The Al-Dura Affair Blood Libel: an interview with Nidra Poller
from Jerry Gordon
The Al-Dura Affair Blood Libel: an interview with Nidra Poller from Jerry Gordon on Vimeo.
In this video Nidra Poller is interviewed by Jerry Gordon, a Senior Editor at the New English Review. She is a historian by training, writer by profession and journalist by necessity with a unique view of major developments in Europe, Israel and America. Her latest novel ...
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Originally posted at The Augean Stables, January 18, 2008
I recently gave a talk at a conference on Media and Ethics in Jerusalem, where I presented the case against Enderlin’s version of the Muhammad al Durah story. Apparently, the presentation was relatively convincing since one of the first criticisms I immediately received from a prominent Israeli professor of communications was: “So what? According to reliable statistics, the Israeli army has killed over 800 Palestinian children since the second Intifada. So ...
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Reactions to the Al-Durah Affair in the Muslim World
Highlighting the Impact of the Al-Durah Incident
• Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, a moderate Arab leader who was attempting to facilitate Israeli-Palestinian reconciliation, expressed publically his outrage at the Al-Durah incident, stating: ‘A child who died in the lap of his father, this really makes one loses his senses….this makes rocks have feelings.’
• One of the main streets running through the center of Baghdad, Iraq, was officially renamed ‘The ...
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