Sky News reporter Mark Stone It has become viralThe confrontation with Ted Cruz (R.TX), in which Stone tried to humiliate Cruz by refusing to support mass gun control (so much like the ones back in Europe) took place this week. The confrontation was broadcast on ABC, NBC and CNN. Stone trashing. “American exceptionalism” As “so awful.”
While he’s been lionized on the broadcast networks back here in the U.S., these American outlets have kept viewers in the dark on how he’s anything but a straight reporter who hates the Second Amendment, but one with an anti-Israel problem.
Stone was charged with anti-Semitism on the 8th of June 2021 after he responded to a question by someone who believed biased media coverage had led to an increase in anti-Israeli sentiments. “Jew hatred in the U.K.”:
I’m so sorry your children have to hide. Unacceptable. It’s interesting that so many *Israelis* tell me that the ‘Jew hatred’ you experience is actually the consequences of the current Israeli government’s policies; their prolongation of an untenable occupation.
Jewish News Syndicate that Stone’s take “angered many Twitter users,” which led him to insist he was merely summarizing what others had told him. The Jewish Chronicle Also wrote soon after that his tweet “appears to contravene the [International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s] definition of antisemitism.”
These are their Definition? “[H]olding Jews collectively responsible for the actions of the state of Israel.”
David Collier, British-Israeli Political Scientist had a deep dive a month earlier on May 19, 2021 that called Sky News’s reporting from the Middle East “shameful” with “Stone…leading the charge over the cliff” to ignore the importatance “contextualiz[ing]” and “professionalism.”
In reaction to calls from Palestinian leaders for “a ‘Day of Rage,’” protesters and terrorists were met with swift resistance from Israeli military and police forces, but that didn’t sit well with Stone: “I saw a lot more instances of entirely unnecessary, provocative behavior by Israeli police/military today.”
Collier later added (click “expand”):
He has become an unfocused rant in his posts, and is now confined to retweeting well-known hard-left antisionist activists like Mairav Zonzsein and Daniel Seidemann. Stone even recently retweeted Chris Doyle from the anti-Israel propaganda non-governmental organization, CAABU. There are no ‘balancing’ tweets on Stone’s timeline, no centre-right or centre-left commentators. This places Stone’s personal choice of political bedfellows as being akin to those who speak at anti-Israel campus events.
Social media is a great way to see the individual choice made by the reporter. This is what Mark Stone *chose to share* with his followers.
Mark Stone made 12 Facebook posts regarding the conflict. There were three sky news reports that covered both sides. These were nine other reports:
- Gaza has killed approximately 2,000 children
- Gaza: The family tragedy
- This is about a Palestinian activist who served time in prison
- Talk with Gaza producer
- The UN Security Call for an End to Violence
- Speak with a Palestinian demonstrator
- The tragedy of a Gaza Family
- The destruction of Gaza
- Jerusalem violence: Report
These posts all lean in one direction. Stone did not post a single FB status that was focused solely on Israelis’ suffering, their children in bunkers and the deaths of civilians. It was *ALL* about the suffering of Palestinians. 100%.
Stone also conducted a sexy interview in May 2021 with Mahmoud Zhar, co-founder Hamas. He stated that Israel is his country. Does not have the right to exist. Just prior to sitting down with Stone, Zahar demanded Arab countries question the Holocaust because it wasn’t that “extraordinary” since European countries have, in the words of Memri TV summarizing his thoughts, “deported the Jews and killed them, and that they did so because Jews spread corruption.”
So while Stone has been swooned over by some of his comrades and worshiped by far-left Twitter as some sort of real journalist, a closer review would have shown he’s no more of a journalist than CBS News abortion reporter-turned-Planned Parenthood spokesperson Kate Smith.
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