For the left, when reality doesn’t fit their propaganda, so much the worse for reality.
“Owen Jones dubs knife attacker who ‘hunted Jews at checkpoint’ as ‘hostage,’” by Jane Prinsley, Jewish Chronicle, January 30, 2025 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
Guardian columnist Owen Jones used an image of a Palestinian terrorist who carried out a knife attack on Israelis in a video claiming that Palestinian prisoners are treated worse than Israeli hostages taken by Hamas.
The video, titled “Palestinians are hostages, too: the truth covered up by a racist Western media”, initially featured a thumbnail of Sara Abdullah, 26, who was arrested after stabbing Israelis at the southern Huwara checkpoint in June 2023.
Abdullah later told The New York Times: “Nobody told me to do it — I decided because I was so angry about what has happened [in the West Bank].
“I took a knife with me and chose Huwara because it’s close and there are many Israeli settlers and Jews at the checkpoint.”
She was released last November as part of a ceasefire deal in exchange for Israeli hostages held in Gaza. “I am very proud that Hamas forced Israel to release us,” she said at the time. “Who cares that a lot of their civilians were killed?”
She added: “We will continue to be knives in their necks. We cannot share the land.”
The image of Abdullah on Jones’s video, seen embracing another woman, sparked backlash online. Danny Morris from the Community Security Trust posted on X: “Sara Abdullah was certainly not a hostage.”
Former spokesperson for Israel, Eylon Levy, said: “I know this is difficult for some people to accept, but when you get arrested for trying to stab someone… you’re not a hostage. You’re a criminal.”
Following the uproar, the thumbnail on Jones’s video was changed to an image of a Palestinian boy surrounded by Israeli forces.
In the clip, Jones claimed that Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails have suffered “much worse” conditions than Israeli hostages in Gaza….
England Invaded says
For those in the Israeli security services, please put this turd on your lists and deal with him. There are many more like him in the UK as well.
crown says
Of course. The Guardian. The bottom of the bottom of the barrel, when it comes to British media.
As for Jones himself, well, I wish this contemptible little poofter a very happy trip to Gaza, where he will no doubt be feted by his beloved “Palestinians”, carried to some very high eminent position befitting him, and then…. splaaaat!
Billy says
The Leftists(eg. Politicians, Media, Academia, Police, etc.) ally with Islam’s Muslims with propaganda, deceit, and violence against Non-Muslims to gain more power and control. Islam is a MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATION against Non-Muslims and NOT A PEACEFUL RELIGION UNDER WESTERN LAWS(Quran 2:216; 4:95; 8:12,39,74; 9:5,29,41,49, 21:921; 88,111,123;21:92; 49:15 and more). More specifically, Islam is a Muslim Terrorist Ideology and Criminal Enterprise of continuous war, discrimination, segregation, supremacy, genocide, polygamy, propaganda, deceit, hatred, incitement, sedition, rape, terrorism, and violence against all Non-Muslims as taught in the Quran. Fundamentally, Islam funds, teaches, and promotes a Terrorist Criminal Organization with Muslims as Terrorists for Allah.
The FRUIT of Islam is incessant WAR, terrorism, discrimination, malice, and violence against all Non-Muslims; this FACT must be taught and broadcast to the general public to prohibit Islam, its Mosques, and its Schools. Also, Islam is an Antichrist System terrorizing Israel, Christians, and Non-Muslims. Plus, there is NO EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW in Islam or in Islamic Law(Quran 98:6-7; 9:29 and more). In Sahih Bukhari(V6,B60,N80), Abu Huraira narrates, “‘You(Muslims) are the best of peoples ever raised for mankind.’ means, the best of peoples for the people, as you bring them[Non-Muslims] with chains on their necks till they embrace Islam[see Quran 3:110].” See also Quran 3:22,151; 69:30-32; 98:6.
Non-Muslims CANNOT have peace with Islam and its Muslims because Islam and its murderous god, Allah, demand a continuous, Muslim war against unbelievers where Non-Muslims are CRIMINALS under Islam when Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…” HENCE, NON-MUSLIMS MUST MAKE ISLAM, ITS MOSQUES, ITS SCHOOLS, ITS ORGANIZATIONS, ETC. ILLEGAL UNDER THE LAW. Similarly, Islam and its many Organizations must be identified and publicly declared to be MUSLIM TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS for their funding, teaching, and support of terrorism, violence, and discrimination against Non-Muslims(eg. Quran 9:5,29,111 and more).
Western Muslims seek to ensure Islam’s legitimacy against Non-Muslim societies, to impose Islamic Law in Western Legal Systems, and to advance Islam’s totalitarian goals to conquer the West. Consequently, Islam promotes a limitless, terroristic, Muslim war against unbelievers when Allah in Qur’an 49:15 says, “Surely the believers are only those who believed in Allah and his messenger. They do not doubt, and they performed JIHAD with THEIR MONEY AND THEIR LIVES for the sake of Allah. Those are the truthful.”
Tony Rice says
I suppose that’s why so many at the top of Hamas choose voluntarily to go to Israel for medical attention, and where they get it.
The Istanbulian says
But I thought October 7th showed that hostage taking was halal?
Angeli says
What an absolute piece of $hite. I pray that Karma catches up with this obnoxious evil lying filthy little scumbucket.
James Lincoln says
The real truth is this:
Guardian columnist Owen Jones is the real threat with his endless leftist / globalist / anti-Semitic propaganda.
Andrew Blackadder says
This wee white privileged English piece of dog shit is just a wee Homosexual Soy Boy that has fooled people into thinking that what he says has any merit whatsoever as he is your classic Caviar Communist Gay Boy that supports the very savages that wish to throw his sorry wee arse off a Rooftop.
Only a rag like The Guardian would actually pay him to write the garbage he writes.