UPDATE
Following the promotion of a series of Palestinian propaganda maps (see below), MSNBC has broadcast a partial “apology” albeit only admitting that the first of the series of maps was inaccurate. You watch this here:
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In an outrageous incident of bias, MSNBC / NBC News reporter Ayman Mohyeldin was reporting live from the scene outside Jerusalem’s Old City where a Palestinian dressed in camouflage fatigues and armed with a knife broke through Israeli police lines and was shot dead attempting to escape.
Mohyeldin’s live commentary was such a distortion of reality that NBC News anchorman Jose Diaz-Balart was forced to intervene and correct Mohyeldin’s version of events when confronted with the video footage that had just been taken from the scene.
This included countering Mohyeldin’s claim that the Palestinian he saw running away from police didn’t have a knife in his hand. As seen from this screenshot of the footage, this was clearly wrong.
You can view Mohyeldin’s report and Diaz-Balart’s intervention here.
Meanwhile, Fox News picked up on the incident, leading with Mohyeldin as a prime example of the media bias surrounding so much of the coverage of the current wave of Palestinian terrorism afflicting Israel.
But MSNBC’s overt anti-Israel bias didn’t end there. In a segment the following day (October 16), Kate Snow and Martin Fletcher presented a shocking piece of Palestinian propaganda in the form of a series of maps that are a favorite prop for anti-Israel activists.
As for Snow and Fletcher’s jaw-dropping commentary:
Kate Snow: If you look at the map, we have a map that shows historically the areas that used to be Palestine in 1946 and then the UN plan there and then as it shrunk down to basically Gaza and the West Bank, right, and then present. So what does that show you, Martin, that the area where Palestinians are living, has it grown increasingly smaller?
Martin Fletcher: Well absolutely, of course, this is what it’s all about. It’s all about the land and what this map shows you. I must say it’s pretty shocking when you present it in this way. What it clearly shows is that if there’s no peace agreement between the Palestinians and Israel, more of those green areas, more of that Palestinian land will be eaten up by Jewish settlements. Although right now there is a freeze on settlements by Israel because there’s so much international pressure, the Palestinians say if we don’t have peace soon we won’t have a Palestine left.
Kate Snow: And the Israelis say, we have every right to be in all of these areas.
A full debunking of these maps was produced by the Elder of Ziyon blog as far back as 2012. Needless to say, the maps lack any historical context whatsoever.
The Fox News video asked whether NBC News has an Ayman Moyheldin problem. We would suggest that NBC News has a far deeper problem when it comes to Israel and Moyheldin is merely a symptom of that.
[sc:graybox ]You can send your considered comments to NBC News – [email protected] – and demand that Ayman Moyheldin is held accountable for his unprofessional and biased reporting and demand that the news station reports fairly and accurately about Israel.
