CiF Watch..
06 November '12..
The B’Tselem video used by Harriet Sherwood to illustrate her latest story, ‘How the West Bank barrier has starved business and community‘, Nov. 5, about the economic downtown in Bir Nabala, a Palestinian town roughly 8 km from Jerusalem, includes text with a telling time gap.
Clips show scenes of an evidently vibrant community in the 1990s, followed by this text:
A few seconds later, we see this:
Not once during the rest of the video, purporting to illustrate the economic downturn during this period, does the video (or Sherwood’s report) mention what extremely relevant event occurred between the 1990s and 2006.
What I’m referring to, naturally, is the Palestinian ‘Al-Aksa’ Intifada from 2000 to 2005, which necessitated the construction of Israel’s security fence.
(Read full "Harriet Sherwood, Palestinian terrorism and the lessons the Guardian Left will never learn")
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