The Gerald Scarfe Sunday Times cartoon controversy has followed a familiar pattern, with some arguing that the depiction of the bloody trowel wielding Israeli Prime Minister torturing innocent souls – published on […]
Awaiting Hillary’s ‘robust’ condemnation of offensive cartoon
A Guest Post by AKUS I am an admirer of both Hillary and Bill Clinton, and not only because both have been supportive of the American Jewish community and Israel. Bill Clinton […]
British “Intelligence” and Zionist Nazi analogies
In Douglas Murray’s latest piece for The Spectator, he asked whether Jews should leave Britain, a question prompted by a piece written by Israeli journalist Caroline Glick, which she wrote after participating in an […]
A place where Guardian cartoonist Steve Bell can find “real” antisemitism
On the ‘Today programme on BBC Radio 4, Tuesday 29th January, there was a debate between Stephen Pollard of the Jewish Chronicle and Steve Bell, political cartoonist for the Guardian, over the Gerald Scarfe cartoon […]
Outrage over a cartoon…and yet no one died
Cross posted by Raheem Kassam, Executive Editor of The Commentator Only on a BBC radio call-in show in Britain could you have heard listeners phoning in to express how the West would get […]
Matt Seaton’s caricature of courage
The highly criticized cartoon published in The Sunday Times on Holocaust Memorial Day – depicting mangled, tortured Palestinians being buried over with bricks laid by the bloody trowel of a sinister Israeli leader – […]
Guardian travel tip – a 2-for-1 opportunity for the “Guardian Community”
A guest post by AKUS This little travel tip popped up alongside an article on the Guardian’s website. Yes – if Auschwitz if not enough for one day – visit the fabulous […]
How one British paper decided to depict living Jews on Holocaust Memorial Day
H/T to Raheem at The Commentator In my 2010 report published by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs about antisemitic cartoons, I noted that political cartoons often have more of an immediate […]
The Guardian’s Michael Cohen & terrorist atttacks which ‘help’ the peace process
While reading Israel related reports and commentary at the Guardian and ‘Comment is Free’, as an Israeli citizen, I’m often struck by the fact that that the narrative which is often advanced […]
Turn David Ward’s vile charge on its head
As CST and others have reported, British MP David Ward (Liberal Democrat, Bradford East) recently decided to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, observed internationally on Jan. 27 (the day, in 1945, that Auschwitz was liberated), by […]
Postcard from Israel – Almond blossom
The wild almond trees are already in bloom in Israel – just in time for the holiday of Tu B’Shvat which begins this evening. Wishing all those readers celebrating a happy and […]
What the Guardian won’t report: Israel’s thriving, liberal democracy
Our friends at CAMERA wrote the following, in a post titled ‘Where’s the coverage? Israel the Only Free Country in the Middle East‘, Jan. 23, the day after yet another free and fair […]
‘Comment is Free’ editors finally suspend user privileges of white supremacist
On Jan. 16 we posted about a Guardian reader whose commenting privileges were not suspended despite the fact that he made racist remarks, including the promotion of Holocaust denial, beneath a Guardian story about Holocaust education […]
Guardian editorial on Israeli vote ignores their own erroneous political predictions
While we’re quite accustomed to Guardian reporters and commentators completely re-writing Israeli history, an editorial on the results of the Israeli election re-writes their own history by ignoring their entire body of […]
‘Comment is Free’ contributor claims 1967 Six Day War was act of Israeli aggression
Raja Shehadeh is a Palestinian Arab who’s the former director of the Palestinian NGO Al-Haq, a radical group which has characterized Palestinian terror attacks as legitimate “resistance” and is currently being led by Shawan […]
The curious case of the Arab vote in the Israeli elections
A guest post by AKUS Jerusalem Post, Jan. 21, 2013. ‘Arab League to Israeli Arabs: Vote to stop the far right‘. “The Arab League on Sunday called for Israeli Arabs to vote […]
The Guardian gets it wrong: Exit polls indicate no rightward political shift in Israel
If exit polls (as reported by Times of Israel and other media outlets) turn out to be accurate, the Guardian mantra – parroted by nearly every commentator and reporter who’s been providing ‘analysis’ […]
Genocide Abuse Day at the IHRC
Cross posted by Mark Gardner at the blog of the CST With Holocaust Memorial Day (27th January) fast approaching, so does its annual bastardisation by our local pro-Iranian and pro-Hizbollah fans, the Islamic Human Rights […]
Harriet Sherwood ‘forgets’ to note place of relative Jewish significance in Jerusalem
Harriet Sherwood’s latest report, ‘Israeli elections set to amplify religious voice in Knesset‘, Jan. 21, highlights commentators predicting that Knesset representation for religiously observant Jews will likely increase following the Jan. 22 […]
Double standards watch: Guardian ignores Palestinians’ extreme right drift
Reports and commentaries in the Guardian (as well as in the mainstream media) analyzing Israel’s upcoming election which warn of a far-right shift within the Israeli electorate have been ubiquitous. Much of […]
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