The New York Times has fully underwritten the “Facebook fallacy” — the idea that social media are responsible for the stabbing attacks by Palestinians, rather than nearly 50 years of occupation and denial of people their rights.
Soccer fans in Jerusalem chanted the name of Yitzhak Rabin’s killer, Yigal Amir, approvingly last week as 20th anniversary of assassination approached; and Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said at a rally that hope in Israel is now “in the crosshairs.” Netanyahu did not appear at the rally.
Elle Magazine published an autobiographical article by Karmah Elmusa, a young Palestinian-American journalist — and all heck broke loose in the comment section.
The New York Times underplays Paul Singer’s commitment to rightwing pro-Israel groups in coverage of Singer’s endorsement of the neoconservative favorite, FL Senator Marco Rubio
Ghada Karmi’s new memoir, Return, about her return to Palestine from England, engages exalted themes involving the west and the Arab world. She is coming to NYU on November 2 and Washington November 5.
The argument by two lifelong Zionists for the boycott of Israel to save the state is courageous, Omar Barghouti says, but suffers from the same two ills that afflict all Zionist arguments: selective amnesia and deep-seated racism.
‘NYT’ mentions Palestinian incitement to murder Jews on Facebook connected with the killing of Richard Lakin, 76, in Jerusalem, but leaves out thousands of Facebook posts by rightwing Israelis celebrating Lakin’s death because he was an activist for co-existence.
The most creative slam of Zionism ever: Max Geller sneaks his anti-Zionism on to a Chicago TV set in an interview about Renoir paintings!
In signs of the end of US consensus on Israel, longtime Israel lobbyist Steve Gutow says Israeli journalists have no compassion for Palestinians and Dexter Filkins trashes Dennis Ross in the New Yorker as indifferent to justice and only caring whether a president is a “friend of Israel.”
Yousef Munayyer says the Palestinian rebellion could hurt international solidarity efforts if it is not channeled into the non-violent BDS movement that has transformed global opinion. While Max Blumenthal says the violence suggests an Algeria outcome in Israel and Palestine rather than a South Africa ending.