Whilst commentators are free to express skepticism over Lieberman’s sincerity in supporting two states (or the feasibility, legality or ethics of what’s known as ‘The Lieberman Plan’), Shabi’s claim that he “vowed there would never be a Palestinian state” is extremely misleading.
BDS is failing: a continuing series (June 2016)
Here’s the latest installment in our monthly round-up of BDS fails. Economic VW Invests $300 million in Israeli rideshare Gett German auto giant Volkswagen has made a $300 million investment in Israeli […]
Irish Times legitimizes Israel-Nazi analogy
Avnery’s Nazi comparison is completely without merit, and the decision by Irish Times editors to publish such a smear – an analogy considered antisemitic per the EUMC Working Definition of Antisemitism – represents another example of how, when it comes to Israel, even the most hateful, offensive and incendiary accusations are not off-limits.
Guardian’s Harriet Sherwood misleads by omission in story on extremist group Lehava
The fact that Lehava is allowed to legally operate in Israel is no more indicative of a ‘rising tide of rightwing extremism’ anymore than the Ku Klux Klan’s legality in the US suggests the growth and acceptance of racist extremism in the US.
Telegraph falsely claims that Likud is the most centrist part of coalition
The Telegraph’s Inna Lazareva not only joined the heard of independent media voices suggesting that Israel is moving dangerously right, but included a straight-out factual error in her report.
Media celebrate woman’s ‘peace selfie’ at anti-Muslim protest…and then this happened
Are we really to believe that when Belkhiri wrote “Hitler didn’t kill all the Jews, he left some…so we [would] know why he was killing them”, she really meant “Hitler didn’t kill all the Zionists, he left some…so we [would] know why he was killing them”? And, when she wrote “”F—ing Jews, I hate them so much”, she meant to write “F—ing Zionists, I hate them so much”?
Anti-Zionism’s Links with Anti-Semitism – a Case Study on RTE and Ken Livingstone
RTE, the public service broadcaster of the Irish Republic, has the capacity to immensely influence the views and moral stances of the Irish nation as seasoned commentator (and one-time senior RTE insider) […]
UK Media Watch prompts Indy correction to Imad Mughniyeh assassination claim
It was widely reported in early 2015 that Mughniyeh – widely believed responsible for attacks on Israeli and American targets, including the deadly 1983 attack on the US Embassy in Beirut – was killed in an operation jointly carried out by both US and Israeli intelligence agencies
Ken Livingstone’s chopped liver
Cross posted from the blog of the CST Ken Livingstone is a left-wing anti-Nazi anti-racist former Mayor of London. David Irving is not, but was briefly famous for having lost a Holocaust […]
Why didn’t David Aaronovitch challenge Nazi analogy on BBC 4 Radio?
Charging Jews with engaging in behavior or embracing values similar to the Nazis is a moral and historical inversion on par with suggesting that African-Americans have adopted the values of white slave masters – a disgusting, intellectually unserious invective that should have been robustly refuted by the BBC Radio 4 host.
BBC Radio 4 promotes Nazi analogy in a discussion on antisemitism
BBC Radio 4’s programme ‘The Briefing Room’ describes itself as follows: “Series looking at important issues in the news. Presented by David Aaronovitch.” The May 19th edition of that programme (available here) […]
Indy seeks the ‘wisdom’ of Juan Cole in story on Israeli government shake-up
Criticizing Lieberman is one thing. Smearing Israel by highlighting the intellectually unserious suggestion – by a commenter with a track record which includes antisemitism – that the state is on par with neo-fascist parties in Europe is quite another.
Contrary to Guardian claim, there are no Israeli restrictions on medicine to Gaza (Update)
When you come across a Guardian article about healthcare issues in Gaza, you pretty much know for certain what to expect. Regardless of the details, the story will ignore Hamas’s role completely, and […]
The Financial Times sanitises the ‘ideological fanaticism’ of Charles Freeman
A recent New York Times Magazine article quoted President Obama’s deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, boasting of the administration’s ability to manipulate the media into creating an “echo chamber” to sell the Iran Deal. Rhodes […]
Despite Israel’s “war on human rights activists”, state gives award to radical org’s founder
Shulman was given the ultimate ‘establishment’ award – a decision approved by the putatively far-right Education Minister Naftali Bennett – despite the fact that he is just the kind of ‘peace and human rights activist’ he claims is being persecuted by the “far-right” and “the establishment”.
Respected Mid-East analyst slams the Indy for publishing smear by Robert Fisk
Cross posted from Harry’s Place When The Independent went entirely online in late March, its readers (or what were left of them) received solemn undertakings that it would keep its high standards […]
CAMERA and UK Media Watch prompt Irish Times correction on Israeli visa claim
On April 1st, CAMERA’s Christian Media Analyst Dexter Van Zile posted on an Irish Times article (‘State of Palestine ‘not only matter of justice but of leading normal life’, Feb. 15) which claimed […]
A reply to those recasting Holocaust victims posthumously as enemies of Zionism
The most audacious claim in a Guardian letter refuting British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s Telegraph op-ed slamming anti-Zionism as a form of antisemitism was that most Jews murdered by the Nazis were indifferent to or opposed Zionism. […]
Ali Abunimah wants proof of his antisemitism
For veteran anti-Israel activist Ali Abunimah, the recent never-ending reports of anti-Semitic outbursts by members of the British Labour Party are understandably alarming. Abunimah has spent most of his professional life trying hard to mainstream exactly the kind of thinking that is now so widely criticized as anti-Semitic, and he seems currently very concerned that all his hard work may have failed to legitimize contemporary anti-Semitism, especially in the form of the anti-Semitic anti-Zionism that is so crucial for Abunimah’s trade.
Yom Ha’atzmaut 2016 – Sixty-eight years of being ‘a free people in our land’
The Land of Israel was the birthplace of the Jewish people. Here their spiritual, religious and political identity was shaped. Here they first attained to statehood, created cultural values of national and universal significance and gave to the world the eternal Book of Books…
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