The Atlantic’s Yair Rosenberg recasts Benjamin Netanyahu as a tragic figure forced to take radical action after October 7, ignoring his long history of fomenting war and exploiting Jewish trauma to further himself and his Zionist ideology.
Fifty years ago, I joined in protests against the Vietnam war. Today the mainstream media is smearing pro-Palestine student protests in ways that are even worse than how we were slandered back then.
Yair Rosenberg has routinely described Palestinian leaders as terrorists and antisemites and characterized Palestinian resistance to occupation as stemming from ancient historical hatred of Jews. He is now ensconced at the Atlantic spreading his misunderstanding of the world into American opinion, for years to come.
Would high-profile journalists push back the same if the target of the “anti-Semitism” smear was a Palestinian or an Arab?
Armin Rosen’s attack on Mondoweiss in The Atlantic is about nothing more than policing the discourse on Israel.
South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham speaking at an AIPAC conference (Photo: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst) The American-Israel…