[Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News] All you need to know about media bias you can learn from AP

Yesterday, the Central Elections Committee voted to disqualify two candidates for Knesset, Arab MK Hanin Zoabi and former right-wing MK Baruch Marzel.

Here is the entire AP article about it:

Israel's elections committee on Thursday voted to disqualify a contentious Arab lawmaker from running in the country's March 17 parliamentary elections.

Lawmaker Hanin Zoabi is known for her feisty and abrasive style in parliament. She has sided with the Palestinians in their conflict with Israel, prompting some Israelis to brand her a traitor.

Israeli media say Thursday's committee vote passed by a majority. The decision could still be overturned by the Supreme Court, which has happened in the past.

Zoabi said she wasn't surprised by the vote which she called "unjust" and "racist" and said she plans to appeal the decision.

Zoabi has a long history of angering mainstream Israelis. She boycotted the playing of the national anthem when she was sworn into Israel's parliament and often refers to the country as "racist."

She is active in Palestinian causes and participated in a pro-Palestinian flotilla that tried to break Israel's naval blockade of Gaza in 2010. Activists clashed with Israeli soldiers who boarded the ship, and nine activists were killed.

After Thursday's vote, Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in a statement that Zoabi belongs with "the Hamas terrorists in Gaza."

The same committee later disqualified a hawkish Israeli activist, Baruch Marzel, from running on grounds of incitement, Israeli media reported.

The article is 210 words long. 191 words are dedicated to making Israel sound undemocratic and racist for disqualifying an Arab from running for Knesset, and 19 words at the very end they mention without elaboration that someone else with a Jewish name was also disqualified for vague reasons.

Zoabi is a merely being banned for being "feisty and abrasive" and "pro-Palestinian," with no examples of how she actively campaigns against the nation whose parliament she serves in. Nothing about how she said that the kidnappers of three Israeli teens who were later found to have murdered them were not terrorists. Nothing about how she openly identified with Hamas in a "victory rally" after the summer war in Gaza. Nothing about how she declared her country to be worse than ISIS.

AP doesn't bother to find out why every other Arab candidate is still free to run for election if Israel is as racist as Zoabi claims. It doesn't bother to mention that the Supreme Court head who criticized both decisions is an Arab.

Banning a Jew from running is just an inconvenient distraction from the main focus of the article of branding Israel as racist.

(h/t Nephew of Ziyon)




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Posted By Elder of Ziyon to Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News at 2/13/2015 05:30:00 AM