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All Rula Jebreal’s anti-Israel blunders

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All Rula Jebreal's anti-Israel blunders

The latest performances (full of slips) of journalist and professor Rula Jebreal on social media. Marco Orioles' italics

As stated in her biography on Wikipedia , Rula Jebreal was born in Haifa in 1973. A professor at the University of Miami with a dual Israeli and Italian passport, she defines herself on X as a "foreign policy analyst", a title earned through TV participation and hosted which made her a familiar face to the general public who particularly appreciated her presence at the 2020 Sanremo Festival alongside the showman Amadeus.

But it is her militant faith, as Wikipedia continues, which early attracted vehement criticism from the then Northern League minister Roberto Calderoli and the economist Giulio Sapelli, the first of a long series of characters who clashed head-on on the small screen with the Palestinian passionarian.

Since the new war broke out between Israel and Hamas, Jebreal has returned to the television screen again, guest of the program "On air" hosted by Luca Telese and Marianna Aprile on La7, characterizing herself as one of the fiercest critics of the Israeli government.

But it is on X that the journalist is more active than ever in a campaign aimed at demonizing the Jewish State, its army and its population.

It's a shame that such enthusiasm isn't distinguished by the attention to detail that other journalists are called upon to respect if they don't want to be accused of being mere propagandists serving a cause. Ideas, in his case, overwhelm ethical constraints.

At 11.28am on November 6, Rula's profile

Set in a school, the film shows a teacher and some Israeli politicians intent on indoctrinating schoolchildren, underlines Jebreal who takes care to translate the offending phrases from Hebrew. To a specific question, an Israeli child, according to Rula, responded that "we must kill the Arabs/Palestinians".

Under the post, which has reached 116,000 views capitalizing on 469 "likes" and 215 reposts, however, there now lies a "community note" – the deadly tool with which added the necessary "contextual information", i.e., in this case, the real translation of that shocking sentence.

The real answer that the Israeli student would have offered to the question "what happens when you meet an Arab child" is not the one specified in Rula's post, but a simpler and more human "I'm afraid he wants to kill me".

This isn't the first time Jebreal has been pinched by users. On November 3 he wrote verbatim, posting a video shot in Israel: “Israeli right-wing fanatics celebrate the carnage in Gaza, rejoice over the killing of four thousand Palestinian children, singing: 'Gaza is a cemetery. There will be no more schools for children because there are no more children… your people and the left will be exterminated'”.

It's a shame that users soon identified, highlighting it in the margin of Jebreal's post, the source of that shocking footage, i.e. a 2015 documentary entitled "Disregarding Gaza", attracting clouds of sarcastic and indignant comments on the journalist.

He doesn't pay, Jebreal relaunched yesterday with an even more serious accusation, this time aimed at the Israeli army, which, according to the journalist, would have used highly prohibited white phosphorus ammunition in the current offensive towards Gaza.

To give substance to what was alleged, the journalist attached an image of the body of "a 12-year-old Palestinian child who was burned alive by Israeli white phosphorus bombs".

Although the IDF has already denied the accusation, the most eloquent response to Jebreal's insinuations also came in this case with a community note which highlighted that those photos "have nothing to do with the current Israeli conflict -Palestine".

The author of the note also published the link to a tweet from 2020 where that photo was published for the first time to document the crimes of the Azerbaijani army in the war that broke out that year in Nagorno-Karabakh. Incidentally, the armed forces of Azerbaijan are armed by that Erdogan who just called Hamas a liberation movement.

But the journalist's fury against the armed forces of Tel Aviv is such that it pushed her yesterday to accuse them of having kidnapped – thus establishing a hateful equivalence with the crimes of Hamas – the famous Palestinian activist and spokesperson for Amnesty International Ahed Tamini.

Every good reader of the press naturally knows what happened to Tamini , arrested and interrogated on Monday night by the Israeli army as the alleged author of a disturbing post on Instagram of which traces were then lost and which her mother Nariman al- Tamini denies it was written by her. No kidnapping therefore, but this is a detail that matters little if the objective is to attract the arrows of right-thinking people towards Israel.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/tutte-le-cantonate-di-rula-jebreal-anti-israele/ on Wed, 08 Nov 2023 07:36:00 +0000.