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Washington Post Muslim Reporter: Was Hamas Expected to Turn the Other Cheek?

Posted By Daniel Greenfield On July 22, 2014 @ 1:31 pm In The Point | 35 Comments

Britain Eakin is a fanatical Muslim convert who obsessively hates Israel.

Tim Graham of Newsbusters and others helped get results when the Washington Post sent out a militantly anti-Israel reporter to cover an anti-Israel rally… with the expected results.

The lead reporter on Monday’s Washington Post story on Palestinian protests is Britain Eakin, whose Twitter bio reads “Graduate Student Extraordinaire in Journalism and Middle East Studies at UA, Tucson.”

Eakin is in no way a neutral observer of the Israel-Palestine conflict. As she’s reporting “objectively” for the Post, she’s tweeting out an editorial she’d written defending the Palestinians against “Israel’s disproportionate war on Gaza”  for al-Jazeera America:

Britain Eakin has also written for Counter Punch which ran an actual blood libel aimed at Jews.

The Washington Post, rather than taking down Eakin’s rant, put up an apologetic note.

EDITOR’S NOTE: The Post covered a protest outside the State Department on July 20 against U.S. policy in the Middle East and Israel’s actions in Gaza. One reporter sent to cover the protest, Britain Eakin, is an intern who has written opinion pieces elsewhere that sharply criticize Israel in the conflict. The Post should not have sent her to cover the protest and, had it known of her writings, would not have done so.

The Post might have some basis for that.

Britain Eakin’s Facebook page looks clean and credible, while her Twitter account is a seething mass of hate. Fellow WaPoers who had friended her on Facebook might not have known exactly what she was.

But then again they might have known.

Meanwhile Britain Eakin was tweeting stories with titles like “Was Hamas Expected to Turn the Other Cheek?”

This was clearly a point of view that she agreed with.

On the hate site Counterpunch, Britain Eakin wrote that, “Israel is an oppressive and occupying power; it can’t in good faith claim self-defense.”

This was her work at around the same time as she was supposed to be practicing journalism for the Washington Post.

And this was Eakin’s response to the death of Osama bin Laden

Not only is Muslim terrorism against Israel, Israel’s fault. But Muslim terrorism against America is, America’s fault.


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