USA Today mentions Palestine in a story on Martin Luther King Jr’s living inspiration, and a 1964 speech on South Africa, lately rediscovered, suggests that King would be supporting Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel.
A truck-mounted billboard in LA in which Mandela calls for Palestinian freedom has been removed from the streets because of intimidation tactics and graffiti, in a blow to free debate of the conflict
Many Israel supporters say that the French attacks show Jewish insecurity in Europe. The flip side of this argument is that the attacks demonstrate that Israeli discrimination is an anachronism in today’s world, and this widespread understanding is turning the country into a pariah.
It’s a “tragic irony” that Israel which has withstood thousands of terrorist rockets is to be investigated by the International Criminal Court, the US State Department says, fulfilling its role as the defender of the Jewish state
President Obama told Democratic senators he knew they faced donor pressure to ramp up sanctions on Iran. In reporting this, the NYT never mentioned the Israel lobby, which applies that pressure
Shades of Selma: Shmuley Boteach tells two Muslim writers on CNN that they have no right to complain about their freedoms in the US and Israel. Ahmed Shihab-Eldin and Rula Jebreal beg to differ.
Netanyahu warned French Jews that they were as unsafe in Paris as Jews in Spain before the inquisition; but his pushiness on the Paris tour is turning into mockery back home
Media have tended to portray Muslim objections to the depiction of the prophet Muhammad as backward and unevolved. It would be better if the media sought to explain how Muslims feel about the matter.
Netanyahu has exploited French killings to say that Jews everywhere “know deep in their hearts” they have only one country, Israel– “our true home, our one and only state”