Robert Fisk, one of the worst Israel-hating journalists in the history of Israel-hating journalists, has shuffled off this mortal coil.
You can see samples of his Israel-bashing here and here.
So bad was Fisk’s “journalism” that the blogosphere invented the term “fisking” – the process of shredding a written argument line-by-line – based on his name, given the constant need to do it to his lie-ridden work. Heck, I used it quite a few times over the years.
Fisk may be gone but fisking remains.
Update: When these folk applaud you…
One of Robert Fisk's great contributions was documenting the massacre of thousands of Palestinians by Israel and its proxies at Sabra and Shatila in 1982. He was among first on the scene. It took courage few journalists show todayhttps://t.co/TipnZsx8wUhttps://t.co/nKBfI640sn
— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) November 1, 2020
RIP Robert Fisk, one of the few honest Western chroniclers of the wars & intrigues imposed on the Middle East & sharpest critics of the absurd language pundits and politicians reflexively resorted to to paper over their colonial relationship w/ the region https://t.co/2T2DBHhnmc
— Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) November 1, 2020
Robert Fisk, veteran UK journalist, dies aged 74. One of the truly great Middle East journalists. https://t.co/lF8vcIWT5y
— Tikun Olam (@richards1052) November 2, 2020
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