Philippe Karsenty- The Quiet Hero of al-Dura
Philippe Karsenty will tell you that he is not a hero but indeed he is. Mr. Karsenty stood up to France’s State owned TV, the President of France, the courts and the Israeli Ambassador to France, to accuse France 2 and their news organization of slandering Israel in the case of Muhammad Jamal al-Dura.
The Al Dura case, those 59 seconds of video tape (out of the full half hour of tape) became the rallying cry of the second intifada, and as a result it was the cause of so much death in Israel and Arab lands—-yet it was a hoax . France 2 SUED Karsenty— because he was the only one to stand up against the lies. Until recently even the Israel government abandoned him. But today a French Court ruled in favor of Karsenty and the truth.
Karsenty’s fight for the truth honors us all. Last year Phyllis Chesler interviewed Karsenty and told his story