Tag Archives: ethan bronner

‘NYT’ fails to disclose Kershner’s tie to Israeli government-linked think tank

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Alex Kane

Hirsh Goodman works at the Institute for National Security Studies, an Israel gov’t-linked thinktank. His wife Isabel Kershner works at the New York Times. Copacetic?

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Quoting Israelis, ‘NYT’ front pager says Iran will take a military strike lying down (won’t even raise oil prices!)

Posted on January 27, 2012 by Matthew Taylor

Ethan Bronner quotes Israelis saying that Iran won’t retaliate if it is attacked

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‘It’s time to stop the bully’: Adbusters editor Kalle Lasn on Occupy Wall Street, the Israel lobby and the New York Times

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Alex Kane

The editor of Adbusters discusses taking on the neocons, charges of anti-semitism, and the future of Occupy Wall Street.

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‘Adbusters’ goes after NYT’s pro-Israel bias

Posted on August 31, 2011 by Matthew Taylor

Have we started a mini-earthquake that’s headed straight for the Grey Lady’s department of propaganda? Adbusters ran my piece critiquing Bronner and Kershner’s pro-Israel bias (also in print, Aug/Sept. issue):  In June of 2010, a year and a half after the … Continue reading →

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NYT’s Bronner says Netanyahu demonstrates ‘territorial flexibility’ on the basis of no evidence

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Matthew Taylor

Ethan Bronner’s NY Times reports are of fantastic comedic value. Check out the latest spin from the Israeli Army Daddy: Days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet with President Obama, he laid out his principles Monday for accepting … Continue reading →

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The New York Times‘s shameless Nakba distortion

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Matthew Taylor

The NYT’s front page leader propagandistically claims (emphasis added): “Israel’s borders erupted as thousands of Palestinians marched from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank on the anniversary when Arabs mourn Israel’s creation.” I call this a distortion because Palestinians actually … Continue reading →

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T-minus 5 months ’til UN recognizes Palestine?

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Matthew Taylor

Ethan Bronner’s got an analysis of the diplomatic corner Israel has painted itself into in the NYT. Of course Bronner’s piece is filled with the usual elisions and distortions, which I’m sure readers of this site will spot left and … Continue reading →

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Bronner: ‘There aren’t many other places in the world where white people with guns tell brown people what to do’

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Didi Remez reports at 972: According to Oren Persico of the The 7th Eye, a respected online media magazine published by the Israel Democracy Institute, Ethan Bronner, The New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief,  appeared on Sunday at the Eilat Journalism … Continue reading →

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Inside the bubble

Posted on November 21, 2010 by Norman Finkelstein

Ethan Bronner in the New York Times today: It is worth noting that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been largely drained of deadly violence in the past few years. So much for the Gaza massacre.  

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Abu Ben Tzahali

Posted on October 27, 2010 by Ira Glunts

Abu Ben Tzahali (may our tribe release!) Awoke one day from a deep nap of peace, And saw, within the daylight in his room, Making it rich, and like a desert in bloom, An Editor writing in a book of … Continue reading →

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‘NYT’/Bronner push the legality of settlements

Posted on October 16, 2010 by Norman Finkelstein

In today’s New York Times, Ethan Bronner writes that the United States AND JAPAN consider the settlements legal. The United States and Japan take no stand on the settlements’ legality, according to spokesmen of their embassies in Israel, although they … Continue reading →

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They up and died!

Posted on October 14, 2010 by Philip Weiss

Ethan Bronner writes in the New York Times today about Avigdor Lieberman: But he also started to resent being sidelined. When, for example, relations with Turkey reached a crisis level after nine people died in May in Israel’s raid on … Continue reading →

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Israel-centric Ethan Bronner cites Israeli law on East J’lem and Golan, ignoring crystal clear int’l standards

Posted on October 12, 2010 by Alex Kane

Nestled in this all over-the-place article written by Ethan Bronner in today’s New York Times is this factually-challenged nugget: Both East Jerusalem and the Golan were officially annexed by Israel through parliamentary votes, so by Israeli law they count as … Continue reading →

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The pharaoh of Jerusalem

Posted on September 15, 2010 by Philip Weiss

In the last two days two guides have taken me through the geography of the Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem, and I’m staggered. I wonder why this monstrous structure is not better known, even to people like me, who study the … Continue reading →

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