KGB-style, The Guardian removes Israelis from Nobel Prize winners list
By Tom Gross
National Review Online Saturday, October 10, 2009
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YmQwMWMxMThjODc1MzBmMDJkYTdkNDlhMWQwMTljODg=&p=1
The British paper The Guardian - which one would just dismiss as an
irrelevant left-wing rag, except that it is the overwhelming paper of choice
for British teachers and for news staff at the BBC, the world's largest
broadcasting network, who are "inspired" by Guardian stories on a daily
basis in their broadcasts - is no friend of Israel and the Jews, as I have
noted before.
But now it has wiped Israel off the Nobel Prize map, much as Iranian despot
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad would like to wipe Israel off the real map.
To accompany their story about Barack Obama winning the 2009 Nobel Peace
Prize, The Guardian posted on their website what they claimed was "every
peace prize winner ever," stating that the information came from the website
Nobelprize.org. But guess whose names The Guardian took off the list,
KGB-style, hoping no-one would notice? All three Israelis who have won the
peace prize: Menachem Begin, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres.
Following outrage in Britain, including online articles on the websites of
the conservative-leaning Daily Telegraph and Spectator (why are most
anti-Semites on the Left these days?), The Guardian slipped the Israeli
names back on to their list.
The Guardian had no trouble keeping FW De Klerk, the last president of
Apartheid South Africa, on their original list. It is only the Jews - and
their achievements - which they tried to wipe off the map.
And this from a paper whose motto is "Facts are sacred". Of course The
Guardian - like several other prominent European papers - misleads readers
about Israel on a regular basis by omitting crucial information that
portrays Israelis in a positive light.
This time it was caught red-handed, as the (London) Jewish Chronicle and the
Harry's Place blog managed to upload The Guardian's Israel-free Nobel list
before The Guardian slipped the names back in.
Below, The Guardian omitted Israeli political leaders Shimon Peres and
Yitzhak Rabin, who won the peace prize jointly with Yasser Arafat in 1994.
(Incidentally The Guardian forgot to remove the word "Israel" when removing
the names of the Israeli winners):
www.thejc.com/files/imagecache/body_landscape/nobel-prize.jpg
Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat were jointly awarded the
1978 peace prize for signing an Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty. Only Sadat
was listed by The Guardian:
www.thejc.com/files/imagecache/body_landscape/begin.jpg
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