ALGEMEINER
by Staff
May 14, 2015

Israeli-Canadian journalist Matti Friedman expanded on his recent criticism on Facebook of a report by Israeli nongovernmental organization Breaking the Silence about the conduct of Israeli troops during last summer’s war in Gaza. Friedman called the report “propaganda,” and questioned the group’s integrity of mission and motives. “The activists from Breaking the Silence aren’t journalists, and their report is not intended to explain, but to shock,” he wrote in an article published by the Jewish-interest magazine Mosaic. “It’s propaganda.” Friedman — whose recent claim to fame was an article he penned damning the Western media’s obsession with its Israeli-Palestinian conflict narrative that went viral— questioned the integrity of Breaking the Silence’s mission statement. READ MORE