Mort Zuckerman’s opposition to the Iran Deal was an expression of the “Coffee Party,” Haim Saban wrote to Hillary Clinton in an unclassified email, in a reference to neoconservatives. But Saban is just as strong as Zuckerman on Israel. Why aren’t the media exploring these differences?
Hatim Kanaaneh was grateful to see the New Yorker publish big pieces on Palestinian Israelis Ayman Odeh and Sayed Kashua, but the pieces left a bitter aftertaste. Authors David Remnick and Ruth Margalit seize on their subjects as evidence of a democratic and inclusive Israel
At a town hall in South Carolina last night on MSNBC, Donald Trump said the Israel/Palestine deal was the toughest agreement in the world to pull off, it might be impossible to make a deal, so he had to be neutral on the question. Then he twice smeared Palestinians, saying they were brought up as children to hate Jews.
Steven Salaita was smeared as anti-Semitic for saying that Zionism is pervasive in the establishment, but his point is proven by the anger from leading law firm Milbank, Tweed at Harvard Law School for giving $500 of its gift to a Palestinian solidarity group, resulting in the withdrawal of the entire gift
In 2009, Mike Allen of Politico held an unseemly “secret contest” with White House and State Deparment officials to name the foreign policy column at the publication. Three of those officials have gone on to form a consulting group that sells neoconservative-lite ideas about US policy
David Fanning, the founder of the PBS documentary series Frontline, says that the charge that he stood in the way of the Michael Singh film “Valentino’s Ghost: Why We Hate Arabs” unfairly misrepresents his role in the matter
Why did a freshman senator with so little seasoning rise as a plausible presidential candidate? Marco Rubio has the backing of the rightwing Israel lobby, and is said to be in contention for Sheldon Adelson’s millions.
More censorship of Palestinians by a leading NY institution. The Public Theater cancels a production it had scheduled for May of The Siege, a show about freedom fighters in the second intifada, produced by the Jenin Freedom Theatre in occupied Palestine.
Hat’s off to Thomas Friedman. The New York Times columnist states what the New York Times news reporters failed to report to America (notably Jodi Rudoren, the former Jerusalem bureau chief) and that we have reported: The two state solution is over, there will never be a Palestinian state, let us move on to the one state reality.
Nobody in the media pointed out that Bernie Sanders was the first Jew to win a primary because a, they’re used to Jews being all over the power structure and b, Bernie’s assimilated.