Sky News Cuts Part of Interview with Jerusalem Deputy Mayor

In the unaired segment, Fleur Hassan-Nahoum explained why Hamas is committing war crimes and Israel is practicing self defense.

By: JNS.org

Britain’s Sky News TV channel chose not to air a segment of an interview with Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahoum in which she defended Israel’s actions in Gaza against Hamas.

“For some reason @SkyNews took down this part of my interview shortly after they shared it. I wonder why? Thank God for screen recording #hamascommitsgenocide,” Hassan-Nahoum tweeted on Tuesday.

In the unaired segment, the interviewer cited comments from Jordan’s foreign minister who claimed that some of Israel’s actions in Gaza could be “tantamount to genocide.”

“Well, he obviously hasn’t looked at the law books. International law, first of all, obligates a country to defend itself from a massacre,” Hassan-Nahoum, a U.K.-trained lawyer, responded.

“There’s no genocide going on. Israel is basically waging a war that it was forced into by the massacre of Oct. 7. We are there to eliminate the infrastructure of Hamas, which has inculcated itself within the civilian population in order to use the civilian population to protect themselves. And so, if anybody’s committing a war crime here, a double war crime, it is Hamas and not Israel,” she remarked.

BBC editor on false report: “I don’t regret one thing”

BBC international editor Jeremy Bowen said that he has no regrets about falsely reporting last month that a hospital in Gaza was destroyed in a blast, which the BBC initially speculated was caused by an Israeli strike.

It was later determined that a failed Palestinian Islamic Jihad rocket launch caused the blast, which hit the parking lot next to the Al-Ahli Hospital, leaving the building standing.

Bowen admitted that he misled viewers by saying that the hospital was “flattened” in his reporting. “Oh yeah, well I got that wrong,” he said during an interview on the British public broadcaster that aired on Saturday.

In other news, JNS also reported that Benny Gantz, leader of the Blue and White Party in the Knesset and a minister without portfolio in Israel’s special “War Cabinet” hosted a delegation of people from AIPAC (the America Israel Public Affairs Committee) in Jerusalem on Tuesday.

“As an outspoken leader of his community,” said Gantz, “Michael’s home was targeted and vandalized on Thanksgiving Eve in an unacceptable hate crime.”

“Facing an alarming rise in antisemitism globally and bigotry towards the one and only Jewish state,” he added, “we must all act to protect Jewish communities around the world.”

Benny Gantz is a former chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces and a former Israeli defense minister.

In yet other news, JNS also reported that a day after anti-Israel protesters gathered for the eighth week in a row in London demanding a full ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, tens of thousands of supporters of the Jewish state took to the streets in the capital on Sunday to protest rising anti-Semitism.

Organizers said the crowd numbered about 60,000—the largest demonstration against anti-Semitism in London since the 1936, anti-fascist “Battle of Cable Street.” London’s Metropolitan Police said about 50,000 people attended—some 5,000 more than it said took part in the previous day’s demonstration in support of Palestinians.

As the United Kingdom has witnessed a surge in anti-Semitism since Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks on Israel, demonstrators waved Israeli and British flags. Former Prime Minister Boris Johnson was one of several former and current senior UK officials. Many attendees brandished posters declaring “Zero tolerance for anti-Semitism.”

(JNS.org)