The Guardian: Promoting Online Terror

August 13, 2008 12:47 by

The Guardian’s website includes the Hamas “military wing” on its “Useful links”. See HonestReporting’s latest communique: The Guardian: Promoting Online Terror.

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10 Comments → “The Guardian: Promoting Online Terror”

  1. Paul Gordon

    5:25 pm

    Aug 13, 2008

    It comes as no surprise that Americans and free peoples everywhere they exist feel a sense of outrage at the left=winged press for giving opportunity to merciless killers and the true troublemakers in the world, Their excuse would be and is ,they are giving opposing points of view and are operating under the 1st amendment. They forget that our world gives comments and opinions in an electronic instant and giving hate groups a voice on such a scale is not only giving credence to a totalitarian point of view to those who cannot think for themselves (there are plenty of them), but in my view are traitorous. No wonder their readership is in freee fall.
    Paul Gordon

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  2. D.S.

    6:32 pm

    Aug 13, 2008

    You are doing a commendable job, however I would appreciate it if you would approach (not only by writing about) the Israeli media that give the floor almost everyday (I am only able to receive Galei-Tzaha”l, the army’s official radio! and dailies online) to Hamas (mainly) and Hisboulah leaders, most of the the time not even confronting their lies, letting them spread out propaganda (they speak fluent Hebrew, better than Israelis!) even among Israelis, and then thanking them for their message…

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  3. Chris Grivas

    6:53 pm

    Aug 13, 2008

    Links to a terrorist web site, I’m appalled

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  4. John Orr

    9:44 pm

    Aug 13, 2008

    I am currently waiting for response from the US Attorney General and the State Department on whether there might be some ACTION that can be taken toward the GUARDIAN for what I see as an act which DEFIES British law and British/US interests.
    I’ll “report back” if I get anything encouraging in response from my government representatives.
    Aloha

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  5. AB New York City

    5:36 am

    Aug 14, 2008

    You need not qualify the victims of Hamas by stating that ‘some have the blood of innocent Israeli civilians on their hands.’ What Israeli civilian is not innocent? Just state it as it is: “Hamas has the blood of Israeli civilians on their hands.” And again, thank you for your heroic work exposing yellow journalism in mainstream media.

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  6. shaul

    9:32 am

    Aug 14, 2008

    The good question that is still not to late to ask for the occidental world is how come the islamist/terrorist groups have free access to make there Troyan horse technic, to penetrate the democratie and destroy our civilisation.
    What are the real roots of this spiritual phenomenom?

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  7. Dr Don

    2:53 pm

    Aug 14, 2008

    Response from Guardian. Unacceptable as I expected it to be.
    Thank you for your email. In the absence of the readers’ editor I have
    consulted those responsible for the link, who point out that it was
    established not recently, as some of these messages seem to assume, but
    around 10 years ago when we started to provide external web links to
    accompany articles on Israel and the Palestinians (and all other news
    topics). Our editors, in consultation with our Middle East specialists,
    selected a small number of external websites that we felt provided our
    readers with a wide and representative selection of voices providing
    further information and background on this complex topic. This decision is
    always open to review with the advice of our specialists; but Hamas is a
    significant player in the region in terms of politics and power and it was
    felt appropriate to include a link to their website. Inclusion of a web
    link does not in any way mean that the Guardian endorses the content of the
    website, and the Guardian is not responsible for the content of external
    websites.
    best wishes
    David McKie
    deputising for the Readers’ editor
    Donald Scharoff
    et> To
    reader@guardian.co.uk
    13/08/08 19:50 cc
    Subject
    Supporting Hamas terrorists
    Shame, shame on your newspaper for giving voice to terrorists who rain
    rockets down on civilian populations indiscriminately, as well as murder
    innocent victims. You should remove promoting terror from your website.

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  8. Ralph E. Yodaiken MD

    4:51 am

    Aug 15, 2008

    The Guardian has consistently been anti-Israel and anti-Zionist so the editor’s support of Hammas,sworn to wipe Israel off the face of the globe, is not at all surpring.

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  9. Art Victor

    8:29 pm

    Aug 15, 2008

    Pip, Pip, old boy! Nasty people these Jews, always trouble-makers! The Times of London prescient in the first translation of “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion” into English. Those of the Hebrew persuasion were responsible for Bolshevism, after all. We Gentlemen certainl have an agreement when it comes to The Jews.And their women shave!(oh, that’s the French view.)

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  10. Jon

    4:45 pm

    Aug 16, 2008

    I had the exact same response from the Guardian as Dr Don!!!
    It’s a cut and paste job!

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