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How the NY Times and Israel Coordinate Propaganda

May 6, 2018

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The Jerusalem Post is an Israeli propaganda outlet in the English language.  Here’s a lead story in today’s edition:
https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/IDF-strikes-Hamas-outpost-in-Gaza-used-as-launching-pad-for-attack-kites-553601
To lay the groundwork for this latest Israeli provocation, here’s what Isabel Kershner wrote in yesterday’s NY Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-flaming-kites-protest.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmiddleeast&action=click&contentCollection=middleeast&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront
 
See also this: http://mondoweiss.net/2018/05/another-distorted-focuses/
 
Is there anyone this side of Pluto who believes that kites (!!!) pose a mortal threat to Israel?
 
Kershner is married to Hirsh Goodman, one of Israel’s leading propagandists (along with Michael Oren) in the English language.
Times-Goodman-Kershner: All in the Family.
Under Times protocol, Kershner should get the byline (a stringer is typically acknowledged at the end of the article as contributing to it).  But to disguise Kershner’s gross propaganda, the Times lists first IYAD ABUHEWEILA, a young, naive, inexperienced Gazan desperate for work who has zero editorial control.