Ali Abunimah said at Hampshire College that the decadent period of Zionism has begun, in which Zionism loses the war for hearts and minds in the west, and delegitimization/BDS force Israeli introspection, and force Israel to change its behavior. Well this won’t happen till the New York Times becomes just halfway as honest with its readers as Anshel Pfeffer, in Haaretz:
[As for] Israel’s battle for international legitimacy…. [t]he reality is that in many countries, that battle is over, that battle has been lost. In some of the most "enlightened" nations of the Western world, identifying Israel as a racist, warmongering apartheid state is no longer a radical view, shared mainly by anti-Semites and "Arab lovers" – it has become the mainstream opinion..
[For] British reporters and broadcasters… Israel, as far as they are concerned, is a rogue nation – perpetually engaged in bloodshed, certainly no better than its Hamas adversary. We can continue to huff and puff as much as we like, but for the rest of the world, an arrest warrant against an Israeli politician isn’t a shocking news story, it is simply a fact of life.
When are American publications going to start telling their readers what an enlightened Israeli publication is telling its readers? And why aren’t they honest? Why are they protecting American readers? Who is pulling the strings? (You know how I answer that question!)
