Thursday, 3 June 2010

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  3 June 2010
Flotilla news agenda shifts after Jihad links accusations
Much of today's leading news coverage of Israel's raid on the Gaza flotilla has focused on the profile of the organisers of the convoy as well as its passengers.

In a marked shift away from yesterday's reports which led with activists' eye witness testimonies, details about the alleged militant nature of at least a contingent of the activists are currently being brought to light by the broadsheets.

All five broadsheet newspapers (
The Guardian, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent, Financial Times and The Times) have given greater attention to the background of Turkish charity, IHH, and the possibility of its links to violent extremist groups such as like Hamas and al Qaida.

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Independent cites testimony of convicted PLO gun-runner
Yesterday, Just Journalism reported how, as part of a wider trend in the media of de-emphasising the radical nature of some of the members of the flotilla, several key individuals had not been mentioned in the press.

One of the most prominent is the
Archbishop Hilarian Capucci, who, as this BBC News article from 2009  reported, 'served time in an Israeli jail in the 1970s for smuggling arms for the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO)', which at the time was still openly conducting attacks against Israel.

This morning, The Independent mentioned the Archbishop in two different articles - both of which portrayed him uncritically, without mentioning his history of supporting violence against Israel.

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Video catalogue of flotilla raid
The Israeli government has been releasing video footage - some Israeli-produced, some confiscated from the Gaza flotilla - in an effort to show what happened on 31 May before and during the IDF raid of the Mavi Marmara, a Turkish-owned vessel in the flotilla, which resulted in the deaths of several passengers and the critical injuries of several commandos.

The following videos have been uploaded to the IDF YouTube channel. Just Journalism will continue to monitor how this footage is incorporated into UK media reports.


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