The latest pro-Israel article in the ‘NY Times’ is a bizarre effort to slander Palestinian rights by making false connections to Al-Qaeda and Africa. The insinuation was clear: Palestinians and those who support them are on the same side as the evil men who killed 3000 Americans at the World Trade Center.
The ‘NY Times’ runs an important article on rising Jewish “settler” violence in occupied West Bank Palestine, but the report is still biased toward Israel. It characterizes Israeli violence against occupied Palestinians as “clash” and “melee” when in fact one side is delivering violence to the other.
Michelle Alexander’s excellent New York Times column on speaking out on Palestine is getting huge attention is already clearly a watershed moment, but why has Alexander prompted such a huge reaction? James North has some tentative explanations.
Progressive politicians are silent about Palestinian human rights because of the power of the Israel lobby, and “civil rights activists and organizations have remained silent as well… because they fear loss of funding from foundations, and false charges of anti-Semitism,” Michelle Alexander writes in a groundbreaking piece in the New York Times. Guided by MLK, she says she will be silent no longer.
The ‘New York Times’ reports that Israel’s killing of Gazan paramedic Rouzan al-Najjar last June was “reckless at best, and possibly a war crime for which no one has yet been punished.” The paper understands that its reading public is growing steadily more informed about Israel/Palestine.
Today’s election in the DR Congo is a massive fraud, and global media will say Africans have failed the test of democracy, leaving out the role of international corporations and foreign governments in enabling the corruption of outgoing president Joseph Kabila.
Alan Dershowitz has a new cause. The criminal Israeli businessman, Dan Gertler, has looted the DR Congo, one of the poorest nations on earth.
After the latest violence in Gaza, the New York Times once again slants its coverage to humanize Israel and demonize Palestinians. None of the 7 victims in Gaza is named, while the 1 victim in Israel is. And the “staggering bombardment” of missiles from Gaza is described in harsh language while the Israeli bombing of Gaza is underplayed.
A ‘NY Times’ analysis of why the U.S. is ‘standing by’ the murderous Saudi Arabia crown prince barely mentions the kingdom’s de facto alliance with Israel as a factor.
Jair Bolsonaro, the fascist who will probably be elected president of Brazil in the second election round this Sunday, is an enthusiastic supporter of Israel who says he will follow Donald Trump’s example and move his nation’s embassy there from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Bolsonaro’s extreme views have divided Brazil’s 120,000-strong Jewish community, the 9th-largest in the world.