In an 8 minute interview posted to YouTube on 30 April 2024, Yama Wolomsal, a Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation anchor, questioned David Mencer, a spokesperson for Israel, about the almost-7-month-old Gaza conflict in which over 34,000 Palestinians are known to have been killed and thousand more are missing, presumed dead, beneath the rubble. By putting to David Mencer facts from authoritative sources including the World Health Organisation, the United Nations, the Gaza Health Ministry and numerous human rights groups, Yama Wolomsal demolished every one of David Mencer's claimed justifications for Israel's war.
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— Samira Mohyeddin سمیرا (@SMohyeddin) April 27, 2024
Yama Wolasmal, interviews Israeli spokesperson, David Mencer. This should be taught in all journalism schools. I spoke at the Norwegian Journalism Institute last year @Pressenshus in Oslo & was so impressed with the rigour of their work. pic.twitter.com/4YS8p7qSHU
Unlike David Mencer in this one interview, other mouthpieces for Israel nearly always issue statements about the conflict in venues where there are no journalists in sight, so such close scrutiny of an advocate for Israel is a rare occurrence.
Hopefully, when Parliament sits again for 3 days commencing Tuesday 14 May, supporters of Palestine there will find ways to hold the Australian Government governent to account for its support for Israel . They would be well advised to watch the above interview to help them counter the arguments likely to put by the pro-genocide Labor-Liberal Unaparty in Canberra.
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James Sinnamon
Thu, 2024-05-02 00:45
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NZ national broadcaster gives Israeli ambassador a platform
See An Israeli Ambassador & the Failure of Media (29/4/24) at Consortium News
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Fri, 2024-05-03 12:11
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Support for Palestine welcome here, but not anti-semitism
Editor's comment: Whilst I agree with abhorrance the murder, so far of over 34,000 Palestinians (which includes cold-blooded killing of medical staff, women and children at gun-point) candobetter must distinguish between anti-semitism on the one hand and anti-zionism on the other.
Some of the most effective and persistent opponents of Israel's genocide are, or were, themselves Jews. These include Marek Edelman (1919-2009) a leader of the 1943 Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Albert Einstein and Medea Benjamin (@MedeaBenjamin on Twitter).
Comments which imply that all jewish people are either willing participants in the crimes of the Netanyahu regime in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, Syria and elsewhere or support those crimes, won't be published here.
The original title of this comment was "United States taxpayer killing innocent women and children in Gaza."
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