Some of the major U.S. and European brands who import from Bangladesh are slinking away from workplace safety there, making another Rana Plaza tragedy more likely. And if anything can fuel the rise of Jihadist Islamism in the heavily-populated country, it’s western exploitation.
The Gaza killings have had a huge effect on world opinion. Tonight they became even bigger. In an astonishing move, the Israeli-American film star Natalie Portman, 36, informed an Israeli foundation she would not show up at the awards ceremony of Israel’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize because recent events have been “extremely distressing” to her, an obvious reference to Israel’s killings of nearly 40 unarmed Palestinian protesters.
Israel’s propaganda machine, Hasbara Central, is forcing the ‘New York Times’ to revert to biased reporting of the Gaza demonstrations, as Times Jerusalem bureau chief leaps to amend a story.
Maybe all the criticism of the New York Times’s coverage of Israel’s massacres in Gaza is having an impact. Today’s news analysis, by David Halbfinger, is strikingly more balanced than the paper’s previous reports. The article gives four paragraphs to Yousef Munayyer, who directs the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, who points out that Palestinians are using the only thing they have, their bodies, to point out their persecution to the world.
The ‘NY Times’ just cannot stop trying to downplay and whitewash Israel’s massacre of Gazans.
The New York Times is using a new tactic to downplay Israel’s March 31 murderous assault on Gazan demonstrators: dueling narratives. Today’s article can be summarized as: ‘Israel says “X.” Palestinians say “Y.” Who really knows the truth?” But the article continues to ignore a central fact: Israel killed 15 Palestinians, and injured as many as 1000 more, but not a single Israeli soldier got as much as a scratch.
The astonishing dishonesty in the Times continues in today’s paper coverage of the Great March of Return in Gaza. The article headlined “Confrontations at Gaza Fence Leave 15 Dead,” waits until the 21st paragraph to add that another 1000 Palestinians were injured, but insinuates right away that the Gazans are to blame for starting the violence.
The New York Times today continues its biased coverage of Israel/Palestine, with a shocking, one-sided report on how Israeli has opened fire on the mass nonviolent Palestinian protest inside the Gaza border.
James North writes a memo to New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Halbfinger on the paper’s coverage of Ahed Tamimi: “Enough of the ‘dueling narratives.’ Go to her village in Occupied Palestine, Nabi Saleh, and report some facts.”
Apologists for Israel continue to slander Ahed Tamimi, the 17-year-old Palestinian imprisoned for three months and counting for slapping an Israeli soldier, but Ben Ehrenreich’s superb book, The Way to the Spring, published in 2016, gave Americans a compelling profile of the stoical girl and her remarkable family.