Taking "Independent" to Press Complaints Commission
![]() | By Jonathan Hoffman
June 28, 2012 | Share |
http://cifwatch.com/2012/06/25/blogger-at-the-independent-evokes-nazi-an...
On June 22nd Richard Sudan, a blogger at "The Independent" newspaper's online blog, published a piece saying that Israel’s Interior Minister, Eli Yishai, had said “Israel is for the white man”, thus conveying to the readers of his blog the impression that Israel’s Interior Minister is a racist.
The quote was false (there is a whole industry of quote-twisting among the Israel haters). It was the result of an appalling twisting of what Yishai did say.
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/did-haaretz-turn-eli-yisha...
Yishai said:
Most of the people who come here are Muslims who think this country doesn’t belong to us, to the white man. Some of them have said so openly on television
Yishaid was not stating his own view but was putting the view of others, some of whom (he said) had declared this view on TV.
I complained about the misquote to The Independent. They agreed to amend the opening paragraph of the blog posting “so that it contains the full quote”. However they did not include the sentence “Some of them have said so openly on television”. Neither did they change the misleading title of the article, nor the misleading summary of the quote in the closing sentence of the article:
The perception of an emerging ethnic cleansing policy ensuring that Israel remains ‘For the white man’ will evidently continue.
I am therefore taking The Independent to the Press Complaints Commission. I will blog the result here
COMMENTS
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 11:25 Rate this: 0 points | Advis3r,
By certain people, yes. Institutionally racist they call Britain, in fact. And you'll note that I didn't call Israel racist, only some high-ranking politicians, such as Interior Minister Eli Yishai and head of the Knesset Education Committee Danny Danon. And let's not forget the lower ranking types, such as Miri Regev, Uri Ariel and Michael Ben-Ari. |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 11:36 Rate this: 0 points | Mary |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 12:22 Rate this: 0 points | Harvey, do you not think that you would increase your readership greatly if you shortened the length of your meandering "comments", and they were less repetitive? Tell us again about how your PSC counterparts had to call an EGM to expel an anti-Semite, and how 20% voted against. |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 12:36 Rate this: 0 points | Mary - Harvey is a taxi driver. He can only talk in drivel, hyperbole, tabloid and ignorance. This is my favourite bit: 'Take a look around you at UK racism . Not as exemplified by state policy but as exhibited by so called 'White flight ' whereby whole suburbs have become ghettoised . Suburbs such as East Ham , Newham , Southall etc ' and . . . . . Hendon, Mill HIll, Stamford Hill . . . . |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 12:57 Rate this: 0 points | Suzanna |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 13:01 Rate this: 0 points | Harvey you are off the mark again. You drive for a living. |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 13:13 Rate this: 0 points | My comment is considerably closer to the mark but keep trying . |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 13:45 Rate this: 0 points | How utterly despicable that "Suzanna" makes conclusions about a person's intellectual abilities simply from assumptions about how they earn a living. Despicable and the worst sort of snobbery. And this idiot pretends to be some kind of "human rights" activist! Except for the human rights of taxi-drivers which can go to hell as far as she is concerned. And of course the human rights of Jews. |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 13:58 Rate this: 0 points | Jonathan you are such a drama queen. Harvey have you had your human rights infringed ? |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 14:06 Rate this: 0 points | What is so risible about your whole attitude is that all you do day in day out is make assumptions about people's integrity, their motives, and their honesty. You denigrate, insult, belittle and then someone does it to one of your Judeofascist chums and listen to your hysterical response |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 14:06 Rate this: 0 points | suzanna plumbs new depths even for "her". In the immortal words of Goldie a truly nasty piece of work. |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 14:08 Rate this: 0 points | Also I don't think there is any 'assumption' in the matter. Harvey drives for a living. I, thankfully, do not. And nor will I ever have to. |
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 14:20 Rate this: 0 points | I am sure there must be an NGO devoted to the human rights of taxi drivers c |
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Mary in Brighton
Wed, 07/04/2012 - 11:14
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Interior Minister.