Meet the Man Who Exposed the Al-Dura Hoax
When we met, Karsenty was also awaiting the result of another legal battle, this one involving L’Express magazine, which he had also sued for defamation of character. The verdict would be delivered in a few days’ time, and he was feeling hopeful. “French society is anti-Semitically sick,” he said as he tore into a salad. (He had just come from two meetings, and was frantically hungry.) “The only body that resists is the French Justice [system]. Only the Justice [system] tells the truth.”
As its tenth anniversary approaches, the Al-Dura case remains both infamous and threatened with encroaching obscurity. Though it is likely to be widely commemorated in the Muslim world, Karsenty doubts it will get much publicity in France, where the media continues to “hide and protect the hoax.”
Two years ago the left-wing French newsweekly Le Nouvel Observateur asked journalists, intellectuals, and just about anyone else connected to the media to sign a petition in support of Enderlin and France 2’s reportage, while deploring the behavior of Karsenty. The petition can be viewed online, and the number of names attached to it is staggering. (A wickedly amusing article about the petition, and the underlying politics of the French media, was published in the Weekly Standard by Anne-Elizabeth Moutet in July 2008.)
“You know why so many journalists sign for Enderlin?” he asked rhetorically. “Because they don’t want anyone to look into their work. Some of them [have] made so many mistakes. … You know, I used to be a stock broker and I made mistakes. When I was a stockbroker, I would have signed a petition to prevent you from looking inside the accounts of any of my colleagues. All of us do that. All professions make mistakes. The main problem is that when you’re making mistakes in finance, or in industry, or in construction, then you have someone who says, ‘Hey, you made a mistake, you have to correct this!’ But in the media, nobody asks you to correct, and you are protected by your colleagues. People say, ‘Oh, but there is competition between the media!’ But this is not true. There is no competition, especially when it comes to this kind of topic.”
The Israeli establishment has not been much kinder. Four years ago Karsenty ran into Israel’s ambassador to France at a cocktail party. The ambassador refused to shake his hand. “I was like this,” Karsenty says, leaning forward in his seat and stretching out his arm. “He refused to shake my hand. Because he was a friend of Enderlin’s.”
And there, perhaps, we come to the crux of the matter. It is tempting to suggest that Enderlin may have more friends than even the most socially ambitious teenager on FaceBook, only in his case the friendships are real, and powerful, from Israel’s current President, Shimon Peres, to France’s omnipresent left-wing economist, author, and talking head, Jacques Attali. Nicolas Sarkozy’s foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, bestowed the Legion of Honor on Enderlin in August 2009, thus sealing the reporter’s respectability, and the list of names on Le Nouvel Observateur’s Web site continues to grow.
A small number of people in France have backed Karsenty, including the philosopher Pierre-Andre Taguieff, who dedicated a substantial part of his recently published book, “La Nouvelle Propagande Anti-Juive” (“The New Anti-Jewish Propaganda”) to the al-Dura saga. Karsenty notes that Taguieff is not Jewish, which he believes is a plus in this case, and says that the formerly mediagenic philosopher has been cut dead as a result of his new book. He flatly describes those Jews who have failed to criticize France 2’s reportage – “most of the Jews at the highest levels, the so-called Jewish intellectuals” – as “pathetic. They are court Jews who traded decency for access to power and the media outlets.”
GOOD LUCK KARSENTY.
You are making a very big difference in the world.
thank you
It was a mistake to save France from Communism. The elite and the people still won’t admit that Socialism and it’s toady twin anti-Semitism are not a viable governing philosophy. Communism might have forced them to wake up. Nazism didn’t Shame to see that Vichy may represent France more accurately than Clemenceau.
Has it already been ten years ago? I still marvel at the events that led up to and then the expose’ that revealed those many many people involved in the deceit against Israel. It is certainly a powerful group constantly plotting and planning the destruction of that nation.
This story is just one of the crashing waves that has woken us up and it is a wonder to witness. Did we doubt that truth would be uncovered as promised? Mr. Karsenty is certainly a brave soul, a David against Goliath. If he never achieves the victory he seeks in the courts, he should be assured that he is a part of the awakening. We see.
Karsenty is a hero who should be better known and appreciated here as we watch “court Jews” support the GZ mosque.
Intriguing, but rather soft on real information. I’d rather read what the nature of this hoax is asserted to be, rather than about soft brown eyes and a tanned epidermis. Was the kid not dead? Was it his own people that whacked him? Was he dead of disease? This kind of fluff should be with real pajamas, not here.
The hoax is old news. If you’ve been under a rock (or watching MSM) for 10 years, here is a brief summary (lucky google search of “al dura hoax”): http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2009/03/023028.php
This article is about how incredibly entrenched in their narrative socialists (both Jew and Gentile) are. An expression for this I first heard on Pajamas is “liberal cocoon”. They so want to believe their own propaganda that they end up deceiving themselves. A similar thing happened with L Ron Hubbard. He made up a new Sci-Fi themed religion from scratch, which became a huge profit center, but became so engrossed that he started believing it himself.
The good ‘ol boy system in France is a tough one. Everybody knows each other and their indifference to the truth is astonishing; their agendas rule the day. Communism is alive and well in France and it finds its expression in the Socialist system which of course is a necessary step towards Communism. The French system crushes ordinary citizens under its heavy-handed and monstrous beaurocracy that stiffles any attempt to move forward; need proof? One TV channel that carries an agenda for ten years before being exposed. Thought control by state-run media is scary and they are complicit in the attack of 9/11.
Mr.Karsenty is a warrior in my book; he faces incredible odds but miraculously he not only exposes corruption but also finds incredible tenacity to continue his battle. One man against all those cronies; amazing. This is one Frenchman that has some character; unlike most of the weak souless slobs that he has to deal with. Very sad indeed.
Go for it Mr.Karsenty…and may you inspire others to do the same.
“The CIA owns everyone of any significance in the major media” – William Colby, Former CIA Director
Sorry, did I miss something in this article? As I read it, Karsenty proved that Israeli soldiers did NOT murder a 12 year old Palestinian boy huddled in his father’s arms despite claims to the contrary by Charles Enderlin but the Israeli ambassador snubbed Karsenty in favour of his friend Enderlin? Has the whole world gone made or did I just misread the article? Why would an Israeli ambassador prefer the company of someone who was slandering his country and snub the guy who disproved the slander??
The quintessential definition of a hero, plus a person of high morals.
NOT simply because I agree with his efforts, but because he entered the lion’s den,a den of inequity filled with the Islamic beast and their evil twin – the radical left.
In any case, if he ventures back to my neck of the woods in Israel I would be honored to buy him the best meal Israel has to offer.
My name is posted here and my email is embedded. I ain’t kidding!
I watched the “Pallywood” video. Years ago I worked on the crew of some independent films. Amateurish, disorganized as compared to professional production companies.
Really, all that was missing was the craft services table.
French journalism is a hoax – and a joke at best.
Heard of Rathergate? Journolist? GE boss’s reprimand of CBS news for being tough on Obama? Journalist Fired For Talking About Obama/BP Ties (http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/journalist-fired-for-talking-about-obamabp-ties/)?
French journalism is a hoax, so is ours.
It’s just dispiriting. Ten years after Al Dura, all these journalists and politicians invested in continuing the Al Dura hoax and one, determined ballsy guy taking them all on. Governments, broadcasting networks, writers, etc. whose reputations are all on the line are going for broke with this one. If Al Dura really breaks into the West’s conscientiousness as a hoax, that all the hundreds of millions spent on the Palestinians, all the tens of billions lost in disruptions of our economy (probably more like hundreds of billions) and the loss of our cherished way of life here in the United States may be in part because of a hoax?
Well, it’s nice to read something about this character Karsenty. I’ve never heard the details of his travails – another media non-story – and it’s a good to see his energetic commitment and get some real details about what he’s been through.
All in all, it’s pretty unbelievable how much this one guy has sacrificed. Judging from the article, he’s paid quite a price and yet, as is made clear in the article, he just keeps on going. Having followed the Al Dura story since its inception., I have to admit that I’d never heard of Karsenty or his story, so kudos to PJM for covering him and putting a human face to the story because Karsenty deserves it.
This story is crazy but it really gives a good idea about the French elites, the Israeli elites and the French Jewish community.
1. The French Jewish community is the most right-wing and Zionist Jewish community in the world. Even its community leadership is now rightwing and zionist – but also afraid and boycotted by the mainstream media. The CRIF (the main Jewish body in France) used to be very consensual and loved by the media. Now they hate it.
On the other hand, the Jews of the media (journalists, intellectuals and so on) tend to be left-wing and anti-Israel. Not all of them. Sometimes they are left-wing and pro-Israel (but “critical” of Israel) – and even then they have to deal with hate and criticism from the msm who see them as crazy zionist fascists more or less (Alain Finkielkraut for example). You also have the very specific cases of people like Eric Zemmour or Elisabeth Levy who are right-wing journalists and usually boycotted by the msm – but Zemmour managed to become very very popular on a high ratings talkshow and is now untouchable.
2. The French elites – Karsenty said it better than me. They don’t care about the truth, they care about themselves and protecting their power and networks. But Karsenty is wrong – France 2 will never admit they lied. Never.
3. The Israeli elites – they don’t care about this story. In Middle-East time, this is like something that happened 300 years ago. And of course many are more interested in their good relationships with the French elites and media than anything else. Enderlin is very powerful, he is Israeli, he is very close to the Israeli left and was part of the negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians in 2000 – yes this is very wrong for a journalist. So he is protected by the Israeli media and powers that be. And as I said, the righwing Israelis are just not very interested.
Keep up the good fight,Mr. Karsenty.
Thank you.
the story of this kid is like many media stories generated about the troubles in northern ireland -the legend of the “frog” a hoarse voiced inciter of riots being an example but the notion that the father faked the death and buried another child is far fetched despite supposed biometric differences from film analysis. the father has offered to have his child disinterred for dna testing ….
but regardless it does still beg the question of what the hell israel are doing trying to run two concentration camps in the bits of someone else’s country that they have not already stolen. 1,440 other children have been killed by israel in the last 10 years with a further 318 killed in the New Year attacks at 08/09. and dead children is only one of hundreds of oppressions they visit on the palestinians daily.enough already ! Get the UN in there !
@14. phrage
You really hate Israel.
Get the UN in there.
The UN that Egypt kicked out, to attack Israel?
Or the UN complicit in the abduction and torture
of Israelis by Hezbollah?
Perhaps the OIC led UNHCR could spread some balm?
Who said the father faked anything?
Maybe he was just a bit player.
(Was he ever interviewed?)
Does it beg the question as to how many other lies,
fabrications, distortions, omissions, in a word
PROPAGANDA are issued by by Hamas’s own Dr. Goebbels?
Ask your friends at Hamas. Please.
I’m not surprized by the French reaction to Karsenty. It’s Dreyfus revisited.