On March 31, 2014 U.S. Marine Sgt. Andrew Tahmooressi accidentally crossed into Mexico, due to a confusing series of road signs, on his way to San Diego. Mexican officials refused his request to turn around a few hundred feet over the border, and instead threw him in jail, where he has remained ever since. The reason: Tahmooressi, who was essentially living out of his truck, was carrying all of his possessions, including three firearms, which he openly admitted to Mexican officials. An Afghanistan war veteran suffering from PTSD, by all accounts Sgt. Tahmooressi served honorably, and was relocating to San Diego to obtain the mental health counseling that had been prescribed to him. Since his incarceration in Mexico, however, Tahmooressi has reported that his jailers have beaten him, stripped him of his clothes, chained him to a bed, and threatened to rape him. Here's a video summary of Sgt. Tahmooressi's situation:
So how many stories did the Huffington Post, the world's #1 most-read online "newspaper," publish about Sgt. Tahmooressi and his plight and allegations, in the nearly three months since he was taken captive by Mexico? Zero - and you can prove this for yourself. If you search "Andrew Tahmooressi" at HuffPost, you will find a list of returns - all of which have "huff-wires" in the URL, meaning that these were items that were inserted into HuffPost's news feed, but not published - least of all on its front page, or any prominent position. . . Contrast HuffPost completely ignoring Sgt. Tahmooressi to the sympathetic coverage it has given to a convicted U.S. traitor, to Palestinians, and even Al Qaeda As the following facts demonstrate, were Tahmooressi anything other than (a) an American combat veteran who honorably served, and (b) a gun owner, it would have given his plight front-page coverage. Consider the following facts: (1) HuffPost gave front-page splash treatment to Michael Moore's allegations that a Palestinian filmmaker was detained for merely a few hours at LAX:
(2) HuffPost gave front-page splash treatment toconvicted traitor PFC Bradley Manning when it became difficult to prove whether or not his treason led to actual deaths of U.S. service members or our allies:
(3) HuffPost gave Manning a front-page editorial to explain why he was changing his name, and had changed genders - and left this editorial posted on the front page for four days:
(4) HuffPost gavefive days of top coverage to a "homesick jihadi" -yet ignored the a U.S. military hero who was given the Medal of Honor during the same time period:
(6) HuffPost gave splash treatment to Palestinians whom it alleged were "left behind by government, the world":
These are not isolated incidents, or "accidents," as HuffPost likes to claim when it is caught in embarrassingsituations. Rather, they are par for the course in the "news" room that is commanded by the woman who reportedly claimed she is "the future of journalism." . . HuffPost's recent, sympathetic coverage of Al Jazeera "journalists" who were sentenced in Egypt (and who then made overt threats against the Egyptian government) Most recently, on June 24, 2014 HuffPost published an editorialized teaser atop its news section, for an original "news" story that presents what it contends is the "heartbreaking" reaction that an Al Jazeera "journalist" had to being sentenced by an Egyptian court:
Note also that by HuffPost's own admission, amidst this "heartbreaking" ordeal, the "reporter" overtly threatened the court, screaming, "They will pay for this! I promise they will pay for this!":
Note further that as documented in a detailed report, HuffPost has a long, intense relationship with Al Jazeera, in which it has relentlessly worked to get the terrorist-celebrating "news" network into millions of U.S. homes. . . Day 87 of Sgt. Tahmooressi's captivity, and terror: What you can do to help him
Learn the details at the Facebook page set up to help liberate Sgt. Tahmooressi, and sign the petitions that are linked therein. .
Contact any of the corporations that advertise at HuffPost, to ask if they are aware of what it is they are enabling. .
Write or call Huffington Post's senior management to ask that they end the blackout of news on Sgt. Tahmooressi, and begin showing him, and all U.S. soldiers, the respect and sympathy that they show traitors, terrorists and Palestinians.
. For four years, HUFF-WATCH has been documenting how HuffPost acts as a PR shill for Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamist terror groups, whitewashing and ignoring their murderous acts and threats, while vilifying Israel and Jews. (See "Previous Posts" at end, and our massive archive) To start off 2013 with a "bang," on January 1 HuffPost decided to carry its shilling for Islamist butchers even further, by claiming that Al Qaeda, the most murderous Islamist terror group in the world, actually has a "gentle face":
Question: What kind of sick maniacs would actually suggest that Al Qaeda has a "gentle face"? Answer: (1) The senior editors at HuffPost, who sourced the story from (2) Al Qaeda's favorite "news" service, Al Jazeera. (A reminder: Al Jazeera is one of the world's mostnotoriouspro-terrorist propaganda networks --- which threw a birthday party (video) for the Islamist terrorist who smashed
a 4-year-old Jewish girl's skull to pieces, after murdering her father
in front of her, to ensure that that would be the last image she'd ever
see.) Here's an example from the Al Jazeera story page around which HuffPost built its "piece":
Caption:"The Mujahideen distribute charity in hospitals and slums."
And to help ensure that its latest piece of terrorist-whitewashing propaganda got maximum attention, HuffPost positioned it directly beside a three-day-old "news" story concerning... a zoomed-in crotch shot of a woman in a bikini:
Doesn't it feel good to know that your tax dollars are going to enable all this? Previous posts:
(1) Make your voice known to HuffPost's senior management here.
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(3) Forward the link to this story along to others who support the U.S. military, Jews and Israel --- particularly journalists!!!
“We are in a battle, and more than half of this battle is taking place in the battlefield of the media.” - Ayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaeda second-in-command, 2005
A few months ago, HuffPost,the world's most-read online "newspaper," debuted its entry into video "news," HuffPost "Live." Some (including us) initially dismissed it as merely Arianna's equivalent of a continuous gab-fest talk show; a merging of "The View" with "Jerry Springer," and a bit of Chris Matthews' neck-bulging hysteria thrown in for good measure. Big mistake.
The good guys at HuffPostMonitorbegan documenting the grim reality of HuffPostLive: the fact that its "host/producer," Ahmed Shihab-Eldin, has been re-Tweeting inflammatory rants from documented anti-Semites, and posting articles containing one-sided, inflammatory pro-Islamist propaganda. Then, in late October, Dovid Efune, the executive editor ofThe Algemeiner, came face-to-face with Shihab-Eldin's venomous pro-Islamist, anti-Israel distortions and propaganda --- in particular, his claim that the only parties in the Middle East that live in justifiable fear are (a) Iran, and (b) the Palestinians (and both are in fear of a malevolent, oppressive Israel). In Efune's words (emphasis added):
How the Huffington Post gets away with placing someone who vocally campaigns for this morally corrupt position in a role of senior responsibility, is simply beyond me. To present a more passive stance against Iranian nukes and call for the extension of diplomatic efforts is one thing. It is quite another to stand behind a terror sponsoring regime that is guilty of incitement to genocide, and blame its victims. If The Huffington Post seeks salvation; the bad apples must be cast away. Absent a thorough house cleaning, readers be warned: Arianna has created a mouthpiece for the devil.
That got us curious: Who is Shihab-Eldin? And why would HuffPost enable such a vicious pro-Hamas, anti-Semitic propagandist to anchor and produce its flagship video "news" product?
His bio is here; we stopped reading after learning that he was a producer for Al Jazeera. (In case you didn't know, Al Jazeera is one of the world's mostnotoriouspro-terrorist propaganda networks --- which threw a birthday party (video) for the Islamist terrorist who smashed a 4-year-old Jewish girl's skull to pieces, after murdering her father in front of her, to ensure that that would be the last image she'd ever see.) It wasn't until November 16, though, that HuffPost apparently decided to completely unleash Shihab-Eldin to (a) spew a breathtaking range of untruths, distortions and outright lies against Israel, while (b) completely ignoring the facts that obliterate his arguments. In total, his acts could only serve one purpose: to protect Hamas, and falsely vilify and incite hate against Israel. This is no anomaly;Shihab-Eldin is merely the newest face of what we've been documenting for four years: HuffPost's relentless effort to facilitate the cyber-jihad against the U.S. military and Israel and Jews --- while ignoring, whitewashing or downplaying the savage acts, threats and statements of militant Islamists. Today, HUFF-WATCH debuts our first, overdue feature that focuses exclusively on HuffPostLive.
After reading this, you will know why Hamas, Al Qaeda, Islamic Jihad and all their savage terrorist brethren must be delighted that Arianna has now found a new, extremely powerful means of advancing their mission. And the best part? YOU are helping to pay for HuffPostLive, via your tax dollars.
(1) HuffPostLive "host-producer" pushes Hamas lie that Gaza is "occupied" and being "terrorized" by Israel
On November 16, HuffPost positioned Ahmed Shihab-Eldin's latest screed at the very top of its World page, entitled:
Journalist Mohammad Omer, who is living in the Occupied Gaza Strip, provided us with live updates from the Rafah Refugee camp.
"There are 248 people who were injured, among them 148 children and women injured by the airstrikes," Omer said. "The airstrikes are continuing as we speak. There is a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza strip. There is nowhere to run. There is no shelter."
Let's focus first on the title of this screed: Is Gaza really being "terrorized" --- and if so, by whom?
The only parties that are "terrorizing" the residents of the Gaza Strip are Hamas and other Islamist terror groups, who relentlessly target and attempt to murder Jewish civilians, most recently through the estimated 900 rockets, missiles and mortars that they've fired into Israel since early November. They alone are forcing Israel to retaliate, to stop rockets from raining down on its civilians.
Yet as we documented here and here, if you rely primarily on HuffPost for your news, you wouldn't know anything about the hundreds of rockets that Hamas fired against Israel between Nov. 10-14, because it published not a single story on its front page or World page about them. HuffPost only jumped into action when Israel began threatening to begin "targeted assassinations against Gazans." This omission is no anomaly; for the past four years, HuffPost has been protecting Hamas and doing its PR, while simultaneously publishing inflammatory lies about Israel and Jews --- just like this one. Second, the Gaza Strip is not "occupied."
That is a particularly vile lie, that could only have been concocted by Hamas --- or one of its media propagandists. There is not a single Jew in the Gaza strip --- and with one exception, there haven't been any there since 2005, when Israel completely withdrew from the region. The lone exception was Gilad Shalit, the IDF soldier that Hamas kidnapped and unlawfully held for five years, without allowing him a single visit from the Red Cross or any "human rights" agency.
In fact, less than two months before Shihab-Eldin's screed, Israeli Knesset member Danny Danon appeared on HuffPostLive and schooled him on this lie. So why would he utter this outrageous lie, again? And why would HuffPost publish it, if not to continue its pathological efforts to protect Hamas and do its PR --- just as it has been doing for years? (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) Third, who is this alleged "journalist," Mohammed Omer, whose incendiary allegations about women and children being injured by Israel's surgical strikes against Hamas targets Shihab-Eldin accepts at face value? And what about his lie that "There is nowhere to run. There is no shelter" in Gaza?
The reality is that Omer is not a "journalist" --- he is a pro-Islamist propagandist with Electronic Intifada, which, as NGO Monitor has documented, is so biased for Hamas, and against Israel and Jew,s that it makes Al Jazeera look like the Wall St. Journal. (More: 1, 2, 3) And as honest observers know, the only "journalists" that Hamas allows to live in Gaza are those that it knows are willing to spread its propaganda.
The fact is that Israel employs super-human measures to ensure that only Hamas targets are hit, and even air-drops leaflets and makes millions of phone calls urging Palestinian civilians to stay away from Hamas installations that will be targeted in their area. How many other armies in the world go to such an extent to avoid civilian casualties? Further, President Morsi of Egypt has vocally stood by Hamas, and opened the border to Egypt for refugees. HuffPost decided that none of those facts, however, were worth mentioning. Just as it decides in pretty much every case concerning inflammatory lies against Israel and Jews. But wait, didn't Arianna Huffington publicly announce that she prohibited "inflammatory claims" at her site?
Why yes, she did, years ago. That, however, is just another of the lies that she has pathologically tells the public, and presumably, her advertisers (including your tax-funded Cadillac -- the official co-sponsor of HuffPostLive).
(2) HuffPostLive (and HuffPost) completely ignored the fake Gaza injury video, which was revealed the day beforeShihab-Eldin's screed Anyone who spends a minimal amount of time at HuffPost knows that it is very image- and video-centric. If it can obtain a imagery (especiallyvideo) of anything that advances the cyber-jihad, it is rushed to the front page, where it will stay for a good while. In some cases we've documented, HuffPost even outdoes Al Jazeera in terms of inciting hate against the U.S. military, Israel and Jews, based on what it knows (or should know) is false information.
Keep that in mind when you consider the fact that on November 15, one day before Shihab-Eldin's latest screed, a video produced by Honest Reporting showed Hamas using the BBC to stage completely phony Palestinian "injury" video (also known as "Pallywood" propaganda). Basically, the BBC video purportedly shows a grievously injured, unconscious Palestinian man being carried away... yet a few minutes later, he is (miraculously!) awake, and is (miraculously!) completely uninjured!!!
This video went viral among conservative and pro-Israel blogs. Even CNN retracted it.
So how did HuffPost (and HuffPostLive) react to this exposure of the depths to which Hamas works to perpetrate fake injuries and deaths, in order to elicit world sympathy?
By completely ignoring it.
(3) HuffPostLive (and HuffPost) completely ignored the fact that a little Palestinian boy whom Hamas alleged was killed by Israel... was actually killed by Hamas Blogger Elder of Ziyon took the lead in breakingthis story. In summary, Hamas senior terrorist-propagandist Ismail Haniyeh
(right) was quickly on the scene, kissing the forehead of a toddler whom he and other Hamas figures alleged had been cruelly killed by Israeli air strikes:
Yet even Palestinian sources on the ground admit that there were no IAF strikes in the area at the time this boy sustained his fatal injuries. Soon thereafter, it was discovered that a significant minority of the rockets that Hamashas been firing at Israeli civilian centers fell short, and landed on Palestinian homes, instead --- and this was one of them. Other blogs, includingBreitbart.com, revealed this hoax.
The Telegraph (UK) issued a retraction, and admitted that it was a Hamas rocket that killed this little boy. HuffPostLive (and HuffPost), however, completely ignored the evidence of this latest Hamas hoax.
Instead, it got busy posting new, graphic pictures of injured Palestinian children, before it could verify anything about them, and knowing of Hamas's long history of producing "Pallywood" propaganda involving little kids:
Yet as we and our friends at HuffPostMonitordocument, HuffPost never, ever publishes pictures of injured Jewish children.
(4) HuffPostLive (and HuffPost) completely ignored the fact that on Nov. 14 (two days beforeShihab-Eldin's screed), Hamas was caught Tweeting a picture of a dead boy whom it blamed on Israel -- yet it was from Syria, a month earlier
From the Tablet, with detailed reporting at Breitbart. Basically, Hamas used its official Twitter account to send out the following heartbreaking image, which it alleged was one more casualty of Israel's reckless attacks on Palestinian civilians. One little problem: the child was killed by Syrian forces, in Syria; Israel had absolutely nothing to do with it.
HuffPost Live (and HuffPost), however, completely ignored the evidence of this latest Hamas hoax.
(5) HuffPostLive (and HuffPost) completely ignored the Nov. 17 threat by Hamas to resume suicide bombings in densely-populated Israeli civilian centers
From the Times of Israel:
On Saturday, Hamas aired a propaganda clip on its television station threatening in Hebrew to resume suicide attacks in Israeli cities.
For years, HuffPost has routinely posted on its front page what it claims are "outrageous" statements by Israeli politicians --- yet it never posts any of the genocidal threats like this by Hamas, the terror group that it routinely protects and emboldens.
So in this case,
what did HuffPost decide was more "newsworthy" to put on its front page, and World page, instead of this genocidal threat?
Let's take a look:
You get the idea: HuffPost judged a psychotic starlet's "bathtub striptease" (above) and similar nonsensical "news" stories to be more important to place on its front page than a single story that demonstrates the savage reality of Hamas, and the #TerrorStateOfPalestine that it runs. HuffPostLive completely ignored this threat, as well.
(6) HuffPostLive (and HuffPost) completely ignoredthe infographic that the IDF posted that shows how Hamas deliberately positions its rocket launching sites next to nursery schools, playgrounds and other civilian areas:
Details at KleinOnline. Hamas can position the missiles it fires at Israel anywhere in the Gaza Strip. Rather than positioning them a safe distance from civilian population centers, however, it is positioning them directly next to, if not atop civilian homes, hospitals, nursery schools, etc. --- just as it did in 2008 during Cast Lead:
HuffPostLive completely ignored this fact, as well. So what did it decide was more important for its global audience to be aware of, and deserved positioning on its front page?
Let's take a look:
For the third day in a row, HuffPost left the "news" story ofStephen Colbert kissing a wax imitation of himself, near the top of its front page:
And for the third day in a row, HuffPost decided that "retired Playboy bunnies speak out"was more important to leave on its front page than anything that would criticize Hamas:
You get the idea. So how does this comport with Arianna's self-proclaimed guiding journalistic principle, though?
“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned.”
- Arianna Huffington, July 29, 2008
“We are aiming to go beyond just facts, to create a narrative... [W]e think bringing journalism to a new level is exactly what people are looking for.”
- Arianna Huffington, October 20, 2009
Uh-huh.
So who is responsible for creating and managing "HuffPostLive"?
(Aside from you, via your tax dollars) From this page at HuffPost:
HuffPost Live was co-created and developed by HuffPost's founding editor Roy Sekoff. Sekoff serves as President of HuffPost Live, overseeing all aspects of its ongoing development, production, and programming. HuffPost Live was co-created and developed by Gabriel Lewis, who now serves as its Executive Editor. The third member of the senior management team is Mitch Semel, Executive Editor of HuffPost Live.
(1) Make your voice known to HuffPost's senior management here.
(2) Consider writing or calling one or more of HuffPost's top advertisers, to let them know your thoughts on what their ad dollars are enabling.An easy way to approach this is to scan our easy-to-use directory and find one or two corporations that you are a customer of, or have stock in. Your concerns will automatically be given considerably more weight. Also, request a follow-up after they've had a chance to review the evidence; don't let them off the hook, or sweep this under the rug.
(3) Forward the link to this story along to others who support Jews and Israel --- particularly journalists!!!
On September 16, 2009, HuffPost once again ran on its front page a libel against Israel by the notorious, jihadist-celebrating al-Jazeera.
This isn't the first time that HuffPost has done this (1, 2). (Note: al-Jazeera is also a HuffPost advertiser.)
In this case, mid-way down on the front page, we found this inflammatory story teaser:
And not only does HuffPost give al-Jazeera the "by-line," it actually features its logo prominently right on the story page (something it doesn't do when it pulls stories from the Washington Post, ABC News or any others):
Of course, there's no way to validate any of what this woman in the video says. For all we know, it could be pure "PallyWood" propaganda (see last section, here). What we do know is that in the Middle East, allegations of infidels (let alone Jews) sexually abusing Muslim women is serious business --- and can incite bloody carnage as a result. As an international jet-setter, one might assume that Ms. Huffington, HuffPost's namesake and Editor-In-Chief, is well aware of this fact.
But that doesn't really matter, because so long as "news" stories like this can get disseminated without any substantive analysis, it gives "currency" to the now-discredited narrative of Israeli human rights and war crimes violations (which several notable "news" organizations, but not HuffPost, are issuing retractions on - here). And of course, there's no need for context; no need for disclosing how Palestinian and Islamist terror groups are training women to be suicide bombers (more here), have perfected the "butt bomb," and to bring contraband into prisons, etc. No, apparently it's better to just let al-Jazeera tell the story without disclosing those pesky facts, and placing them into the context of this story.
And as if that all weren't bad enough, HuffPost thoughtfully provided a link beneath the video window, so users can "watch more al-Jazeera videos":
As noted here, what HuffPost has refused to provide its readers, however, is the Israeli reaction to this kind of inflammatory propaganda, libels and conspiracy theories --- most notably from Prime Minister Netanyahu, or the IDF (more here).
So what kinds of user comments did this incitement inspire --- which HuffPost reviewed, approved and decided to publish(chronologically presented; PDFs available upon request)?
Wisdo I'm a Fan of Wisdo I'm a fan of this user 40 fans permalink the majority of Palestinians are "political prisoners" they receive no trial. Reply Posted 06:38 AM on 09/17/2009
itsjustanillusion I'm a Fan of itsjustanillusion I'm a fan of this user 5 fans permalink Internal body searches are supposedly against the rules. Oh I forgot Israel doesn't follow the rules. Reply Posted 01:37 PM on 09/16/2009
kmichelleb I'm a Fan of kmichelleb I'm a fan of this user permalink I wonder if you would feel the same way if it was a nun in a habit that was repeatedly strip searched and given cavity checks. The Muslim women in Palestine are abused by their occupiers, and it is not just another poor muslim story to justify their perferred dress. Why is it that a nun can be modeset before God, but a Muslim woman can not. Reply Posted 05:55 PM on 09/16/2009
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harmlesstree I'm a Fan of harmlesstree I'm a fan of this user 19 fans permalink [...] On foreign affairs, Aljazeera English is, by far, the best Network in the English Speaking world - this extends beyond the middle east. The have a point of view, yes - especially with regard to the Palestinian/Israel conflict. But, it happens to be the correct point of view, unlike Fox. They actually show you the consequences of Israel policies. Reply Posted 05:36 PM on 09/16/2009
(reply) hanoum I'm a Fan of hanoum I'm a fan of this user 10 fans permalink Co-sign, BIG TIME Reply Posted 09:59 AM on 09/17/2009
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Prattvictory2 I'm a Fan of Prattvictory2 I'm a fan of this user 17 fans permalink Short list of the crimes that has 11,000 Palestinians in prison. Not having the proper papers. Building code violations. Out past curfew. Being Palestinian. Reply Posted 12:07 PM on 09/16/2009
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ProudNeoCon I'm a Fan of ProudNeoCon I'm a fan of this user 35 fans permalink Last time I check we strip search prisoners in US... Reply Posted 11:07 AM on 09/16/2009
(reply) Jyoti Naik I'm a Fan of Jyoti Naik I'm a fan of this user 37 fans permalink Yes but they are special casue God talks to them. Reply Posted 02:15 PM on 09/16/2009
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toomuchtolose I'm a Fan of toomuchtolose I'm a fan of this user 3 fans permalink Apparently most of the responses to this story indicate the readers neither believe it or, if it is true, they feel "so what?" That seems to be the attitude of the supporters of Israel. No matter what is done by Israelis or in the name of Israel, it is condoned, even if the rest of the world is appalled. Once they determine in their minds that Palestinians are sub-human, the Israelis feel nothing and permit anything. It's a very sad thing. Any comment opposing what Israel is doing generates accusations of anti-semitism. They don't see it for what it is. It's anti-monsterism, and if the shoe fits, they are welcome to put their feet in it. Reply Posted 04:35 PM on 09/16/2009
v eyepete I'm a Fan of v eyepete I'm a fan of this user 26 fans permalink Will someone stop all this hate already and the reason we must fight wars in foreign lands. I am really sick of it. Reply Posted 12:42 PM on 09/16/2009
Goefel I'm a Fan of Goefel I'm a fan of this user 10 fans permalink Really? Another accusation directed at the most moral army in the world. I can't believe it. The army of Israel is more righteous than the US army. And Israel is the most righteous country to date. They do not violate any laws, because they are God's people. Anyone who attempts to dispute this, is in complete denial of the great power of the state. Reply Posted 02:15 PM on 09/16/2009
MMIIXX I'm a Fan of MMIIXX I'm a fan of this user 13 fans permalink the abused grows up to be the abuser ...same as it ever was. the ladies are lucky they where allowed to keep all their organs* Reply Posted 03:59 PM on 09/16/2009 [*Ed.: This is a reference to a blood libel against Jews that HuffPost published a few days earlier, here, falsely alleging that they murder Palestinians to harvest their organs.]
duxguts I'm a Fan of duxguts I'm a fan of this user 22 fans permalink I would like to know if she was one of the over 9000 hostages the Israelis are holding. Reply Posted 12:09 AM on 09/18/2009
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