Sky News Ignores Palmer Report for UNHRC Flotilla Findings

Here's a new low: Sky News' latest on Erdogan's Arab Spring Tour ignores the Palmer report, and instead refers to the…

By Pesach Benson September 14, 2011

Sky News Ignores Palmer Report for UNHRC Flotilla Findings

Here’s a new low: Sky News‘ latest on Erdogan’s Arab Spring Tour ignores the Palmer report, and instead refers to the UNHRC’s more sensationalized bash-Israel “findings.” No mistake: the entire paragraph links to Sky’s UNHRC coverage:

A subsequent inquiry by the UN into the incident found the military had broken international law and had acted with ‘incredible violence’.

The Palmer report found — among other things — that the blockade of Gaza is legal, and that Israel was justified to physically stop the flotilla.

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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