The Al-Dura Hoax: Truth, Finally, May Be Coming
The al-Dura hoax was first broadcast by France 2 — French public television — on September 30, 2000. For years, people all over the world have fought for what seemed to be the impossible: have France 2 admit they aired a fraud. But this month, things have changed very positively in favor of the truth.
On June 10, Canal + (a private French television station which supported France 2’s blood libel) was found guilty of defamation against Philippe Karsenty (one of the people who fought for the truth), whom they had described as a crazy conspiracy theorist.
Another step forward came on July 12, when the new president of French public television was heard at the French Senate. What was supposed to be a formal hearing designed to validate the choice of this new president, Remy Pflimlin, concluded with a question asked by Senator Jean-Pierre Plancade:
Mr. President, you talked about trust, independence, rigor and accuracy. I really care about these words. Your appointment comes at a time when each and every profession should show its deontology and ethics which are essential values on which we shouldn’t mitigate. The French public TV should be irreproachable and exemplary.
This is why I’d like to talk to you about an affair which is so important to me, which has been lasting for much too long, and which concerns France 2.
I’d like to talk to you about the so-called death of Mohammed al-Dura, who according to this news report, was killed by an Israeli bullet.
After France 2 aired this news report came a suspicion that French public TV broadcast a fake news report; suspicion confirmed by the fact that France 2 didn’t succeed when the channel sued one of our fellow citizens who accused France 2 of having aired, let me quote him, “a pure and simple staged scene.”
“Of course, I’ll look at this story.” So that is where Robert Gibbs gets his standard response.
The new president of the French public TV answered as if he didn’t know anything about the al-Dura hoax:
Yes. I have a psychologist friend who works the same routine with his paranoid schizophrenic patients:
Patient: What steps are you taking to remove the FBI’s spying device frm my frontal lobes, doctor?
Doctor: Of course, I’ll look into this story.
By the way, the defamation suit doesn’t indicate in any way that there was a hoax. Just as this story in no way indicates that Channel 2 will soon “admit” this non-existent hoax.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Anti-semites usually being the worst of the worst when it comes to this disease.
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Anti-semites usually being the worst of the worst when it comes to this disease.
Thanks for that. Nothing is funnier to me than the same idiot [you, in particular] constantly complaining that his criticisms of non-white people are taken as racism; two seconds later flipping his a$$ around to scream “anti-semite’ out of it at anyone daring to criticize an issue that has to do with Israel. Bravo. So few clowns left who know their stuff.
Did he call you an “antisemite”? Where?
Dr. Freud: G’s Ghost reveals his unconscious emotions.
1) Precisely where do I constantly blame non-white people?
2) My complaints are accurate.
3) There is no truth in any of your rants.
I will say it. You are an anti-Semite.
I notice that you did not say ‘criticizing Israel.’ By that I take it that you acknowledge that the real issue is not what ‘Israel did’ but what Channel 2 did. What they did was to set up a practical, world-wide, viewed-by-hundreds-of-millions blood libel. It was shown over and over and over on US networks. It set the international climate that would guarantee Arafat’s war of genocide aka ‘al Aqsa Intifada.’
An issue having to do with Israel is a clever way of saying, ‘Gee, even when Israel-bashes that I agree with set off a chain of events that cause the deaths of 1500 Israelis, you paranoid people get upset.’
What a miserable attitude.
Wow…. you talk of schizos, probes in brains and a Psychiatrist’s answer to inane beliefs and then you turn around and unequivocally state tat there was no Al’Dura hoax. You are likely a schizo yourself. I suggest you read up on the matter rather than preach to others about what ails you as well. M O R O N
Remy Pflimlin should apply for the job of waiter at Fawlty Towers in lieu of Manuel from Barcelona, because, like Manuel, Mr. Pflimlin knows nothing.
When all is said and done, the one who got the ball rolling in exposing this blood libel is Richard Landes. In tandem. a few other brave souls got on board, and the rest is history.
To be sure, if there was any justice in the world France 2-as well as others-would cease to exist, as they operate not as news outlets, but as propaganda hit squads, particularly against Israel/Jews.
How many Jewish dead souls are they responsible for when they unleashed this blood libel?? Moreover, all those who were killed after France 2 aired it during the intifada should be gearing up for MEGA lawsuits, France 2 must be sued for incitement to genocide. There is ZERO chance that they did not know what they were unleashing.
Bastards, the whole lot of them!
Here here! I second Adina’s bid to grant the lion’s share of the credit to Prof Landes for his tireless work back when nobody was following this story. It took Landes and Karsenty (who goaded France 2 into a libel suit) working in a common interest (although I do not believe they ever “collaborated per se — sorry, no Jewish conspiracy here folks) — perhaps working from “different angles” that finally allowed both their differing styles to complete a tunnel through the mound of horse-manure that is France’s “upper-crust” and the dung they promptly dumped onboth these two investigators. There’s a fantastic book in this from them,,,
So let’s not forget Karsenty in this story as he put his tush on the line in court (money, reputation, who knows, perhaps even jail time). He was the foot-soldier while Landes wrote the brilliant play-by-play and did superb analysis throughout. But I think anyone involved must conclude that it was a perfect “1-2-punch” effort on their part.
Indeed though, I think it was Landes who invented the word “Pollywood” — and if not, then he certainly disseminated it and made it a common word of the day. Richard Landes is a pearl… and I’d keep on smiling if only it wasn’t for the fact that the word “pearl” has reminded me of one of the “fallouts” from this utterly devious affair — done so with the worst of intentions and to cause the maximum of harm (which it did)! Indeed, just because “they” are our enemy doesn’t mean we should not give them “credit” for staging a fictional-video to maximum detrimental effect of Israel. At least it rudely woke many of us up to the entire “de-legimization of Israel campaign.”
“Pearl” — the fact of this still brings sadness to my heart. Meanwhile, he left the world with a proud statement of who he was, recognizing fully that that was what cost him his life.
Yes, Adina, good point. How many Israelis were killed as a result of France-2′s blood libel.
Ten years for the truth to put its pants on.
The French must get their news about France 2′s activities from the same place as our elected representatives get their news about the activities of the New Black Panthers. At this point, are any of the original players (both French and Palestinian) still in place to be fired, beheaded, or buried in the ground and then stoned to death?
A damn good point, sigh
Most Jihadi organizations and the MSM are directly controlled and sponsored by the international banksters, the American CIA and British SIS. What you’re seeing in the constant and never-ending anti-Israel propaganda, libels and wars, is a deliberately contrived theater to distract people from the massive theft of wealth orchestrated by the international banksters with the help of the CIA/SIS/MSM. These blood-vultures have been using Jewish and Israeli blood to keep their money racket going for decades and decades. They are directly responsible for carnage of WWI, WWII, the Holocaust, all the Middle East wars for at least the last 100 years, the rise of the Commies, the rise of the Nazis, and now the rise of the Islamo-nazis. See: The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed The Jewish People by John Loftus and Mark Aarons, to get a flavor of their ugly imperialist machinations.
This needs to be widely known and understood.
Mika, years ago I read, ‘The Secret War Against the Jews’ by Loftus, a former US Justice offical with the HIGHEST security clearance given.
After I read this explosive book I could NEVER look at the worldwide machinations, including that of the underbelly of Washington-the State Dept and the CIA in tandem- the same again. Not only have they collaborated against the Jews, but they are directly responsible for many of their deaths.
At the center of this is the same sordid story-oil and more oil, in the service of power and more power. Whoever controls the world’s oil supply, controls the world. It is the tragedy of the Jewish people that the Arabs/Muslims-warlords, all of them-have been able to hold the world hostage.
Couple the above with those in leadership who are truly anti-semitic, (like the Dulles brothers were, and many others have taken their place) and the amount of dead Jews rises exponentially.
Israelis and Jews need to do everything in their power to break the back of the Anglo-American empire and expose the international banksters with their various government and corporate appendages for the mass murders and criminals that they are.
I’ve never understood how so much paranoia can be contained in such a small mind.
Without quite agreeing to the extent of Mika’s claims, there is nonetheless a lot of evidence at least about how the US ‘elites’ dealt with the Jewish problem in Europe. It seems that anything that dents your image of America is worthy of a personal attack.
Maybe if you converted to Judaism they’d let you in in the action…
You, sir, are probably solely responsible for the rise in Alcoa stock. Thank you sir for your purchases.
Sometimes I’m really in awe of the power of the internet as a constant and stark display of the truly essential elements of human nature.
“…the lack of information the French public has received regarding the al-Dura hoax all these years. It has been a soft censorship…”
How about the lack of information the American public has received from the MSM regarding the al-Dura hoax all these years?
I learned of the hoax thru PJM.
How about the lack of information the American public has received from the MSM regarding the al-Dura hoax all these years?
It seems going by a recent article which centers on the NYT keeping news of what was happening to Jews in Europe out of the press, that the American public has been denied information for some time now.
Wikipedia’s Jewish Problem
The essential thing in all this is that the hoax was perpetrated for long enough for it to achieve that which it was intended to achieve – all the items listed by Senator Plancade, and more.
Another example of this is discussed in Front Page Magazine at: http://frontpagemag.com/2010/07/13/wikipedias-jewish-problem/
It is about the New York Times effectively downplaying the Holocaust when it was being perpetrated on the Jewish people. Sure, everyone lamented after the event but by that time 6 million Jews were dead. This would seem to be a deliberate technique to deceive until it is too late.
It is of far less value to expose the al Dura lie now, when the world has moved on to the next round of deceptions, Goldstone, Gaza flotillas, de-legitimisation of Israel, the whole Obama-Israel setup, etc, etc, than when it might have been effective to stop all this. The Israeli Government itself is found wanting in this failure to expose the cover-up of the lie.
Anti-semites are boring. They are always coming up with the same old libel in one guise or another. But the Israeli commentator is correct: anti-semites are dangerous even if their charges are completely undocumented.
Not to rain on anyone’s parade here, but this was an appellate court finding. The case is not yet over and still awaits a ruling from France’s Supreme Court.
Actually France’s supreme court does not rule over fact finding only about interpetation of the law.
“Pali-wood” is the nickname of the busy film studios in Gaza which are constantly cranking out the kind of crap that France Deux used to cause the deaths of thousands of people around the world. I’ve seen videos of them at work, carrying ‘wounded’ to ambulances, dropping the stretchers, having a laugh, one of the ‘dead’ jumping up off the gurney, a man with a serious leg wound suddenly switching limps from the left to the right side, unable to remember how he had begun the scene…
it’s a mockery of today’s media, a supply house for AFP, BBC, AP, Reuters and other press distributors. It is “Anti Israel Productions Ltd”.
Al Dura was one of the staged scenes. This is the same damned evil human impulse that has given us the ‘fact’ that Tea Partiers shouted the N word at black congressmen on Capitol Hill. Didn’t happen. But it’s now a media “fact”, as is the boy’s “death” at the hands of the evil Jews.
So, the media and the politicians covered up a story. Is this similar to the Dan Rather story about Bush’s service? Can a link be formed between Liberals manipulating the news to accomplish their Higher Purpose?
In a world in which some people still believe that the Protocols of the Elders of Zion is real, will it ever really matter if this, too, was proven to be a hoax?
If you think THAT press hoax was bad, wait til you hear this one which is even worse. JOYCE McKINNEY, once a gorgeous former Miss Wyoming USA in 1977 was the helpless victim of a PRESS HOAX that she “kidnapped and RAPED a Mormon missionary”. The Truth was, the Mormon was 300 pounds and 6’5 and she was 112 pounds. The HOAX was a well orchestrated lie by Mormon PR men who were trying to silence an outspoken dissident who had spoken out against Mormon human rights abuses and un-Biblical doctrine. The Mormons also wanted to cover up w a love tryst one of their street recruiters (which they call “missionaries”) had with her. The Mormons used their wire service contacts and tabloids who paid people who were enemies of her for slanderous stories. The young woman;’s life family career and reputation were destroyed and the Mormon to this day still propagate the libelous PRESS HOAX which has gone on for THIRTY THREE YEARS. Miss McKinney is now 6o years old with a frail heart weakened from years of fighting the tabloid rumors, but she still hopes to write a book and screenplay about what rESALLY happened. ERROL MORRIS, a money hungry publicity seeking dishonest film maker took the tabloid stories and made them appear that they were true when in fact they were not. He deceptively got footage of Miss McKinney by
by pretending he was interviewing her for a documentary for Showtime Network about “people whose lives are destroyed by the tabloids and paparazzi”. While Morris kept her busy by interviewing her on camera, one of his sleazy assistants named LIPSON ransacked her luggage stole pictures of her, as well as two film treatments she had written. They took the stolen materials–valued at over two million dollars, and produce a trashy film on it interspersed with libelous tabloid stories slandering Ms McKinney, while ignoring the FACTS. He is being sued for twenty million dollars and news media sources who repeated the libelous story will be subpoenaed for court to illustrate how people actually believe press hoaxes and how the subjects of the stories’ lives are affected drastically as they are brought into public ridicule.