On June 29th 2011, hours after Sheikh Raed Salah had been arrested in London, The Guardian published an article in his defence on its ‘Comment is Free’ website by Haneen Zoabi. There […]
H/T to Just Journalism for finding a 2003 Ha’aretz interview with Raed Salah, the radical Islamist preacher who has become a cause celeb among the Guardian”intelligentsia” since he was detained on Tuesday […]
Since yesterday, when the IDF announced that it has information regarding the intent of some of the flotilla passengers to cause physical harm to Israeli soldiers trying to board their boats, the […]
The Guardian has now devoted four columns (here, here, here, and here) and one CiF commentary, encompassing over 2100 words, about Britain’s arrest of the Islamist preacher, Sheikh Raed Salah, all of […]
Medusa just commented on a Radio Netherlands reporter describing why he could not go on the flotilla voyage and now, from Elder of Ziyon: “Every Dutch reporter on the flotilla has bailed out for the same […]
The IDF is well-versed in maritime and other law. Israel knows that it must apply its blockade unequivocally across the board, to all maritime traffic regardless of where it is from, if […]
A number of unrelated setbacks appear to be combining to delay the departure of the ‘Freedom Flotilla 2’. A pre-announced general strike in Greece – related to the domestic political situation there […]
Earlier, we cross posted Elder’s piece on the Guardian white wash of the anti-Semitic Islamist preacher, Raed Salah (the leader of the Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement in Israel who spent two […]
This is cross posted by Elder of Ziyon From The Guardian: Sheikh Raed Salah, a leading Palestinian activist, has been detained in London after he entered the UK while banned from the country. Salah, […]
This was published by Just Journalism ‘Israel accused of trying to intimidate Gaza flotilla journalists’, by Conal Urquhart, published in yesterday’s Guardian, framed the convoy’s primary motivation as humanitarian, endorsing the contention of […]
A guest post by AKUS It is now common knowledge among those who care about these things that Melanie Phillips will no longer write for the UK Spectator newspaper and has started […]
H/T Janet Yes, it really is this simple.
As is known, one of the reasons for the unplanned lethal outcome of last year’s flotilla was the fact that Israel’s armed forces and intelligence had based their plans upon the premise […]
While the story is still developing, and the Prime Minister’s office seems to be backtracking from previous statements by the FPO about possible restrictions placed on journalists who participate in the illegal […]
When explaining what I do for a living to new friends who aren’t necessarily familiar with the Guardian, I’m often asked, in one form or the other, something to the effect of, […]
H/T Engage How anyone in the media can cover the latest Flotilla as a movement which represents progressive politics, in even the broadest sense of that word, is truly one of the […]
It is by now a well-established fact that the ‘Freedom Flotilla 2’ is not about delivering humanitarian aid to Gaza. Both the American and Irish delegations have already publicly admitted that they […]
The beautiful thing about language is that so much meaning depends on the turn of a phrase, a slight grammatical alteration, or the choice of one word over another. While the Guardian […]
This is cross posted by Yarden Frankl at the blog,Crossing the Yarden I was flying back to Israel and found myself sitting next to a Jewish teen excited about his first trip […]
An Iranian-Israeli named Meir Javedanfar penned a piece for CiF (Why Israel is wrong about Iran, June 25) which argued against an Israeli military strike against Iran’s nuclear weapon sites. While Mr. […]
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