Comments on: Israel Foreign Affairs Ministry: Lies are Truth

By: How to read the conflict | Antony Loewenstein

How to read the conflict | Antony Loewenstein — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:27:21 +0000

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By: LanceThruster

LanceThruster — Mon, 12 May 2008 22:39:27 +0000

Going back to the original hard copy of the publications, I found something that was surprising to me. One is that they actually did identify the girl with the headscarf by name (Manar) though they gave out no details in the caption (was she a friend, servant, neighbor, family-member, etc?) but that the Campus Circle publication was very selective of the photos they used. The source is Gillian Laub from a photo study called "Testimony" with essays by Ariella Azoulay and Raef Zreik and actually covers victims of the conflict in Israel and palestine from a number of vantage points as opposed to the ones highlighting an Israeli perspective only (2 of the 5 shots used were of IDF) . The author actually provides a wider narrative to the consequences of the conflict than the publiction did. While there is no online link from the magazine for the photo feature, there are for the author and her work and are linked at the end here. I wonder if the publication's omission of Arab victims was merely an oversight, a conscious choice, or done out of concern that humanizing Arab victims might bring some sort of backlash?

http://www.aperture.org/store/books-detail-promo.aspx?ID=551

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1127/p13s01-bogn.html

By: LanceThruster

LanceThruster — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:40:01 +0000

Hi Mary,

I'll see what I can come up with. The actual name of the publication is Campus Circle ( http://www.campuscircle.com/ ) and the issue was April 30th – May 6th. I'm trying to find a link to the photo essay online. I also plan to write them to ask about similar coverage of the Nakba.

I just saw a Prof. Lieber on C-SPAN talking about Israel and when a caller mentioned Israeli apartheid, the professor grew indignant and declared any comparison to South African apartheid "obscene." I do not think a day goes by where some news feature or public affairs discussion is covered with an unmistakeably Zionsit slant.

By: Mary Rizzo

Mary Rizzo — Mon, 12 May 2008 08:20:11 +0000

Hi Lance! Great to see you here and thanks for your thumbs-up (in a Sisbert kind of way…). The determination is there, and when they close down one site, we open up three more…. It's like Gilad wrote recently: if they stop you from shouting, you speak, if they cut your tounge out, you nod, if they behead you, you become a martyr and thousands more are affected by your words and the crimes they did to stop you only make them criminals, and you more effective.

Ah, the Campus Life stuff… that is interesting! I love these documents…. If you would like to write a deconstruction of them for the Think Tank, we would be really honoured to host that here!

I've been working for a while on The Torch (from CUFI) and The Israel Project…. they are world class liars! But still, look at who is feeding them the lies: direct from the source!

By: LanceThruster

LanceThruster — Sun, 11 May 2008 18:26:23 +0000

Great deconstruction and analysis, Mary. Thank you so much to alerting me to Palestine Think Tank. I will come back often and refer my friends. I just saw the latest issue of Campus Life that are customized for the local colleges, and on the last page there was a photo essay on Israel's 60th birthday. Not a single mention of the Nakba even though in one picture with a young Israeli woman hurt in a bus bombing (and whose husband left her and her 8-month old baby shortly afterward) was a young (Palestinian?) girl with a headscarf that they didn't even bother to identify. It's as if only Israeli suffering has any merit and everyone else is virtually invisible. And these are not the outwardly pro-Zionist publications; these are the supposedly neutral ones that still more often than not promote the official Zionist narrative.

You've certainly got an uphill battle ahead of you yet I am somewhat optimistic in that you have the truth on your side and a seemingly inexhaustible reserve of determination and perserverence.

My sincere gratitude and admiration to you all.