Trust @guardian's Simon Tisdall to defy the facts and cast Iran as a victim of the West, rather and speak of Israel's "visceral... enmity" of Iran, as if Iran has not funded Hezbollah, Iran, Islamic Jihad, developed ballistic missiles capable of reaching Tel Aviv and Jerusalem...
Talk about sympathy for terrorist regimes. Iran is the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism and is attempting to build nuclear weapons.
But Tisdall sees a "certain grim logic" in Iran insisting on bringing the region to the brink of war.
To learn more about the inconvenient facts that Tisdall and the @guardian would like readers to overlook, check out this informative background article >>>
The media love a strong image. But exactly 21 years to the day after the brutal, barbaric lynching of two Israeli reserve soldiers, this one wasn't republished yesterday.
This is the important story, so key to understanding modern Israel, the media failed to retell.
21 years ago yesterday, two Israeli reserve soldiers, Vadim Nurzhitz and Yossi Avrahami, took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. The two reservists were detained by Palestinian Authority policemen and taken to a local police station.
Rumours quickly spread that Israeli undercover agents were in the building, and an angry crowd of over 1,000 Palestinians gathered outside the station calling for the death of the Israelis.
Before long, enraged rioters overcame the police and stormed the building.
At the height of Hamas' 11-day rocket-firing campaign against Israel in May, the @NYTimes printed a guest essay by Refaat Alareer @itranslate123, a man with a history of indisputably antisemitic tweets.
Alareer has blamed *Jews* for the murder of hundreds of thousands of their own at the hands of the Nazis.
And he has openly admitted to committing acts of violence. Not exactly a voice for non-violence and reconciliation.
1. Hebron is the second holiest city in Judaism. For hundreds of years, Jews were banned from entering their second-holiest site, the Cave of the Patriarchs. Under Israeli rule, Muslims and Jews have *equal* access.
2. A blatant lie. The site is divided into Jewish and Muslim prayer areas. For ten days each year, Muslims are given access to the entire complex. For ten days significant in the Jewish calendar year, Jews are given full access.
3. Accessing other countries is not a God-given right. It is a privilege. May the day soon come when peace prevails and people on both sides can travel unimpeded. Until then, security measures remain in place.
Today marks 21 years since Tuvia Grossman, the bloodied "Palestinian," appeared in the media, leading to the creation of HonestReporting.
On Sep 30, 2000, The @nytimes@AP and others published a photo of a bloodied young man seen below a club-wielding Israeli policeman.
The caption read, “An Israeli policeman and a Palestinian on the Temple Mount”, and the pose suggested that the Israeli policeman was responsible for the injuries of the “Palestinian” man in the foreground.
In reality, the man was not a Palestinian Arab at all, but a Jewish American yeshiva student named Tuvia Grossman. Grossman had been pulled from a taxi in Jerusalem by a mob of Arabs and severely beaten.