Al-Jazeera's "Israel 'biggest winner' of holocaust" video pulled

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Al Jazeera pulls video that links Zionism with Nazism & calls Israel 'biggest winner' of Holocaust
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An Al Jazeera video which accused Israel of exploiting the Holocaust to carry out a Nazi-like policy of "annihilation" against the Palestinians has been deleted following accusations of anti-Semitism.

Posted on the Arabic version of Al Jazeera's popular current events channel, AJ+, the short commentary video argued that while the Holocaust did in fact happen, the total number of Jews killed by the Nazis was "inflated by the Zionist movement" to create international support for the creation of Israel.

"The annihilation of any people because of their race, sex or religion is an unacceptable thing that deserves to be strongly denounced. Denouncing the Holocaust is a moral obligation," video's presenter, Muna Hawwa, said. "But Israel is the biggest winner from the Holocaust, and it uses the same Nazi justifications as a launching pad for the racial cleansing and annihilation of the Palestinians."

The video continued: "The main ideology of the 'State of Israel' is based on religious, national and geographic concepts that suckled from the Nazi spirit and its main notions."

Social media users lined up to condemn the video, with some claiming that the commentary reveals a side of Al Jazeera that most Westerners never see. A tweet comparing the incendiary, Arabic-language take on the Holocaust to how AJ+'s English channel presents the tragedy received more than 7,000 likes.

Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesperson Emmanuel Nahshon wrote on Twitter Saturday that the AJ+ video "is the worst kind of pernicious evil" and that Al Jazeera "brainwashes young people in the Arab world" and "perpetuates hatred of Israel and the Jews."

A spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described the video as "anti-Semitic" and accused Al Jazeera of "spreading lies" about the Holocaust and Israel in order to "incite the masses."

The network quickly pulled the video, claiming that it had been deleted because it "violated the editorial standards of the network." The commentary amassed 1.1 million views on Facebook and Twitter before it was taken down, according to Haaretz.

While many expressed outrage over the video, others used the opportunity to share memes about Qatar-funded Al Jazeera and its curious editorial policies.

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"Suspends."  Before long, jews will have truth-tellers "suspended" from meat hooks, or ropes.

Al Jazeera suspends journalists for Holocaust denial video
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-48335169

Al Jazeera has suspended two journalists over a video they produced that denied the facts of the Holocaust.

The Qatari state-funded broadcaster had published the video on its online AJ+ video service in Arabic.

During World War Two, six million Jewish people were systematically killed by the Nazis.

Al Jazeera's video said this number had been exaggerated and "adopted by the Zionist movement", and that Israel is the "biggest winner" from the genocide.

Its narrator also asked, "why is there a focus only on them?" - referring to the Jewish victims - before claiming that the community uses "financial resources [and] media institutions" to "put a special spotlight" on Jewish suffering.

How did people react to the video?
The video was published on the AJ+ Twitter and Facebook pages on Friday evening local time, with a caption asking: "What is the truth of the Holocaust and how did the Zionist movement benefit from it?"

It was posted in Arabic, but drew strong criticism after the US-based non-profit Middle East Media Research Institute (Memri) tweeted an English translation.

Questioning the number of Jewish victims killed, suggesting that Jewish people manipulate the media, and claiming that Jewish people or the State of Israel benefit from the Holocaust have been condemned as forms of anti-Semitism.

Emmanuel Nahshon, spokesman for Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said the video was "the worst kind of pernicious evil".

"That's how Al Jazeera brainwashes young people in the Arab world and perpetuates hatred of Israel and the Jews," he said. "Lies and evil propagated by the ideological descendants of 'Der Stürmer'."

Der Stürmer was an anti-Semitic Nazi propaganda publication.

Medhi Hasan, one of the broadcaster's most prominent journalists, said he was "glad to see Al Jazeera bosses taking disciplinary action" over the "ridiculously offensive and dumb video".

And some people noted the difference between the content published on Al Jazeera's Arabic pages, and its English language journalism.

What has Al Jazeera said?
In a statement released on Sunday evening, Al Jazeera said it had "swiftly deleted" the video, stating that it had "violated the editorial standards of the network".

"Al Jazeera stated today, that it has taken disciplinary action and suspended two of its journalists over video content produced on the Holocaust," it said.

The statement added that Al Jazeera "continues to adhere to the journalistic values of honesty, courage, fairness, balance, independence, credibility and diversity, giving no priority to commercial or political over professional consideration.

"In addition, the Network recognizes the diversity in societies with all races, cultures, beliefs and their values and intrinsic individualities."

Dr Yaser Bishr, executive director of the broadcaster's digital division, also said that he had called for "mandatory bias training and awareness programme".

AJ+ channels' managing director Dima Khatib added that the video "was produced without the due oversight".