Comparing the Al-Durah hoax to another hoax (the Dreyfus affair) of more than a century ago — in l'Affaire Al-Durah: mais où est passé le colonel Picquart? — Eric Verrax asks:
But what courage would it take today for a politician, a journalist, even a historian, simply to ask the question: is this report on the child's death possibly a "fake"? Who in the media world would have the audacity to alienate their self-righteous circles just to ask the question? And since we would then be dealing with "the most anti-Semitic fake of our generation," to use the words of the Causeur report, doesn't that cast a harsh light on the bias of public broadcasting?Mais quel courage faudrait-il aujourd’hui à un politique, à un journaliste, à un historien même de simplement poser la question : ce reportage sur la mort de l’enfant est-il possiblement un « fake » ? Qui dans la galaxie médiatique aurait le front de s’aliéner son environnement bien-pensant pour a minima poser la question ? Et puisqu’alors, nous aurions affaire au « fake le plus antisémite de notre génération » pour reprendre les termes du dossier de Causeur, cela ne jette-t-il pas un regard cru sur la partialité du service public ?
Indeed, there was certainly no courage at the heart of the France 2 television station, as Philippe Karsenty recounts while a guest on Frontières (8:00-34:34) in relation with the special issue on the Al-Durah hoax that the monthly Causeur published last week. Recall that Philippe Karsenty was central in debunking the hoax two decades ago, for which he was "rewarded" with numerous lawsuits at the hands of the France 2 television station — nine years' worth, altogether — which is recounted in the issue of Causeur by Gilles-William Goldnadel & Aude Weill-Raynal.
Answering the questions of Louise Morice, Philippe Karsenty not only reexamines the affair that caused widespread hatred of the Jewish state and of Jews themselves a quarter of a century ago, but comments also on the Epstein scandal, such as the fact that Jeffrey Epstein was a guest of champagne socialist Jack Lang in Paris as recently as 2018. (Speaking of which, see also No Matter How Clever You Think Trump Is, You Do Not Appreciate His Brilliance Enough.)
Last Fall, No Pasarán published an in-depth post on the al Durrah affair which had its start on September 30, 2000 and which the blog has covered over the decades: 25 Years Ago — Fate of 12-Year-Old Palestinian Led to 911 Attack and the Invention of the Word Pallywood, along with a quote by Philippe Karsenty, who was instrumental in helping to debunk the hoax ("If we ignore how images propagate and mutate, we hand the moral high ground to those who traffic in outrage")
Beyond that article, Causeur (Conversationalist) also featured Elisabeth Lévy presenting the dossier under the title L’heure des pro-pal and Editor Jeremy Stubbs charging that the France 2 television station broadcast antisemitic disinformation, asking Who Killed the Truth? (Affaire Al-Durah, 25 ans après: qui a tué la vérité?). All of the above is related with more detail in the post on Causeur's special issue on the Al-Durah hoax.
Subsequently, Philippe Karsenty was also interviewed by Boulevard Voltaire, by ActuJ, and by the Qualita Studio.
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