Saturday, July 5, 2008
An "independent" commission to investigate the Al Dura hoax that includes France 2? Incredibly, a Jewish group is working on a "compromise" that would effectively sweep the Mohammed al-Dura hoax under the rug.
On Tuesday, France’s leading Jewish organization, the Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (CRIF), held a press conference in Paris to publicize its call for the establishment of an “independent investigative commission” on the al-Dura affair. The event was held at Paris’s posh Hilton Arc de Triomphe and in the presence of numerous representatives of the mainstream, or "institutional," French media, including the state-sponsored Agence France-Presse (AFP) wire service. A camera crew from French public television France 2 filmed the entire proceedings. France 2 is the very television network whose contested September 2000 report allegedly showing the killing of the Palestinian boy Mohammed al-Dura would form the object of the commission. Further reflecting the excellent coordination between the CRIF and France’s established "media of reference," on the same day the daily Le Figaro featured a full-page article on the CRIF initiative and the al-Dura controversy more generally on page 2. A large blow-up of the iconic video frame showing Jamal al-Dura supposedly protecting his screaming child from Israeli fire covers nearly half the page...
French dhimmitude or a clever way of moving the controversy into the mainstream and getting the silent French media to finally discuss the doubts?
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This article at JTA gives a little more background on that press conference held by representatives of the French Jewish Community (see: What is the French Jewish Community Thinking?). Separately, according to Philippe Karsenty, who was fully aware of ... Read More
How does one say Judenrat in French, I wonder.
How does one say Judenrat in French, I wonder
"Le norman finkelstein"?
"French dhimmitude or a clever way of moving the controversy into the mainstream and getting the silent French media to finally discuss the doubts?"
Dhimmitude.