Anti-Semitic Al Dura Blood Libel Spurred Daniel Pearl's Killers

Judea Pearl's article in the WSJ establishes that seething vicious "anti-Zionist" propaganda - the kind that is celebrated as brave sophistication on university campuses and in media newsrooms - is nothing but murderous anti-Semitism:
The answer was unveiled in 2004, when a friend told me that photos of Muhammad Al Dura were used as background in the video tape of Danny's murder. Al Dura, readers may recall, is the 12-year-old Palestinian boy who allegedly died from Israeli bullets in Gaza in September of 2001. As we now know, the whole scene is very likely to have been a fraud, choreographed by stringers and cameramen of France 2, the official news channel of France. France 2 aired the tape repeatedly and distributed it all over the world to anyone who needed an excuse to ratchet up anger or violence, among them Danny's killers. The Pakistani Consul was right. The media cannot be totally exonerated from responsibility for Daniel's murder, as well as for the "tsunami of hate" that has swept the world and continues to rise... Surely they have an obligation to expose villainy and excess. This is what journalism is all about. But in a world infected with fanatics who run around with lit matches, journalists cannot simply pour gasoline into the street and pretend they bear no responsibility for the inevitable explosion.
Nice to see that the Dreyfus Affair didn't really disrupt the comfortable anti-Semitism of the French establishment. At least the rest of the international press doesn't regularly publish vulgar anti-Israel death porn from Palestinian and Lebanese sources.
References:
* The Daniel Pearl Standard [WSJ]
* Beit Hanoun Meme Watch - (2) "The Palestinians Are Really Pissed Off" - And The NYT Will Publish Death Porn To Prove It [MR]
* Siniora Asks International Media to Transmit Pictures of Israeli Atrocities. Which Is Kind of Like Asking Us to Keep Making Fun of Carter. [MR]
Previously:
* Pakistan's Chomsky
* Video: I Am Jewish: The Last Words of Daniel Pearl
* European Media Bias - Really?





