Proche-orient.info

Proche-orient.info was a partially paying Web site of information held by the Middle East Info SA, specialized on the questions of the Middle East and directed by the journalist Elisabeth Schemla. The first closing is announced on June 30th, 2005, for “problems of financing”. October 1st, the site announces the reopening of the newspaper following a subscription test. Reopening is effective on January 5th, 2006.

In September 2006, and following an extraordinary general assembly of the shareholders on September 1st, a permanent closure is announced took effect on September 22nd, 2006, “because of economic difficulties”.

Description

The company of edition is born in January 2002. Set up on May 13rd, 2002, the drafting of the newspaper is composed, during the time going until June 2005, accredited journalists, like Ivan Levaï, Alexandre Adler, Sylvain Attal or Jean-Yves Camus.

Profiting from an important audience in the French-speaking community of Israel and the Jewish community of France, the site arrived to a frequentation about a few tens of thousands of daily connections at the time of big events of the topicality. One of the leading lines being the defense of the existence of Israel as a Jewish State, the site discusses various subjects like the European constitutional treaty, the return of the families of Palestinian refugees of 1948 under consideration like a suicide for Israel, the death of Yasser Arafat perceived like an opening for the payment of the israélo-Palestinian conflict or the French policy of fight against the anti-semitism considered to be insufficient. Its line is described as pro-Israeli by the Observatory of the communautarism. The daily newspaper intends as for him to give an opinion for the defense of the republican values in France and estimates to bring a vision balanced to the israélo-Palestinian conflict.

Proche-orient.info also published a daily press review of the principal newspapers and chains Arab, Israeli, French and Anglo-Saxon about the Middle East and of the Community disorders in France.

Controversies

the site Observatoire of the communautarism estimates that the site “gives body to are delirious of the extreme-right-hand side on the Jewish lobby”, quoting Elisabeth Schemla, in a leading article of February 25th, 2004 which sees emergence in France “of a Jewish Lobby with the full direction and sizeable of the term” which would be “being born and to structure itself” [http://proche-orient.info/xjournal_edito_chronique.php3?id_article=21851&mots_and=lobby&mots_or=&titre=&expression=]. In a right of reply, the interested party denies to be delighted by this report, estimating that she speaks as “an analyst who sees being born a lobby . ”

This site is condemned for slandering on Friday, March 25, 2005 to have allotted to Patrick Farbiaz, attache parliamentary of No5el Mamère, the expression “lives Hamas, Hamas will overcome”. June 20th, awaited lawsuit indicates that Patrick Farbiaz made the remarks in question well.

the site causes a controversy when he announces five days advances of it the death of Yasser Arafat, which will take place actually on November 11th, 2004. The site leaves at this period a stringcourse being pleased to be first Internet site to have announced the death of the Palestinian president.

During a press conference held in Algiers, on February 16th, 2005 Dieudonné supports that the way in which the memory is maintained Shoah concerns a “mémorielle pornography”, affirming to take again this expression of the writings of Idith Zertal. Showing the proche-orient.info site to have retranscribed its remarks in “Shoah is a mémorielle pornography”, expression which he denies to have employed, Dieudonné deposits against the editors of the site a complaint for diffusion of false reports.

on June 7th, 2005, making following a lawsuit started on April 19th, 2005, the director of the site proche-orient.info Elisabeth Schemla and one of the writers, Jonathan Myara ( alias Johan Weisz), are respectively condemned to 2.500 and 1.500 euros of fine, to withdraw the accused article, with the publication on the banner page of the site of an official statement specifying the judgment, to pour 3.000 euros of damages to association CAPJPO-EuroPalestine for slandering and to the payment of the legal expenses. The accused articles charged to this association an implication in made aggressions on March 22nd, 2003 against militants of the youth movement Zionist Hachomer Hatzaïr, in margin of the one of the demonstrations in Paris against the invasion of Iraq. It was evoked there “fifty adults armed with iron bars left the procession the CAPJPO” “to break of the Jew”, “tabasser with iron changes of course” and “to lynch”. The lawyer of the plaintiffs Me Goldberg had insisted on the fact that the “ charges very serious ranges against the CAPJPO maintained for two years on the sites put in examination, referred in good position on all the search engines ”.

on September 21st, 2005, the site of association CAPJPO-EuroPalestine denounces the fact that the subscription launched by the proche-orient.info newspaper receives the support of the embassy of Israel in France, revealing according to them the lack of independence and impartiality of the online news. This association wonders in addition about the funds which fed the security company of the site, whose origins are not revealed according to it, and noting that the industrialist Maurice Bidermann, condemned to an imprisonment like with financial sanctions in the Affaire Elf, was one of the principal shareholders of the company. The site the Middle East information answers that these advertisements belong to a campaign close to slandering, carried out in particular by “the Syrian camp”.

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