
The Project’s outrageous anti-Israeli conspiracy mongering
Charles Pier, The Spectator Australia 6 August 2020
Waleed Aly and his pals at The Project have reached a new low, last night broadcasting a segment blaming the Beruit blast on Israel. Beirut-based photographer João Sousa was asked by Aly if the Lebanese government’s explanation the explosion was caused by ammonium nitrate was “widely accepted by people there”.
His response was pure conspiracy theorising: “Ninety-nine per cent of the people I’ve spoken with …feel that that’s not necessarily the correct explanation. People are more likely to believe that this was an attack, a military attack, possibly by Israel than an accident.”
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Former Labor MP calls popular Muslim TV host a FLAKE after pushing Israel conspiracy theory ,Beirut Bombing ….
The Project allows ‘ugly knee-jerk anti-Israel blame game’ in response to Beirut blast
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Sky News host Chris Kenny says a divisive, conspiratorial “knee-jerk anti-Israel blame game” was allowed to air unchallenged on Channel Ten’s The Project in the aftermath of the Beirut explosion. The death toll in Beirut has now risen to at least 175 people, with 5,000 or more injured after scores of ammonium nitrate exploded in a warehouse after a fire in the port capital of Lebanon. In its coverage of the disaster, The Project invited on a guest who insinuated the explosion may have been an attack emanating from Israel. “No evidence proffered, no qualification or distancing by The Project hosts, just a divisive, baseless, anti-Israel conspiracy theory floated,” Mr Kenny said. “Not on the dark web, not through some extreme-Right or extreme-Left anti-Israel group, but by a mainstream commercial television program. “This is the ugly sort of blame-shifting that fuels anti-semitism and fuels hatred in the Middle East. Television hosts and producers, if they are going to cover serious issues really ought to do better than this.” Mr Kenny spoke with former Labor MP Michael Danby on the issue.- More: https://bit.ly/30xPTcr Continue reading Wally Watch


























