Did Huffington Post's incitement and bias contribute to the murders of two NYPD officers?

HUFF-WATCH dedicates this report to the memories of NYPD officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu, their families and loved ones, and all police officers across America who put their lives on the line every day to help ensure our safety and security.

On Saturday, December 20, New York Police Department officers Rafael Ramos and Wenjian Liu were murdered by Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley, who claimed on social media he did it to retaliate against alleged police misconduct across America. Without warning, Brinsley walked up to the officers, who were seated in a patrol car, and shot each one in the head multiple times.

What could drive a person to commit such a barbaric act, against two police officers who'd done him no harm? Irresponsible, unfair statements by influential public figures have helped to create a climate of distrust of police officers, as well as of our entire judicial system, for not prosecuting them for alleged wrongdoing. Numerous influential “news” entities have also failed to provide complete, balanced information to the general public about recent issues involving police officers.

The Huffington Post (owned by AOL), however, has been going farther than any other alleged “news” entity, in terms of pouring gasoline on this fire. Specifically, since the Michael Brown shooting in August, HuffPost has been consistently producing "news" stories that could only serve to whip up hatred against, and endanger police officers across America, through three primary means:

• Incitement: HuffPost has repeatedly published incendiary, editorialized “news” headlines that paint the worst possible perception of police officers, up to and including calling them murderers. One headline (documented below) even asked, “Can the cops be stopped before they kill again?”
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• Selective editing: HuffPost has consistently excluded essential facts that are necessary to provide accurate context to its headlines (which would often also serve to undermine them).
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• Ignoring terrorist threats: HuffPost has pathologically ignored the progressively-worsening terroristic threats that have been made against police officers across America, both by “lone wolves” as and organized groups. This deliberate omission has served two purposes: to undermine the threats that every police officer across America faces, and to give tacit “free pass” and approval to these terrorist groups, especially when considering HuffPost's overt calls for purportedly defensive actions against police officers.

Were the Huffington Post just another website, these shameful practices would have little impact. As the #1 most-read online “newspaper” in the world, however, what HuffPost does carries weight, and has impact.


Eight examples of HuffPost's incitement, bias, lies and distortion


(1) "How To Get Away With Murder"

On December 4, HuffPost ran this as a “news” headline – an overt accusation that police officers “murdered” Eric Garner and other supposedly innocent people, and got away with it.  Attorney Ben Shapiro of Breitbart News demolished HuffPost's incendiary lie here.

(2) "Can The Cops Be Stopped Before They Kill Again?"

On December 6, HuffPost positioned this inflammatory editorial screed, not on the left margin, where its opinion pieces go --- but rather as a “news” item. How could any reasonable person view this as anything other than a call for direct action against police officers, everywhere?

(3) "They're Murdering Our Kids And Getting Away With It"

HuffPost ran this incendiary accusation as a “news” story on its front page for three consecutive days, from November 26-28, claiming that police officers are “murdering” black children and “getting away with it.”

Just one problem: any honest, first-year journalism student would be able to look at the individual cases cited, and realize how egregiously HuffPost used selective editing to omit inconvenient yet crucial facts, such as how many of these individuals were killed after having been observed committing crimes, or refusing to comply with police orders – or were pointing weapons at officers. Another inconvenient fact: the median age of the six “kids” profiled is 23.5 years old.


(4) "ARREST HIM!"

On August 18, HuffPost ran this incendiary call for action against officer Darren Wilson as a “news” story:

Keep in mind that the facts revealed in the coroner's report showed that the entire “Hands up, don't shoot!” narrative could not be true – and that Officer Wilson's account of what happened was supported by the physical evidence. But as in all the other examples cited herein, facts didn't matter to HuffPost; inciting hate against Wilson and other police officers, did.


(5) "(Grand Jury) Gets Basic Job Wrong"

On November 25, just below the announcement that the grand jury had decided not to indict Officer Wilson, HuffPost alleged (in a “news” headline) that the grand jury “got its basic job wrong”:

Contrary to HuffPost's inflammatory assertion, as the Washington Times pointed out, legal scholars from across America agreed that the Ferguson grand jury:

“was unusual, it was not unfair. Rather if it was anything unusual, it was in its fairness and openness. Lawyers and academics [said] that, despite their personal opinions on the case, which has sparked riots over police brutality, St. Louis county prosecutor Robert McCulloch sought unbiased justice in presenting the jury with every piece of evidence and then making that evidence public.”

The reality of the situation clashed with HuffPost's thirst to incite hate against police officers, so of course, the facts had to be quashed.


(6) "THE FIX IS IN: "Allegations Of Police Misconduct Rarely Result In Charges"

The next day, November 26, HuffPost published this allegation, as part of a larger splash headline:

Given the cauldron of lies, distortion and incitement that HuffPost itself created, one need not wonder why it would publish such an inflammatory headline, mere hours after Ferguson erupted in violence.


(7) "Rabbis Arrested After Reciting Kaddish For Eric Garner"

For three consecutive days, on December 5-7, HuffPost ran this inflammatory allegation as a “news” headline on its front page, alleging that rabbis were arrested after saying a prayer (kaddish) for Eric Garner:

Is that really what happened? Were these rabbis really arrested just for saying a prayer?  Of course not. 

As HuffPost knew, these rabbis were standing in a busy New York street intersection, and refused to move when ordered to by police. HuffPost's original “news” story, however, mentioned none of that. (The fact that HuffPost attempted to whitewash what really happened concerning these rabbis is laughable, given its pathological incitement of hatred against Jews and Israel. Who can forget its lie-filled “news” story, that Mitt Romney was chased away from a wedding by a "pack of Jews"?) 


(8) "CAUGHT ON TAPE: COPS GUN DOWN (BLACK) MAN AT WALMART"

On September 24, HuffPost published this incendiary splash headline, insinuating that police officers just ran into a Wal-Mart and gunned down a (black) man, for no reason:

As in all the other cases, HuffPost knew the truth – but failed to even hint at it in the headline. In reality, as its own version of the story (and a more responsible one in the Washington Post) showed, (a) police officers responded to a call that a man was walking around the store with a rifle, pointing it at people; and (b) the officers ordered the gunman, John Crawford III, to drop the rifle, but he refused to do so, after which they shot him.

Given all these facts, it is worthwhile to note that Arianna Huffington, HuffPost's Editor-In-Chief, has publicly stated in 2010 that she prohibited “inflammatory claims and conspiracy theories” at HuffPost, and urged Roger Ailes, head of Fox News, to do the same:

"[At HuffPost] there are guidelines that have to be followed -- and they include a prohibition on conspiracy theories or inflammatory claims. […] For context, it's good to remember that Glenn Beck didn't come out of nowhere. He's the latest example of what the great historian Richard Hofstadter called "the paranoid style in American politics," which he defined as angry minds that traffic in "heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy," and that see "the fate of conspiracy in apocalyptic terms... always manning the barricades of civilization."

And in regards to HuffPost deliberately leaving out vital facts that clash with its agenda, but are necessary to provide readers with accurate perceptions of these contentious issues, it's worth considering how Ms. Huffington described what makes HuffPost better than its "news" rivals:

“[T]oo many reporters have forgotten that the highest calling of journalists is to ferret out the truth, consequences be damned.”

- Arianna Huffington

HuffPost consistently ignores terrorist threats against police 

HuffPost also steadfastly avoided publishing any of the terroristic threats that were leveled against police officers, across America. For example:

• On December 6, the NYPD publicized the fact that it had received credible reports that a domestic terrorist group, the Black Guerrilla Army, was threatening to begin murdering on-duty police officers. HuffPost completely ignored this. Instead, on December 6 and 7, it published items on its front page that it decided were far more newsworthy, such as “Every single time the Kardashians owned it this week,” and the second straight day of coverage of a two-faced cat.
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• On December 8, HuffPost allowed its notorious resident race-hustler, Al Sharpton, to announce anti-police rallies he was organizing in Washington, DC and New York for December 13. HuffPost gave extensive, glowing coverage to the rally that Sharpton led in Washington. But it completely ignored the fact that at the New York rally – which occurred less than two miles from its editorial headquarters – several hundred “demonstrators” were caught on video, screaming, “What do we want? Dead cops! When do we want it? Now!” Instead, on December 13 and 14 HuffPost published stories on its front page that it decided were much more important for its readers to be aware of, including “Map shows where Americans love butts more than boobs,” and “Couples act out sex positions you've never heard of.”
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• On November 29, Nation of Islam leader Rev. Louis Farrakhan told an audience at Morgan State University that if black protesters' demands aren't met, that they need to “tear this goddamned country apart!!!” HuffPost completely ignored this incitement. Instead, on its front page it published what it deemed were far more newsworthy stories, including “Snooki ties the knot,” and “Stone-age axe discovered in Denmark.”

Christmas Eve: HuffPost published another egregiously false, inflammatory accusation against police

On December 24, HuffPost published a false account of a supposed eyewitness to the death of Antonio Martin, who was shot by police near Ferguson, Missouri after he pointed a gun at an officer.  

In summary, HuffPost was contacted by a anonymous blogger, "Jesus Christo," on Christmas Eve (gee, no red flags there!), who claimed that he was with Martin, who was unarmed, yet was shot by the police officer without cause.  HuffPost published this incendiary allegation without even doing the barest amount of research to determine if this "eyewitness" was even on the scene (he wasn't), as its own "reporter" later admitted. 

If HuffPost's negligence and misreporting of facts concerning police shootings were limited to this idiotic incident, it would deserve significant scorn.  Instead, as this report shows, that was merely the tip of the iceberg - and the only incident that was publicly exposed (until now).


Conclusion

Individually and collectively, HuffPost's acts and omissions violate not only the most basic standards of journalistic integrity, they stand in stark contrast to Ms. Huffington's repeated claims that it is a “nonpartisan” newspaper, just one of the many lies that she has told the general public about the “newspaper” that bears her name since it went live.

Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley.
Was he a HuffPost reader?

Returning now to the central question posed in this article: did HuffPost's incitement and bias against police officers lead directly or indirectly to Ismaaiyl Abdulah Brinsley's murder of NYPD officers Ramos and Liu? This can only be ascertained by a forensic analysis of his computer and mobile devices, and interviews with those close to him.

What is crystal-clear, though, is that if Brinsley relied only on HuffPost for his “news” about police and judicial affairs in America, the incitement and bias he would have observed could only have helped to nudge him from merely being angry, into a far more agitated state. And in reaction to HuffPost's question, “Can the cops be stopped before they kill again?,” Brinsley may have said, “Yes – and I will be the one who stops the two cops sitting in that car from killing again.”

Now, the only question that remains is: Will the corporations that have enabled HuffPost to engage in this behavior, through their advertising dollars, continue to do so?

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ACTION ITEMS: There are only two things that enable HuffPost to engage in this reprehensible behavior. Here's how you can help make a difference.

The two things that enable HuffPost to engage in this behavior are:

• The money it gets from its roster of top-flight advertisers --- including American Express, Chevrolet, Citibank, and many other top brands.

• The silence of "journalists" who avidly read HuffPost, yet avert their eyes from the reality that's staring them in the face --- and which we report, and send them, on a regular basis

Here's how you can help:

• Contact HuffPost's advertisers --- especially those with whom you already do business.
  Let them know your thoughts on how HuffPost has been using the money they provide it to engage in this persistent pattern of anti-U.S. military incitement, and bias.

• Send this article to journalists, newspapers and TV networks that you trust --- whether on a local or national basis.
  Ask them to take a look at our documentation, and urge them to do some investigating. As you can see, throughout HUFF-WATCH is an encyclopedic cornucopia of physical evidence that backs up every aspect of every one of our allegations.

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Part 2: HuffPost gives super-coverage to "homesick" jihadi - and continues ignoring victims of jihad

Continued from Part 1: HuffPost gives super-coverage to "homesick" jihadi - and continues ignoring victims of jihad

Four examples, from our extensive archives, of how HuffPost (a) gives blaring, graphic, top-line treatment to jihadis and Palestinians who are killed or meet with misfortune, and (b) downplays or ignores the victims and survivors of jihadis' murderous attacks:

(1) HuffPost buried, then quickly removed the story of a seven-year-old girl (right) who was targeted and murdered by a jihadi --- then completely ignored her massively-attended funeral.

(2) HuffPost did not publish a single story on its front page concerning two jihadis' slaughter of the Fogel family – and completely ignored their massively-attended funeral.

(3) HuffPost showed no sympathy whatsoever to the parents of Malki Roth, in their efforts to stop the release of her jihadi murderer.

(4) HuffPost buried the story of Hamas's murder of Yitzhak and Talya Imes deep on the World page --- then completely ignored the funeral for them.

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(1) HuffPost buried, then quickly removed the story of a seven-year-old girl who was targeted and murdered by a jihadi --- then completely ignored her massively-attended funeral.
 

Miriam Monsonego was a bright seven-year-old girl, living in France. Her brother said “she brought much happiness to everyone around her.”  A family friend said,  "It is so hard to talk about this child in the past tense.  Last Saturday night I heard her talking with her grandmother.  It was rare to hear a young girl talk about the spiritual message of the Sabbath so openly and with such confidence." 

On March 19, 2012 a jihadi decided to attack the Jewish school that Miriam attended.  He first murdered a father and his two young sons on the street in front of the school.

He then chased and cornered a terrified Miriam in the courtyard, dragged her out by the hair, then put his .45 caliber pistol to her head, and pulled the trigger - but it jammed.  According to an eyewitness, "Calmly, still holding onto Miriam’s hair, he switches guns to another, a 9 mm, puts the barrel to her temple, fires so closely that her skin gets powder-burned."  He then kept firing bullets into her head.

The attack made top headlines in news organizations around the world. 

HuffPost, however, buried the story of this jihadi's savage acts near the bottom of the front page --- then removed it less than four hours later (full documentation here).

So what types of "news" stories did HuffPost decide were more important for its global audience to be aware of, which it positioned above the Toulouse massacre?  Here is a sampling:

• "Chinese panda poo tea will sell for $200 a cup"

• "Is this the strangest way to have an orgasm?"

• "George Clooney's first call from jail went to..."

• "Brooklyn Decker's racy new dress!"

• "Jessica wears snakeskin to her baby shower"

  

Curiously, the only close-up of a human face that HuffPost decided to publish on its front page concerning this attack was one of the jihadi, grinning.
See complete documentation of HuffPost's actions in regards to this story at: 

"HuffPost buries French Jewish school massacre below junk stories"

Several days later, tens of thousands of mourners attended the funeral held for Miriam.  Numerous major news agencies took dozens of pictures of her wailing mother and sister, amidst an ocean of mourners:

Several sites produced extensive slide shows of the funeral - which HuffPost routinely features whenever a jihadi or Muslim experiences misfortune. 

HuffPost did not publish a single news story about the funeral for Miriam --- even though full documentation and pictures were available from the news sources upon which it most often relies - the AP and Reuters. Instead, HuffPost populated its front page with "news" stories it felt were far more important, such as:

• "Miley's Lingerie"

• "2nd Grader's Lunch Money Stolen... By A Teacher?"

• "WATCH: Larry David's Parking Garage Rant" (Note: David is one of Arianna Huffington's closest friends, and helped her to create HuffPost)

  See the full documentation of this incident at:

"PICTORIAL: HuffPost's anti-Semitic bias against Tolouse murder victims"

 
How did HuffPost's treatment of Miriam compare to its treatment of Palestinian children who are harmed, unintentionally, during counter-terrorism operations against Hamas?  

It is widely known that Hamas surrounds itself with human shields, including women, children and the elderly, behind which it fires its rockets and missiles at Israeli civilians.  In fact, Hamas not only admits doing this, it justifies and glorifies the practice. 

  In November 2012, after Hamas fired more than 120 missiles into Israel, targeted at civilian areas, the IDF finally responded with surgical strikes against its terrorist leaders, facilities and weapons depots. Tragically, despite the IDF's best efforts, there were civilian casualties in Gaza, including Palestinian children.  As HUFF-WATCH documented (here, here, here), HuffPost effectively acted as a propaganda shill for Hamas during Israel's Operation Pillar of Defense.  (This is nothing new; most recently, we documented how HuffPost completely ignored Hamas's recent open announcement that it has opened child terrorist training academies).  

With that in mind, although it completely ignored the funeral for Miriam, on November 15, 2012 HuffPost gave the following top-of-the-front-page treatment to the funeral for a Muslim child who'd been accidentally killed while Israel was conducting anti-terror strikes against Hamas:
 

As documented below, this was not an isolated incident of bias, but rather, was representative of HuffPost's long-term bias (a) against those who have been murdered by jihadis and their survivors, and in favor of (b) jihadis and the human shields with whom they surround themselves.  This is despite HuffPost's guiding journalistic principle, according to HuffPost's Editor-In-Chief:

 “[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

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(2) HuffPost did not publish a single story on its front page concerning two jihadis' slaughter of the Fogel family – and completely ignored their massively-attended funeral 
  

This is (was) the Fogel family.  On March 11, 2011, two Palestinian jihadis broke into the Fogels' home in the West Bank, and stabbed and slashed each one to death – including three-month-old Hadas, as her father tried to protect her.  This slaughter was discovered when the Fogels' twelve-year-old daugther, Tamar, encountered their corpses upon returning home from an evening with friends. (Photos of crime scene in Section 3 here; caution --- extremely graphic.) 

HuffPost waited nearly an entire day to post the story of the Fogel family slaughter --- then, only posted it deep on a secondary page, accompanied by a picture of an IDF Jeep.

Instead, HuffPost populated its front page and World page with "news" stories it felt were far more important, such as:

• "PHOTOS: Eva Braun And Adolf Hitler's Private Moments" (seven days straight) 

• "Swedish Bank Robber Busted By Forgotten Urine" 

• "Teen Arrested On Felony Charge For Death Of Sibling's Hamster"

HuffPost's story page contained no reference to any of the Fogel family members' names, and featured none of their faces – or the graphic crime scene photos. 

This stands in stark contrast to the up-close, personalized, graphic and gory coverage that HuffPost provides to Muslims and jihadis who are killed (below). 

Within 48 hours, HuffPost removed the story of the Fogel family slaughter. 

HuffPost then completely ignored the estimated 20,000 mourners who attended their funeral. Pictures, which were available from major news sources (such as the following, from Getty):

 
Instead, HuffPost decided that “news” stories such as these were far more worthy to post on its front page and World page:  

• "Arianna And AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Teach Journalism Class At Brooklyn Middle School"

• "Monkeys Invent New Fishing Method"

• Jenny McCarthey's breasts

 
HuffPost also posted no stories about:

• The fact that two Palestinian jihadis, cousins Hakem and Amjad Awad, who were arrested and convicted for the Fogel slaughter, not only admitted doing it, but claimed they are “proud” of their actions.

• The fact that in the days leading up to this slaughter, Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian Authority president (and HuffPost blogger) had been inciting violence against Jews in the West Bank.

• The fact that official PA TV (which US taxpayers help to fund) broadcast celebrations of the Fogel family slaughter.

• The fact that Hamas was also celebrating the Fogel family slaughter.

See complete documentation of this incident at:

"HuffPost's anti-Semitic, pro-Islamist bias: Fogel family slaughter edition"

Also see the associated Evidence File (Caution: Contains explicit photos.)

How did HuffPost's treatment of the Fogels compare to its treatment of jihadis and Palestinians who are killed/harmed during counter-terrorism operations? 

Contrast HuffPost's treatment of the Fogel family with how it deals with stories of dead and injured jihadis and Palestinians, and for which graphic photos are available.  Note how their names and pictures are used, thus humanizing them, and the graphic, emotion-packed photos - two things that HuffPost does not provide to Jewish victims of jihadis:
 

Note: At top center, HuffPost claimed that Israel killed a "senior Hamas leader."  In reality, as documented here, HuffPost changed the headline that was provided to it --- and which even Al Jazeera ran "straight" --- that this "victim" was actually Hamas's senior rocket maker (HuffPost knew this was the case, because its own story page revealed this fact).

“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

 

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(3) HuffPost showed no sympathy whatsoever to the parents of Malki Roth, in their efforts to stop the release of her jihadi murderer.

  

 
Malki Roth, 15, was "absolutely in love with life," says her father, Arnold, an Israeli businessman.  He describes her as "a beautiful, charming, bright, popular, very smiley young woman whose great passion was looking after her youngest sister who is very disabled, suffering from blindness and brain damage. Malki always encouraged people around her to see the special-needs children in their own communities as an opportunity to do good."  

As an example of Malki's optimism, read this letter that she wrote to Exceptional Parent magazine, in which she described her relationship with her severely retarded little sister, Haya-Elisheva.  She said to parents of special-needs children, "You are not allowed to lose your hope, because maybe a miracle may happen! DO NOT LOSE HOPE!" 

On August 9, 2001 Malki and a friend visited a Sbarro pizzeria in downtown Jerusalem. Soon after they arrived, a Hamas-affiliated female jihadi, Ahlam Tamimi, dropped off a suicide bomber in front of the Sbarro.  He carried a guitar case that contained a bomb, and thousands of screws and nails.   The jihadi detonated the bomb near Malki and her friend, who were instantly killed.    

Fifteen people were killed in the massacre, most of them children. 130 others, including patrons and passers-by, were wounded, and one was left in a lifetime vegetative state.

Makli's cell phone, recovered from the Sbarro.  According to her father,
"Its ballistic nylon holder was shredded by the bomb's nails and other shrapnel. On the phone itself, Malki had written: "Assur ledaber lashon harah"; a reminder (in Hebrew) to herself that it is improper to speak ill of other people."

 
Tamimi not only admitted her leading role in Malki's murder, she said she's not sorry at all for what she did, and didn't care that she was sentenced by an Israeli court to sixteen life terms --- because she knew she would be released.  From YNet News:

"I'm not sorry for what I did. I will get out of prison and I refuse to recognize Israel's existence. Discussions will only take place after Israel recognizes that this is Islamic land. Despite the fact that I'm sentenced to 16 life sentences I know that we will become free from Israeli occupation and then I will also be free from the prison."

In another interview, Tamimi threatened to carry out more bombings of civilian targets:

"You know how many casualties there were [in the 2001 attack on the Sbarro pizzeria]. This was made possible by Allah. Do you want me to denounce what I did? That's out of the question. I would do it again today, and in the same manner."

In 2006, Hamas and its apologists began requesting that Israel release Tamimi.  Malki's parents publicly spoke out against any consideration of this request.  "The campaign to free the terrorists also grew in scope and intensity during that period," says Mr. Roth.  "Then in the last stages of the Gilad Shalit deal, our worst fears were realized when we were informed by an official from the Ministry of Justice that Tamimi was indeed on the walk-free list of 1,027 terrorists, most of them murderers." 

From October 14-27, 2011 the New York Times, Jerusalem Post, Sun-Sentinel (Ft. Lauderdale) and many other news sources provided coverage to the Roths' fervent efforts to have Tamimi removed from the release list; Arnold Roth even began an online petition drive. 

HuffPost did not (and still hasn't) run a single news story about Arnold or Frimet Roth, or their beloved Malki.    

Instead, during the pinnacle of Roths' efforts to keep their daughter's murderer behind bars, HuffPost populated its front page and World page with "news" stories it felt were far more important for its global audience to be aware of.  These include:  

• "Man arrested for bestiality claims prostitute transformed into donkey" 

• "Man vows to masturbate in every NYC Starbucks bathroom" 

• Three stories featuring Arianna Huffington's face (not a new practice at HuffPost)

 
ADDENDUM 1: Malki's murderer was released, became a TV star, and is calling for, celebrating murderous attacks on Jewish civilians: By June 2012, the Roths' predictions had largely come true: Tamimi had effectively become the "Oprah" of the Palestinian territories, given her own Hamas-sponsored TV show, in which she urges others to follow in her murderous footsteps, and openly celebrates new attacks on Jewish civilians. Then, it got worse: Tamimi was allowed to marry another convicted Palestinian murderer, whom Netanyahu also released as part of the Shalit deal. 

 
ADDENDUM 2: HuffPost whitewashed the terrorist who paid the Sbarro bomb-maker. HuffPost not only completely ignored the Roths' plight, it decided to whitewash its profile of Marwan Baghouti, a prominent terrorist who was revealed by evidence in another trial to have paid his cousin, Abdallah, $500 to construct the bomb that blew up the Sbarro restaurant. He even admitted his role in the Sbarro attack, and was convicted in attacks that murdered dozens and injured hundreds of Jewish civilians.  Despite all these facts being public knowledge, in a July 2011 front-page article, HuffPost edited out of its AP source story all references to Barghouti's blood-soaked hands --- and instead depicted him merely as a "jailed leader."  It was only after a number of HUFF-WATCH readers complained to HuffPost that it put up the actual, unmolested AP story. See the details here. 

Learn more about Roths' ongoing efforts to honor Malki, and combat terrorism.  


How did HuffPost's treatment of the Roths' plight compare to its treatment of the plights of others who meet misfortune? 
 
Compare HuffPost's treatment of the Roths' plight to the sympathetic, top-line treatment it gave in March 2011 to the daughter of a senior Hamas terrorist whom Israel was suspected of abducting:

Further contrast HuffPost's treatment of the Roths' plight to the obsessive way it dealt with the plight of the punk rock band "Pussy Riot," the members of whom were arrested after they stormed a Russian church during mass, and put on a vulgar "act." For months, HuffPost provided up-to-the-minute, breathless coverage of the band members, to the point where on one day alone, as this PDF shows, it had nine references to "Pussy Riot" on the World page alone, at the same time.

[Arianna Huffington] is offended and bewildered by the suggestion that other news outlets think she's getting a free ride. She sees herself as the future of journalism, not the end of it.

- Arianna Huffington: The Web's New Oracle Belinda Luscombe, Time, March 19, 2009

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(4) HuffPost buried the story of Hamas's murder of Yitzhak and Talya Imes deep on the World page --- then completely ignored the funeral for them.
 

  
This is the Imes family: Talia (45); Yitzchak (47); and Hodoya (8; at bottom); other family names unknown.

On August 31, 2010, Yitzchak and Talia were riding in a car with another couple in Hebron, the West Bank, when Hamas-affiliated jihadists ambushed their vehicle, and opened fire on them with automatic weapons. All were instantly killed, including Talia<\, who was nine months pregnant with her seventh child.

Hamas and Palestinians throughout the West Bank broke out in celebrations, handing out candy and cheering the perpetrators.  Hamas openly admitted responsibility for the slaughter:

Hamas military wing spokesman Abu Obeida was among them and told The Associated Press: "The Qassam Brigades announces its full responsibility for the heroic operation in Hebron."

News organizations around the world gave top-line coverage to this slaughter. HuffPost, however, published the story deep on the World page, beneath other "news" items that it decided were far more important --- including:

• A fawning interview that HuffPost's Middle East blogging correspondent conducted with the head of Hamas, in which she depicted him as "grounded, smart and energetic," and described Hamas as "a resistance group." She even had the audacity to ask him why "does the West not engage directly with Hamas and make you a partner to the solution."

• "Spain Breaks Up Male Prostitute Gang"

• "Girl Throws Puppies Into River"

(Note: The following screencap is courtesy of our friends at Huffington Post Monitor)

Although HuffPost briefly moved the story its front page, it removed the story from both pages within hours. Further, HuffPost featured none of the victims' names or pictures (as it does routinely when jihadis and Muslims are killed) in the headline or on the story page.  Instead, it merely posted a picture of the bullet-riddled car (then changed it to the West Bank border wall):

HuffPost did not publish a single picture or account of Palestinian Muslims' celebrations of the Imes' murder:

This stands in stark contrast to the fact that HuffPost jumps at every opportunity to give front page coverage to trivial, false allegations against Jews, such as:

• That "a pack of Jews" chased Gov. Romney away from a wedding rehearsal. In reality, they were Romney supporters, who asked to take a picture with him; see full documentation here.

• That some orthodox Jews spit on a "veteran reporter" 

• That an Israeli court may have sentenced a puppy to death

HuffPost did, however, review, approve and decide to publish a torrent of user hate comments in support of Hamas, justifying this slaughter, including:

• "Israel is to blame for this, they are the illegal occupiers" (User "italianwine," whom HuffPost has left active)

• "isreal finally getting a taste of its own medicine" (User "Canadianontheborder," whom HuffPost has left active)

• "Last time I checked, they were invaders." (User "RicNYC," whom HuffPost has left active)

HuffPost also completely ignored the funeral for the Yitzchak and Talia Imes --- and the estimated 20,000 mourners in attendance.  It also ignored the heart-wrenching images of Hodoya, left.
 

So what kinds of “news” stories did HuffPost decide were far more worthy to post on its front page and World page, than the Imes' murder, and their funeral? Items of clear global importance, such as:

• "Rare never-seen photos of Hitler" (posted for seven straight days on the World page)

• "Demi Moore shares bikini pics

• "Chain-smoking Indonesian baby kicks the habit"

 
See the full documentation of this incident at: 

"HuffPost spits in eyes of murdered Israelis (again), shills for Hamas (again); cyber-jihadis unleash hate-fest (HuffPost: "Approved!!!")"

How did HuffPost's treatment of the Imes family compare to its treatment of jihadis and Palestinians who are killed/harmed during counter-terrorism operations? 

Compare HuffPost's treatment of the funeral of these four murdered Jewish civilians to the funeral for a Palestinian, Samir Sirhan, who was killed while reportedly being part of a violent mob that was attacking a lone Israeli security guard in the West Bank:

"If you're going to produce great journalism, you have to build a team of people who are working together and driving toward the same goals editorially.”  

– Arianna Huffington, April 7, 2011 --- two months after being put in control of all of AOL's "news" and "content"

"AOL's acquisition of HuffPost has allowed us... to continue to change the culture here."

– Tim Armstrong, Chairman, AOL, who bought HuffPost and put Arianna in charge of all "news" and "content" --- May 14, 2011

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Key questions --- and action items  

Why would HuffPost decide to gives blaring, graphic, top-line treatment to Islamist terrorists and Palestinians who are killed or meet with bad fates... and ignore the victims and survivors of jihadis' murderous attacks?

Do not Miriam, Malki, the parents of Hodoya Imes and all the rest of the Jewish children whom jihadis target and murder, deserve equitable treatment from the world's #1 most-read online "newspaper," which has repeatedly claimed to the public, and its advertisers, that it is a professionally-run, nonpartisan outfit? 

You can ask HuffPost's senior management those questions, here.

You might also ask HuffPost's advertisers if they're aware of what they are enabling, here.

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