Toulouse, Twitter, and the Media Incitement Factor
March 21, 2012 10:47 by Pesach Benson
Rabbi Yonatan Sandler with sons Aryeh and Gavriel
The four Jews killed in front of their Toulouse Hebrew school are being buried as I write. The funeral’s not far from where my own children go to school.
It weighed on my mind as I watched my own son innocently skip over to his classmates happily tumbling out of a van onto a sun-drenched sidewalk.
No amount of soul-searching will bring back Rabbi Yonatan Sandler, his two children Aryeh and Gavriel (ages six and three respectively), or the eight-year-old Miriam Monsonego. My heart goes out to the grieving families.
An email from a reader I’ll identify as R. presciently summed up my headspace. The email’s verbatim, the paragraph break’s mine, and now the soapbox is R’s.
To: “HonestReporting.com” <action@honestreporting.com>
Date: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 9:38 AM
Subj: RE: Update: UN Investigating False Photo Tweeter
Dear Honest Reporting
Why don’t you make a connection between the release of the tweet on March 10 and the killings in Toulouse a week later. The gunman has apparently said that he did the attack on the Jewish school “in revenge” for “atrocities” on Palestinian children by Israelis. There is clear connection/timing to a tweet that went viral showing an emotive picture of a horribly injured dead Palestinian child which was then followed by killings of Jewish children and for which dead Palestinian children were given as the reason.
Can you not make a case against Badawi for incitement and responsibility for those killings. Surely the time has come that journalists/activists etc who make blatantly false statements that could lead to violence against the Jewish community worldwide should be held accountable and thereby hopefully make them more cautious/responsible before making inflammatory comments/false reports/reports that have not been verified.
Keep up the good work!
R
Luna
11:19 am
Mar 21, 2012
After the animalistic crime by Islamofascist in Toulouse. France – Now is the time to rebuke Euro anti-Israel biased and distorted media
As it appears now, the atrocious murderous crime in Toulouse, France, on March 19 – ‘Jewish school masscacre,’ where -among others- the killer chased little 8 years old Miriam Monsonego, after she already bled to death, he picked her up and shot her again in the head, making sure she dies. All his victims were killed with bullets to the head, shot at such close range that the gunfire burned the skin. He also filmed the attack for self sick-kicks. He claims he is an al-Qaeda / Forsane-Azziza jihadist, and seeks to “avenge” so-called ‘Palestinian deaths.’
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Now, more than ever is exactly the time to speak out against distortion in MSM especially in European media, where the Israeli victim is being portrayed as the “aggressor.”
You won’t find in European media any pointing fingers at Arab-Islamic initiators of attacks upon Israeli civilians, AKA Hamas, Hezbollah, etc. Nor does the Euro-media ever bother to explain/show how the Arab Muslim “fighters” hold their civilian population hostage, how it shoots from among debced population, or even behind little kids and little kids. The strategy is clear, to bring about as many as Arabs’ deaths as possible. So, that an “outcry” shall come out raging, hatred for Israel/Jews will rise, and inflamed recruits will knock on its jihadi death-cult doors.
While Arab hospitals’ images are constantly streaming live, Israeli hospitals where Israeli victims of Arab racist attacks are being hospitalized, are virtually nonexistent on the European news screen.
The 4 possible reasons for European anti-Israel bias:
1.) The Euro complex of guilt, after being complicit or even aiding in Nazi Germany’s annihilation of 6 Million people for the sole reason of pertaining to Jews (/Hebrews/Israelites). The urge to find flaws among Jews, thus, to somehow justify its past, as sick as it sounds.
2.) The creepy appeasement to its large Arab-Islamic immigrant population. The illusion that if we Europeans will just show more anti-Israelism, we’ll see more calm in the Arab boiling street.
3.) Arab-Muslim employees in Euro media.
4.) The “competition” with the US. Still seeing as the “bully.” Thus, Israel, being US’ ally, its name needs to be tarnished. [The basic policy of Hugo Chavez when it comes to the M.E.].
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lippy
5:35 pm
Mar 21, 2012
as i have said many times before. sue these news corporations who print the defaming false pictures and stories of fictional atrocities perpetrated by “the jews”. in this case the UN should be sued for libeling and slandering the state of Israel and held accountable for allowing one of their own print the false story and photo taken years earlier that “the jews” killed that little girl when in fact she was killed in a car accident. until they are made to “pay” for their lies, nothing will change. sue the BBC, the Guardian, the N.Y.Times and drag them through the courts.when they feel the pain in their pockets, things will finally change.
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Ian
2:56 pm
Mar 22, 2012
I knew I’d heard of the OCHA before, they were created to coordinate humanitarian relief during natural disasters. But they’re useless, so they reverted to type and spend their time demonising Israel via propaganda like this.
Walled Horizons – Narrated by Roger Waters
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA)
Walled Horizons is narrated by and features Roger Waters (founding member of the rock band Pink Floyd), who visits the Wall in the Palestinian territories and comments on his observations as a musician and a songwriter who has written on walls. The film explores how Palestinians in urban and rural areas have been impacted by the Walls construction since the International Court of Justices Advisory Opinion in 2004, which declared the Wall’s route in the West Bank illegal. Several senior Israeli security officials are interviewed in the film, two of whom were directly responsible for planning the Wall route and who explain the Israeli position for constructing it. The film was made by the United Nations Jerusalem. http://www.ochaopt.org
http://unispal.un.org/UNISPAL.NSF/0/AE3A6F5B379CEBC18525770D00670835
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Len Kurtz
5:51 am
Jun 20, 2012
Why European anti-Israel bias? It is a Jewish state.
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