‘What do u call Obama coffee? Black and weak” is racist tweet from Judy Mozes, wife of Israel’s vice prime minister, which she has now removed and apologized for. More clueless rightwing culture in Israeli leadership
New York Times demonstrates a double standard in chronicling potential Hamas censorship of a satirical show in Gaza but leaving out actual threats of censorship by Israel’s new rightwing cultural minister Miri Regev
Michael Oren says the NYT rejected an op-ed written by former Israeli president Shimon Peres. NYT editorial page editor Andrew Rosenthal says this is not true, as reported by Larry Cohler-Esses at Forward
NYT public editor Margaret Sullivan says she’s “very sorry” for the hurt caused by bigotry about drunken Irish contained in news story blaming balcony collapse that killed 5 in Berkeley on partying students. When will that sensitivity be extended to Palestinians?
Who says the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign isn’t having an effect? Page 7 of the New York Times today is the Boycott Israel page. Though one article irresponsibly portrays BDS as a threat to Jews, leaving out the sizable support among Jews for the campaign
The city of Tel Aviv invited Caitlyn Jenner to its LGBT pride march this year, in an effort to “pinkwash” its growing international reputation for apartheid
Margaret Sullivan, public editor of the Times, slams NYT editors for running a story that equated BDS with anti-Semitism and left out Jewish students who support the movement. A victory!
The Forward has two articles describing the Jewish presence in the BDS movement: many Jews who go on Birthright end up observing racism in Israel and boycotting the place; and a rabbi argues that young Jews need an inoculation of Jewish education so as not to “capitulate” to BDS on campus. The NYT deceived its readers about this truth.
The US press celebrated the Joint Arab List as a sign of Israeli democracy before the March election. Now that it’s being completely dealt out of coalition discussions for the new government, shouldn’t the press be mentioning this apartheid policy?
NYT and MSNBC should be a little bit more careful about who they’re jumping to defend. Pamela Geller is not attacking jihadists. She is attacking Islam, a world religion, with more than 1 billion adherents, and saying that that religion is essentially evil. And she’s on US TV! Imagine them giving the mike to David Duke