singular_me
5th February 2016, 11:21 AM
good initiative... bits of truth are getting out at least
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Thousands of Fake Copies of the New York Times Hit NYC Streets Reimagining Paper as Balanced on Palestine
5th February 2016
NY Times' Jerusalem Bureau has been a haven of pro-Israel sentiment and whitewashing apartheid
‘Frustrated with the New York Times’ unfair coverage of Israel and Palestine, human rights campaigners took matters into their own hands on Tuesday, printing and distributing a stunning 10,000 parody versions of the paper that imagine the premier news outlet as responsible and balanced.
Titled “Rethinking our 2015 Coverage on Israel-Palestine: A Supplement,” the satirical issue hit the streets of New York blaring headlines such as “In the Footsteps of Mandela and King: A Non-Violent Movement Gains Ground Ten Years On,” a reference to the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel. Other articles are titled, “Congress to Debate U.S. Aid to Israel” and “IDF Generals Blame Israeli Government for Recent Violence.”‘
A Haven of Pro-Israel Sentiment
Since 1984, the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau has been based in the former residence of Hassan Karmi, a famed BBC Arabic broadcaster. Karmi was driven from his property in 1948 when Israeli forces expelled him and his neighbors in the organized ethnic cleansing camaign that transformed some 750,000 Palestinians into refugees. The Karmi home was among around ten thousand take over by Jewish Israelis the next year. Today, Hassan Karmi's daughter, the author and London-based activist Ghada, must ask the NY Times bureau for permission to view her family's former home.
Over the years, the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau has been consistently staffed with dedicated Zionists. Former bureau chief Ethan Bronner reported on occupied Palestine while his own son served in the Israeli army, and failed to acknowledge that a pro-Israel PR firm run by a settler was organizing his speaker's bureau and even furnishing him with stories.
Current NY Times Jerusalem Bureau deputy editor Isabel Kershner -- an Israeli citizen -- also has a son in the Israeli army and is married to Hirsh Goodman, a pro-Israel public relations specialist and analyst who has consulted for the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
The prank paper includes an advertisement for the company Shalom Cement, which builds “the finest separation walls.” The spoof continues: “No walls say 'apartheid' like Shalom Cement.”
The prank includes an important Corrections section, which notes: “It has come to our attention that the vast majority of articles about violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have failed to include the names of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces."............
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/thousands-fake-copies-new-york-times-hit-nyc-streets-reimagining-paper-balanced
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Thousands of Fake Copies of the New York Times Hit NYC Streets Reimagining Paper as Balanced on Palestine
5th February 2016
NY Times' Jerusalem Bureau has been a haven of pro-Israel sentiment and whitewashing apartheid
‘Frustrated with the New York Times’ unfair coverage of Israel and Palestine, human rights campaigners took matters into their own hands on Tuesday, printing and distributing a stunning 10,000 parody versions of the paper that imagine the premier news outlet as responsible and balanced.
Titled “Rethinking our 2015 Coverage on Israel-Palestine: A Supplement,” the satirical issue hit the streets of New York blaring headlines such as “In the Footsteps of Mandela and King: A Non-Violent Movement Gains Ground Ten Years On,” a reference to the Palestinian call for boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) on Israel. Other articles are titled, “Congress to Debate U.S. Aid to Israel” and “IDF Generals Blame Israeli Government for Recent Violence.”‘
A Haven of Pro-Israel Sentiment
Since 1984, the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau has been based in the former residence of Hassan Karmi, a famed BBC Arabic broadcaster. Karmi was driven from his property in 1948 when Israeli forces expelled him and his neighbors in the organized ethnic cleansing camaign that transformed some 750,000 Palestinians into refugees. The Karmi home was among around ten thousand take over by Jewish Israelis the next year. Today, Hassan Karmi's daughter, the author and London-based activist Ghada, must ask the NY Times bureau for permission to view her family's former home.
Over the years, the New York Times Jerusalem Bureau has been consistently staffed with dedicated Zionists. Former bureau chief Ethan Bronner reported on occupied Palestine while his own son served in the Israeli army, and failed to acknowledge that a pro-Israel PR firm run by a settler was organizing his speaker's bureau and even furnishing him with stories.
Current NY Times Jerusalem Bureau deputy editor Isabel Kershner -- an Israeli citizen -- also has a son in the Israeli army and is married to Hirsh Goodman, a pro-Israel public relations specialist and analyst who has consulted for the Israeli Ministry of Defense.
The prank paper includes an advertisement for the company Shalom Cement, which builds “the finest separation walls.” The spoof continues: “No walls say 'apartheid' like Shalom Cement.”
The prank includes an important Corrections section, which notes: “It has come to our attention that the vast majority of articles about violence in Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories have failed to include the names of Palestinians killed by Israeli forces."............
http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/thousands-fake-copies-new-york-times-hit-nyc-streets-reimagining-paper-balanced