Algemeiner is not exactly a household name, but it has managed to carve out a niche for itself publishing online articles filled with a particularly rabid brand of hasbara. Knesset speaker Yuli Edelstein and the late Joan Rivers were given “warriors for truth” awards at its recent gala in New York
The stakes are rising over the Netanyahu speech to Congress to push a hardline on Iraq. The White House has reportedly cut off some communications with Israel following leaks by Netanyahu. Meanwhile, Rudy Giuliani calls Obama a “moron” for talking to Iran.
From Women in Black to Middle East Children’s Alliance, many activist groups thank UC Santa Cruz for hosting Angela Davis at its annual MLK Jr convocation in January to speak on Ferguson to Palestine. The speech has been denounced by pro-Israel group Amcha initiative.
Palestinian journalists increasingly find themselves in the line of fire when Israeli soldiers seek to suppress demonstrations in the West Bank, Haaretz reports. And: settler group recruits French immigrants to move to West Bank colonies.
Last October the Jewish Defense League disrupted a University of Toronto event in favor of divestment from Israel. The school’s administration has failed to take appropriate action to safeguard campus speech from intimidation, a group of 23 faculty complain in a letter to VP Angela Hildyard
A shocking cartoon made by a settlers’ group uses anti-Semitic imagery of a hook-nosed, money-loving Jew to portray B’Tselem and Peace Now as collaborators with Nazis because they document Israeli human rights abuses
Neither NYT or Washington Post see fit to publish stories in print about Israeli Supreme Court rejecting accountability in Rachel Corrie killing, after 10-year struggle by her family
“We say to Jews, our brothers and sisters: Israel is your home. We are preparing & calling for the absorption of mass immigration from Europe.” — Netanyahu exploits terror attacks in Denmark
American Sniper reveals the trauma of the wrongful Iraq invasion to a small-town man in Texas, Chris Kyle, who lost his soul in four tours