Report: AP Exploited Children to Stage Anti-Israel Photos in Gaza War Coverage

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Report: AP Exploited Children to Stage Anti-Israel Photos in Gaza War Coverage

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by Jordan Schachtel11 Mar 2015Washington, D.C.30
The Associated Press used Palestinian children as props in staged photos meant to portray Israel negatively in its investigation into the Israel-Hamas war last summer and did not reveal to its readers that the photos were contrived, Richard Behar and Gary Weiss of the Observer write in their rebuttal of the investigation’s results.

Behar and Weiss also reveal that the AP referred to a Hamas jihadi commander who was killed in the war as a “Hamas policeman.” They then exploited his six-year-old child in a staged lead photograph showing the boy standing on top of the rubble of what used to be his father’s home.

“The word ‘policeman’ conjures up images of a law enforcement officer, a civil servant, keeping the peace. But as the AP knew, or should have known, Hamas ‘policemen’ frequently double as Hamas fighters for the terrorist group’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades,” The Observer reporters explain regarding the categorization of the boy’s father. In truth, the boy’s father “was a Hamas fighter” and a “local commander in the Al-Zeitoun Battalions of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades,” the military wing of Hamas, the report adds.

The Observer report reveals that every single AP photograph used in the investigation was completely contrived, but the AP made no mention of that.

Furthermore, the AP relied upon a Gaza-based “human rights” group called the Al Mezan Center and B’Tselem, a radical left wing Israeli group, to find its statistics about the war. The Observer report described Al Mezan as a group more closely resembling a “hate-Israel blog than a dispassionate, unbiased ‘human rights group.’” B’Tselem has been described as a far-left group that accuses Israel of being an “apartheid” state. The organization has also solicited funds from groups that endorse the anti-Semitic BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel.

Breitbart News was on the ground in Israel during the Israel-Hamas 50-day war last summer, which IDF forces codenamed Operation Protective Edge. On multiple occasions, Hamas was found using women and children as human shields. The jihadi group was also caught storing missiles in children’s schools on three separate instances. Hamas initiated the war, and the jihadi group was also responsible for accelerating civilian casualties in Gaza, largely due to its tactical approach that showed a complete disregard for human life.

And then this:

Algemeiner: Published in the The New York Observer, the Behar-Weiss report on the AP reveals a pattern of one-sided reporting, staged photos, and poor research. It also uncovers a departure from established ethical journalism, and contends that the AP story “was set into motion by slanted, politically biased non-governmental organizations.”

On February 13, 2015, the AP released its report which focused on Israeli Air Force strikes on homes during the Gaza War and claimed that according to its findings “just over 60 percent – were children, women and older men, all presumed to be civilians.”

Replete with pictures of damaged Gaza buildings, one AP photo showed a young boy standing atop the rubble of his damaged home with a caption reading: “The attack killed his father, a Hamas policeman, his mother and two siblings.” A number of large news organizations ran the story, and carried the photos.

“When the AP article came out, its bias was evident,” Gary Weiss told The Algemeiner. So he and Richard Behar, the Contributing Editor, Investigations, for Forbes magazine, got to work reporting on the reporters.

And then this:

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Stat Crux
Stat Crux
9 years ago

We need some more evidence of this. If they have pictures and it’s a set up, then we need pictures of it being set up.

RCCA
RCCA
9 years ago
Reply to  Stat Crux

Of course it’s set up. Do you really believe a group of primary school aged children can produce printed posters and organize a demonstration, complete with flags, all on their own? What do you think, they have their own graphic design studio?

Ghost
Ghost
9 years ago
Reply to  Stat Crux

Plenty of evidence. See IDF website–about a year ago a photojournalist began covering the newsmakers themselves. Interesting video report. Also Rabbi Shraga Simmons has written s book on the subject. (Will try to link when my schedule opens in a bit.)

Honest Citizen
Honest Citizen
9 years ago
Reply to  Stat Crux

There are TONS of examples like this for evidence of how untruthful and disgustingly biased these “news agencies” are, for example: http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/02/23/watchdog-rips-afp-for-fake-report-claiming-israel-flooded-gaza-areas-by-opening-dams/ ,(fake story that Israel flooded gaza by opening NON-EXISTANT dams) these fake stories get posted all around the world, anything to demonize Israel. AP is very openly antisemitic.

ReaganAK47
ReaganAK47
9 years ago
Reply to  Honest Citizen

BS from a dishonest foreigner and wannabe citizen!!

conan_drum
conan_drum
9 years ago
Reply to  Honest Citizen

Very true and while the news/media outlets are very good at spreading untruths they very rarely print or publish retractions when contrary evidence shows them to be wrong. By then of course the damage is done. Goebbels the master of such techniques would be proud

Lia
Lia
9 years ago

Does anybody still believe that a ‘Jewish’ or ‘Israeli lobby’ runs USA politics? That the world’s newspapers are run by Jewish interest? That Jewish moneymen control all finances?

ReaganAK47
ReaganAK47
9 years ago
Reply to  Lia

Will you rather have the Islamic terrorists run the world?

Lia
Lia
9 years ago
Reply to  ReaganAK47

No ReaganAK47, that was not what I meant. I think, & the thought chills me, that a muslim coalition has become financially, politically &
media-wise, the chief people. You are so tight, Conan Drum. Mosley, etc.

rabrooks
rabrooks
9 years ago
Reply to  Lia

“anti-Jewish propaganda”
Common sense dictates that; If I lived in a shoebox sized country, right next to a military powerhouse, I wouldn’t spit in their direction! You start a war, expect to get your shit tore up! WTF can anyone say after that?
Any “abuse” is coming from those “hamas” idiots that force the pallies to suffer and die for “hamas” ideology….

Lia
Lia
9 years ago
Reply to  rabrooks

The entire thing alarms me: the Arabs know what is happening & yet cannot speak up, for fear of Hamas. Israel (at least Israel’s Mr Netanyahu) knows, and speaks up but the West doesn’t believe it.

conan_drum
conan_drum
9 years ago
Reply to  Lia

Yes it is quite bizarre that people still follow Nazi propaganda not to mention illogical but when did those kind of people use logic in their thinking?

Donthedav
Donthedav
9 years ago

I have always said that AP stands for Associated Propaganda.

conan_drum
conan_drum
9 years ago
Reply to  Donthedav

Or perhaps As* hole Product

Metatrona
Metatrona
9 years ago

AP, Muslim adults, Muslim children —same crap—same stink!

conan_drum
conan_drum
9 years ago

I used to have a little sympathy for the so called ‘palestinians’ who lost their homes in 1947, but that evaporated when they danced and sang in the streets and threw out sweets when they heard about 9/11. If they care so little about innocent human lives why should I care about theirs? Most of them are ardent fans of Hamas terrorism anyway.

Shleppy
Shleppy
9 years ago

Like this is anything we didn’t already know was going on and it isn’t just AP. Not by a long shot. It’s also the NYT, CNN, MSNBC, all of the leftist news outlets engage in this stuff. They give us the news to fit their views.

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s;vbkr0boc,klos;
9 years ago

There are more Arabs within the actual borders of Israel now than there were before 1947. some ‘genocide’.

me
me
9 years ago

the propaganda machines have taken over the media outlets

dad1927
dad1927
9 years ago

like the pics of them roping them to their house to prevent shootings, hiding weapons behind kids in schools, and other fun cowardly acts.. My fav is the old photos of the formerly dead brought out. A little photoshop, and away you go. I don’t see any pics of the Palestinians there in the 1860s. Where were they hiding?

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