This was just posted on my newsfeed:
http://www.jewsnews.co.il/2014/07/2...ut-jews-didnt-do-it-so-the-media-doesnt-care/
OVER 700 SYRIANS WERE KILLED LAST WEEK. BUT JEWS DIDN’T DO IT, SO THE MEDIA DOESN’T CARE
Posted on 7/22/2014 by
Eliyokim Cohen
From reading the international and national news you would probably never have known that last Thursday and Friday alone, over 700 people were killed in Syria at the hands of jihadists and pro-Assad forces. Muslim on Muslim, Arab on Arab, human on human, whatever you like to think of it as – Western media is doing an awful job of reporting these abhorrent incidences – and I think I know why
My colleague Jonathan Spyer from the Global Research in International Affairs (GLORIA) Center, and fellow at the Middle East Forum (full disclosure: a position I also hold) noted it best today when he wrote:
“More than 700 people killed in Syria on Thursday and Friday, in the bloodiest two days of the conflict until now. A woman was executed for adultery in Raqqa. None of the above were killed by Jews, however. This presumably explains the total lack of interest by the western media, (and of course by the Islamist/far-left crowd who have been attacking synagogues and so on in Europe in recent days.)”
Yes the preoccupation with how many Muslims are killed by Jews, rather than how many are suffering at the hands of their fellow countrymen/co-religionists is a stark reminder of how natural it is for most people to still focus their attentions on Israel and the Jewish people respectively. Indeed it is this “everyday anti-Semitism” that leads the Guardian to depict the MH17 disaster in the same cartoon as that criticising Israel’s operation in Gaza as if there were some link, and indeed which forces thousands of ‘pro-Palestinian’ activists onto the streets of London [link] to demonstrate against Israel – but not so much against ISIS or Bashar al-Assad.