HR are having a fit over Mads Gilbert, a doctor currently working in Gaza. He's given quite a few interviews, prompting HR to screech,
Why does the media continue to quote propagandist Mads Gilbert?Probably because he's witnessing the scenes that Israel is blocking the media from seeing for themselves.
And "propagandist" - oh, HR mean that he says things that HR doesn't like.
Having no basis to criticise what he actually says, HR go for the personal attack from, can you believe it, Melanie Phillips,
He is a political activist and member of the Norwegian Maoist 'Red' party.
And HR, ever the unintentional practitioners of extreme irony, tell us about their online petition,
The petition stated, "I call on the media to provide balanced, objective coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict and not rely on information from Hamas - a terrorist organization - as a source of news. I demand that the use of images and headlines that misrepresent current events to the detriment of the State of Israel be stopped immediately."It's hilarious to see a stridently partisan and dishonest mob like HR demanding "balanced" and "objective coverage" - the very last thing that they actually want, evidenced by the attack on Mads Gilbert.
As HR consistently demonstrate, any thing that is to "the detriment of the State of Israel " is, by definition, a misrepresentation. The logic of this statement suggests that HR would be quite OK with anything that might "misrepresent the current situation" to the benefit of Israel, ie Israeli propaganda. I'm sure they didn't mean to suggest this, but it is obviously true, as they show with every 'Media Critique'.
Naturally, while Hamas is not a valid source of information, HR will continue to take the word of IDF spokesmen as the word of God.
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