“Heartbroken and furious, I would never return there again,” Ayelet Waldman said of Israel after visiting separate-and-unequal Hebron with Breaking the Silence in 2014. She and her husband Michael Chabon are working on a collection about the occupation that has gotten a lot of attention in the Israeli press and is sure to shock American Jews.
Israel’s political crisis puts a burden on its propagandists: How to make Americans feel that Israel is fine, despite the warnings of fascism. So where is the country’s most important journalist on Israel issues? Jeffrey Goldberg has been silent. In a fluid situation, he doesn’t know what to say to stay at the center of the discussion.
Israeli leadership is in crisis over the nature of the Jewish state, with leaders saying the political culture is reminiscent of Nazi Germany; and a NY Times editorial that treats the events as a political reshuffling is an embarrassing and obfuscating contribution to the discourse. What will it take for the Times to stop making the most preposterously generous interpretations of Israeli actions?
A NYT article by Ronen Bergman says Israel’s top military leaders regard Benjamin Netanyahu as a religious, ideological ambitious man who seeks “belligerent” solutions to problems. Then why is Hillary Clinton saying she wants to invite this “dangerous” man to the White House in her first month as president?
Eli Lake of Bloomberg offers as evidence a tweet and a book blurb to attempt to smear realist scholars Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer as anti-Semites after they are granted a platform at the Koch Institute. And he does so because he sees neocons losing their traction in Washington.
When he urged Jews to reflect on the meaning of the Holocaust in the wake of the murder of a Palestinian on the ground by an Israeli medic, Israeli General Yair Golan issued a historical challenge to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his propagandists in the west: that the use of the Holocaust to justify slaughter of enemies is bringing Israeli society to a point of no return
How does this Miko Peled video get 2.7 million views– how is that possible? This isn’t a puppy or music video. Because Muslims want to see a beautiful Israeli Jew discuss his country honestly.
If Sheldon Adelson would buy the world, then Jeffrey Goldberg would be alright. But his troubles are beginning. He is a ruthless propagandist for Israel at a time when young American Jews don’t think it’s cool to shoot wounded Palestinians dead in the name of ethnic solidarity.
Jennifer Rubin’s denunciation of Bernie Sanders’s comments on Israel and Palestine are propaganda for Israel, in the Washington Post, from start to finish and represent a warning to Sanders not to touch the issue or we will smear you.