Journalist found guilty of throwing rocks, interfering with security forces
Journalist Joseph Dana, known in the Twitterverse as @IbnEzra, has been found guilty of
interfering with the security forces in the course of carrying out their duties for throwing rocks during a demonstration at Nebi Salah in October 2010 (link in Hebrew).
On October 24, 2010, there as a demonstration of 'Palestinians,' 'internationals' and Israelis in Nebi Saleh in Samaria. One of the policemen saw Dana and someone named Yuval Oron throwing stones at the security forces. The two were arrested half an hour later for activity designed to prevent the police from fulfilling their legal duties, for participating in an illegal demonstration in a manner that disturbed the peace and instilled fear in the public.
Dana claimed that he had not thrown stones and that he was in the area due to his occupation as a 'journalist.' He claimed that he arrived fifteen minutes before he was arrested from Naalin, where he had reported on his Twitter account. Therefore, he claimed that he could not have been throwing stones half an hour before he was arrested.
Dana tried to get himself released by claiming that he was a journalist.
The judge did not accept his story and believed the police instead. The judge cited a text message from anarchist Jonathan Pollack to Dana that placed both of them in Nebi Salah when the stones were thrown. She also rejected Dana's claim that he was acting as a journalist, citing the fact that there was no article or recording of Dana engaged in journalism that day.
Heh.
Labels: crime, Jewish anti-Semitism, Joseph Dana, moonbats
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Look who's promoting tourism to Israel
Who'd a thunk it? BDS'er
Joseph Dana is promoting tourism to Israel... via
+972 magazine....
But it seems Dana has apparently “sold out” – by writing an EasyJet mag
article promoting tourism & business in Israel (from p52-53).
A serious crime for a BDShole to be sure, brought to our attention by Electronic Intifada’s Asa Winstanley.
Winstanley's tweets
must be seen to be believed.
By the way, for those who aren't flying EasyJet this month, Dana's article is
here.
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
Labels: BDS, Joseph Dana, Tel Aviv
Heh....
Remember the bizarre Joseph Dana (known as Ibn Ezra) whom I followed on Twitter during the
flotilla of fools, and who eventually
blocked me?
Remember Max Blumenthal, the Leftist blogger who makes
'Palestinian' propaganda films?
Well, I'd like you to meet
Ibn Blumenthal.
Heh.
And while I'm at it, you can follow me on Twitter
here.
Labels: Ibn Blumenthal, Joseph Dana, Max Blumenthal, Twitter
Blocked!
During the past week, I noticed one day that the number of people I follow on Twitter dropped by one.
On Sunday morning, I went to unfollow a couple of people whom I followed for the past couple of weeks for information on the flotilla of fools, and discovered that I was no longer following Joseph Dana (also known as @ibnezra). When I tried to refollow him, I was told to log out and try again. Translation: He blocked me.
It's tough to hear the truth, isn't it Mr. Dana?
Labels: flotilla of fools, Joseph Dana
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
