"Stop the Israel Bashing in the Media and the Jews Will No Longer Be Hated."
An Interview with the Triumphant Phillipe Karsent

by Phyllis Chesler
Pajamas Media
May 21, 2008

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/297/stop-the-israel-bashing-in-the-media

Excerpt:

Well, our era's Dreyfus has just been vindicated. Or, as an Israeli website[2] would have it: "Pigs Fly Over the Eiffel Tower." See my previous interview with Karsenty HERE.

A few hours ago, a French Appeals Court finally decided that Phillipe Karsenty did not libel Charles Enderlin of France's Channel 2 in the matter of Mohammed Al-Dura. One wonders whether the world which was so eager to lap up the base, visual propaganda against Israel, will now just as eagerly lap up the truth. Somehow, I doubt it. Even if the world's mainstream media now covers this legal victory widely, respectfully, and accurately, it may still not be able to reverse the revulsion towards Israel that this staged photo of the twelve year-old Mohammed al-Dura, (allegedly shot to death by Israeli soldiers), managed to provoke–and to keep on provoking as it was repeatedly aired, copied onto tee shirts, coffee mugs, posters, and banners at demonstrations.

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