Last week Britain’s National Union of Journalists voted to “stand in solidarity” with the Palestinians and boycott Israeli products.

Today comes word that the journalists’ objects of affection may have murdered kidnapped BBC reporter Alan Johnston.

I guess the feeding the Tiger strategy might not be working.

How arrogent and naive some of these leftie journos are. They think that because they have lived among these people and sympathise with them that it will make them immune from the islamofacist desire to kill infidels. Time to wake up.

1. (Jock MacSprog) What a sad and insensitive comment!

Irfan Arif, where was your outrage and sympathy when all the hundreds of others including Israelis were taken hostage and executed in the most barbaric ways ?

What an ordeal for his parents. What a great shame if this turns out to be true. I hope he is alive and will be released soon. Let's all hope for that. Let's all demand that.

"A previously unknown Palestinian group, The Brigades of Tawheed and Jihad"

Interesting.

What took you so long Dragomir ? The Jews did it conspiracy theorist have been out for days mate.

It didn't take long. In fact, it didn't take any time at all. Reactions to the rumored death of BBC correspondent Alan Johnston are already rolling in. ITN correspondent Alan Hart says in his blog:

There is a case for saying (repeat a case) that the party with most to gain from Alan Johnston's permanent disappearance was Israel. It would not be the first time that Israeli agents had dressed as Arabs to make a hit.

If Alan Johnston is dead, it's my hope that the BBC at executive management level will rise above its fear of offending Zionism too much and allow its reporters (Frank Gardner and Jeremy Bowen are second to none) to make a full, thorough and honest investigation.

Melanie Phillips, for one, is totally unsurprised by the unvarying reaction of British journalism to anything, even the death of one of their own.

Those who might have doubted that the British media is in general institutionally incapable of reporting the truth about Israel might note the weekend’s remarkable vote by the National Union of Journalists to boycott Israel.

The reason given for the NUJ's boycott is the "slaughter of civilians by Israeli troops in Gaza and the IDF’s [Israeli Defense Forces] continued attacks inside Lebanon following the defeat of its army by Hezbollah." No mention of Johnson by the NUJ of course, and probably none until Frank Gardner finishes investigating whether or not the BBC correspondent was kidnapped by the Jews. Phillips continues:

Incredibly, it appears not to realise that Israel is no longer occupying Gaza. It withdrew in 2005, with members of the NUJ actually reporting that seismic event. There is no ‘slaughter of civilians’ in Gaza by Israeli troops. The slaughter that is going on in Gaza — including the recent murder of small Palestinian children by Palestinian gunmen as part of the vicious intra-Palestini

Even after Robert Fisk was beaten within an inch of his life by his "friends" in Afghanistan. And even supposing that another tragedy has taken place, the reaction among journalists will be denial. It can't be true that their friends want to kill them. There must be some mistake. Surely Israel must be behind it. The Jew, that's it. The Jew. Just like the Jew was behind 9/11.

No it can't be true that they've completely misidentified the good and bad guys or else their little tidy journalistic world will fall apart and they will realize they have been living a lie; or worse, have been taken for for fools. Let's hope Alan Johnston is still alive, that he can be returned to his loved ones. Anyone who has him should realize there is no propaganda point to killing him; not by Palestine, not by al-Qaeda not by Israel. His death sends no message. People have long ago made up their minds about everything there is to choose from in the Middle East and are waiting, depending on their inclination, for a new Caliphate, the Madhi or the Mothership to arrive. Communication has long been at an end. The wire has been cut for years. Whoever has him should send Johnston home

Many people here have this view: "We have no right to project our values on a people with as different a system of beliefs as the Muslims. We therefore should not criticize them, no matter what they do." When I ask my friends if that means they would not criticize a terrorist for executing their daughter, they say something along the lines of "how many of their daughters have been executed?". As for passing judgement on Jews while leaving Arabs un-examined (after all, aren't Jews from a different culture?), the response is "the Jews have powerful friends", implicating support by the US is reason to condone killing of Jewish civilians. As if the support of one billion Muslims for the Palestinians is not powerful friends? Does that mean it is OK to kill Palestinian civilians?

So long as this dogma predominates, whereby all things done by Arabs are always justified, how can anyone expect any change for the better?

If you truly care about innocent Arabs, including those executed by Arab terrorists, or by their own governments for crimes such as blasphemy or adultery, don't you actually have to criticize the terrorists and the governments? Is condoning these acts really in the best interest of the innocent Arabs, or is it in the best interest of the criminals who do these things, and in the best interest of those who would like to divert the anger of these criminals away from themselves, and toward Americans and Jews?

Is the reporters union brave for taking a stand against Israel as they would have you believe, or cowards for not ever, ever calling the Arabs to answer for their atrocities?