When a "News" Wire Service Chooses to Ignore Analysts Critical of Palestinian Incitement

...Reporters can put their thumb on the scale by playing up some views as universal while downplaying others by attributing them to individuals or partisans. As this analyst has previously argued, "broader criticisms — or more precisely, these criticisms that journalists have chosen to frame in a broader way — feel more authentic, widely held and legitimate than ones attributed to politicians." This is certainly true of AFP's biased wording, which advocates for the opinions held by reporters instead of allowing readers to make up their own minds based on a fair representation of the facts.

Gilead Ini..
CAMERA Media Analyses..
31 August '16..

According to Agence France Presse, a major global wire service, there is a neat divide between what analysts think of Palestinian incitement and what "Israel" thinks.

Analysts as a whole, AFP suggests in a story published this morning, don't accept the view that Palestinian incitement has contributed to the recent spate of violent attacks on Israelis. This, readers are told, is nothing more than a claim by the Israeli government:

Analysts say Palestinian frustration with Israeli occupation and settlement-building in the West Bank, the complete lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have fed the unrest.

Israel says incitement by Palestinian leaders and media is a leading cause of the violence.

But, of course, it isn't only Israel that describes Palestinian incitement as a problem. Plenty of analysts do, too.

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