{"id":108702,"date":"2018-11-21T08:44:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T12:44:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=108702"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:28:05","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:28:05","slug":"jewish-reporter-tweets-about-israeli-war-crimes-against-palestinians-angers-tel-aviv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=108702","title":{"rendered":"Jewish Reporter Tweets About Israeli War Crimes Against Palestinians Angers Tel Aviv"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>\u2018Disgrace to Jews\u2019: Israeli consulate goes after RT America reporter over Gaza tweets<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_108707\" style=\"width: 910px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf4bdb9fc7e93f7188b45af.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-108707\" class=\"wp-image-108707 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf4bdb9fc7e93f7188b45af.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf4bdb9fc7e93f7188b45af.jpg 900w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf4bdb9fc7e93f7188b45af-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/5bf4bdb9fc7e93f7188b45af-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-108707\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Israelis in Tel Aviv protest against the ceasefire with Gaza, November 15, 2018. \u00a9 Reuters \/ Ammar Awad<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p>RT.com<\/p>\n<p>The Israeli consulate in Boston has sent angry messages to a RT America reporter, after his criticism of how the US media were covering the deadly events in Gaza was retweeted by Palestinian activists.<\/p>\n<p>Dan Cohen was pointing out how the Associated Press was\u00a0<em>\u201cwhitewashing Israel\u2019s crimes\u201d<\/em>\u00a0including the shooting of the agency\u2019s own journalist in Gaza on Monday, when he received the messages from the consulate, calling him a\u00a0<em>\u201cdisgrace to Americans and Jews everywhere.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I received this creepy and menacing direct message from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsraelinBoston?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@IsraelinBoston<\/a>. Apparently the consulate uses its official account to monitor and harass journalists, especially Jewish ones. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Bpn41UYTmn\">pic.twitter.com\/Bpn41UYTmn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Dan Cohen (@dancohen3000) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancohen3000\/status\/1064975509535240193?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Apparently, the messages were triggered by a couple of tweets by Cohen that were retweeted by Ali Abunimah, the co-founder of Electronic Intifada, a Chicago-based news site reporting from the Palestinian perspective.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dancohen3000\/status\/1064942087915929602\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">One of them<\/a>referenced a documentary Cohen co-produced, called &#8216;Killing Gaza,&#8217; about the 2014 conflict in the enclave.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">If you have received any private messages from any Israeli government office harassing you because I (or anyone else) retweeted you, I&#39;d appreciate it if you could let me know. Let&#39;s expose this harassment and bullying by the thuggish and unhinged apartheid regime.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AliAbunimah\/status\/1064976399486853122?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 20, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>After Cohen posted the messages from the Israeli consulate on Twitter, Abunimah called for others who have received such harassment to get in touch with him, denouncing it as\u00a0<em>\u201cbullying by the thuggish and unhinged apartheid regime.\u201d<\/em><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, the Israeli consulate in New York engaged in a Twitter back-and-forth with journalist Ben Norton, after he commented on the New York Times\u2019 editing of its Gaza coverage to make it more pro-Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Norton was told to\u00a0<em>\u201cget it right\u201d<\/em>\u00a0and accused of getting his news from the\u00a0<em>\u201cterrorist propaganda TV station of a genocidal terrorist group like Hamas.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Cohen was busy working on a story about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey, and was not available for further comment.<\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/444499-israel-consulate-gaza-journalists\/\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/444499-israel-consulate-gaza-journalists\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Disgrace to Jews\u2019: Israeli consulate goes after RT America reporter over Gaza tweets<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}