Tag: "AFP"

A veiled Palestinian girl uses a catapult to throw stones at Israeli soldiers during a weekly demonstration against the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements on village lands in the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh, near Ramallah, on January 6, 2012.  ABBAS MOMANI/AFP/Getty Images

Interesting Caption of The Day

One AFP caption writer has been caught asleep at the wheel

A Palestinian school girl is stands near a camel at the only small amusement park of the Gaza strip, in Gaza City, on March 29, 2011. THOMAS COEX/AFP/Getty Images

Caption Bias Of The Day

I have regularly noted that Gaza is far from being the “concentration camp” or “open air prison” that some people claim it is. As part of my proof, I have posted photos of the facilities in Gaza. Facilities that include an amusement park.

Not to fear! A certain AFP caption writer has found a way to deal with this inconvenient fact.

Guess The Caption

Guess The Caption

Can you guess which of these is the caption AFP chose to run with the photo?

Palestinians pass through a security checkpoint at the Bethlehem checkpoint in the West Bank (AFP/File/Musa al-Shaer)

“Subtle” Media Bias of the Day

No prizes for guessing what AFP stringer Musa al-Shaer is trying to achieve with this photo.

A Star of David and the name of the Israeli settlement of Shilo written in Hebrew are seen on a Palestinian farmer field vandalized by Israel settlers on January 12, 2011in the northern West Bank village of Qariot, near Nablus. ASHTIYEH/AFP/Getty Images

AFP Has a Field Day Blaming the Jooos

The Jewish version of crop circles appear in a field, and the AFP is there to lay the blame.

Needless to say, it is not at the feet of aliens.

A photographer take photos of Palestinian youth using a slingshot during minor clashes which erupt in the East Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood on December 26, 2010, as Israeli police increased security in the area to avoid clashes following a municipality order to evict a Palestinian family from their house. AHMAD GHARABLI/AFP/Getty Images

A Minor Clash

Why are my spidey senses telling me that by “minor” clash, the AFP caption writer does not mean “a clash initiated by minors”?

Israeli settlers express their anger in front of Israeli policemen after a settlers car was ambushed by Palestinian gunmen next to Kiryat Arba settlement  in the southern West Bank. Four Israelis, including a pregnant woman, were gunned down in the West Bank in what Israel called a "terrorist attack" on Tuesday. (AFP)

AFP = A**holes For Palestinians?

AFP doesn’t let a terrorist attack get in the way of some anti-Israel bias.

Gaza protest : Palestinian women attend a protest inside the Red Cross Offices in Gaza City calling for the release of Palestinian prisoners from Israeli jails. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Cagey Tactics

The latest attempt by foreign press photographers to convey through their photos the Gaza-as-a-prison narrative.

The Day In Israel: Wednesday Aug 11th, 2010

The Day In Israel: Wednesday Aug 11th, 2010

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki “Banky” moon convened a panel investigating the IDF’s flotilla raid for the first time, with his spokesperson not ruling out the questioning of IDF soldiers, something to which Israel is firmly opposed.

Sami "Forni" Khater

The Day In Israel: Sunday Aug 8th, 2010

A Hamashole spokesperson has denied they were behind last week’s rocket on Eilar and Aqaba.

But he thinks he knows who was.