In 2001, she [Amira Hass] was found guilty in court of libel for presenting a false account of Hebron Jews kicking, spitting on and dancing around the corpse of a Palestinian shot by border police. Unfortunately for Hass, closed circuit television footage and a police investigation exposed her story as a lie, and she was ordered to pay 250,000 NIS in damages to the Jewish community.
CAMERA, Amira Hass Spouts Vitriol on the CBC, June 29, 2011
Leave it to Amira Hass and her special brand of sloppy journalism to promote her claim that throwing stones at Jews has now attained the level of an Arab "birthright" and "metaphor of resistance." In her article
The inner syntax of Palestinian stone-throwing, published by Haaretz (
also known for its shoddy reporting:
see CAMERA for a long list of Haaretz errors), Hass writes:
