They took down the offending article, but everyone at the Guardian who was responsible for approving it and putting it up in the first place still works there, and still believes what the article stated.
“Guardian deletes online review that criticises the ‘demonisation’ of Hamas,” by Michelle Rosenberg, Jewish News, October 10, 2024:
The Guardian has removed an online review of a Channel 4 documentary about 7 October that criticised the negative portrayal of Hamas terrorists and confirmed to Jewish News on Friday that it “won’t be making any further comment at this time.”
In his review of One Day in October, which depicts the massacre at Kibbutz Be’eri using CCTV footage, Stuart Jeffries writes: “[The documentary] does a good job of demonising Gazans, first as testosterone-crazed Hamas killers, later as shameless civilian looters, asset-stripping the kibbutz while bodies lay in the street and the terrified living hid.”
Jeffries also complains that the programme does not help viewers understand “why” Hamas wanted to murder civilians.
In a statement to Jewish News, a spokesperson for the newspaper said: “The article did not meet our editorial standards and we have removed it pending review. The independent readers’ editor will be responding to a number of readers who have raised concerns.”
Jeffries’ comments sparked immediate widespread revulsion.
Dave Rich, director of policy at Community Security Trust (CST), the charity that protects British Jews from antisemitism, wrote on Twitter/X: “As if there’s something wrong with sympathising with an Israeli child cowering in fear rather than the terrorists coming to kill her.”
Journalist Hadley Freeman posted: “Does the Guardian understand this was a documentary? How very dare this documentary trick us by showing Hamas as murderous terrorists and Israeli citizens as relatable human beings?”
Simon Myerson KC wrote: “What’s fascinating about the review, given it went through the editorial process, is the light shed on groupthink Guardian, which lacks morality because all those involved regarded Jews as in some way deserving of death.”…
Sue says
Verily, verily, when truth is spoken, the wicked weep because they are the children of the devil. What HAMAS did was truly demonic, they enjoyed inflicting such pain and sorrow. If they had cared for the people who lived in Gaza they would have made that area of Israel into one of the best places to live. With billions upon billions they chose to dig tunnels under a hospital that was already there. Did they even build one building that didn’t have weapons of war stored. They made their own citizens shields. They truly are evil and their father is the devil
Mike says
Sue: good comment. The top HamArse leaders embezzled billions of dollars for themselves, and wasted tens of billions more dollars on terrorism.
With nearly forty billion dollars U.S. in aid over several decades, Gaza could have been like Singapore, or at least like Malaysia or Chile in terms of development.
bagsgroove says
Forcefeed hamas a great amount of ham until their asses burst with ham. Bloody hamas,a good example of muslims
bagsgroove says
Why does no one do something about all the innocent citizens murdered by the damned hamas. How come hamas is no being sent to the world court. There are too many muslim ass kissers for the good of mankind.
Rick Gordon says
The Guardian has been strongly anti-American for more than two decades to my memory. Their views on Israel and Israelis are not a surprise,
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Why is it surprising? Guardian is worse than what Pravda was at any point in Soviet history. After 9/11, they published an article justifying the attacks and mocking the late Tony Snow for his weekend final thoughts that week about those attacks. Any sane government would declare all those “journalists” as terrorists and give them the Putin treatment
somehistory says
I miss Mr. Snow. He was a great journalist, reporter, man. No one like him today.
Richard Roy Blake says
There are “progressives”or at least “left leaning” folks, such as Bill Maher, who have the gift of reasoning sufficient to differentiate good guys from bad guys. Today’s leftists with delusions about a Red/Green alliance, temporary alliance, need to just ask the Algerian leftists who made common cause with the Islamist FLN to kick France out of Algeria, who came out on top there and how grateful the winning side was for the losing side’s support. At least in the states a lot who pose as leftists are, in fact, Islamists. The pro-Hamas encampment at the Auraria and UCD campus in Denver. Had an event they called a “Dawah rally,” during the encampment. Dawah, is, of course, Islamic missionary work.
Colonel Phew says
I have to make this comment, although it bothers me to do so to some extent, I have felt first hand the ivory towers blinkered ideology of the Guardian people before he retitttftyrggtgr
I love my brother in law he’s a lovely person and he nursed my sister with love and compassion until she passed but whenever I was with them we could never talk politics my brother in law was up until retiring the business editor of the guardian and my sister had been CEO of a very large housing association. They had both worked extremely hard to achieve their goals that saw them settled in a beautiful Cotswold home, ivory towers if ever the phrase could be more justified, no mosques, no muslim child sex groomers, no money laundering kebab shops in fact an unbelievable different world than the East Lancashire homes they came from it’s easy to criticise from the comfort of your cosy chair in your cosy Cotswold cottage.
Ben says
Fake news, biased and leftwing media (like the Guardian) are part of the fifth column enemy within. Drastic action against them is needed and justified.
somehistory says
The “why” of it….because they are bloodthirsty mozlums who take great delight in murdering, raping, torturing and watching innocent people die. No less than sons of satan.
And those who find nothing wrong with what hamas and their gang did are the same….sons of satan.
karin-ann tesdorf says
Hamas does not need to be ‘demonised’, it has Demonised itself by murdering, raping, and torturing innocent people.