TVNZ News tonight has repeated a filthy racist lie.
Israel is refusing to vaccinate 4.5 million Palestinians who are under Israeli occupation and control and these people are ignored in Israel’s figures.
Israel is implementing medical apartheid along with apartheid in every other aspect of daily life for Palestinians.
Israel says that under the Oslo accords the Palestinian Authority is responsible but this is a lie as we have repeatedly pointed out.
Even Palestinian political prisoners are being denied vaccines despite Israeli health officials saying they must be vaccinated.
As we have also pointed out, a United Nations special report last week makes Israel’s responsibilities clear:
“Morally and legally, differential access to necessary health care amid the worst global health crisis in a century is unacceptable…
‘The denial of an equal access to health care, such as on the basis of ethnicity or race, is discriminatory and unlawful”
This is junk journalism TVNZ – would you tell the same story if it were Jews being denied vaccinations?
Stop repeating racist lies – shame on you!
Population of UK = roughly 67 million. Population of Israel = roughly 9 million. According to the BBC, Israel began vaccinations on 19 December and is delivering about 150,000 per day. The UK started around December 8th, though that was before their big push, and they now sit at about 400,000 per day.
Seriously, journalism in this country is the pits. You can bet if someone tried that trick with their salaries they’d notice.
I hope a complaint to TVNZ is being made!
You could base a complaint on Standard 6, Discrimination and Denigration: for the level of the broadcaster’s absence or misuse of editorial control in the article. It’s pretty clear they are deliberately over stating and misleading with visuals in support of a racial preference. Their counter would make use of the same flaw in hate speech laws – in that hate isn’t always loud and overt. They were just presenting numbers, they’d say. Why Israel and not Spain? Well, why Spain and not Israel, they’d say. Whether or not someone sees what they’re doing depends on the individual, and the measure is mostly for someone standing up and shouting “I HATE THOSE FOLKS THEY SUCK” etc etc. However, since The Herald dropped a cartoonist for what appears to be views against Israel, we could say that a major newspaper acting on such an idea would support the view that the cultural environment in NZ is commonly known to be predominantly pro-Israel, no matter the details of each incident of dispute, therefore the discrimination has occurred because that well known trend was not taken into account by the editorial team. That style of complaint would be fun to watch being argued, even if it was dismissed.
You would most definitely have them on Standard 8, Balance. It breaks almost all the guidelines for that. You’d also have them on several of the guidelines in Standard 9, Accuracy. Amusingly, Accuracy and Balance can be dismissed if it can be said that the article was opinion, comment, or analysis – and not portrayed as fact. It might hinge on what the expectations of the general audience was, which makes the whole thing just a whim of whoever makes decisions at the Broadcasting Standards Authority.
Welcome to our world on the right hand side of politics!!! Despite their left wing bias, most MSM are more importantly lazy and feckless. Cut and paste from social media is soooo much easier than doing some research.
Come on Frankie you know damn well MSM and most media outlets favour centre right politics., Hosking, Plunkett, Du Plesis Allan, John Banks, Duncan Garner, Peter William’s, N Z Herald, etc etc.
Point in case…
“A number of former employees have told Stuff, Magic lurched hard to the right to consolidate a more conservative older audience and to outflank rival NewstalkZB.”
TVNZ is to real news reporting as Josef Stalin was to kindness and compassion… This mediocre rabble owes their career success to kissing up to the colonial power base.. To tell the truth is death to their future. It’s times like this that I’m thankful I don’t own a tv… I couldn’t deal with the disgust and loathing these cretins stir in me…
Erm I know it doesn’t fit the narrative but….
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/palestinians-give-first-vaccines-after-israel-shares-supply-palestinians-israel-palestinian-authority-official-vaccines-b1796472.html
Whose narrative you are envisaging Iain H? To clarify, the Palestinian population has so far received some 2000 or 5000 vaccines, depending on who is reporting. There are two parts of the report you have linked to that are salient. The first is, “Even if those deliveries materialize….” which is a massive qualifier. The final sentence of the same paragraph says, “Israel is on track to vaccinate its entire adult population by the end of March.” This does not include Palestinians, only what Israel regards as ‘its adult population’.
To clarify, 2 -5000 people will receive the first injection, possibly of the two being required to be effective. The remainder of the 4.5 million Palestinians in the occupied territories might receive vaccines but this will be at the discretion of the Israeli Government even if they are provided by non-Israeli Government sources.
Awesome aom!! Thanks for keeping us up to date on the actual truth!
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