You may have noticed that our Vice President is having a spat with Israel that’s in all the headlines because of Israel’s plans to build more illegal settlements in East Jerusalem. The other day 5000 people demonstrated against the settlements. And today Andrew Sullivan has a piece on the Sheikh Jarrah evictions.
When I got to East Jerusalem in January, the first place I went was Sheikh Jarrah, a short walk from my hotel. And my busiest day was Friday. That was the day of the Sheikh Jarrah demo and all the demos on the West Bank! I wanted to witness the rise of the anti-Jim Crow passive resistance movement and went to three demos. In Sheikh Jarrah, I saw a number of journalists, Bernard Avishai, Rick Hertzberg of the New Yorker, and the writer David Shulman.
Now here is Ari Goldman’s seminar at the Columbia Journalism School, called Covering Religion, going to the Holy Land for 10 days, and if you check their itinerary, they’re not covering any of the demos on Friday. They’re going to Yad Vashem that day, the Holocaust memorial. And Mount Herzl.
I know this is not a political class per se, but is Yad Vashem religious? If you look at the front page of "Covering Religion," they’re covering Christian Zionists (the usual dodge for the Israel lobby) and the I/P "conflict."
I wonder if the blinders on the big story don’t have something to do with Ari Goldman’s close connection to a traditional Jewish community and the time he spent in Israel.
Yeah, they don’t really teach actual journalism in US colleges and universities anymore. Hell, many of the departments have even renamed themselves “Mass Communication” and focus more on marketing and propaganda than on objectivity and research.
You nailed it, Chaos.
Here’s evidence, from the student newspaper of UH: link to thedailycougar.com
(there should be a response to this tomorrow)
LOL! Yet another Young Republican ripping into the SDS.
You know what I love about them? In a couple of years, I’ll get to watch their neocon overlords f*ck them and their families out of their futures.
Beck was on a real role last night, parsing the lyrics of This Land Is Your Land as a socialist-communist manifesto.
Hey, I figured this out quite a while ago — Republicans hate America. They certainly seem to revile anything that shows up in the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
They should go here link to maannews.net instead.
Some fundi Christians have been asking questions lately, questions concerning how
their faith has been authorizing the terrible plight of the Palestinian people–the change of heart came when they actually went off the official path while in Israel and mingled with the Palestinian people (God forbid)–and these awakened fundi Christians are now pushing a film they made to show to fellow Christians who will never actually go into the Palestinian territories:
link to vimeo.com
Here’s a review of the film:
ttp://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&mode=printer_friendly&issue=soj1003&article=the-lens-of-justice
I wonder if Sarah Palin is even aware of its existence, or is she just one of the many end-timers that approves jews moving to Israel as they like without bothering her
head with what’s actually going on over there?
Phil Weiss wrote:
“I know this is not a political class per se, but is Yad Vashem religious? If you look at the front page of ‘Covering Religion,’ they’re covering Christian Zionists (the usual dodge for the Israel lobby) and the I/P ‘conflict.’”
What’s interesting when you think about it is how amazingly, indeed resolutely, there is almost no U.S. media coverage of the jewish settlers/Fundie religio’s.
That is, you’d have to have lived at the bottom of the sea for the last ten years or so not to have heard a good deal about the intricacies of the Christian Fundies; their rapture belief, “born-again-ism,” the “end-times”, their desire to see all jews cluster in Israel for God’s tidy plan, and so forth and so on. And the same goes for the Moslem Fundies with their 72 virgins and beliefs that if a woman shows a toe she’s a slut and honor killings and the intemperance with any non-Muslim living on muslim holy land and etc. and so forth too.
But how much reportage has one really heard about the Haredim/Settler Fundies? How many times, even if they ever mention, say, the Palestinian belief that the Israeli’s want to steal all their land, have major U.S. media outlets explained that, indeed, the jewish Fundies do believe they own it as per the Bible? Or the theological belief in jewish superiority, as illustrated by that statement that non-jews are not worth one jewish fingernail by that one Fundie rabbi or other similar Fundie statements made all the time? Or the Fundie statements that mercy in warfare isn’t a jewish value?
Seems like the extremist embarrassments of every religion gets delicious, close and repeated treatment, except for one.
And it’s hardly as if it isn’t important: After all while Christian Fundies have certainly played a part in recent U.S. policy, I don’t think anyone would say they absolutely directed it even under Bush. And while the reportage always notes how Saudi Arabia is the epicenter of Muslim Fundies, it also notes that it is exactly because the regime there is *not* totally Fundie that explains why that regime isn’t totally solid. Same as with most of not all other arab states too when you think of it, especially Egypt for instance.
In Israel however, if anything that’s where Fundie religio’s *have* become so incredibly consequential to the world, as is frequently noted even in places like Haaretz. And yet, as regards different countries’ Fundies and their relative importance, the depth of coverage of the Western media can seem to be precise reverse of that importance.
Relevant too for instance, in showing how Ethan Bronner, by his own words, doesn’t just have a conflict of interest but indeed has just simply been fudging in his work. What did he say just the other day about the settler/Fundies?: “History is made by people who don’t stop and these people don’t stop,” right?
I.e., these people are not going to stop and that is going to be the history.
And yet … how often has he ever reported that these folks are clearly not going to stop via any deal with the Palestinians and they are so strong in Israel that they are going to make their history? That, after all, is his now-openly stated belief.
The answer is never. Never report his now-admitted knowledge that any Israeli’ gov’t talk about giving back any significant land is a sham. Instead, he just smiles and put out his careful little dispatches about how Netanyahu or whomever once again is calling for peace talks, or telling blandly about whatever else of a little sham of a thing is going on.
He’s covering, and he’s now admitted it. All for the sake of *his* ethnics’ Fundies.
Haaretz has an article today on a poll taken of Israeli HS kids; 48% would not, as IDF soldiers, which nearly all will soon be, would not help their own government if it
attempts to take settlers away from their homes. Another article reveals the big plan for thousands more settlers in the West Bank, not just the relative handful Beiden
was informed of even as he told the Israelis there’s no space between the USA and Israel.
URL for that story: link to haaretz.com
Half of those students also believe that Arabs aren’t entitled to equal rights with Jews and shouldn’t have the right to be elected to the Knesset.
A generation of little Julians.
OOTC: and the more religious these students call themselves, the more racist their opinions.
Sin Nombre, while we’ve been inundated w/info about christian and muslim extremists we are shielded from information about judaism’s fanatics. they are a crucial aspect of this conflict and physically situated (by design) smack dab in the middle of the most contested real estate on the planet. their political counterpart in israel is shas, the party who controls the housing ministry..the same party who approved the plan/permits for the new orthodox community in sheikh jarrah.
Counting the Jews again Phil?
He doesn’t have to–they do their own counting, and accounting.
Only after you’re done counting WMDs, dumb ass.
what do you think of this photo julian?
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