Comments on: More blood libels

By: The Colossus of Rhodey

The Colossus of Rhodey — Sat, 12 Nov 2005 22:26:42 +0000

Those crafty Jews …

Dave over at Soccer Dad sadly reports something that is just all too common: the scapegoating “Jewish conspiracy”: Meryl Yourish caught a couple of bloggers repeating a bogus story that Israelis had been evacuated from one of the Jordanian hotels…

By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:59:29 +0000

Sorry, I’ve just read your piece above. Please ignore or delete these two posts.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 10:56:19 +0000

Meryl Yourish, the quote is sited in the LA Times link that I posted above. I will post it again here:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bombings10nov10,0,2022733.story?coll=la-home-world

The quote is on the left hand side just under the large, coloured advertisement.

By: Soccer Dad

Soccer Dad — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 09:49:48 +0000

Meryl gets results

Meryl Yourish caught a couple of bloggers repeating a bogus story that Israelis had been evacuated from one of the Jordanian hotels prior to terror blasts. Hugh Hewitt had reported the story first and about mid-day he noted: This story…

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:36:02 +0000

Never mind, I’ll post my response.

By: Meryl Yourish

Meryl Yourish — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:26:52 +0000

I’m not seeing a cite, Steve. Cite it, or don’t quote it. Not in an issue this sensitive.

As for why they would run the story: It concerns Israelis in a major terrorist attack. Why wouldn’t they run it? The real question is: Why didn’t they fact-check this absurd piece of trash? And why don’t they fire the reporter who wrote it, and the editor who approved it?

By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:26:20 +0000

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-bombings10nov10,0,2022733.story?coll=la-home-world

By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:24:26 +0000

Amos N. Guiora, a former senior Israeli counter-terrorism official, said in a phone interview with The Times that sources in Israel had also told him about the pre-attack evacuations.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:15:36 +0000

Has anyone got any idea why Haaretz would run such a story or what their source is likely to have been? Is Yoav Stern a regular Haaretz columnist?

I find this very strange indeed.

By: Ben F

Ben F — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 20:03:10 +0000

The Daily Alert picked up the initial report also. Presumably the correction will run tomorrow. More importantly, don't miss the link in today's Daily Alert to an extremely interesting article by Reuven Paz concerning Abu Mus'ab al-Suri, an influential jihadi strategist.