1/3 Jewish Chronicle journalist Elon Perry wrote an article citing “intelligence sources” proving Netanyahu’s claims that Sinwar wants to smuggle hostages via the Philadelphi Corridor. The story is still on the JC website despite the IDF stating it’s false. An expose by @HazinorX pic.twitter.com/rEtPEaklyj
— Yachad UK (@YachadUK) September 11, 2024
3/3 This story has been widely covered in Israeli media and caused anger in the Israeli public, many of whom feel this is an attempt to strengthen Netanyahu’s opposition to a hostage and ceasefire deal.
You can also read about it here: https://t.co/Wk9u0ocQUX
— Yachad UK (@YachadUK) September 11, 2024
Oh. Jews lying and running fake news hoaxes.
Big shocker.
The Israel Defense Forces have launched an investigation into claims in the Israeli media that the London-based Jewish Chronicle published stories based on “fabricated intelligence” relating to Hamas, amid claims that they may have been planted as part of a disinformation campaign.
Among the most controversial claims published by the Jewish Chronicle, the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper, was the suggestion last week that the Hamas leader in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, might be preparing to flee to Iran with Israeli hostages, a suggestion that has also been made by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.
Ha?
The Jewish Chronicle article is one of several sensational reports that have been written in recent months by a writer bylined as Elon Perry, whose résumé claiming he has worked as a journalist, academic and served as an elite undercover soldier has also been questioned.
Checks by the Guardian have found no evidence of any record of significant stories published by Perry as a reporter in English or Hebrew, except for the recent series of articles in the Jewish Chronicle now alleged to be fabrications.
Most controversial was the story citing Israeli “intelligence sources” claiming that Sinwar, Hamas’s fugitive leader, intended to smuggle surviving hostages out of Gaza to Iran and accompany them, a story at first picked up by a number of Israeli outlets.
That is so stupid.
How the hell would they get out?
Asked about the claim, the IDF spokesperson Daniel Hagari said he was unaware of any intelligence that Sinwar planned to flee with the hostages.
The Jewish Chronicle’s report suggested that Netanyahu’s claim was based on the interrogation of a captured senior Hamas official as well as documents found at the same time as the discovery of the bodies of six Israeli hostages killed by Hamas in Gaza, claims denied by Israel officials.
Yeah, well. People say a lot of stuff under torture.
Most experts don’t tend to believe torture is useful as an interrogation technique because of the fact that people will just start making things up.
It is useful, however, if you want the victim to make things up. This happened with the Germans during the Holocaust trials – these people were just making up all sorts of goofy gibberish.
Within days a number of publications including the Israeli outlets Haaretz and Yedioth Ahronoth, and the Israeli-Palestinian website +972 were quoting their own security sources suggesting that the claims – and previous stories by Perry – appeared to be made up.
Israeli reporters and commentators have also pointed to the fact that the story in the Jewish Chronicle appeared to put flesh on the bones of claims made by Netanyahu only a day earlier to justify Israeli troops remaining in the Philadelphi corridor on the border with Egypt. He told a press conference that a military withdrawal meant Israel would not be able to stop Hamas smuggling hostages out of Gaza. “They disappear in the Sinai and then they end up in Iran or in Yemen. They’re gone for ever,” he said.
That in turn has led some in Israel to suggest that the story – and others – may have been planted to influence the domestic debate in Israel around the hostage negotiations.
There is no way Hamas could have possibly carried hostages through the Philadelphi. It’s just dumb.
I guess that’s why people called out this fake news hoax.
That said, fake news is a constant in wartime.
America is running all kinds of its own hoaxes about the Ukraine and Gaza.
Elon Perry: A statement https://t.co/2Qp9m8Z8jQ
— The Jewish Chronicle (@JewishChron) September 12, 2024