Canadaland's interview with Israel's ambassador
Canadaland's interview with Israel's ambassador
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A response to Canadaland's interview with Israel’s Ambassador to Canada
...and a fact check of the statements made in the interview.
The very existence of that scathing fact check document should have ensured that this episode was never published.
I found it very illuminating as someone who doesn't follow the conflict that closely. Moed was there to push a narrative and Brown could've done better to counter some of the lies. Respect to Canadaland for attaching that fact check to the interview.
Yeah, coverage of Israeli/Palestinian conflict is notoriously filled with half truths and misleading implications. I think having a fact check co-published is quite useful.
I don't know what that guy's problem is.
I think Jesse did a good job. I'm extremely skeptical of the ambassador's explanation of the invitation to collaborate.
Do you mean that the ambassador lied so much that his views shouldn't have been aired, or that the fact checking is unacceptably anti-Israel.
Or something else? I'm not sure how to interpret your statement.
The former.
Responsible journalism is more than simply showing up for an interview and broadcasting whatever lie the subject wants you to share for them. If he's not going to fact-check the ambassador immediately, then he's operating as a defacto mouthpiece for his subject. Attaching a fact-checking document, after the fact, in an entirely different medium that outlines just how much of the interview was obvious propaganda is not journalism.
The worst part is that Jesse has levelled this very criticism in the past against other journalists! Specifically in reference to how Trump is covered, but others as well. You can't just hand your mic, your platform over to a 3rd party and claim that you're doing journalism when you're really being complicit in the distribution of propaganda.
Anti-Zionist Jews are a very, very small minority. They're fringe. The fact of the matter is that Israel is closely associated with Jews because it is the Jewish homeland. That's why antisemitism spikes around the world when violence flares up in Israel - because people hold all Jews responsible for what happens there.
While someone can logically be anti-Zionist without being antisemitic, we're not dealing with logical arguments. This isn't a philosophy class. This is the real world. And the inconvenient truth for many on the left is that there is a significant overlap between the anti-Zionist and antisemite circles on the Venn diagram. Most people just don't want to confront their unconscious biases about Jewish people.