Correcting the Record, Haaretz Style
November 4, 2012 9:16 by Pesach BensonI have to credit the Globe & Mail for noting the “clarification” Haaretz made on its ugly apartheid survey.To my awareness, it’s the only Western paper that did the right thing.
Thumbs up to HonestReporting Canada for its role. This is significant because Big Media typically doesn’t follow-up on subsequent corrections, clarifications or apologies. The last word on the matter for Globe & Mail readers would have otherwise been this more distasteful headline:
Many Israeli Jews support apartheid-style, poll suggests
Unfortunately, Gideon Levy, the Haaretz journalist behind all this, is milking his apartheid agenda for all he can with a Friday op-ed in South Africa’s Mail & Guardian:
Levy writes:
Given the reality, making peace with the Palestinians would be an almost antidemocratic act. Most Israelis do not want it. A just, egalitarian society would also violate the wishes of most Israelis. That, too, is something they do not want. They seem to be satisfied with their racism, comfortable with the occupation, pleased with the apartheid. Things are very good for them in this country. That is what they told the pollsters.
No, it’s not what they told the pollster.
We saw a similar phenomenon a few years ago when Haaretz published soldiers’ “testimonies” from the Gaza war alleging IDF abuses. Ultimately, the stories were proven bogus, but not before Big Media fulfilled the maxim generally attributed to Mark Twain:
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The Globe & Mail shows the truth got halfway around the world. But Levy’s still racing it.
Update
But that’s not all – An Israel Prize winner and author of the IDF’s Code of Ethics contacts us to reveal how Ha’aretz twisted his words to imply support for IDF medical experiments on soldiers. Click here to read more.
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blue_&_white_avenger
7:48 pm
Nov 04, 2012
Well done to Honest Reporting Canada for forcing a retake in the Globe & Mail.
However, there were 37 (to date) responses to that update in the Globe & Mail; virtually all of them were of distinctly anti-semitic nature – mainly claiming that HaAretz’s clarification was a gloss over a situation obtaining in Israel generally.
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EthanP
5:38 pm
Nov 05, 2012
The truely disturbing thing is how many Jews, in all countries, seem to take their leftist politics over there own people. I’m a proud American Jew. Proud of both of them. And does the US, Israel or Jews do things I don’t like. Of course! It’s called being human. But I would NEVER side with enemies seeking our destruction. These people are race traitors!
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Brent Pudsey
11:24 pm
Nov 05, 2012
Well done Honesty Reporting. It is good that Ha’aretz has
admitted it’s mistake and issued an apology.
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Dany
8:13 am
Nov 06, 2012
With so many good news to report on Israel, why reporters like this idiot
Need to fabricate lies, distort reports?? Beats me!!
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David - Pro-Palestine and anti-hamas
1:19 am
Dec 16, 2012
MOST YAHOOERS WOULD GO OVER IT, TAKIN A VERY SHORT GLANCY SHMANCY PEAK AT SOME MAIN WORDS like ” APARTHEID “, and SAY:
ISRAEL is NOT APARTHEID -
were ISRAEL USA.
in this regard, ISRAEL IS USA, but USAites dont realize, because of the NEW FASCIST not so hiddenly ANTISEMITE PROPAGANDA by RON PAUL, MEL GIBSON, SARAH PALIN (she might talk FOR israel but she’s a fanatic! anti-all-abortions mad chica from ALASKA oy!) – ron PAUL said “USA should NOT have INTERVENED in WW2″, yahoo til end 2011 criticised ron paul SHARPLY and was surely BECAUSE OF THAT BEHEADED so to speak by its OWN CHAIRMEN BOARD who PUT da ex PAYPAL boss THOMPSON on top for only three moths, he was fired for a fake curriculum:)
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