Via www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/07/o...

Via www.bostonglobe.com/2023/03/07/o...

The suggestion that Kessler was "right wing" is, of course, irrelevant.
The suggestion that it's relevant is, of course, is a failure of morals.
But also — while I don't know Paul Kessler — the charge is suspect.

The suggestion that Kessler was "right wing" is, of course, irrelevant.
The suggestion that it's relevant is, of course, is a failure of morals.
But also — while I don't know Paul Kessler — the charge is suspect.

It's pretty clear what happened, by the way.

Here, you insinuate that a Jewish man killed by an anti-Israel demonstrator had it coming. Do you wonder if maybe you're just a bit indifferent to Jewish lives?

It's pretty clear what happened, by the way.

Here, you insinuate that a Jewish man killed by an anti-Israel demonstrator had it coming. Do you wonder if maybe you're just a bit indifferent to Jewish lives?

Read more on the "excuse hunt" here: www.camera.org/article/medi...

Meanwhile, those drawn to excuses should consider why their reaction to a declared Jew hunt is different than how they might react to people hunting down other ethnic, religious, national, or racial groups, even after misbehavior by some members of that group. 🧵

If video surfaces of these chants in Amsterdam before the unrest, we'll gladly update this thread and the related article.

And journalists should either back up their claims or correct, as some already have. 🧵

... this is part of an immoral campaign to defend antisemitic violence. As Leon Wieseltier noted in 2003, “It is the essence of anti-Semitism, as it is the essence of all prejudice, to call its object its cause.”

The campaign clearly includes intentionally miscaptioned video.🧵

It's not impossible that fans said chanted these vile things. Racist language is rampant in international soccer, and Israelis are not exempt.

And the nature of this claim makes it impossible to prove the negative.

But... 🧵

⇝ The Guardian refers to verified social media video of the chant. It says it is investigating. Stay tuned. 🧵

⇝ When challenged in light of miscaptioned videos, NBC stood by its claim of video showing a "Death to Arabs" chant. But it wouldn't substantiate, saying it doesn't share editorial content.
It's a weak excuse. NBC cited to social media video, not proprietary footage. 🧵

⇝ Frankfurter Allgemeine led readers to believe it had video of this and another ugly chant ("Death to the Arabs"). Editors admitted it had no such video. They didn't correct, parsing the language to argue it didn't cite video. (Wikipedia editors understood otherwise.) 🧵

⇝ The Media Line claimed it had video of the same chant. After CAMERA called for substantiation, it admitted it had no such video. It quietly corrected its piece to refer to a "reported" chant.

⇝ Same claim, and same stealth correction from the Jewish Chronicle. 🧵

⇝ The New York Times insisted it had video of Israelis chanting that there are no children in Gaza. Were they duped by the widely circulated miscaptioned video?
After initially stonewalling, the paper informed
CAMERA it had no such video, and published corrections. 🧵