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Source: https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-724610
When Antisemites Sue the Jews: Lessons for Al Jazeera
(Jerusalem Post) Rafael Medoff - The Al Jazeera media network has filed suit against Israel over the accidental shooting of its reporter, Shireen Abu Akleh, last May. The lawsuit filed in the International Criminal Court (ICC) could shine an embarrassing spotlight on the network itself. Al Jazeera is "a major exporter of hateful content against the Jewish people, Israel, and the United States," according to the Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Al Jazeera "has sought to cast doubt upon the Nazi genocide of the Jewish people" (referring to it as "the alleged Holocaust") and "routinely glorifies violence against Israeli Jews." Al Jazeera also has a record of "providing a platform to all manner of virulent anti-Israel and even antisemitic extremists" in its commentary sections. The writer is founding director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies.