The New York Times Jerusalem bureau chiefs Ethan Bronner and Jodi Rudoren failed to convey a true grim picture of one-state Israel/Palestine out of Zionist attachment. Similar adherences have kept the US mainstream press from telling a truth that John Kerry and US ambassador Daniel Shapiro have conveyed in recent weeks.

Ambassador Daniel Shapiro’s sharp criticism of Israeli policies earned him the insult “little Jewboy” from a former Netanyahu aide. The flap demonstrates an important sociological trend: American Jews, even mainstream ones indoctrinated to love Israel, are breaking more and more publicly with the Jewish state. The Netanyahu government is proving to be embarrassing to American Jews; they do not want to be associated with rightwing apartheid policies.

Beginning to get a bad feeling about Peter Baker, the likely next Jerusalem chief for the New York Times: He has twice offered Israel as a model for American conduct, in how to deal with terrorism and with prisoners accused of terrorism.

US media outlets, including the powerful New York Times, refuse to report basic elements of Palestinians’ experiences, including the perspectives of Palestinians living in Israel. Reporter Diaa Hadid’s January 3 article in The New York Times on Palestinian citizens of Israel living in Haifa provides a recent case in point.

Benjamin Netanyahu has angered one president after another, Frontline showed in a documentary Netanyahu at War last week. But there are never any consequences.

Ari Shavit attempts to silence Breaking the Silence by employing an inappropriate biblical quote in his Ha’aretz column and calling for “unending devotion to the Zionist enterprise”

NYT piece by Diaa Hadid says Palestinians in Haifa get to enjoy freedoms they wouldn’t in Arab society; but a main source for the piece says on Facebook that the Times quoted him out of context and censored his support for cultural resistance to Israel.

Paul Krugman writes an entire column about Sheldon Adelson and Paul Singer’s influence inside the Republican Party without pointing out the obvious: their core issue is Israel. He’s lying to his readers.

Roger Waters posts an inspiring video of Palestinian children in occupied Bil’in who take measures to go to the sea they’re not allowed to visit, just 20 miles away

Pollster Nate Silver describes Israel as a democracy, right up there with the US and the UK; he shouldn’t dignify an ethnocracy in that manner given the rampant discrimination against Palestinian citizens and voters, and subjects