Interview: Khaled Abu Toameh

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Khaled Abu Toameh, 50, an award-winning Israeli journalist and documentary filmmaker, has reported on Arab affairs for three decades. He writes for The Jerusalem Post and the New York-based Gatestone Institute, a nonpartisan, not-for-profit international policy council and think tank, where he is a senior adviser. Since 1989, he also has been a producer and consultant for NBC News. He grew up in the Arab Israeli town of Baqa al-Gharbiyye near Haifa and studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He now lives in Jerusalem.

Q. What are the challenges of working as a journalist in the West Bank and Gaza?
A. Before the Oslo peace process began, Arab journalists had almost no problem traveling throughout the West Bank and Gaza, speaking freely with Palestinians. But ever since the Palestinian Authority came to the West Bank and Gaza, the situation has become much more challenging and dangerous. The P.A. expects you to serve as an official spokesperson and avoid criticism of its leaders.

With Hamas in power in Gaza, it’s become even more dangerous for independent Arab journalists. Because of the BDS [boycott, divestment and sanctions] movement against Israel, journalists representing the Israeli media, like myself, face not only difficulties but threats and even physical violence when we go to Ramallah. The P.A. leadership in the West Bank promotes BDS against Israel and also fights normalization with Israel. It bans meetings between Palestinians and Israelis and condemns the Israeli media as extremely hostile, which makes it impossible to work there and endangers our lives.

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1. This is from the same people behind the anus gay terror hoax...

Researcher Raymond Ibrahim at right-wing think tank the Gatestone Institute wrote that it is common practice for jihadists to conceal bombs in their anus in order to 'execute martyrdom operations'.

Ibrahim, a fellow at the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Center, says news footage from Arabic channel Fadak TV in 2010 was evidence of this bizarre form of terrorism.

He reported that a Sheikh called Abu al-Dema al-Qasab told 2009 'underwear bomber' Abdullah Hassan al-Asiri it was 'permitted' by Islam to hide explosives in his rectum if it was the goal of jihad [holy war].

However Gay Star News has learned that Ibrahim's report appears to be part of a hoax and a smear campaign by Shia Muslims opposed to Wahhabi Muslims

- See more at: http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/anus-gay-terror-video-hoax130712#sthash.ufdfPsib.dpuf

The Gatestone Institute also publishes the articles of Robert Spencer, leader of Stop the Islamicization of America, regarded as a hate group by the Anti-Defamation League. Abraham Foxman said of him "we must always be wary of those whose love for the Jewish people is born out of hatred of Muslims or Arabs."