Qatari news network Al Jazeera is stridently denying any link to Gaza-based journalist Abdallah Aljamal, amid unverified rumors that hostage Noa Argamani had been held at his home in central Gaza’s Nuseirat.
According to various rumors, some of which have been picked up by Hebrew-language media with varying levels of credulity, Argamani was held at the home of Dr. Ahmed Aljamal and his son Abdallah. They also claim that Abdallah is an employee of Al-Jazeera.
Times of Israel – Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: Left-Center
Factual Reporting: High
Country: Israel
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rank: Moderate
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Traffic/Popularity: High Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: High Credibility
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Perfect example of how suspect MBFC is.
Times of Israel has such immense bias in favor of the IDF and the fascist apartheid regime, and such lax fact checking on the one subject people outside Israel read it for that it’s not AT ALL credible and MBFC, being basically the hobby of a conservative Zionist, rates it left of center and highly factual 🤦
Eta examples from the “detailed report”:
minimally loaded language such as this: US envoy suggests world should rethink PA aid after Israeli teen killed by bomb.
Failed Fact Checks
None in the Last 5 years
Both examples of absolutely atrocious levels of bias on the part of MBFC.
Want to see a headline from an Israeli source with a stronger bias?
Arutz Sheva: IDF confirms: Al Jazeera journalist was terrorist who held hostages
Their ratings from MBFC:
Arutz Sheva (Israel National News) – Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: Right-Center
Factual Reporting: Mixed
Country: Israel
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: Moderate
Media Type: TV Station
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: Medium Credibility
The bias is strong in the case of TOI. This is extreme bordering on !nottheonion@lemmy.world territory.
And still MBFC rates them center right rather than far right and the factuality “mixed” rather than “low” or “very low”.
It’s all relative. Want to see something from a further right Israeli source?
Israel Hayom:
Report: Former hostage Noa Argamani held captive in Al-Jazeera cameraman’s house
Their ratings from MBFC:
Israel Hayom – Bias and Credibility
Bias Rating: Right
Factual Reporting: Mixed
Country: Israel
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: Moderate
Media Type: Newspaper
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: Medium Credibility
And they are subject to military censorship!
Please stop flagging this thread as misinformation. Whether or not you believe that the Al Jazeera journalist had any responsibility here, the article is about them denying it.
That is not misinformation. They do deny it.
It’s impossible! Because that would mean that Hamas is hiding among civilians, effectively using them civilians as shields…
Nobody is saying Hamas isn’t using civilians as human shields, they’re just saying that it doesn’t justify bombing civilians…
فلسطين حرة 🇵🇸 Слава Україні 🇺🇦
Middle East Monitor - July 18, 2014 at 1:00 pm
Israel, not Hamas, turns Palestinians into ‘human shields’
Also, more recently, Regina Doherty via Middle East Monitor:
‘The method of fighting enemy hiding behind the population is legal’
Thanks for this, I’ve kind of stepped away from the news cycle as of recent to focus on school, etc. I genuinely was not aware of this.
Yes it does.
You don’t want to die? Don’t let terrorists live in your home. Leave if you have to.
It’s the same old saying, if you have five terrorists and a civilian at a table, you have six terrorists.
How many terrorists have to be at the table? Itamar Ben-Gvir is a convicted terrorist. Should the cabinet adjourn every time a Kehanist or two shows up? Or does it require a 5/6 ratio before guilt by association kicks in?
Going along with this thought…
Does the setting matter?
Like if I allow or invite one terrorist to live with me, is that the same as regularly attending a governmental meeting with one?
Don’t let terrorists live in your home. Leave if you have to.
I’m sure that would have been very easy for the well over 10,000 children who have been killed. Especially the babies.
I have said this multiple times and I will continue to say it- if you have to kill thousands of children in the name of protecting your nation, maybe your nation isn’t worth protecting.
Those kids have parents who are making that choice.
Every country who has gone to war in the last century has killed children. The US, Canada, the UK, Germany, France, even Australia…
Civilian casualties are not possible to avoid unless both sides are willing to fight in a completely separate space, and that doesn’t happen in modern warfare.
if you have to kill thousands of children in the name of protecting your nation, maybe your nation isn’t worth protecting.
Ironically, nearly every major nation in existence has done this at some point in their history. The world is a fucked up place.
Non-ironically, maybe they aren’t worth protecting either.
On one hand I can sympathize with that sentiment, on the other hand, I can’t imagine the horrors that would have occurred if the Axis powers had been allowed to conquer the world.
The Axis Powers that were also killing lots of children and thus not worth protecting?
Hamas isn’t using civilians as human shields. At least, not at scale. Israel and its western co-conspirators manufacture evidence to use to justify the genocide, but none of that evidence is concrete. It’s just intelligence people making baseless claims.
Unless you define “human shields” as “another person within a quarter mile”.
