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Comment by Georgelemental

12 hours ago

The "Washington Institute for Near East Policy" is another big one

MEMRI is the US non-profit organization that provides translations from Arabic for the Western media:

"MEMRI was co-founded by Israeli ex-intelligence officer Yigal Carmon and Israeli-American political scientist Meyrav Wurmser in 1998. MEMRI describes itself as being independent and non-partisan. Some critics have described MEMRI as aiming to portray the Arab world and the Islamic world in a negative light by producing and disseminating incomplete or inaccurate translations of the original versions of the media reports that it republishes." (Wikipedia)

  • That explains a lot! Yesterday, I came across this article - Outrage In Oman Over Trump's Threat To Bomb The Sultanate... - https://www.memri.org/reports/outrage-oman-over-trumps-threa... and posted it on HN. But then, I had second thoughts as I had never heard of MEMRI and a scan of the website revealed a lot of antisemitic content and in general poor quality, tabloid like "hyped" up articles. The website also had no 'About Us' page that highlighted who runs it. All this made me suspicious and I immediately deleted the posted link on HN.

  • There's also supposed "UN watch" which is another innocuous looking Israeli front meant to sow confusion into decades long UN's attemmpts to deal with the mess jewish terror gangs in Palestine created by stealing massive amount of land from Palestinians in 1947-48 for their bigoted state project.

    • LOL, imagine you saying that holocaust survivors (36%) and Arab countries refugees (27%) in 1947-1952+ cared about anything else other then who will protect Jews. Only the US and the Zionist did (on bought land pre-war btw, read a wiki please). But nowadays "they wanted a bigoted state"... what a joke. HN level is freefalling...

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