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Flotilla 'journalist' trying to organize intifada

If you follow any Leftists who write about Israel on Twitter, you have probably seen the name Ibn Ezra around. Ibn Ezra is the Twitter handle of Joseph Dana, who describes himself as an American Israeli who writes for the Nation, one of the most far Left journals in the United States. The real Ibn Ezra is probably rolling over in his grave.

On Monday morning, Israel Radio's Eran Cicurel outed Dana, as not a journalist but a 'community organizer,' and a pretty violent one at that. When Dana refused email requests to do an interview with Israel Radio (he claimed that he does not talk to Israel Radio because he was rudely treated by a female reporter), which was looking to interview a foreign journalist in Athens covering the flotilla, Cicurel did some digging and discovered that Dana is the Communications Director for the 'Coordinating Committee for the Popular Struggle.' That's the name of a group that is seeking to incite a third intifada, albeit one more on the model of the 'nonviolent' (only stones and Molotov cocktails thrown at moving cars) first intifada than on the more violent (suicide bombers) second intifada.

There are two things that are most amusing about this. First, Dana claims that he's committed to 'balanced reporting' on the flotilla. One look at his resume ought to convince you otherwise. Second, with everything else that Dana has tweeted about on his Twitter feed (including an al-Jazeera interview of which he's quite proud), his encounter with Israel Radio has not rated a mention.

For those of you who can read Hebrew, Cicurel has written up his story here. By the time you have read this, I will have held my nose and followed Dana on Twitter.

How many more 'journalists' are there on the flotilla who are really part of the provocation and not there to cover it? I'd bet there are a lot of them.

Labels: Eran Cicurel, flotilla of fools, freedom of the press, Israel Radio, Joseph Dana

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 3:30 PM