A fake game on the media.

After the Israeli extremist right attacks in East Jerusalem resulted in the return of confrontations between the Israeli army and Hamas, it becomes clear to us once again the importance of an independent vision in the spot, which is usually the role of news agencies and newspapers.Their telegrams and articles expose the false statements of the Benjamin Netanyahu government, which is published widely and without placement - especially by part of the French audiovisual media - by the supporters of Israel who form a wide political and media lobby that we touched on during this investigation.The battle appears uneven in front of the ferocity of this propaganda.But it has not yet been decided.

Three journalists of three editorial bodies worked to cover the situation in Israel and Palestine in three different periods, who demanded strict respect for not revealing their identities, talking about inappropriate phone calls, bare threats of barely and the double game of their editing heads.

The first -to call him Etienne -worked as a correspondent in Jerusalem for a national day, and the second, Mark, with an audiovisual media, while the third, Philip, was a special envoy for a week.Like most private envoys and correspondents in Israel, they praise the quality of work in this country: the press there is multiple, the sources of information are many and open, and the topics are varied.

Only information related to "National Security" is subject to the Military Control Committee, and it is sometimes prohibited.It is mainly concerned with the aim of preventing the identification of soldiers in the audiovisual media.But this mainly concerns the Israeli press, which is often stubborn and is still so, despite the great maneuvers of Benjamin Netanyahu and his friends from the media billionaires to adapt them.

نشر العديد من مراسلي جرائد “لوموند” و“ليبيراسيون” الفرنسية أو هيئات تحرير أخرى عند عودتهم من إسرائيل كتبا غالبا ما تكون رائعة بقدر ما تنتقد في كثير من الأحيان المجتمع الإسرائيلي¹. لا يكمن المشكل إذا في إسرائيل. يقول روني باكمان²، الذي عمل لمدة طويلة في مجلة “نوفيل أوبسرفاتور” وهو اليوم يعمل في موقع “ميديابارت”: “نحن نعمل هناك بشكل جيد، فالناس معتادون على الصحافة ويمكن الذهاب إلى كل مكان، كل شيء مفتوح. نحن نتعرض للمضايقات في فرنسا”. ولكي نكون أكثر دقة: تتم مضايقة الصحفيين والتعتيم على المثقفين المنتقدين للسياسة الإسرائيلية.

Let us let these three journalists speak wider.

Etienne, a former day correspondent.

Mark, correspondent of a visual audio media.

Philip, a special reporter for the magazine.

Genmudron's clouds was a correspondent for the newspaper "Liberation" in Israel and Palestine between 2017 and 2020, and he spent many articles in the last days in the newspaper in which he works corresponds to what was written in the daily on December 16, 2020 to describe the rise of the extreme right in Israeli society:

In a meeting with him a few weeks after that with Dominic Vidal at the Institute of Research and Mediterranean and Middle East studies to narrate his three -year professional experience, Ganddron regrets, like all French journalists who cover events in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ramallah, from the harassment of fanatics to defend Israel ... in France. "There is a very organized way to run the attack, there are people who do this throughout the day on social networks, who are scrutinized in reporters' reports in search of alleged shaded information." Gondon's clouds continue to say: “Initially, I was fighting the debate, but with people with this amount of bad faith and ready to distort your words, I have not entered into the discussion because in reality it is not a discussion.”

Between "voids" on air and fleeing memories, it is difficult to assess the media treatment of the relationship between France and Israel. Many in different ways in recent months told me, "This is not a subject," but there are guards based on the task of settling the accounts of journalists who perform their duty only, that is, the media. Among these journalist guards, Clement Vall Rainal and its location, "Infoequitable", the lawyer, William Goldenjel, who wanders in the many platforms of the right -wing channels and of course the French deputy abroad, Mayar Habib, who cannot be avoided, and who is often in maneuver to harass journalists, which is Remoor to appear regularly in the Israeli channel i24NEWS. These attitudes are transferred regularly by "Crime" and different characters such as philosopher Alan Vinccroot and many Internet users and French -Israeli sites with weak popularity such as JJS News and also social networks, of course. For them, in contradiction to the simple mind and observation, the demonization of Israel is terrifying in the French press. They are demanding a "balanced" media as if this term has meaning. "They have a wrong idea of ​​the" balanced "information", which must be, according to their opinion, is constantly supporting Israel. "

Many journalists mention the famous sentence-Keleh Godard committees on the objectivity on television, “Five minutes of Jews, and five minutes for Hitler.” One of them assured me that Mayar Habib drew her greatly to criticize the media coverage of Palestine to become: “Five minutes for Jews, and five minutes for Israel”.

However, those who are described by Piotr Sumullar, a former correspondent of Le Monde newspaper in Jerusalem as "hateful ants", succeed in imposing the law of silence.Ronnie Pakman comments, “I heard it repeatedly from my friends.They find it difficult to work.Where they are told: “Do you think Palestine is worth it?End, the matter was spent. "

The "case" of Muhammad Al -Durrah has passed from here. Charles Andlene, a France 2 correspondent after his report on the killing of this 12 -year -old Palestinian child by Israeli snipers in Gaza in 2000 to a long public and judicial war. In detail, the journalist narrates in the book "Dat Child" (Dar Kishot 2010) and in his recent professional memoirs, "From our correspondent in Jerusalem" (Dar Sway 2021) accusations of the lies that were leveled against him. It has been required thirteen years of procedures until Anderine is acquitted by French justice, and the allegations of his main accused Philippe Karstte, who was sentenced to pay the costs. However, the wound was deep and rumor. To be accused of misleading and lying, and to hear "death to anderine" during general meetings, it was terrible for this journalist. If his work management during the legal procedures, as well as the Al -Tahrir team, which was almost unanimously signed on a petition presented by the National Syndicate of Journalists, “Charles soon was marginalized and his life was not easy,” says Dominic Brandi, the Secretary -General of the National Syndicate of Journalists and one of his former colleagues in the channel France 2. She adds: “There are no longer reports from him, as Bogadas, who was then the eighth news presenter, put it on the black list.”

Another petition was collected to support Anderine launched by Ronnie Pakman hundreds of signatures, including many pens from the satirical newspaper "Le Kenar Onchini" and weekly "Longville Observer", France Ras and visual audio media.However, no media outlet, with the exception of Didier Pele from the regional newspaper "Labrofis" and Claude Birdrial (and his right arm in the "Lopserfatore" magazine at the time, Dunes Olivan).

The "sheikhdoms" of the newspapers did not show the slightest degree of solidarity towards Charles Andlene, while the media duty at that time was at stake, and not only in Palestine.On the contrary, Donis Janabar, the weekly director of "Lexpress", was one of the main accused of Anderine, and newspapers such as the right -wing daily "Le Figaro" have reported several times the arguments of Karsentte and his friends such as Elizabeth Levy for the magazine "Kozur" (extremist right).Not to mention more confidential sites that follow the almost impossible misleading information block, which continues to condemn Anderine.

In addition, other trials failed by supporters of Israel, especially against the famous French philosopher Edgar Moran, writer Daniel Salunaf and political analyst Samir Nair (in the acquittal of the court of comment in the name of freedom of expression due to an article published in the newspaper "Le Monde" in 2002) or journalist Daniel Mermet, who was then broadcasting "France Antier" (acquitted is also). But these issues have made editors be convinced that it is recommended to stay away from this controversy. Everyone was winning the case before justice against the supporters of Israel, but - which is the bitter paradox - these people come out victorious from the stinking controversy they are making. Unfortunately, this was not a confusion for nothing.

Now the silence is imposed in the rows. We have already written this here, there is a law of silence imposed, and many information has not simply passed. For example, did we read in France at the end of April 2021, that Israeli "security" circles used the fallacy of journalists to carry out secret operations for the benefit of "customers" in Abu Dhabi? The information published by the American website "The Daily Beast" has been widely circulated in the United States and the United Kingdom ... and in Israel. But that was not the case in France, where the visual and audio media seem more shy about Israel than the written press, and its officials are more dismayed or more in support of Israel. Indeed, critical voices are rarely present in platforms. Ronnie Brunt, the French-Israeli, like Charles Andlene and like many others, is witnessing that it is no longer hosted in the media: “I am an unwanted person on France 24. I was once invited after a file presented in a stake on the Jews and Israel. My invitation was canceled on the eve of that and Burnard Henry Levy. It seems that the producing company found that I am a "controversial man".

A retired French ambassador explains that "Israel can be criticized in France, and no one will enter the prison because of this.But if we criticize Israel, Tel Aviv's friends will be against us and they are many.I do not want to amplify matters, everyone is free to think about what he wants, but there are legal protections in our country against anti -Semitism, and therefore it can be believed that the discussion can be open, but that is not the case.

The Academy, Frederick Shilo, is also French-Israeli that "the political attack to make anti-Zionism is a new anti-Semitism that allowed the scores of the public opinion."The matter is somewhat biased, but the process succeeded, and it is due to two benefits for Israel: to be able to say that anti -Semitism today is convinced in different ways, and reducing the level of ban on political criticism.

Fear of the accusation of anti -Semitism has become paralyzed by many colleagues.The adoption of various groups since early 2021 to introduce the international coalition to commemorate the Holocaust, which considers Israel's criticism as anti -Semitism, does not facilitate things, including within the editorial bodies.

As for the defense of Palestine and the rights of the Palestinians, Bruno Jean -Kor, a deputy of the Democratic Movement Party, says that “it is not a matter that is very popular.Many do not want to risk, and that is not courageous and not from glory. ”

"There is still a deep adherence to the Palestinian issue in France," Jack Fatah, a former international official of the French Communist Party.There is a solidarity movement that the associations are pushed, but there is no media coverage, and no one talks about.It is a real bullet wall. ”

The ravages of Islamic terrorism have played a major role in this silence.And the supporters of Israel have come to repeat that supporting the Palestinians means supporting Hamas and thus supporting terrorism.Although the argument is flimsy, it was influential and still.

The media is no longer committed.The topic has become since the failure of the Oslo path.The threats of harassment by the fiercest supporters of Israel, which is transmitted by "Al -Kreef", led the chiefs of liberation to the commitment of silence and the hidden from view and imposing this on the editorial bodies.

Is it self -control?Cowardice?laziness?support?“Few of this,” says Alan Gharaish, director of Ureyan, 21 sighs, who has been following the region for decades, and like Braman, his invitations were “canceled” by visual and audio media, then no longer invitations to him at all.

We can continue the animal metaphor for "hateful ants" to talk about their colleagues, lazy lizards, and the two vials are limited to.They are mainly many officials and their assistants in a profession with a sure hierarchical system, who say that public opinion no longer cares about the subject, a way to avoid addressing it.But at the same time they open their columns and their channels for many supporters of Israel.

It can be emphasized that the writer Frederick Angel, the well -known supporter of Israel right. In a lecture he gave in Strasbourg in 2013, he appeared as a victor, talking about the media and Israel: “In general, the situation ... (I almost said he is under control) favorable. We really find a supportive and balanced media in the media everywhere, everywhere: this is true in the written press, on radio and on television. For Ronnie Brunting, “Ansel was objectively talking about an objective lobby. The matter is adopted and announced. ” Friedrich Ensil at the time of the glory of the media thanks to his temporary faculty of the column during the summer on Radio "France Antir", which Philip Fall, was led by another supporter of Israel, who was at the head of the station.

كتب بيوتر صمولار، المراسل السابق لجريدة “لوموند”، والذي لم يعد يحصي الشتائم والقذف الذي يتعرض له بعد بعض مقالاته، بأن “أولئك الذين يطالبون الصحافيين بالتحلي بـ” موضوعية“مستحيلة بخصوص إسرائيل هم بصفة عامة الأكثر تعصبا”. إنها وضعية فرنسية بامتياز، لأن وسائل الإعلام الإسرائيلية والأمريكية والبريطانية أكثر حرية في اللهجة كما في اختيار المواضيع⁴.

Even if their number becomes less - as the first TV channel (TF1) closed its office in Jerusalem, and the permanent correspondent of the newspaper "Liberation" has not yet been replaced - many colleagues, especially the collaborators (who work for their own account), are still present in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Ramallah,They suggest comprehensive and varied coverage of the position in the place.They must reconcile the cheese of Parisian leaders with the digital threats of the pressure groups of the Israeli right, not to mention their fragile economic situation.What makes their outlook more precious even if the means that give them the field increases.Their silence will be the most bitter defeat.But this is not yet.