Will J Street invite me?

Yisrael Medad
Greenlined/JPost
14 November '10

J Street and J Street U are sponsoring a number of events around the country featuring UNRWA’s Gaza Director John Ging.

Are these people aware of the seriousness of what they are doing in hosting Ging?

With assistance from friends, I have learned that during Operation Cast Lead in Gaza in 2009, Ging hid the fact that Hamas fighters were firing weapons near a UN school compound that was hit by IDF fire, and also fed the propaganda claims of deaths inside the school. Only after the war did he admit that there were fighters right outside the grounds (more or less where the IDF fired) and that nobody was killed in the school. (CAMERA has a summary of the media's accounts, including some of Ging's statements.) In NGO Monitor's report on NGO mis-statements about the incident, it is shown how Ging's statements were responsible for the demonization of Israel on this incident.

A quick Google search will show similar occurrences of Ging repeating the Palestinian narrative of demonizing Israel and de-legitimizing self-defense measures. He also has some statements in support of flotillas into Gaza. (See, for example, here, and also here and as well, here, too).

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