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January 24, 2019

How Al Jazeera Dresses Up Its Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism for an English-Speaking Audience

Calling them “anti-imperialism” and “anti-Zionism.”

Sponsored by the government of Qatar, and sharing the emirate’s support for the Muslim Brotherhood, Al Jazeera has succeeded in gaining not only immense popularity among Arabic speakers but also respectability for its somewhat newer English-language television channel and website. To these, it has more recently added AJ+, a web-only news platform directed at younger audiences. Samantha Rose Mandeles explains how the naked anti-Semitism of the network’s Arabic-language channel is put into polite form for Anglophone audiences:

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