As for The New York Times, the alleged paper of record carried the story on the blog section of its website but ignored it in its print edition.
Surprisingly, France’s Channel 2 barely reported on it. As Nidra Poller wrote in the May 27 international edition of The Wall Street Journal, “in a three second segment. France 2 implied that the report had, once again, been authenticated despite the acquittal of an – unnamed – defendant.”
Karsenty himself noted that in the days following the verdict, “the French media [gave] virtually no coverage to this incredible court decision which has far-reaching and universal implications for freedom of thought, expression, justice, and media responsibility. France 2 has been lying about the al-Dura affair for seven and a half years. They are still lying today.”
I would like to thank those mainstream media reporters and editors who have refused to cover this decision or to connect the dots and who remain unwilling to admit that they have consistently allowed themselves by the narrative of Palestinian Victimhood and Israeli Evil, facts be damned.
Their profound and reverberating silence should stiffen our spines for the long propaganda war ahead, forcing us to create and rely upon other non-mainstream media outlets.
Karsenty is writing a book and is involved in a film project about his seven-and-a-half year odyssey. In his view, “The next battle will be political. We will have to ask the French government to demand that the state-owned TV channel admit that the al-Dura news report was a fraud and issue a public apology for broadcasting a staged ‘killing’ and, therefore, an apology for being the party to a colossal historical hoax….”