WaPo's Revisionist History on Munich Massacre
The Post ignores its own Watergate-era coverage to whitewash Islamist terrorism
Think of it as the Washington Post’s current, epic-fail leadership vs.… the Washington Post’s Watergate-era commitment to actual journalism. In the latest episode of They Stand Corrected, I talk you through how the Post ignored its own reporting in an attempt to revise history. In a story ostensibly about a movie, the Post lied about the Palestinian terrorists who massacred Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics.
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I contacted leaders at the Post, but they of course did not respond, and ignored my letter to the editor.
The same paper that covered and praised me repeatedly for All In and the battle for gender equality now somehow cannot hear me when I fight their antisemitism.
I’ve previously explained something about people who oversee the Post’s coverage of Palestinian terrorists: They are former employees of the Qatari government. They were a part of Qatar’s state-owned global propaganda operation known as Al Jazeera. For more on that, listen to previous episodes including this one:
Below is my note to the Post. It included a link to the article, but I try to avoid linking to lies here. I don’t want to encourage anyone to give them traffic. Still, if you wish to see it, here you go.
Your article, ostensibly about a new movie, highlights much of what has become so disastrous about the Post: its obsessive desire to rewrite history in a way that portrays Israel in the worst possible light and whitewashes the long history of Palestinian terrorism.
Case in point: This article’s reference to “Black September, the Palestinian militant organization demanding the freedom of political prisoners in Israeli custody.” In 1972, before the Post was overtaken by its current bias, your reporting was much more accurate. Unafraid to use the word “terrorists” repeatedly, the Post explained that the massacre “was but one in a series of acts of terrorism by Arab guerrillas whose goal is to drive the Israelis out of the Middle East.”
It also, importantly, put the word “political” in quotes -- emphasizing the reality that this group was calling these people “political” prisoners. In reality, they wanted people released who had committed acts of terrorism, and not just in Israel. Black September sought the release of two members of Germany’s Red Army faction as well.
Your previous reporting also covered the horrific extent of Black September’s global attacks, including its “murderous letter-bombing campaign targeting world leaders in the 1970s and a botched terrorist attack in 1979,” and seizing Saudi embassies in Khartoum and Paris. Black September also hijacked numerous flights, some of which had nothing to do with Israel. The group took its name from its bloody battle with Jordan.
Published as current Palestinian terrorists hold Israeli hostages, your story also managed to avoid any references to them -- and instead sandwiched in a complaint about the Israeli military. The Post never misses an opportunity to whitewash Palestinian terrorism. It’s no wonder the paper recently won a Media Fail Award.
Josh Levs
For more on Black September, check out my two parter about Jordan and a disastrous “interview” Joy Reid did with Queen Rania on MSNBC.
Part two deals with much of the history:
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JL