A Child Is Not Dead: Philippe Karsenty and the Al Dura Hoax
MT: Prior to your current work as the director of Media Ratings in France, you were a successful stockbroker. Was it the al Dura incident that led you to switch careers and start up a media analysis enterprise?
PK: No, at that time I had already left the stockbrokerage industry. I had a small internet company. Yes, the al Dura story and the other lies in the media outlets are the frauds which compelled me to change careers and create my own media watchdog company.
MT: Why did the worldwide media rush so unquestioningly to broadcast the incident, and why do they continue to resist the evidence of a hoax? Conspiracy? Simple gullibility or bias? Anti-Semitism?
PK: Not a conspiracy, but gullibility, bias and following the narrative which was created decades ago: that Israel is criminal and the Arabs the good guys. The media rushed to broadcast the incident for the same reason the Israeli authorities apologized when it happened: everybody was so naïve and nobody believed this kind of fabrication could happen. There was no reason to doubt the authenticity of the news report because it was coming from what was a respectable TV station.
MT: You too initially believed that the incident was real. When and why did you begin to suspect otherwise, and did you have any idea that exposing this hoax would be such a monumental, lonely uphill battle? What has been the personal cost to you of this eight-year crusade?
PK: Of course, like everybody, I didn’t question the authenticity of the story. Why should I have? I was just a regular citizen watching the news. I didn’t discover the truth. I was educated by the German TV [station] ARD at the beginning, then by [Israeli investigators] Nahum Shahaf and Yosef Doriel’s work that it was a fabrication. Then I made my own investigation and I was forced to admit that their conclusions were right.
I never suspected that it was going to be so monumental. The evidence of a hoax is so obvious that I thought it would have taken me weeks, or months, but certainly not years. And the battle is not over.
I don’t like the word “crusade.” This is a battle for the truth. At the end, I can say that it did not cost me much personally because I have the satisfaction that we made progress and that the truth will be revealed pretty soon.
MT: Why did European Jews, especially prominent intellectuals, not leap to your defense in a chorus of support?
PK: Maybe because I didn’t make my case properly. Maybe because they didn’t believe me or that it was a hoax. Maybe because some of them are friends with Enderlin, the French-Israeli journalist responsible for the hoax. Maybe because they are more aware of the situation in Europe and they understand this battle is too difficult for them. And maybe because most of them belong to the French/European establishment and they don’t want to rock the boat. Maybe because some of them are cowards. Maybe because this is the price they pay to be accepted in the French media outlets from time to time: don’t defend Israel and never accuse the media, the most powerful of power players.
MT: Ten years later, Enderlin’s new book is an award-winning bestseller, but does it make his case any more convincing?
PK: It makes his case worse for him because he puts in writing the lies he has already pronounced for so many years. In his 200-page book, he doesn’t bring a single piece of evidence of his accusations against Israel to substantiate his claims. His only argument is that he has the support of the Israeli army and the Israeli secret services — and this is what has infuriated the IDF [Israeli Defense Force] and the Israeli Prime Minister’s office. And this is why that office issued a very accusatory statement against France 2 and Enderlin.
MT: Rather than fight this blood libel, Israel hoped the controversy would simply fade away, but it continues to be a successful propaganda weapon against Israel. Is that recent letter from the Prime Minister’s office, stating that the incident was most likely a hoax, an indication that Israel has decided to break its silence and fight back?
PK: Israel has decided to fight back on this case and we should see something stronger about the case in the near future. I also believe that the information war has become a strategic issue for Israel and that they now understand that they pay a high price for not responding to the lies produced by the western media outlets.
MT: What can we do to support your efforts specifically, and to combat anti-Israeli media bias generally?
PK: Expose the truth. The only antidote to lies is the truth. Please, spread the message as much as you can and the liars will be forced to apologize one day.
Hillary Clinton is so unqualified and so incompetent. Who would be surprised if more than half of Asians and more than half of Europeans despise that phony as much as more than half of North, Central and South Americans do? Hear tell, though, that she is popular in Africa, Quite a recommendation, huh? Geezez, what a pick to be Secretary Of State!!! She is a freaking disaster. Obama, Clinton, Holder, the trifecta of spectacular incompetence. Thanks 52%ers.
The lies are so ingrained in the public consciousness that they will be difficult to disprove. A little waterboarding would not go amiss!
Read about this incident in the morning paper, heard it on the radio going to work, and saw it on the evening news. Let’s see… that’s three different sources, so it’s gotta be true.
Come to think of it, that’s one source which does have a strong anti-Israel bias, panders heavily to the Arab view, is politically correct to the back teeth, and never let’s the truth get in the way of a good story. How could they not be lying to us?
As an aside, folks could subscribe to PJTV and watch an interview with Philippe Karsenty that Roger Simon did. That’s where I first learned about it. What’s scary about it is the involvment and what appears to be a cover up by the French government. Could be my paranoia kicking off though.
As Karsenty says: “Expose the truth. The only antidote to lies is the truth. Please, spread the message as much as you can …”
He is exactly right.
All one has to do is present the truth and lies, being unreal, have to evaporate.
Okay, the liars will try to obfuscate, confuse, and even lie (wow!) to conceal the truth.
But people receive the truth when it is factually presented.
Just get the facts out and people will respond. Eventually MSM has to concede the truth. One statement of the truth destroys a thousand lies.
Reality cannot be broken. Only distorted for a while.
I recall the incident vividly and the firestorm of media coverage and condemnation. I always thought it strange that the father chose to have his son behind his back when it is instinctive for a parent to cradle their child in their chest to protect them from harm. Even if at first caught by suprise, he would have grabbed the child and put him in between his chest and the barrier he was hiding behind.
I think the mentality of the Muslim World that makes heroes out of children raised to kill themselves and blow up others is proof in of itself that any Palestinian film of Israeli atrocities should be looked at once, twice, three times, and then analyzed carefully before it is believed. It seem to me that a society that expects it’s children to solve it’s problem through murder and suicide is a sick society where truth is to be buried and kept in the dark.
==…Prime Minister’s office, stating that the incident was MOST LIKELY a hoax…==
“Most likely?” How about a chance that it’s not a hoaxxxx?!!
To Israelis: Rabotai, if you are issuing statements, then choose topics on which you are pretty much convinced, sans “most” and “likely”.
Mon Dieu, even Israel can’t shoot straight vis-a-vis the European ME problem cluster. Hamas et Hizb’Allah must be much amused by “most likely”.
What a shame, one more proof the post-modern world will easily become a prey for the pre-modern hordes.
Subversives and jihadists own large parts of the media.
Without Internet they would have already rolled the world into hell.
And they know it.
The Long March of the Truth, that’s what is happening now.
Thank you for the article, rich of links and references.
You’re welcome, Sherab, thanks for the comment.
TRUTH IS DEAD has been for a long while folks- wake up and smell the bullSHIT- the substitute the world accepts instead- the NARRATIVE, that the BIGGEST LIE EVER- is now TRUE- 2 plus 2 is FIVE people-
You are dealing with a culture, a people, billion and half for whom truth has never seen and who know only the lie – now add large groups of supposedly other cultures who also embrace the LIE as truth, and no evidence will convince otherwise at this late date- tghe damge has been done – retractions a fraction of the publicty the LIE received (accolades)
the LIE LIVES and the truth did not survive welcome to our BRAVE NEW Orwellian WORLD
thanks for keeping this news alive.
best regards
Thanks indeed to Mr. Karsenty.
It is all useless.
Who needs the truth?
They don’t need reasons to hate Jews, it is simply in their blood, so it is useless to try to explain something, or proove something to them.
It is no logic in their behaviour and attitude towards Jews – just instincts, unlimited desire to make money, and muslim growing dominations of Europe.
Just ignore them and stay strong.
Regarding French – they probably remember how their famous army has been beaten by Hitler in a couple of weeks, and how Americans with Jews among them liberated France. More reasons to hate Jews.
Palestinian propaganda is readily accepted by the MSM. Do a google search on “settler runs over Palestinian kid” and try and find the truth amongst all the lies. Here is the truth. http://www.onejerusalem.org/2010/10/palestinian-attack-in-jerusale.php
They stage these situations where they hope someone gets hurt or killed and then the lies fly all around the world. Even when proven a hoax the lies still outnumber the truth 100 to 1.
With all due respect, the hoax was put to rest long ago
“the hoax was put to rest long ago”
Apparently not if Enderlin is getting a best-selling book out of perpetrating the lies.
Precisely, Gary.
Believe it or not, there are people who are members of the “Flat Earth Society” – I kid you not.
Insanity will continue
Journalism killed its child – the desire to report the truth – a long time ago.
Enderlin is just burying it in his own way.
Books, articles, movies, newspapers, TV – eventually it is all just toy guns. American public takes that mostly like entertaiment, like show.
Remember, Islam is NOT a country, it is RELIGION whick took over billions for centuries, and is in these people genes. So you destroy one bad person-they will have replacements in a second…
The only effective weapon against attacking islam can be our religion. But where are our churches? Where are our church leaders fighting for us, protecting our religion and values and not just politically correctly mumbling about love and peace with everyone?
Where are public discussion about our values vs. theirs?
When we will understand that these people are different, that what is bad for us is good for them, so talking is apriori useless.
And we can not win by force. The ideas are stronger than any weapon.
This country, our civilization if you will has been created, directed and protected by our spiritual leaders, our church.
Awake them if it is not already late, if we don’t be like old weak Europe with 85 sharia courts in UK only, etc.
I have been trying to find out for some time the answer to a very simple question . . . has anyone located the boy and proved that he is indeed still alive? It seems to me that would be the way to put this whole incidence to rest. Could someone out there tell me if Muhammed AlDura has ever been located?
You believe it was his real name? You believe you could find hil through his Palestinian ID card?