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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:…

Pesach Benson
September 14, 2011
12:00 am

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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.

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Tags: Arab Spring, Erdogan, Flotilla, Mavi Marmara, Turkey

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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