefs on the murder, the majority of which appeared only online.<\/span><\/p>\n

As the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) highlighted recently,\u00a0The Post<\/i>\u00a0has a habit\u00a0of under-reporting<\/a>\u00a0terrorist attacks and minimizing the antisemitic rhetoric and actions of Palestinian leadership.<\/span><\/p>\n

Indeed, when\u00a0The Jerusalem Post<\/i>\u00a0reported on July 11, 2019, that the PA was doubling the monthly payments to the terrorist responsible for masterminding the murders of three Israeli teenagers,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0was nowhere to be found.<\/span><\/p>\n

Citing research by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW),\u00a0Jerusalem Post<\/i>reporter Mayaan Jaffe-Hoffman\u00a0noted<\/a>\u00a0that the PA had dramatically increased the payments being made to imprisoned terrorist Husam Al-Qawasmi, who helped plot the abduction and subsequent murder of Gilad Shaar, Eyal Yifrach, and Naftali Frenkel in 2014. That incident helped trigger the 2014 Israel-Hamas War, and is, in part, the subject of a forthcoming HBO series.<\/span><\/p>\n

That the PA is choosing to double down on its \u201cpay to slay\u201d policy amid a budget crisis \u2014 which itself is the result of US and Israeli aid cuts over that very same policy \u2014 is newsworthy. But not, it seems, to\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n

PA President Mahmoud Abbas has\u00a0vowed<\/a>\u00a0that he\u2019ll continue to pay terrorists to the \u201clast penny,\u201d a decision that violates the Oslo Accords \u2013something that\u00a0The Post<\/i>\u00a0also failed to report. The newspaper also chose to ignore Abbas\u2019 July 25 threat to stop\u00a0implementing<\/a>previous agreements with Israel.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other omissions highlight\u00a0The Post\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0bias. When the US decided to cut aid to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in 2018,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0filed no fewer than five reports. As CAMERA pointed out in a September 5, 2018\u00a0letter to the editor<\/a>,\u00a0The Post<\/i>\u00a0omitted UNRWA\u2019s troubling\u00a0history<\/a>\u00a0of promoting anti-Jewish violence and terror. Instead, the newspaper portrayed the cuts in a negative light, often acting more as an advocate for the UN agency than an impartial media outlet.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yet, when an internal ethics report was leaked in August 2019 accusing the head of UNRWA of nepotism, corruption, retaliation against whistle-blowers, and sexual misconduct,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>\u00a0was curiously absent. The newspaper failed to provide any original reporting on the scandal, which, by contrast, was detailed in many other outlets.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nor did\u00a0The Post<\/a><\/i>\u00a0cover the August 2019 bipartisan visit of 72 US lawmakers to Israel \u2014 the \u201clargest-ever Congressional delegation\u201d \u2014 as\u00a0The Times of Israel<\/i>\u00a0reported<\/a>.\u00a0The Post\u2019s<\/i>decision to ignore the trip is revealing.<\/span><\/p>\n

By contrast, when fewer than a dozen US writers and poets \u2014 some of whom compared Israel to Hamas \u2014 traveled to Israel at the behest of an\u00a0anti-Israel NGO<\/a>\u00a0in May 2016,\u00a0The Post\u00a0<\/i>filed a glowing 1317-word\u00a0report<\/a>\u00a0complete with several photographs detailing the trip. Similarly, when Israel decided to deny entry to US Reps. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib,\u00a0The Post<\/i>\u00a0decided that this merited\u00a0coverage<\/a>, even if the trip of 70-plus lawmakers did not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Omar and Tlaib support the Boycott, Divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. As CAMERA and others\u00a0have noted<\/a>, BDS seeks the end of the Jewish state, singles out only Israel for opprobrium, has been declared antisemitic by various legislative bodies, and is endorsed by terrorist organizations like Hamas.\u00a0The Post\u2019s<\/i>\u00a0coverage, however, whitewashes BDS, which it claims, \u201cprotests Israel\u2019s treatment of the Palestinians and has found growing support in Europe and the United States in recent years.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In fact \u2014 in another occurrence ignored by\u00a0The Post<\/i>\u00a0\u2014 Germany\u2019s legislature\u00a0ruled<\/a>\u00a0that BDS is \u201cantisemitic.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The Post<\/i>\u00a0also failed to note that Israel\u2019s decision to enforce its laws banning entry for BDS supporters came after Omar and Tlaib\u2019s itinerary was published. Given their anti-Israel and antisemitic records, it is unsurprising that the\u00a0agenda<\/a>\u00a0for their trip referred to all of Israel as \u201cPalestine,\u201d was sponsored by Miftah and included\u00a0meetings<\/a>\u00a0with Defense for Children International-Palestine (DCI-P) and other anti-Israel NGOs.<\/span><\/p>\n

As NGO Monitor has documented, DCI-P has extensive ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation, a US-designated terror group. The President of DCI-P\u2019s General Assembly, Nasser Ibrahim, is the former editor of El Hadaf, the PFLP\u2019s weekly publication. DCI-P board members and employees, past and present, include no less than\u00a010 individuals<\/a>\u00a0with links to the PFLP.<\/span><\/p>\n

As for Miftah,\u00a0NGO Monitor<\/a>\u00a0offers disturbing details: \u201cOn March 27, 2013 MIFTAH, a Palestinian non-governmental organization (NGO) founded in 1998 by Hanan Ashrawi (Chair of MIFTAH\u2019s Board of Directors<\/a>), published\u00a0an article<\/a>\u00a0by Nawaf al-Zaru that repeated the antisemitic blood libel.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Put simply: two members of Congress planned a trip sponsored by an NGO that traffics in antisemitism, which had \u2014 as its basis \u2014 the denial of Israel\u2019s right to exist, and which included meeting a group with terror links. And yet,\u00a0The Washington Post<\/i>, as well as other outlets like\u00a0Politico<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0The Hill<\/a><\/i>, and\u00a0USA Today<\/a><\/i>, couldn\u2019t be troubled to report the full story.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The writer is a Senior Research Analyst for CAMERA, the 65,000-member, Boston-based Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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