Today’s a day to grieve for Paris, not score political points. Besides, if we were able to end the Israel Palestine conflict tomorrow and create a global regime of human rights, it wouldn’t end radicalization of some Muslims in France.
A chorus of NYT readers say they used to support Israel but policies of endless colonization and discrimination have turned them against Israeli policies. Readers comments signal a sea change in US opinion.
Every moment of Neera Tanden’s conversation with Benjamin Netanyahu at the Democratic Party thinktank, the Center for American Progress, was scripted; the audience looked like it was drugged and Tanden was a supplicant to the PM. The need for a show-conversation demonstrates that the Israel lobby is losing power, as progressive Americans get the story.
A settler appears to approvingly take a photograph of a slain Palestinian teenager in Hebron in an AFP image. Steven Salaita, author of many tweets, tweets that the Palestinian body has finally achieved the settler’s approving gaze
‘NYT’ mentions Palestinian incitement to murder Jews on Facebook connected with the killing of Richard Lakin, 76, in Jerusalem, but leaves out thousands of Facebook posts by rightwing Israelis celebrating Lakin’s death because he was an activist for co-existence.
Larry Summers says he studies economics and doesn’t know about the history of anti-Semitism or conditions on the West Bank, but ignorance doesn’t stop him from hubristically holding forth on both topics in a funny if disturbing performance at the Center for Jewish History in New York.
It’s no wonder Palestinians are exercised about the Noble Sanctuary: Jewish zealots talk about burning or blowing up the mosques there. But the ‘NYT’ sanitizes the extremists, reporting they just want to ‘replace’ the mosques with a temple.
Israel is “a country in a grim mood on the eve of a Jewish holiday,” the Israel-centric New York Times reports on the latest wave of violence. And the paper has not one word about Israeli violence against Palestinians. All the perpetrators are Palestinian.
If you’re an anti-semitic regime that wants to annihilate Israel, then why would your president…
NYT’s Isabel Kershner fails to interview human rights law expert on Israel’s use of “live fire” on Palestinian stonethrowers, and notes 12 Palestinians were killed by Israeli soldiers only in last paragraph