The So-Called Jenin “Massacre”: The Media at its Worst
April 19, 2012 10:57 by Simon Plosker
While Google searches are now personalized, for those of us who make it our business to see a broad range of Israel-related content online, a Google search will produce correspondingly broad results.
Typing in the search term “Jenin Massacre” into Google, the first six entries on my first page include only two sources which debunk this blood libel from ten years ago in April 2002 and one of those is an amateurish YouTube video. A relatively neutral Wikipedia entry on the events in Jenin is the top item followed by another Wikipedia entry focused on a propaganda film purporting to show the Palestinian “truth” surrounding Jenin.
There are two links in the Google search from mainstream media outlets covering the original story ten years ago. Both report that a massacre has allegedly been committed by IDF forces. Perhaps unsurprisingly these belong to:
- The Guardian: Israel faces rage over ‘massacre’
This serves as a demonstration of how a Big Lie can live on in perpetuity thanks to the archival power of the Internet even after it has been thoroughly debunked.
It also demonstrates, however, the importance of circulating accurate pro-Israel material online and ensuring that these materials are the first resource the casual Internet browser comes across when seeking information on the Middle East conflict.
This is why it is vital to monitor the media and correct the record as quickly as possible . Even after the initial flood of emails and protests to media outlets has died down, our media critiques and communiques remain online countering the anti-Israel media bias and the Big Lies. Our website has over a decade’s worth of material defending Israel against media bias.
Help promote this communique and the materials on Jenin so that they also appear high up in Google’s search engine as a counter to those sources that still promote the libel of the Jenin “massacre”. Links are one of the biggest factors in raising Google rankings. So please link to this content on Facebook, Google+, on your blog or other social media and help push the truth about Jenin up the rankings.
The Big Lies
HonestReporting’s interactive review contains case studies of several “Big Lies,” including Jenin – untrue accusations that were reported as fact. Each study has an introduction, an explanation of the lie, the lie reported in the media, and the actual facts of the case. Click on the image below to view “The Big Lies”.
EthanP
5:19 pm
Apr 19, 2012
It’s not just Israel. Any politicly incorrect topic is tweaked to give a preponderance of hits to left
wing politicly “correct responses. If you doubt it, try any controversial topic. most of your early
hits will be from the left.
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Abu Nudnik
7:28 pm
Apr 19, 2012
@Ethan P: Coincidentally it’s the left. I think the real thing is the hot news/hot money/higher revenue from advertisers cycle. A feeling of crisis is critical to the news cycle and reporting on stability isn’t sexy: it doesn’t sell. Since the Left represents the mob it makes good business sense for these news outlets to stoke those fires.
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Philip lewis
5:50 pm
Apr 19, 2012
I visited Jenin March 2011 and counted only 12 partial rebuilds where the fighting took place.
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DAVID KAPLAN
6:12 pm
Apr 19, 2012
As this event was progressing, anyone could have easily seen the satellite pictures, as I did, that proved what was written in the press was an outrageous and deliberate lie. Heads should have rolled over this, but nothing of the sort happened.
It has now long been accepted that the free press prints news created to fit its agenda, just like the old days in Pravda. Why have we all fallen asleep while a rockbed foundation of our democracy was subverted and destroyed? How can anyone think the voters can make informed decisions when they are fed propaganda instead of real news (based on journalistic standards that were once sacred)?
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Abu Nudnik
7:23 pm
Apr 19, 2012
The fascinating thing is that there were two war crimes admitted to – and proudly – by the Palestinians, rarely reported on by the media:
1) It is a war crime to use a white flag to lure combatants into ambush. This is intended to prevent massacres and to save lives of those surrendering. By luring 26 Israelis to their deaths, the Palestinians will have made all future combatants question whether or not to honor the white flag.
2) It is a war crime to dress in civilian clothes and fire upon targets from civilian areas so the opposition cannot tell combatant from civilian. This causes civilian deaths which are then blamed on those following the rules of war instead of the war criminals.
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Gary Katz
9:14 pm
Apr 21, 2012
The Palestinians investigated war crimes committed by their people. They investigated why their people didn’t commit more war crimes.
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Abu Nudnik
7:26 pm
Apr 19, 2012
@David: Don’t discount the profit motive. News media like their media hot to lure in the suckers to watch their advertisements so they can increase the rate-per-minute billing. They wet themselves when they caused the Rodney King riots. Money money money… so… not necessarily agenda…. staying in business is always the no. 1 of business. Vanity shouldn’t be discounted either.
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Brent Pudsey
2:26 pm
Apr 20, 2012
Thanks once again to the fine people of Honesty Reporting. it is invaluable work you are doing in holding the media responsible for its biases against Israel. It is quite shocking and sickening how the media distorts truth for the sake of a story.
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Ed Frias
6:24 pm
Apr 20, 2012
Keep in mind, Derrick Pounder till this day has not retracted his lie that their was a massacre in Jenin.
It proves these people are just about hating Israel and promoting Pallywood.
Read this brilliant article which shows what a liar Pounder is about Jenin.
http://israeldefender.com/?p=118
Some of the best points are.
Palestinian propagandists never apologize for misleading both the news media and the public. They rely on our short memories. It doesn’t take all that long for the public to forget.
Where’s the apology?
Did BBC ever apologize for the daily Jenin blackening of Israel, until Israel’s truth was finally and undeniably confirmed? Nor did the malevolent, malice-aforethought Pounder apologize.
This pretentious expert must be required to apologize, publicly, for his blatant lie. Or be consigned by his university to a well-deserved oblivion. His continued employment as an Amnesty investigator is also untenable.
Has BBC learned a lesson they will never forget?
That’ll be the frosty Friday. The only lesson they learned was they can continue to quote lie after Palestinian lie with impunity. Sadly, the BBC would rather propagate Palestinian lies than Israel’s truth. Should you research the massacre that never was you will be sickened by the plethora of plainly anti-Semitic reports that played out in British media.
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Bob Poplar
7:44 pm
Apr 20, 2012
The Israeli Adventure was created in the early 1900′s by the British as a necessity to controlling the Arab world so the western Royals – and their family’ could enjoy the oil riches. Read Winston Churchill’s book “Lost War”. We knew what we were getting into and bit the bullet for these many years but now is the time ti drop the “woe-is-me” and acceptance and point out for what it is. I think we are doing better but not enough. Does the World know that the Saudi’s are running out of oil? How the Arab World is tied to the English Royals? We should have our own campaign and let them worry and work on rebutting us for a change.
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Mike lampard
9:57 pm
Apr 26, 2012
This is quite alarming how a story in 10 years can be so distorted by the passage of time. It is very clear that the british media are both anti-semitic in a very subtle and dishonest way, promoting anti-semitism in an ‘equality’ type way to make such prejudice sound acceptable. The Guardian is past master at this liberal left ideology of the stupidity dressed up in academic language, and they should realise that the Jenin ‘massachre, so-called was no massachre at all. The whole scenario was started by the Arabs, as all disruption is so started simply because they refuse to accept the right of Jews to take charge of their own country, and are prepared to do all by fair means or foul to destroy the Jewish state and deny the Jews their homeland. Newspapers like the Guardian are quite willing to assist them with their evil course, and i am sad to say that this represent so-called British ‘intelligentsia’. How far has the british nation fallen?!
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EthanP
10:23 pm
Apr 26, 2012
I agree Mike except I don’t think they are at all “subtle”. Otherwise, well said.
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