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SvennoJ on 24 June 2024
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This ugly genocide is changing one thing at least, lies are getting called out much faster.


Los Angeles protests against Israeli land sales reported inaccurately: Rights group

Elected officials and journalists missed crucial context when reporting on protests at a Los Angeles synagogue that hosted an event allegedly promoting the sale of land in illegally-occupied Palestinian territories, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has said in a statement.

We reported earlier that protests took place at the real estate event promoted by the Israel-based agency My Home in Israel.

US President Joe Biden, however, later described the occupied Palestinian land sale protests as “antisemitic, and un-American”, saying that the right to peaceful protest does not extend to “blocking access to a house of worship”.

In his post on X, Biden did not mention the land sales event.

“We call on political leaders to condemn the organisations involved in the potentially illegal sale of Palestinian land and the counter-protesters who commit violence against anti-genocide protesters with the same fervour used for rightfully condemning antisemitism,” said Hussam Ayloush, the executive director of CAIR’s Los Angeles office.

Journalists, diplomats given tour of Beirut airport to counter allegation of Hezbollah weapons

Lebanese government officials gave journalists and diplomats a tour of Beirut international airport on Monday to counter a recent report that Hezbollah stored weapons at the air hub, the Associated Press (AP) news agency reports.

The tour came after the UK’s Telegraph newspaper published a story that quoted anonymous airport workers as alleging that Hezbollah had shipped missiles through the airport.

Lebanon’s caretaker Transportation Minister Ali Hamieh said the Lebanese government will take legal action against the newspaper, accusing it of slander and fabricating information in the story, which was published without the writer’s name.

Ziad T Makary, Lebanon’s information minister, on Sunday urged reporters to come to the Beirut-Rafic Hariri International Airport to “verify first-hand the falsity of the allegations contained in the Telegraph newspaper”.

“Out of concern for the security of the country and the safety of Lebanese citizens, residents and visitors, and based on the fact that the article contradicts the principles and ethics of journalism, and because its goals are not innocent, we address all media outlets and hope they will not be satisfied with denouncing the article, but rather in exposing its intentions behind its publication in these circumstance,” Makary said.


Head of the Customs Authority at Beirut airport Samer Dia, centre right, speaks with journalists and diplomats during a media tour at the Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut, Lebanon on June 24

Netanyahu receives warning over German defence contract corruption probe

A state investigation into an alleged corruption scandal involving Israel’s purchase of submarines and other warships from Germany has sent a letter to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warning him that he could be harmed by the probe’s conclusions.

The inquiry, launched in 2022, is looking into an affair involving the $2bn purchase of naval vessels from Germany’s Thyssenkrupp, the Associated Press news agency reports, while a separate court proceeding into the case took testimony from Netanyahu, though he was not named as a suspect in the corruption case.

The new warning letter could lead to Netanyahu being seen as more deeply implicated in the unfolding scandal, the AP reports.

Netanyahu is already on trial for corruption in three other separate cases, though he denies all charges.

The investigation committee did not detail the latest corruption accusations against Netanyahu, but painted a picture of improper decision-making at multiple levels of the Israeli government, the defence establishment and Israel’s military.