EXPOSED: UN Media Official Responsible for False Photo Tweet
March 12, 2012 16:22 by Simon PloskerOur guest post from the IDF revealed how a photo, allegedly depicting the results of Israeli air strikes in Gaza in recent days, has been proven false.
The offending photo was originally tweeted by Khulood Badawi.
Read Top Tweet on Gaza Proven False for the full story on how this photo was exposed.
Khulood Badawi happens to work for the OCHA – the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs where, according to a UN Contact List, she works as an Information and Media Coordinator.
A Google search reveals that Badawi has a history of activism in a range of pro-Palestinian non-governmental organizations, some of them radical and politicized. While this background may not in itself disqualify her from a career with the UN, it is absolutely unacceptable that a UN employee working specifically on dissemination of information to the media and public tweets malicious and false information to libel Israel.
HonestReporting’s CEO Joe Hyams comments:
Once again, we are bearing witness to the extent that organizations such as the United Nations have failed to vet the integrity of their employees. The disgusting actions of this individual – invoking the imagery of a dead child to slander Israel – exposes once more the abject failure of NGOs to ensure a basic work ethic and commitment to fair and impartial conduct on the part of its employees.
The halo-effect enjoyed by the UN, where the public trusts the integrity of its staff and its Mission, demands higher professional standards than we are seeing. The UN owes the public, no less than this young girl’s family, an apology. The immediate dismissal of Khulood Badawi on the grounds of incitement is expected.
Powerful images such as these have a deep impact on public opinion. Where Israel is trying desperately to defend more than 1 million of its civilians from the incessant murderous rain of Gazan rocket terror – it is abhorrent that a UN employee working for a body concerned with humanitarian welfare would have more concern for manipulating public sentiment than a true desire to protect innocent human life. Badawi cares more for the lie, than for life.
Call on the UN to take the appropriate action by contacting the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs through its Contact page - http://www.unocha.org/contact
This appalling breach of integrity on the part of a UN employee deserves to be widely exposed. Please consider clicking +1, Tweet, Like or linking to this article on your blog or website. Getting the UN to take note is only effective when this article reaches a large readership, especially through the Google search engine. Creating a link to this page with the text “UN Employee Exposed Over False Photo Tweet” helps this article reach the first page search results for the term.
Follow the full story of Khulood Badawi’s false photo tweet:
- Top Tweet on Gaza Proven False
- Exposed: UN Media Official Responsible for False Photo Tweet
- No Accountability For UN Official’s False Photo Tweet
- Following Up: Why the Radio Silence?
- Ambassador Demands Badawi’s Dismissal
- False Photo Tweet: UN Launches Inquiry
- Badawi’s Cold Correction
- Report: Khulood Badawi is “On Vacation”
- Badawi Tweet Update: UN Official Visits Israel
Sign the Petition Demanding Badawi’s Dismissal
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11:09 pm
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[...] “EXPOSED: UN Media Official Responsible for False Photo Tweet” read a follow-up headline blogged late Monday night by pro-Israeli watchdog organization Honest Reporting, which gave a full account of how the photo had been used to misrepresent Israeli actions this time around in Gaza and pointing out that it had already been retweeted by hundreds of people around the world. [...]
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Davir Breen
8:47 am
Mar 15, 2012
To Evan Low; You don’t have, enough Balls, for Readers to be able, to REPLY!! to you……..You Coward!!! DB,Vancouver,Canada.
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halevy france
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Mar 15, 2012
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Stan Krantz
12:09 am
Mar 16, 2012
Khulood Badawi has lost all credibility as being impartial. He must be fired! The UN must show the world that it has standards of truth and honesty. I’m certain more [eo[;e saw the lie than will see the truth. FIRE HIM!
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Marcia Krantz
12:11 am
Mar 16, 2012
This liar must be fired, He is the spreader of lies and reflects poorly on the UN.
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Al Rubin
8:10 am
Mar 16, 2012
Basic Judayo Christian precept. Do not bare false witness against your neighbor. This is very damaging and almost impossible to reverse or eradicate even with a detailed appology. Therefore, a World
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8:02 pm
Mar 16, 2012
[...] Keep in mind that the recent false photo of a child the Palestinians claimed was injured on last week’s clash was actually a 6 year old photo of a child hurt falling off a swing set. Who circulated the fake photo and tweet? UN staffer Khulood Badawi who happens to work for the OCHA – the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. This is not the first incident of activism against a member nation from her. Yet, she still works there after falsifying photos to implicate a member nation. http://honestreporting.com/exposed-un-media-official-responsible-for-false-photo-tweet/ [...]
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The Israel-Gaza Twitter war | khamakarpress.com
12:44 am
Mar 17, 2012
[...] U.N. ambassador, wrote in a letter to the U.N. emergency coordinator, Valerie Amos, in which he demanded the woman be fired“Although Ms. Badawi’s portrayal of this photo was clearly a blatant falsehood, her post [...]
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The Israel-Gaza Twitter war « altahrir, news of Islam, Muslims
12:45 am
Mar 17, 2012
[...] U.N. ambassador, wrote in a letter to the U.N. emergency coordinator, Valerie Amos, in which he demanded the woman be fired“Although Ms. Badawi’s portrayal of this photo was clearly a blatant falsehood, her post [...]
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Turtle Bay: The Israel-Gaza Twitter war | Animals
4:41 am
Mar 17, 2012
[...] a minute tο thе U.N. puncture coordinator, Valerie Amos, іn whісh hе demanded thе womanlike bе fired “Flush іf Ms. Badawi’s description οf thіѕ print wаѕ [...]
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Schaschlik « abseits vom mainstream – heplev
11:07 pm
Mar 18, 2012
[...] Verlogener Propagandakrieg: Die IDF hat zwei typische Beispiele für gelogene Behauptungen der Araber zu angeblichen Opfern israelischer Gewalt. Mit Fotos wird z.B. auf twitter Stimmung gemacht – aber Fotos, die viele Jahre alt sind und zu Geschehen, das nachweisbar oft noch nicht einmal Israel zugeordnet werden können. Und das „Schönste“: Das Lügen-Foto wurde von einem offiziellen Medien-Vertreter der UNO verbreitet! [...]
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Tweet mit falschem Foto: UNO leitet Untersuchung ein « Medien BackSpin
7:22 pm
Mar 19, 2012
[...] Das geschah, nachdem HonestReporting Badawis Verbindung zur UNO offen legte. [...]
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Boris Kushnir
8:17 am
Mar 20, 2012
I don’t give a dam how much you hate us, it’s a level of your stupidity so don’t impose this on other monkeys as you are. Unfortunately when somebody hate somebody they have a brain damage and must be cured by the mental hospitals!!! You have a right, especially as a journalist, to post only materials but you don’t have a right, especially for the money that tax payers paying you (UN is a nonprofit organization, that must be funded by all countries, it means same as by the tax payers money), in any way to antagonize any propaganda that creates heathenness and creates terrorists funded by maniacs as Axmaxedjuns and Komaynees!!!
Just for your expression that you hate a state of Israel and Jewish people placing on you professional responsibility in breaching the code of the professional conducts!!! No common sense law can be allowed expressions like yours!!! It only idiots that financially supported by Axmahedjusns or Komeynees can act as you do!!! But any media, especially UN can’t allow you to explore it publicly. UN actions and code of conducts must be investigated truly to insure that there is no corruption by suckers as Axmahedjusns or Komeynees…??? It’s a common sense that more you hate us, the more you kill your kids…!!! Hope you can get the common sense of your stupidity in my meaning…!!! Before I will even see the picture, it means just by the nature of your comment, your journalist license must be suspended and you must be prosecuted for a crime against humanity!!! It doesn’t matter who are professionals, whether Palestinian or Jewish code of conduct is a code of conduct and if the UN, till this dates don’t have those regulations it’s a shame to the UN. People then don’t need to have the UN!!!
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UN Investigating “False Photo” Tweeter | The Conservative Papers
11:01 am
Mar 20, 2012
[...] HR revealed that the false tweet had been posted by a UN employee, news spread to the highest levels of the Israeli government, culminating with an official demand [...]
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UNO untersucht „Falsches Foto“-Tweeterin « Medien BackSpin
1:31 pm
Mar 20, 2012
[...] HR aufdeckte, dass der falsche Tweet von einer UNO-Mitarbeiterin eingestellt wurde, verbreitete sich die Nachricht in die höchsten Ebenen der israelischen [...]
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Anama
11:40 pm
Mar 21, 2012
This representative of the UN falsified the picture data to enrage and provoke hatred against Israel. The anti-Israeli world campaign is based on lies. There is no justification to continue the charade. Is common knowledge, easily verifiable the fact that in Israel the assumed Palestinians are not victimized. The Arabs and Socialists must now give up this shameful patroness against an innocent State and innocent people around the world.
Khulood Badawi must be prosecuted and the UN must fired her in clear terms. She elaborated and publicized a complete fabrication for the purpose. Miss Badawi used her fake image to blame Israel.The incitement against Israel and Jews engaged in their demonization is a mistaken incitement. I wrote it here: I think it’s important to show how wrong is the actual vitriolic campaign even in American Universities. We need to stop all this despicable dangerous antisemitic wave. Despite Soros network, Socialist and Islamic donations.
I wrote this comment also at http://www.anorak.co.uk/316512/news/did-un-workers-anti-israel-tweet-provoke-mohammed-merah-to-murder.html/
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juan manuel c. del prado sr.
11:28 pm
Mar 23, 2012
Ms. Badawi must be fired and disciplined severely for posting false photos, making her a pathological liar, psychopath, and an idiot for posting the photo…and I must commend the people in the photo for being good actors!
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TAKE ACTION NOW: Urge UN To Dismiss Official Whom Committed Libel Against Israel | ISRAEL TRIBUNE
8:03 am
Mar 24, 2012
[...] retracted and apologized for this misinformation. The facts were uncovered by HonestReporting (here and [...]
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Michael mcculloch
6:04 pm
Mar 25, 2012
I find it wholey despicable that the address i was trying to get through to to sign the petition to have the UN employee.KHALOOL BADAWI to be expelled for the lies and malicious reporting is unacceptable and just shows more manipulation from the authorities who by allowing this wrong doing and doing nothing to prevent libelous material being spread shows they are complicet in the wrongdoing and puts the un in a bad light wholly full stop showing they cannot and should not be trusted in anything they say until they decide to start doing the correst and moral thing(S) full stop or be perceived as wholly antichristial not just anti semetic may the lord bless the tribe of judah
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Die Pallywood-Falle und Beispiele für die nachhaltige Dämonisierung Israels durch journalistische Verantwortungslosigkeit « israelkompetenzkollektion
8:18 am
Mar 26, 2012
[...] gegen Israel, ist ein 6 Jahre altes Foto eines toten Kindes, geschmacklos genug, welches von einer UN-Mitarbeiterin getwittert wurde – die verantwortlich für Medienkoordination ist. Das Kind starb nicht durch einen [...]
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