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More on the ‘creepy’ al-Dura report
First the Israeli government drank the Koolaid on a rightwing conspiracist theory of how young Muhammad al-Dura died in Gaza 13 years ago. Then the New York Times got in line….
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Wolf Blitzer looks for a religious state
Wolf Blitzer is a redneck, in exchange with Oklahoma victim who rebuffs his question, Did she pray to the lord, by saying she’s an atheist
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Kerry goes for the Hail Mary, but Obama is punting
Kerry’s trip to the Middle East is either: Groundhog day to 1991, messianic, or a laughingstock. In any case, nothing will happen, experts say, without Obama showing a willingness to take on AIPAC and the Israeli government. And he won’t. Above, Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Kerry during Holocaust Remembrance Day at the Yad Vashem memorial in Jerusalem, on April 8, 2013.
‘Forward’ piece on destruction of Palestinian neighborhood fronting Western Wall is not embraced by all ‘Forward’ readers
There are a lot of racist comments about Palestinians in a Forward comment section following a great piece on the destruction of the Mughrabi quarter in 1967
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Bradley Manning rally to feature Ellsberg, Ann Wright, Dan Choi, Sarah Shourd
How will Americans regard Bradley Manning 50 years from now? As a hero, says Nathan Fuller
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Obama’s secret wars in Muslim world make Americans vulnerable
The United States in the past decade has now killed at least 225,000 people in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. How could one argue against a Muslim who once admired the United States but has been convinced, by the actions of the country under Bush and Obama, that we are bent on his destruction? — David Bromwich in Huffpo
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‘Al Jazeera’ reposts Massad piece, after censoring it
Joseph Massad’s fiery piece equating Zionism with anti-Semitism was censored by Al Jazeera, then reposted after criticism
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Biden says Jewish ‘influence’ behind American cultural politics is ‘immense… immense’
From Dylan to Friedan to Einstein, Jews have had an “immense” influence on American cultural politics, Joe Biden says. Yes, and what about the Israel lobby?
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Princeton students ‘come out’ for Palestine to overcome shame attached to issue in U.S.
In a sweet video, a diverse group of Princeton students support the end of the occupation and blockade, the right of return, and human rights for Palestinians
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Jim from Newport Township, Illinois asks the wrong question
When a listener asks a question about public broadcasting’s debt to Zionist funders, the Diane Rehm show cuts him off
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Widely denounced as ‘propaganda,’ Israel’s report on al-Dura calls attention to 950 other child killings
The New York Times published a credulous account of Israel’s government report on the al-Dura death of 2000, hurting the paper’s credibility
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Israeli report on al-Dura case is vengeful and ‘surreal,’ says Haaretz — but ‘NYT’ treats it as gospel
The New York Times plays stenographer to an Israeli government report suggesting that Muhammad al-Dura killing in 2000 was “staged” by Palestinians
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Kennedy’s insistence on right of return prompted Ben-Gurion to rewrite history: They fled ‘of their own free will’
Haaretz: Under increasing pressure from Kennedy to accept 100s of 1000s of Palestinian refugees, Ben-Gurion convened a special meeting. He was convinced that the refugee problem was primarily one of public image (hasbara), convincing the world that the refugees fled “of their own free will”
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Lapid says ‘Israelis want peace and security and Palestinians want peace and justice’
Yair Lapid Israel’s finance minister has not talked to John Kerry, savior of the two-state solution, since March, reports the New York Times, and he hasn’t talked to any Palestinian since taking office
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Birthright guide turned US youths’ eyes away from refugee camps, settlements
On a Birthright tour of Israel, two Dartmouth students find that their guide has nothing to say about the occupation and tries to turn their view away from settlements and refugee camps
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Abulhawa declines to ‘balance out’ several Israelis in ‘Al Jazeera’ forum on Nakba
Novelist Susan Abulhawa’s refusal to go on Al Jazeera to discuss the Nakba with Israelis, lest Israelis appropriate Palestinian history, has been getting a lot of attention
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CNN’s Tapper lends himself to claustrophobic discussion of unicorn– Israel’s survival as ‘a Jewish democracy’
Speakers Discuss Will Israel Survive as a Jewish Democracy?” at a historic Washington synagogue, May 28. The inescapable Jeffrey Goldberg
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Islamophobia is as widespread and acceptable as anti-Semitism used to be
In the morning was the computer technician and in the afternoon was the dentist, and it was Islamophobia a.m. and p.m.
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Rightwing Israeli group gets tax-deductible funds from US foundation
The American charity, the Kingjay Foundation, says it only gives to charity organizations. One recipient, of $10,000, is Im Tirtzu, a rightwing group in Israel that supports settlers and denies the Nakba
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NPR twice celebrates Israeli army– once as ‘rite of passage’ for minorities and beacon to US Jews
In the long history of donkey fellation, Larry Abramson’s piece on NPR celebrating the Israeli army as a rite of passage for minorities should win a prize
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Issue in the L.A. mayor’s race? Support Israel!
‘Wendy Gruel is a steadfast supporter of Israel’ is the first line of a campaign flyer going out in her race to be… Los Angeles mayor!
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‘My grandmother thought it was temporary’ — Huffpo features Nakba discussion with 5 Palestinians
Nina Saah is star of Huffpo video conference on the Nakba, and host Ahmed Shihab-Eldin shows her touching respect. “My grandmother told me it was temporary…”
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Washington Post’s racism map omits Israel
Arab countries are rife with racism, but Israel doesn’t even count, in Washington Post graphic on whether people would want another race as a neighbor
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‘AP’ says Barbara Boxer is favoring Israeli travelers over American ones
Another change: AP reporter Bob Egelko interviews Sandra Tamari, the Palestinian-American deported by Israel last year, and Tamari says that Sen. Boxer’s bill would create second-class citizenship for Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans
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Richard Engel says Syrian rebel journalists are ‘noble,’ but journalists whose cause is Hamas aren’t really journalists
The Newseum struck two dead Gaza journalists from its list of 90 journalists killed in 2012. NBC’s Richard Engel seemed to bless the decision in his speech at the memorial
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