The Media’s Blatant Anti-Israel Bias

The skunks in the leftist media were caught red-handed. They refused to report a story about the PA arresting university lecturers but when told a false story about Israeli authorities turning down the request of a Palestinian professor to visit Israel with his family, the same media outlets were more than anxious to report the story.

Backspin:

Palestinian Journos Test Big Media’s Double Standards


Veteran journalist Khaled Abu Toameh laments Big Media’s lack of interest in a story about the PA arresting several university lecturers. Unable to report the story themselves for fear of retribution, they offered the story to several North American and European correspondents and editors with more protekzia.

Nothing doing.

Only one foreign journalist agreed to write about the story. His colleagues gave different excuses for turning their backs on the story.

Some said they were concerned about their personal safety should they report a news item that was likely to anger the Western-funded PA security forces in the West Bank.

Others simply blamed their editors in New York, Paris, London and Toronto for turning down the story as “insignificant.”
The kicker: One of Toameh’s frustrated Palestinian colleagues tested the same reporters and editors with a “different” story:

The Palestinian journalist proposed that the foreign press write about a Palestinian university professor who complained that Israeli authorities had turned down his request to visit Israel together with his wife and three children.

The response from the international journalists came almost instantly. All but two said it was a “great story” and expressed readiness to start working on it immediately.

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