I'M SURE MY FELLOW JEWS will consider me a בוגד, but the Arutz 7/Israeli National News article Interior Minister Jan Jambon compared the Muslim terrorists who were hiding in Brussels with the Jews who hid in World War II. is "journalism" at some of its worst.
According to the article, the person being quoted, Belgium Interior Minister Jan Jambon compared the Muslim terrorists who were hiding in Brussels with the Jews who hid in World War II.
If someone stopped reading right there, the reader would indeed equate the terrorists with Jews.
HOWEVER
Read a bit farther into the relatively short - only six paragraphs - story and discover that Jambon's comparison is absolutely correct.
What Jambon actually said was to compare the terrorists to the Jews who hid here during the Nazi occupation: “There are Jewish people who went into hiding for years... and (the Nazi) regime never found them.”
It was Antwerp City Council member Claude Marinower who took exception to Jambon's remark, saying "It’s inconceivable, it’s shocking for all those who hid Jews during the occupation while endangering their lives. How can you compare the jihadist criminals who are hiding today with the innocent Jews who wanted to flee from the Nazi manhunt?," said Marinower to Jewish news website Regards."
Smells of politics.
Jambon's obvious point was that Jews were hidden from the nazis by non-Jews, even though if caught both they and the Jews they were hiding would suffer.
In the same vein, Muslims hid Muslim terrorists; assuredly some hid them willingly, but possibly some hid them because they feared for their lives. Some non-Muslim anti-Semites - Jews and non-Jews - probably also offered hideouts to the terrorists.
As a former honest print reporter and editor, I resent the Hitlerian half-truths some Israeli and some pro-Jewish publications worldwide disseminate.
Jewish "journalists" should focus on combating the lies of anti-Jewish media rather than lowering themselves to their level of half-truths, innuendos, and yellow journalism headlines.
"Journalism" has come a long way since I wrote my last newspaper story; unfortunately, the "long way" has been down, down, and farther down.
The story on the Arutz 7/Israeli National News was a non-story that, in my opinion, didn't deserve the time spent to lift it from Belgian’s VTM News.
