TagsTagsThe Reuters “Good, Bad, and Ugly” blog has addressed the cropped photos; they say they were notified by readers, and print several rather blunt emails they received. (Of course, they also became aware of it from LGF almost as soon as I posted about it; my Reuters tracker has recorded ...
Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Peace Activists, Reuters, Media Bias, Fauxtography
The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israeli government has sent an official letter to Reuters CEO Tom Glocer about the photo cropping exposed at LGF: Gov’t disturbed by cropped photos. A letter was sent to Reuters chief Tom Glocer on Monday expressing the “grave concern of the government of Israel” ...
Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Peace Activists, Reuters, Media Bias, Fauxtography
Reuters has now published an uncropped version of the image we noted yesterday morning: Photo from Reuters Pictures. Notice the timestamp. As I write, it was published to the wires 6 hours ago. Long after Reuters was caught with the cropped version. So they’re apparently trying now to quietly release the uncropped versions ...
Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Peace Activists, Reuters, Media Bias, Fauxtography
Here we go again. The IHH website which was apparently supplying Reuters with their photos (which someone at Reuters then cropped to remove incriminating evidence of weapons) has now removed all photos from their site, possibly to prevent finding any more cropped images. But Reuters continues to publish photos from the ...
Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Peace Activists, Reuters, Media Bias, Fauxtography
OK, come on now. I mean, really. One picture cropped to remove a knife might be explained as incompetence or a simple mistake. But now we have two pictures from the “peace activists” that were cropped by someone at Reuters to remove knives in the hands of the activists, as they attempted ...
Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Peace Activists, Reuters, Media Bias, Fauxtography
A Turkish newpaper has released photos taken by the “peace activists” aboard the Mavi Marmara, showing them attempting to take injured Israeli soldiers hostage. Here’s one of the pictures; notice the knife held by a “peace activist” in the lower right corner. And here’s the same photo as released by Reuters earlier ...
Fauxtography, Media Bias, Reuters, Peace Activists, Gaza, Hamas, Israel
Here’s the aerial footage released today by the IDF, showing Israeli soldiers boarding the Rachel Corrie and taking control of the vessel. There was no violence and no one was killed or injured. Of course, there was no ambush by violent radical Islamists either. Funny how those two factors seem to ...
The Jerusalem Post has a report that the next ship full of peace activists trying to run Israel’s blockade on Gaza, the Rachel Corrie, has been intercepted and “taken” by the Israeli navy. The website of the Malaysian NGO which is co-sponsoring the Rachel Corrie, reports that the ship was ...
NPR’s All Things Considered had an interesting segment yesterday on the 9 slain Turkish “activists” from the Mavi Marmara. There are new details in here about their backgrounds, and it’s almost comical to listen as reporter Julia Rooke keeps trying throughout the segment to avoid drawing the obvious conclusion that ...
Now the truth is coming out about the Mavi Marmara incident. Apparently, the first four Israeli marines who rappelled onto the ship were savagely beaten and overwhelmed. You can see this taking place in the video released by the IDF. And then, the “peace activists” dragged these four injured soldiers belowdecks and ...
In an interview with Don Imus, Ron Paul calls for the US to abandon Israel, calls Gaza a “concentration camp,” and recites a litany of anti-Israel talking points, including the canard that Israel is starving the people of Gaza. One of the biggest influences on the modern Republican Party sounds just ...
Israel, Hamas, Gaza, Peace Activists, Ron Paul, Lunacy, Far Right
This is the kind of thing Israel needs to do more of, because the raging hypocrisy of the world’s peace activists is very ripe for satire. [Video]
You know that cargo that was so vitally important to deliver to the Palestinian people of Gaza? So important that peace activists put together a flotilla of Turkish ships and tried to run a blockade to get it there as soon as possible, before anyone else suffered and died waiting ...
The IDF has posted a video with an overview of the weaponry found on the Mavi Marmara; included is captured footage showing the passengers using electric saws to dismantle their own ship, removing metal poles with which to attack the boarders. [Video]
The #2 man in the Obama administration issued a pretty solid defense of Israel today, as the rest of the world continued freaking out: Biden solidifies defense of Israel: ‘What’s the big deal here?’ “I think Israel has an absolute right to deal with its security interest. I put all ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Peace Activists, IDF, Barack Obama, Joe Biden
Evidently, a lot of people out there really think there was a huge need for the supplies being brought to Gaza by the Turkish “peace activist” flotilla. People have even posted comments at LGF complaining about the evil Israelis, whose blockade has been starving women and children to death. Except, in ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Peace Activists, IDF, Humanitarian Aid
Here’s a video taken by a security camera aboard the Mavi Marmara, showing the “peace activists” preparing to attack Israeli soldiers, putting on gas masks and passing out metal clubs, broken bottles, slingshots, and sharpened metal objects. [Video] UPDATE at 6/2/10 11:34:48 am: Another video taken on the ship shows the “peace activists” ...
An interesting report from Israel on the cargo carried by those “peace activists” — it was apparently haphazardly loaded, and not in shortage in Gaza. Twenty-four hours after the last ship of the Gaza aid flotilla entered the Ashdod Port under the watchful eye of the Israeli Navy, all of ...
The Obama administration is not joining the international chorus of condemnation against Israel: Official: US Will Stand with Israel. I’m told there won’t be any daylight between the US and Israel in the aftermath of the incident on the flotilla yesterday, which resulted in the deaths of 10 activists. Regardless of ...
Israel, Gaza, Palestinians, Peace Activists, IDF, Barack Obama
The Israeli Navy boarded a flotilla headed toward Gaza yesterday, leading to a wild melee that ended in several deaths. The IDF is reporting that the “peace activists” planned the violence in advance, and released the following video — clearly showing the “peace activists” attacking the IDF boarding party with ...
But that’s what it is, as anti-war moonbats in Olympia, Washington block streets to prevent military shipments through the Port of Olympia. (Click the photo to watch the video.) (Hat tip: LawHawk.) UPDATE at 11/16/07 9:56:25 am: To make it even more disgusting, they’re using children as human shields.
LGF, Anti-war, Progressives, Peace Activists, Washington, Olympia, Demonstration
A University of Oregon “peace group” called the Pacifica Forum is planning to remember the Nazi atrocity of Kristallnacht this year with two days of speeches and conferences led by a neo-Nazi Holocaust denier. Yes, really. Here’s another story concerning what appears to be a trend: purported “peace activists” promoting ...
LGF, Anti-war, Progressives, Peace Activists, Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial
Rabid peacemongers giving away $100K. But you’ll have to run the gauntlet of Martin Sheen’s horrible fixed stare.
LGF, Anti-war, Progressives, Peace Activists, Useful Idiots, Martin Sheen
Bruce Bawer has a great piece in the City Journal about The Peace Racket. We need to make two points about this movement at the outset. First, it’s opposed to every value that the West stands for—liberty, free markets, individualism—and it despises America, the supreme symbol and defender of those values. ...
LGF, Bawer, City Journal, Progressives, Anti-war, Peace Activists
Arianna Huffington is desperately trying to distance herself from the flood of unbelievably vile comments about Dick Cheney that were posted at her site (she calls it “a minuscule portion” of her readers, which is, well, a blatant lie), and of course, she lashes out at LGF to do it: ...
Moonbats, Netroots, Nutroots, Progressives, Peace Activists, Pandagon, Cheney, Huffington Post