Axis Lauren
Mildred “Axis Sally” Gillars was an American born aspiring actress who sold her services to the Nazis during World War II. Posing as a humanitarian worker (Red Cross volunteer), she interviewed captured American GIs and broadcast their manipulated words on a radio show heard by American troops all over Europe in an attempt to demoralize them.
Now we have Lauren Booth, impudent pro-Palestinian activist, in the employ of Iranian radio. Booth gained attention earlier this year after she likened Gaza to a concentration camp during a visit where she was photographed shopping at a well-stocked computerized Gazan food mart.
She is active in the “Free Gaza” movement that penetrated the Israeli naval cordon to allegedly bring humanitarian supplies to Gaza despite the fact that, according to Khaled Abdel Shaafi, director the United Nations Development Program, there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
On Dec. 19, 2008, the on-line version of the Independent carried a brief piece “Booth lands Iranian gig” reporting that Booth, the sister-in-law of former British Prime Minister and current special envoy to the Middle East, Tony Blair,
is now on the payroll of the Iranian government. Lauren Booth recently took over a presenting slot on the state-funded news channel, Press TV.
Booth, who was refused entry into Israel during a humanitarian trip to Gaza in the summer, has begun fronting the channel’s newspaper review show Between The Headlines.
A regular viewer tells me she courteously opts to wear a headscarf throughout the programme.
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