“The Boy Who Cried Wolf” is one of Aesop’s fables. There was once a young Shepherd Boy who tended his sheep at the foot of a mountain near a dark forest. It was rather lonely for him all day, so he thought upon a plan by which he could get a little company and some…
Harsh reality is not like childish fantasy
August 19, 2014
In the past twenty-four hours, I’ve gotten dozens of messages from Jewish Britons, telling me that the fake Gaza sniper video is suddenly coming up over and over in the UK. British Jews are being called murderers. Does that make sense on any level? Am I now allowed to call all Arab-Americans in Detroit murderers…
Guest post on the fake Gaza sniper video
August 19, 2014
A man named Gabe Silber left a comment on my Facebook page about the fake Gaza sniper video. This is just too magnificent to not share. With Gabe’s permission, here it is. First, the original fake Gaza sniper video, put out by the International Solidarity Movement (ISM). Then the horrendously dishonest Channel 4 News story,…
Rotten British TV report on Gaza sniper video
August 16, 2014
Someone asked me if I’d seen Channel 4 News’s report “What Really Happened to Salem Shamaly?” I hadn’t. Now I have. This absolutely horrendous pile of manure should make reporter Inigo Gilmore the global laughingstock of the news profession. But it won’t. It’s a followup to the fake Gaza sniper video I wrote about on…
I was just kidding, but now…
August 9, 2014
Earlier today I wrote a post about the horrendously dishonest and inept Reuters piece “Ten-year-old Palestinian boy the first casualty of renewed fighting in Gaza.” At the end, I wrote that Salem Salem Salem Salem—the “victim” in the fake Gaza sniper video—was in the funeral procession for Ibrahim Dawawsa. I was just kidding, but a…
Fake Gaza sniper video definitively debunked
July 27, 2014
On July 21, 2014, I wrote a post titled “A fake atrocity video from Gaza,” referring to a hoax that accused an Israeli Defense Forces sniper of shooting a Palestinian civilian three times until he died. The video is entirely bogus. Last night an Irish Twitter user named Voodoo Criminology sent me a link to…