As the owner of tickets for next month’s Rolling Stones concert in Tel Aviv, I’m very much looking forward to seeing Mick Jagger and the rest of the legendary rock band defying both their age and the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign.
It’s not surprising that Israel advocates are trumpeting the Stones concert as an epic BDS fail, leading to this quote and related images spreading like wildfire through the pro-Israel community on social media.
Unfortunately the quote isn’t true.
In what was a remarkably prophetic spoof article, The Jewish Press included the above quote in its joke story for Purim back in February 2013.
Israel is perpetually on the receiving end of false or doctored anti-Israel quotes attributed to everyone from Nelson Mandela to David Ben-Gurion. While the spreading of this false Mick Jagger quote is in no way comparable to the malevolent intentions of anti-Israel activists, it is nonetheless prudent to stop this from spreading any further.
This latest example is a testament to just how easy it is to turn fake news into conventional wisdom online.
While Mick Jagger’s quote may not be the genuine article, hopefully we can look forward to some real words of support when the Rolling Stones touch down in Israel on June 4.
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Comment is free but facts are sacred CP Scott onetime Editor of the Guardian
Actually I’m more than happy that this is spreading online even though it’s not true. Let the BDS idiots choke on their cornflakes, they spread enough lies about us!
“Never trust a quote you read on the Internet” – Abraham Lincoln
i prefer reading that! then to see tBDass bullshit lies,blind hate,antisemitism,anti israel propaganda!!!
When the BDS merchants stop telling lies about Israel, Israel l will stop telling the truth about them
we are now living in an age where Issiah said, “they call that which is evil good and that which is good evil”, Never before has this been so obvious in this current time. In Australia we have a strange situation where the ‘truth is no longer valid, and facts are the only things that matter’.In other words, what we ‘present’ is all that matters, even if it is a lie. Due to so called ‘civil rights’ and ‘tolerance’, the boundary of ‘right and wrong’ has moved to an invisible point, morals have and are disintegrating before our eyes. As believers, we need to be an example to others
Hopefully the concert goes well and bigotry is not experienced in Israel.
LET ME BE CLEAR ABOUT YOUR COMMENT CONCERNING NELSON MANDELA: Glad he is gone, dead, out, ended, over………He was a Jew/Israel hater pretty much from birth. A communist God hater that wrapped his arms around the homosexual wickedness of Arafat. So, please go back and take Mandela out of your story and get your facts straight.
and by not dissociating himself from the quote…, what does that say to you?
As an outsider, living in the Southern Hemisphere, I have taken to reading Honest Reporting along with other sources to gain furthere insight into the Middle East situation and history. I wish to congratulate you for posting that an alleged pro-Israel quote is not true – this shows a desire for media accuracy, rather than advocacy. Well done, both on posting the correction and for maintaining your integrity.
Your propaganda defies belief. You have almost 2 million people (mostly refugees from Israel) locked inside an open air ghetto/prison. They have no rights and no jurisdiction even over their own sea front. You shoot innocent fishermen trying to earn a living. You place enormous restrictions on medical supplies, food and other essentials entering their tiny country. You are equipped with nuclear weapons, you receive enormous funding and weapons from the United States. I saw with my own eyes and viewed with disgust the treatment of Palestinians in the West Bank, teased and brutalised at checkpoints, starved of their own water, while you have lakes and fountains pouring out water in your settlements on their land. You have become the worst sort of brute, only reason you haven’t annihilated all those living in Gaza is because you are so dependent on international approval and you lie with your hasbara to keep it. I am Jewish by birth, child of holocaust survivors and am unbelievably embarrassed by your actions. Are you punishing the Palestinians for what the Nazi’s did? If I was living in Gaza with no hope of an end to the unbelievable oppression you enforce, I would want to retaliate in some way too. Keeping silent with no recognition of their plight and the genius of the Israeli propaganda machine ensuring no one knows the real story I too would want to launch a few rockets. Shame on you all.
Raymond have you ever heard of Plan Dalet. From the early 1930’s long before Israel even existed as a state Ben gurion
(Continuing)was planning the expulsion of all non Jews from Palestine. Over 500 villages were destroyed, all possessions of the refugees were confiscated, 700,000 people were banished from their homes never to be allowed to return. There is so much written about this and it happened way before the Arab countries attempted to invade in 48. In fact it is the reason there was an invasion. Israel’s greatest achievement is the way they have rewritten history and indoctrinated their entire population with the myth that they are the victim.
Richard if the British were effectively controlling the Jewish population how come they were able to kill 96 people in the king David hotel? The effective resistance to the British via the Hagganah, the Irgun and the stern gang is also well known
Richard the sanitised history you learnt at school is completely undermined by those you call “Revisionist Historians” who have meticulously studied the archives, Ilan Pappe, Benny Morris, Finkelstein etc. All Jews who must have had big internal struggles to face the reality of the Zionist policy of ethnic cleansing and to expose it in their writings.
Not you Richard Flantz but Richard hill.
Martin, The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem ordered all Arabs out of the new state of Israel because all the surrounding nations were going to push the Jews into the sea and if they stayed, they would be pushed into the sea with them. So they all ran. The Grand Mufti’s speech was recorded and translations are available, I’m sure. And that speech was after his return from spending the war in Berlin as Hitler’s guest. He asked multiple times that Hitler send forces to the Middle East to exterminate the Jews there too. By the way, there have always been Jews in Israel/Palestine.
Well Jenny Bush and Martin Bruveris….congratulations you have both given a bran new meaning to the word ‘ignorance’. No you did not see with your own eyes the raw treatment that the IDFgave to the Palestinians….what you saw was inadulterated biased news reporting.your cretinous statement about water and where it goes was puerile to say the least.Prior to this latest conflict, Israel was supplying millions of litres a day into Gaza racking up a multi million dollar bill that still has not been paid!
No Palestinian was forced to leave Israel at the time of independence…they left because the so called grants mufti of Jerusalem told them to leave….if they had stayed they would have had the same benefits the 1.2m Palestinians who live very nicely in Israel with homes
jobs,they are in the judicial system and even have parliament seats.they are not suffering like their brothers in Gaza because they made the correct choice by staying put and revoking terrorism!
Of all the countries surrounding Iseral Jordan will be our next visit after we visit Iseral once more.The others will be no more than sm ole and ashes
Nick….You’re pretty thick. (get it?)
At least it’s a positive false quote. I’m sticking with it!
“Israel is perpetually on the receiving end of false or doctored anti-Israel quotes” That would be Karma at work here. The origins of Israel is is based on a lie. Jacob lied regarding how his hip got thrown out. He made up a story to hide the truth. And he changed his name to Israel, meaning he who battles god. And this lies didn’t end there as Moses and exodus, no miracles, just volcanic activity causing everything from the grass becoming scarce to following a flame of fire during the night and a column of smoke during the day.
Did Jacob have a battle? Yes with himself as to explaining how he threw his hip out, to tell the truth and suffer the consequences or to lie. He chose to lie. Israel is chosen, to fall, as the origination of Israel did.
Islam and Christianity are the two most popular philosophies but based on Hebrew stories. So when Israel falls, and it will with absolute certainty, it will also fall all other philosophies. The top two falling will cause a fall of all others.
This is not a bad thing but an awakening so to evolve the Human race past the false limitations of the divide of religions causing conflict. For the details and proof of the certainty of what is to happen, has already begun happening, see http://Abstractionphysics.net