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Gilead Ini
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1/ Al Jazeera's @YaserBi spoke some nice words about the @ajplus Holocaust-revisionism video. Unfortunately, they're not true. Al Jazeera has very much tolerated Holocaust revisionism on its platform. For example…
2/ Here's Qaradawi on Al Jazeera in 2009, speaking about Hilter's "punishment" of the Jews: "By means of all the things he did to them—EVEN THOUGH THEY EXAGGERATED THIS ISSUE—he managed to put them in their place. This was divine punishment for them."
3/ He concluded: "Allah willing, the next time will be at the hand of the believers." Not that this was the only fantasy about the next slaughter of Jews shared on Al Jazeera.
4/ There was also Al Jazeera's broadcast of Qaradawi saying "Oh Allah, Take This Oppressive, Jewish, Zionist Band Of People; Oh Allah, Do Not Spare A Single One Of Them; Oh Allah, Count Their Numbers, And Kill Them, Down To The Very Last One."
5/ Here's Khaled Mashal on Al Jazeera in 2007 spreading the very bigoted message as the one in the now-deleted AJ+ video:
6/ Quote of AJ official at top of thread via @adamtomforrest and @Independent. Translations of AJ content via the indispensable @MEMRIReports.
7/ I've previously written on AJ+ here: camera.org/article/al-jaz…
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1/ The @BBC wants us to know that Palestinian rioters in Gaza—remember their swastika kites?—didn't really mean "Jews" when they said "Jews." Because in the BBC's apparent view, they're too primitive to know the meaning of the word "Jews." (A thread.)
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2/ I'm being too generous. BBC didn't really "want" us to know. The mistranslations (e.g. from "rip a Jew’s head off" to "rip an Israeli's head off") were surreptitious. But BBC was called out and had to defend its decision to conceal anti-Jewish language. jpost.com/Middle-East/BB…
3/ The @nytimes once tried a similar stunt. After a Palestinian boy murdered a 13-year-old Israeli girl in her sleep, his mother called him a "martyr" and a "hero." The NYT posted that video, but doctored the words to conceal her approval: camera.org/article/new-yo…
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Gilead Ini
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1/ Most striking thing about Matt Seaton's pro-censorship view is that he argues a "highly partisan" argument and "lazy equivalence" should be barred.
Barred. From the opinion pages. Of the New York Times.
As if he didn't publish the same vs. Israel.
2/ Matt Seaton, while New York Times editor (now he's at @nybooks), published a piece by convicted murderer Marwan Barghouti. He let Barghouti claim he was "arbitrarily" arrested, then defended omitting the nature of his conviction from Op-Ed's biographical description.
3/ He was later overruled by more senior editors, who added a note to the piece saying, "This article explained the writer’s prison sentence but neglected to provide sufficient context by stating the offenses of which he was convicted. They were five counts of murder."
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Gilead Ini
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1/ Do facts matter?

The NYT is standing by factual errors on episodes of its podcast, The Daily, with @mikiebarb and @MarkLandler. Why misinform listeners?
* No, intifada violence was not aimed only at "Israeli soldiers and military targets."
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* No, the US didn't view Israel's capture of West Bank in '67 as "unlawful."
* No, the embassy in Jerusalem doesn't "foreclose" possibility of Palestinian capital in that city.
* No, Netanyahu isn't responsible for building the security barrier. (And no, it's not a "wall.")
3/ The omissions, too, are egregious. Like completely ignoring Palestinian rejection of a state in '47, '00, and '08… in a conversation about Palestinian statelessness. The reporters instead suggest Palestinians were open to living alongside Israel ever since the 40s.
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#Thread on AJ+ Holocaust denial that triggered wide outrage.
Denying or downplaying the #Holocaust is not new. It has been a recurring theme by AJ arabic since its establishment. 1/
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