What's Going On at the M&G?

Two weeks ago I highlighted two articles on the AUT boycott that appeared in the British Guardian newspaper. The following week the local Mail & Guardian, in their usual partisan manner, only ran the Kasril's article, neglecting to include the Benji Pogrund counter argument.

The omission of the Pogrund response wasn't enough for the M&G; continuing their creeping normalisation of the utterly crazy they also included the following anti-Semitic cartoon alongside the Kasrils article. I didn't see the print edition and by the time I saw the online edition the M&G had already removed the offensive cartoon. My question is, why if the M&G deemed it inappropriate to keep the cartoon online, did they fail to print an apology on their website?

Oh Horrible! Ghastly! Evil! JOO

In what must have been a response to complaints the M&G ran the Pogrund article the following week, but by then the Kasrils article had already achieved its one sided propagandist effects. Still the M&G hotly pursued their attempts at bias - the Pogrund article appeared only in print; it did not appear on the M&G website. The Kasrils article in contrast, was headlined at the top of the website and was available for free; you did not even have to be a subscriber.

The M&G have done this in order to maximise the indoctrination of readers into their one sided, nakedly biased take on the Middle East conflict.

The cartoon could easily be substituted with an anti-Semitic cartoon found in a Nazi newspaper.  The cartoon portrays Jews as evil demonic hook nosed creatures that could only harbour the most evil of desires and intentions.

Comments

[gill]

Steven

I would love Mr. Kasrils to explain his euphoric memories of his time spent in Russia. His acceptance of the Berlin Wall is interesting, seeing his aversion to Israel's security fence. I wonder - when he was in exile there - if he wrote vitriolic letters to the newspapers condemning the conditions in Siberian prisons??

[Steve]

Great thought, most people are completely unaware of his support for the berlin wall.

[Spindoctor]

Who is Kasrils?

[gill]

Spindoctor

Ronnie Kasrils is the Minister of Intelligence in the S A government. He was in Russia during the apartheid era as an ANC member of repute in exile.
He is highly regarded for his fight against apartheid. This is worrying to me when I see his blindness to what is happening in Israel, because he of all people would know that far from practising apartheid.. Israel is open to all. It has the only Arab woman judge in the Middle East and many Israeli Arabs in the Knesset.

[Garth]

The relatively new M & G editor shows her bias on a weekly basis.