StevenFM
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Dat is niet de indruk die het artikel opwekt. Noch de headline van het artikel, noch de introductie, maakt melding van de onbetrouwbaarheid of bias van de verkregen informatie. De WSJ meldt zelfs uitdrukkelijk dat zij de informatie ingekeken en reviewed hebben.Ik zie geen enkele valabele reden op basis waarvan je zou kunnen beweren dat de NYT of WSJ fake news verspreidden over UNRWA. Beide kranten maakten het overduidelijk dat de informatie geleverd werd door Israël.
TEL AVIV—At least 12 employees of the U.N.’s Palestinian refugee agency had connections to Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and around 10% of all of its Gaza staff have ties to Islamist militant groups, according to intelligence reports reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Dus de WSJ publiceert een explosief verhaal dat gebaseerd is op informatie die niet onafhankelijk geverifieerd kan worden en op basis daarvan stoppen heel wat landen hun funding voor zowat de enige organisatie die in staat is de hongersnood in Gaza onder controle te houden. Vind jij dat een normale vorm van journalistiek? Verdienen zulke claims niet wat meer skepticisme en journalistiek onderzoek?
Mijn verwijzing naar de NYT ging trouwens over onderstaand artikel.
‘Screams Without Words’: How Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence on Oct. 7 (Published 2023)
A Times investigation uncovered new details showing a pattern of rape, mutilation and extreme brutality against women in the attacks on Israel.
The Nixonian “New York Times” Stonewalls on a Discredited Article About Hamas and Rape
The newspaper of record botches an important story about sexual violence on October 7.
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“Screams Without Words” initially seemed like a searing and irreproachable indictment that settled this debate. But doubts soon emerged about the article, both on account of the unacknowledged biases of the reporters (in particular Anat Schwartz) and also the shaky nature of the evidence presented. Key sources for the article had a history of false claims. The family of one allegedly raped murder victim spoke out against the article, claiming it presented an impossible story. A fierce internal debate emerged inside the Times itself as reporters not part of the original team found it difficult to verify many of the claims of the article. The reporting behind the Times article has been questioned both by the Times podcast The Daily and The Intercept.
A lengthy follow-up report on Wednesday was even more devastating. The new report painted Anat Schwartz as an incompetent propagandist. Schwartz had liked a tweet calling on Israel to turn Gaza “into a slaughterhouse.” The tweet described Palestinians as “human animals.” The Intercept also quoted from a radio interview Schwartz gave in Israel where she admitted that when it came to evaluating evidence of sexual violence, “I have no qualifications.”
Schwartz relied heavily on Zaka, described by The Intercept as “a private ultra-Orthodox rescue organization that has been documented to have mishandled evidence and spread multiple false stories about the events of October 7, including debunked allegations of Hamas operatives beheading babies and cutting the fetus from a pregnant woman’s body. Its workers are not trained forensic scientists or crime scene experts.” Another major source, Shari Mendes, has repeatedly made demonstrably false claims.
