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Television

The conversation is obviously changing in the U.S. But I missed this one. It happened at Buchenwald a month ago, Brokaw asked Obama the question. My assiduous coreligionists at CAMERA got it. They're now trying to give Brokaw a spanking, administer a catechism of Holocaust exceptionalism.
Tom: Know that many Americans, including many Jews, share your sense that Israelis are visiting upon the Palestinians their uninterrogated rage toward the Germans. (Thanks to Jeff Blankfort)

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Homer nods (Jon Stewart blows the Harman story)

by Philip Weiss on April 29, 2009 · 22 comments

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Homer nods (Jon Stewart blows the Harman story)

by Philip Weiss29 April 2009

Jon Stewart did the Jane Harman story last night and blew it. Didn’t mention Israel for over a minute. Doesn’t say Harman’s Jewish. Doesn’t talk about the Israel lobby really. Doesn’t talk about the occupation or Gaza or Iran, the…

Rachel Maddow is PEP

by Philip Weiss21 April 2009

Rachel Maddow appears to justify the U.S. boycott of the U.N.’s racism conference in Geneva. Disappointed. Maddow comes out of my world: alt-privileged lefties in the northeast who don’t go in for Establishment values. Feels sellout-ish. Rachel, spend some political…

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More PEP talk at MSNBC

by Philip Weiss2 April 2009

“Progressive” populist broadcaster Ed Schultz has been named the new 6 o’clock anchor on MSNBC. Sounds like he’s a progressive in the Mark Green mode: PEP. Progressive except for Palestine. Susie Kneedler: Three years ago Ed Schultz defended “Israel’s right…

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What if the lobby wins on Freeman?

by Philip Weiss6 March 2009

Another blow to the 2-state solution: it empowers Netanyahu and his anything-goes chorus. A major embarrassment to Obama. Freeman left the State Department years ago for the private sector and was convinced to take this job. The reason they wanted…

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Killing of 3 top Palestinian footballers in Gaza has helped unite Palestinian community

by Philip Weiss28 February 2009

Yesterday I met two Arab intellectuals, Mustapha Tlili and Ambassador Clovis Maksoud, during a taping for Press TV and was struck afresh by how upset the Arab world is over Gaza. I don’t think this is fully understood in the…

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CBS exec’s comments on Palestinian self-government have long American pedigree

by Philip Weiss27 February 2009

Jeff Ballabon, lately appointed a CBS vice president for communications, writing a few months ago: Palestinians simply are not interested in or ready for the creation of a state. Stephen Douglas, the Democratic senator, speaking in Jonesboro, Illinois, in September…

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Cabalistic, or coincidental, I dunno

by Philip Weiss23 February 2009

I’m hoping Jeff Ballabon will be the rightwing Dan Rather. Remember when Dan Rather’s poor factchecking over George W. Bush’s National Guard service ended up elevating rightwing sites like Little Green Footballs, which had showed that some of the paperwork…

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In global media culture, Jimmy Carter’s doing just fine…

by Philip Weiss23 February 2009

Yesterday I posted on the fact that Jimmy Carter’s presidential ranking, per a group of august scholars retained by CNN, has plummeted in the last 9 years, I believe because he has been so engaged in Israel/Palestine. Well we live…

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New CBS executive is feverish opponent of the 2-state solution

by Philip Weiss23 February 2009

A few weeks back CBS’s “60 Minutes” ran a groundbreaking piece by Robert Simon showing that settlements had destroyed the two-state solution. One thing the piece left out is that American extremists have played a crucial role in that destruction…

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Song in Lieberman TV ad seems to echo Nazi anthem in ‘Cabaret,’ ‘Tomorrow Belongs to Me’

by Philip Weiss22 February 2009

Here’s Avigdor Lieberman’s stirring ad on Israeli TV, a song sung by (the wonderful but scary) Russian Aleksandr Rosenbaum, in Russian, over Holocaust imagery and Jerusalem footage. Watch it to the end. Someone who knows a little Russki tells me…

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What goes around doesn’t come around: ‘Caterpillar’ stars again

by Philip Weiss15 February 2009

Just now on “60 Minutes” Leslie Stahl was shown walking up to the blade of a Caterpillar earthmover as a Caterpillar executive talked about exporting heavy equipment all over the world. You might think that the Rachel Corrie story had…

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Mustafa Barghouti, star of ‘60 Minutes,’ to speak at Columbia on Thursday

by Philip Weiss9 February 2009

Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti was the star of the recent Bob Simon report on “60 Minutes” on the death of the two-state solution in Israel/Palestine. This Thursday afternoon he will be at Columbia University, speaking to the Arab Students Association,…