TheRightsForum Lies about kite project end up via ex-employee CIDI in Israeli press

Lies about kite project end up via ex-employee CIDI in Israeli press

https://rightsforum.org/nieuws/leugens-vliegerproject-belanden-ex-medewerker-cidi-israelische-pers/

November 1, 2018

A lying article in Israeli media about the canceled pilot project in Vlissingen is shown by the former CIDI employee Cnaan Liphshiz. As is often the case, he is the intermediate station between the Dutch Israel lobby and Israeli media, which publish his fake news uncritically. The kites on the beach of Scheveningen.

'In Vlissingen, a pro-Palestinian event took place in which pilots with a swastika and other nazi symbolism were made up. It was a kite show in solidarity with Gaza, and the artists were praised by a councilor on Twitter. ' This equally sensational and untrue news was read on the Israeli news websites The Times of Israel and Haaretz on 27 October. The two identical articles echoed the campaign of the so-called Israel lobby and Vlissingse political parties to make a kite project of the art artspaceCAESUUR suspicious as anti-Semitic and leaning on Nazi symbolism and terrorism. And in order to get it canceled, a design that succeeded: defamed and frustrated, the artists canceled their event. We wrote about it earlier this week.

Pass across of defamation

The article on the Israeli websites comes from the American news agency The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA). It appears written by the Dutch correspondent of JTA, Cnaan Liphshiz. He is a former employee of the Center for Information and Documentation Israel (CIDI), the prominent lobbying organization that also took the gun against the kite project, as mentioned by Liphshiz in his article. Liphshiz functions more often as an intermediate station between the Dutch Israel lobby and Israeli media, which usually publish its articles unchecked. Earlier we paid attention to the role that Liphshiz played in the smear campaigns against Minister Sigrid Kaag and former Prime Minister and founder of The Rights Forum Dries van Agt. Via Liphshiz, an international readership was presented with the slander in the Netherlands about both of them.

Hard-tempered lie

This time the audience could read how Liphshiz made the artists and their kite project in Vlissingen suspicious. One of their pilots, writes Liphshiz in imitation of the Dutch website for 'independent Jewish news' Jonet, painted with a swastika. A green swastika still, 'the color of Hamas'. Such a kite was in Vlissingen, however, in no fields or roads to be seen. Liphshiz 'claim could thus have come from the St. Petersburg troll factory. It is fake news, a well-placed lie in the world. Following the Dutch Lobby Liphshiz also brings a kite with the image of the German Reich eagle to the spotlight ('Nazi Germany's Imperial Eagle symbol') and he gives his own explanation to the rocket depicted by an artist. He describes the image - an indictment of shooting civilians with high-tech weapons in countries like Yemen - as' a rocket resembling Hamas' Qassam missile '. He does not pay attention to the rest of the nineteen pilots, nor to the purpose of the manifestation. He describes this as misleading as 'a pro-Palestinian kite show' and an event 'in solidarity with Gaza'.

Alderman burned down

Liphshiz 'attack is on the face of Rens Reijnierse, the alderman of Culture, named after him, who had sent a positive tweet about the kite project. Liphshiz introduces him as the 'politician who praises artists who fly kites with Nazi symbols and an image of a rocket, in solidarity with Gaza '. The massive attack from the Lobby corner brought Reijnierse into the center of Liphshiz 'attack is on the face of Rens Reijnierse, the alderman of Culture, named after him, who had sent a positive tweet about the kite project. Liphshiz introduces him as the 'politician who praises artists who raised fliers with Nazi symbols and a rocket image, in solidarity with Gaza'. The massive attack from the Lobby corner brought Reijnierse into the center of a storm. In the Netherlands he was, among other things, accused of 'supporting an anti-Semitic art project'. He even saw his suitability for the aldermen questioned. Thanks to Lipshshiz, he is now known beyond the borders: as the Dutch politician who recommends images of a Hamas rocket, a swastika and other Nazi symbols. The Times of Israel took it a step further by placing a large photo of Reijnierse above the article.

Wrecking ball

This is how the art project collapsed under the arts of the Israel lobby. The depicted rocket was used as a Hamas projectile against the artists and the alderman. The Reich eagle with its copyright sign became a Nazi symbol. And to make the image of an anti-Semitic project in solidarity with Gaza complete, a swastika was invented, in 'the color of Hamas'.

Even against this small-scale event that, who knows, could have aroused sympathy for the Palestinians and their rights to a handful of people, the wrecking ball was deployed. And with success. The project has been canceled. The smell of anti-Semitism, Nazi sympathy and love of terror now hangs around all those involved. The alderman had to go through the dust. And Vlissingen will from now on think up three times for granting permission for projects with something 'Palestinian' in the distance.

The damage is great, and then the main victim has not yet been mentioned. These are the liberties that form the oxygen for our democracy, the freedom of expression first. Liberties that, you would say, are also the oxygen for media such as The Times of Israel and Haaretz, and for a journalist [ italic by H.O. ] like Liphshiz.