A court backed activist Philippe Karsenty who called iconic Palestinian 'martyrdom' film a hoax.
He was accused of libeling a French state-owned television channel.
This was not just good news for Karsenty but for all of Israel.
Scene from France 2's footage showing Mohammed al-Dura and his father purportedly under fire from Israeli soldiers. (WND)
It was a hoax.
French court decides that the al-Dura report was a hoax.
World Net Daily reported:
The French Court of Appeals issued a ruling today favoring an activist who claims the purported shooting death of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy – used to spark the "Al Aqsa intifada," or uprising – was a hoax.Israel Matsav has much more on this story.
The court overturned a lower court decision against Jewish activist Philippe Karsenty, who had been convicted of libeling a French state-owned television channel and its Jerusalem correspondent, Charles Enderlin, the Jerusalem Post reported. Karsenty contended France 2 knowingly misled the world about the event in the Gaza Strip in September 2000.
Karsenty told the Jerusalem paper today's verdict "means we have the right to say France 2 broadcast a fake news report, that [al-Dura's shooting] was a staged hoax and that they duped everybody – without being sued," he said.
Richard Landes of Pallywood fame, who has been a driving force behind this effort, has a roundup of reaction to this ruling.
Richard also has a collection of articles and events surrounding the al-Dura affair.
Phyllis Chesler reams The New York Times for their report on the story.
** Pajamas Media scored the first article by Philippe Karsenty on the court's ruling yesterday.
The Belmont Club has a history of the al-Dura hoax.
Hat Tip BG
Ah, the French. French Court Convicts 7 for Helping to Send Youths to Join Jihadist Fight in Iraq"
ReplyDeleteThe anti-Israeli zealots have a long history of making up things about Israel to bring condemnation on their country. I recall Joseph, the son of Jacob in the line of Abraham (who fathered Ishmael, known as the first Arab which is why Arabs and Jews claim the same father-Abraham) being accussed of trying to rape Pharoah's wife. He was actually approached by HER, and fled, but she tore his shirt as he left and accused him of trying to rape her.
Joseph was thrown in prison but ended up ruling as the Pharoah's right hand man, with his brothers who sold him into slavery bowing to him in the end of the story. This is what we see, in my opinion, in this story.
Israel's enemies will try to defame, slander and falsify accusations against her, but in the end God is with her and defends her. The Six Day War comes to mind (HOOAH!)
Israel's opponents are using the information age and manipulation of technology to essentially rape Israel and ruin her reputation, but it turns out to be mud in the eye of the accuser.
Not sure if this is the Pajamas Meda piece you had in mind, but your last link takes me to a "blogger not found" page.
ReplyDeleteThanks JM Hanes- It's fixed now.
ReplyDeleteSo i this was indeed a hoax, was the Al-Dura kid not killed, or was he killed by the Pali's and not the Israeli's?
ReplyDeleteTheBronze~ It has been quite some time since I saw this elsewhere, but I believe it was determined that the shot that killed him was from the wrong angle, i.e., NOT from the Israeli defenders.
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ReplyDeleteoh wow GP.. your posts go by so
fast, i totally missed this one..
great news.. i hope to hear more, like
a public apology from all concerned!!
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