Petition demands MSNBC fire reporter after misleading report on Jerusalem terror attack

[shira]

A petition calling for the firing of MSNBC reporter Ayman Mohyeldin, who came under fire after suggesting Israeli police shot and killed an unarmed Palestinian man in a stabbing attack in Jerusalem last week, had garnered over 13,000 signatures by Tuesday. The petition was started over the weekend.

Bassel Sidar was shot dead outside of the Old City’s Damascus Gate in a failed stabbing attack. Border Police in the area identified a suspicious looking Arab man, a 19-year-old Hebron resident, wearing camouflaged clothing, sitting by the east Jerusalem gate’s entrance. When police asked to search Sidar, for a weapon, he withdrew a knife from his pocket and charged the officers.

Mohyeldin, who was reporting live from near the Damascus gate, stated that he hadn't seen any stabbing attempt. “He did not look to be particularly armed. Again, that was confirmed by the fact that the police ultimately removed his clothes,” the reporter added. “The police didn’t find any explosive devices on him. I was trying to keep an eye to see if they were taking anything off of his body perhaps. If they took a gun…there was no gun that was visible. At one point, we can clearly see from where we were standing, from where his body was lying, his hands were open and both of his hands did not have knife,” he added.

Anchor Jose Diaz-Balart interrupted Mohyeldin as a picture flashed on screen of the terrorist and said, "But in the video that we have that you have… we can clearly see the man in camouflage t-shirt and pants with what appears to be at least in his right hand, a knife." The picture featured a man matching the description of the terrorist holding a five inch black blade in his right hand, walking down the stairs....

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Petition-demands-MSNBC-fire-reporter-after-misleading-report-on-Jerusalem-terror-attack-427423

[Chemisse]

1. He probably should be fired.

If he can't keep his bias from affecting how he performs his job, he should be out.

[azurnoir]

2. He's been on somes list since he witnessed the killing of 4 children on a Gaza beach by IDF in 2014

2014 Israel–Gaza conflict
On July 16, 2014, Mohyeldin witnessed and reported via a series of tweets, the death of 4 Palestinian children who were playing soccer and hide-and-seek on a Gaza beach during the 2014 conflict.[12] The first missile killed one child and the second killed the other 3. The killings were witnessed by many in the international press. Just moments earlier Mohyeldin was kicking a soccer ball with these boys in front of his hotel. The attack happened as a result of Hamas using the beach as a location to launch missiles at Israel[13][14]

Although Mohyeldin was a live witness to the event,[15] NBC correspondent Richard Engel reported the story from Tel Aviv. NBC followed by pulling Mohyeldin from Gaza and terminating his reporting duties from Gaza indefinitely. Engel was sent to replace him in Gaza.[16] NBC has been subsequently criticized by independent media outlets for removing Mohyeldin. NBC has not explained its actions[17] and reasons for pulling Mohyeldin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayman_Mohyeldin

he also reported extensively on the Egyptian revolution while working for al Jazeera in 2011

also you aware Israeli security killed a Mizrahi Jew thinking he was a Palestinian and claimed he had tried to grab one of the officers guns, well until the victims actual ethnicity was revealed in any event ?

[Chemisse]

3. I remember all that. Awful that he went through that, and disturbing how it was handled.

But in the video here he maintains the man was unarmed, until this point:

Anchor Jose Diaz-Balart interrupted Mohyeldin as a picture flashed on screen of the terrorist and said, "But in the video that we have that you have… we can clearly see the man in camouflage t-shirt and pants with what appears to be at least in his right hand, a knife."

The picture featured a man matching the description of the terrorist holding a five inch black blade in his right hand, walking down the stairs.

Mohyeldin immediately backtracked on his statement, saying, "The point I was trying to make was that when they flipped the body over... it was at that point that his hands were empty."

[azurnoir]

4. yes he did correct himself end of story IMO

[Chemisse]

5. It's just hard to see how that was just a mistake.

Saying that a man wielding a knife was unarmed, and going on and on about how they killed an unarmed man, is not just an error.

However, we don't know what it is like to be in the midst of such violence. After witnessing this - probably over the course of just a few seconds - he may have been convinced the man was unarmed, and reported such. Then, instead of an 'oops' moment when the knife was pointed out to him, he may have tried to cover up his mistake by pretending he was making a different point. If this is true, he would've been a whole lot more credible had he admitted he totally missed seeing the knife.

[azurnoir]

6. I suppose, oh and where was the knife BTW?

[Chemisse]

7. In the guy's hand in the picture.

Who knows what became of it afterward.

[azurnoir]

8. "what appeared to be a knife" was in the picture no knife was found on the body

oddly no picture is in the article

[Chemisse]

10. If you run the video in the article, it shows the picture. n/t

[azurnoir]

11. and it is clearly and unmistakably a knife? nothing else it could possibly be?

you see in the current situation all any Israeli has to do is claim he/she has what looked like a knife and any Palestinian man woman or child can be killed with no consequence

[Chemisse]

12. I'm not going to argue with you about it.

It looks like a knife and that the reporter made a mistake. If it was intentional, he should be fired. If it wasn't, he should explain himself. His career is clearly on the line over this.

[azurnoir]

13. his career is on the line, really, he Already explained himself end of story

except for some apparently

[King_David]

23. Not the end of the story by a long shot...

Just wait and see....

I bet he's contemplating a career change and probably negotiating a settlement.

[shira]

28. How pathetic. Of course it was a knife. There are photos & video of it..

How do you know that no knife was found on the body?

[azurnoir]

32. you mean like this?

[rjsquirrel]

9. Ooooooh 13,000

The population of a small town full of bigots.

I'm sure NBC News is quaking in fear.

The bullies always go after the messenger.

[grossproffit]

14. The 'messenger' is a liar.

[rjsquirrel]

16. That's what they say

about anyone who does criticize Israeli policy.

Yet the lies continue from your side without stop.

I just wrote MSNBC in support.

[grossproffit]

18. No, that's what the footage says.

[King_David]

24. Thanks you motivated me to write a letter demanding they end his career

Pronto

[grossproffit]

27. +1

[R. Daneel Olivaw]

15. How many of those 13,000 signatures have come from the illegal Israeli colonies in Palestine?

Inquiring minds want to know.

[rjsquirrel]

17. Or were otherwise bought

And paid for.

It's a pathetic number. Because no one really sees it as important

And as if petitions meant anything these days, but if they did 13,000 ain't shit for signatures.

[grossproffit]

19. It's 28,000.

Are there even that many viewers?

[azurnoir]

31. where it's been since early last week

seems like maybe the regular readership of the rightwing publication the Free Beacon perhaps ?

[rjsquirrel]

20. It's called the business cycle

And doomsayers are gonna doomsay, and be right once in a while but always wrong in the longer term.

Actually the markets are up 4% in the last couple of weeks on very good employment, inflation, profit, and productivity numbers for the US economy.


Remember some people get rich warning you you'll go broke. And that's left and right --both have ignorant and fearful elements. Listen to Thom Hartmann or Michael Savage and you'll hear them pitch different versions of the same paranoid fantasy, because gold ripoff schemes are their advertising bread and butter.

I bought stocks like crazy in Aug and September. It was a damn fire sale. I've made a nice hit, covered my cost basis, and made a nice dent in the kid's tuition bill. But by all means keep believing the sky's falling ANY DAY NOW! I'd love to get some more $108 a share Apple stock.

[grossproffit]

21. Uh huh. Fascinating...

wrong topic?

[oberliner]

22. Not many

Looks like most are from the US.

[King_David]

25. LOL

[Scurrilous]

26. I'd rather MSNBC fire Jose Diaz-Balart.

Father Rafael Lincoln Díaz-Balart y Gutiérrez: Gusano @#$% (expired)

Brother Lincoln Rafael Díaz-Balart y Caballero: Republican POS (ret.)

Brother Mario Rafael Díaz-Balart Caballero: Republican POS (active)

Uncle Fidel (The Beard) Castro: Axis of Evil, Outpost of Tyranny (ret.)*

I rest my case.


* we've got something for everybody

[shira]

29. Moyheldin's other lies...

During Operation Protective Edge last year, NBC pulled Mohyeldin out of Gaza after he sarcastically accused Israel of killing four teens in a Facebook post, writing: “The #US State Department Spokesperson just said that #Hamas is ultimately responsible for #Israel shelling and killing 4 boys who were cousins aged 9-11 because Hamas didn’t accept the #ceasefire. Discuss among yourselves.”

He was later sent back to Gaza, where he reported that an Israel drone had struck a hospital. NBC was forced to delete a portion of his report in which he claimed that he had seen an Israeli drone fire at the hospital. An Italian journalist who had actually witnessed the attack confirmed that Hamas, not Israeli forces, had been responsible for the rocket strike that destroyed the hospital.

http://www.thetower.org/2444-anti-israel-msnbc-reporter-said-terrorist-didnt-have-knife-while-video-showed-that-he-did/

Moyheldin also denies Hamas used human shields. Here's video...
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2014/07/15/nbc-reporter-acts-hamas-spokesman-denies-terror-group-uses-civilians-h

[King_David]

30. He's a real POS this guy...

Fire his ass.