Propagandist Doctor Returns in the New York Times
November 21, 2012 9:09 by Simon Plosker
Mads Gilbert
While Hamas terrorists have gone underground to avoid the IDF, another distasteful figure has reemerged in Gaza, interviewed by the New York Times:
Dr. Mads Gilbert, a professor at the University Hospital of North Norway, said things were better organized this time than during Operation Cast Lead, Israel’s three-week assault on Gaza in 2008-9, also waged to stop rocket attacks. “They have learned a lot from the last attack,” Dr. Gilbert said. “So far the capacity is up to the numbers. But I think we haven’t seen the peak.”
A fairly innocuous comment perhaps but just who is Mads Gilbert?
During Operation Cast Lead in 2009, Norwegian doctor Mads Gilbert, portrayed as the epitome of courage under fire, appeared on television screens around the world and in the pages of many newspapers, including the BBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, Independent, Sky News, and New York Times. Only too happy to slander Israel in the world media, Gilbert accused Israel of testing new and deadly weapons on Palestinian civilians and smeared Israel for the 1982 Sabra and Shatilla massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps that was committed by Christian Phalangists.
At the time, Melanie Phillips wrote:
Gilbert was presented as just an ordinary doctor. But Gilbert appears not to be just an ordinary doctor. He is a political activist and member of the Norwegian Maoist ‘Red’ party. Not only is he viscerally hostile to Israel and a long-standing activist in the Palestinian ‘solidarity’ movement, but he even supported the 9/11 attacks. A reader posting on this website — which features a video of further inflammatory remarks by Gilbert — provided his own translation of Gilbert’s remarks to this effect, as well as Gilbert’s Wikipedia entry which contained the following (translated from Norwegian):
Shortly after the attack on the World Trade Center in the United States in September 2001 stirred the excitement when Gilbert defended oppressed moral right to attack the United States. ‘If the U.S. government has a legitimate right to bomb and kill civilians in Iraq, they have also suppressed a moral right to attack the United States with the weapons they had to create. Dead civilians are the same whether they are Americans, Palestinians or Iraqis.’ On the direct question whether he supported the terrorist attacks on the United States, Gilbert said: ‘Terror is a bad weapon, but the answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned.’
Mads Gilbert is a radical Marxist anti-Israel propagandist and the media should think very carefully before relying on him for comment.
Ed Frias
11:06 pm
Nov 21, 2012
Funny I dont recall seeing Mads in Syria in the last 19 months in which 40,000 Syrias have killed each other.
Arabs killing Arabs doesn’t seem to bother Mads, who’s mads about doing Pallywood lies.
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Al Neuman
10:11 pm
Nov 27, 2012
Exactly. That kind of incredible hypocrisy shows what Gilbert and his career Israel-bashing friends are really all about. If they really were concerned about “human rights”, how come we haven’t heard a word from him (or any other of the many loud-mouthed self-righteous Israel-haters out there) about the oh, say 40,000 or so Syrians recently murdered by their own government?
The answer is obvious–Gilbert and his ilk are obviously mainly motivated by their racist antiSemitism, pure and simple. Nothing else can explain their dishonest characterizations of Israel and blatant disregard for REAL human rights issues in the Mideast.
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Shinie
5:16 am
Nov 22, 2012
I just don’t understand why do these people like Mads Gilbert if he agrees that terror is bad why the hell does he support it.?coz evil rules him ,no person who has only love for humanity will ever ever propaganda hatred at against any person race nation creed religion or whosoever because HE FEARS THE ALMIGHTY .iam no body to condemn but each ones action does
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Issie
4:44 pm
Nov 22, 2012
Thanks HR for publicizing this guys credentials. At this time it is very important to know who the correspondents represent. In view of their basic aversion to the truth, it is reasonable to presume that anyone commenting from within Gaza, (BBC, CBC etc), will be telling the story as Hamas wants it told!
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Kristine
12:04 pm
Nov 23, 2012
Bloggers Uncover Possible CNN Video Fraud (INN, 1/12/2009):
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/129393
Mads Gilbert participated in Video Fraud:
Follow the story: More MSM Fake TV:
http://www.aim.org/on-target-blog/more-msm-fake-tv/
(CNN has pulled the video leaving only the written story).
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Ingen våpenhvile for norske jøder « Senter mot antisemittisme
1:13 pm
Nov 23, 2012
[...] i TV2 som i denne uken har gitt sjenerøs dekning av propagandaen til leninisten og antisemitten Mads Gilbert uten at noen fra Israels side fikk mulighet til å imøtegå nedsettende og diskriminerende omtale [...]
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AP tar ikke jødehatet i AUF på alvor | Jan Simonsens blogg
5:01 pm
Nov 24, 2012
[...] i TV2 som i denne uken har gitt sjenerøs dekning av propagandaen til leninisten og antisemitten Mads Gilbert uten at noen fra Israels side fikk mulighet til å imøtegå nedsettende og diskriminerende omtale [...]
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martin
2:46 am
Nov 25, 2012
You can check who the Norwegian Marxists, Maoists, Leninists, etc Jew haters are. See the Senter mot Anitsemitism, Norway Israel and the Jews, MIFF are very good Norwegian sites for updating your knowledge of these hateful bastards. Believe me, a shortage of them, there ain’t.,
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gideon
9:07 pm
Nov 25, 2012
did you send this to us embassy in tel aviv
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Die irre Welt des Mads Gilbert « Medien BackSpin
6:44 pm
Nov 27, 2012
[...] wenigen Tagen fiel uns die NY Times wegen ihrer Plattform für den Propaganda-Doktor Doktor Mads Gilbert [...]
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Trinity Constantine
2:20 am
Dec 05, 2012
It is ok for a commentator to be of any political or religious affiliation, it is important for journalists to establish the bias of the interviewee, and in this case the bias was obvious but not reported, possibly due to poor journalism. We could say that we shouldn’t interview Netanyahu because of his obvious bias and agenda.
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Al Neuman
7:10 am
Dec 05, 2012
People like this Gilbert jerk show their true colors by their relentless career-bashing of Israel, while NEVER addressing any of the real human rights abuses in the region caused by its various Islamofascist theocracies. Like the 40000 or so murdered in Syria by their own government.
Seems like this butthole bigot Gilbert is either too stupid or too bigoted to notice these minor details in his relentless but pathetic attempts to demonize the mideast’s only democracy and respecter of human rights, Israel.
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Mads Gilbert og Israel « Semiten's Blog
5:24 pm
Dec 07, 2012
[...] HONESTREPORTING om Mads Gilberg Like this:LikeBe the first to like this. [...]
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David
5:10 am
Dec 14, 2012
“… Gilbert accused Israel of testing new and deadly weapons on Palestinian civilians & smeared Israel for the 1982 Sabra and Shatilla massacre in the Palestinian refugee camps that was committed by Christian Phalangists…Gilbert was presented as an ordinary doctor…He is a political activist & member of the Norwegian Maoist ‘Red’ party. Not only is he hostile to Israel &… in the Palestinian ‘solidarity’ movement, but even supported the 9/11 attacks… ”
Gilbert said: ‘Terror is a bad weapon, but the answer is yes, within the context I have mentioned.’
Mads Gilbert is a radical Marxist anti-Israel propagandist & the media should think carefully before relying on him.”
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