A crop of bills and resolutions in Congress and state legislatures are targeting the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement. Some are mere resolutions expressing an opinion, while others have teeth. But they are all united in seeking to stigmatize the BDS movement as beyond the pale.
Margaret Sullivan, public editor of the Times, slams NYT editors for running a story that equated BDS with anti-Semitism and left out Jewish students who support the movement. A victory!
Jodi Rudoren’s latest piece in the NYT makes Ayelet Shaked, the new Israeli Justice Minister who has endorsed genocidal statements against Palestinians, seem feisty and her own woman. Imagine if Rudoren had been sent to Mississippi in 1965 to profile a segregationist.
George W. Bush usually paints portraits of dogs and heads of state. But he did an architectural landscape, a painting of Sheldon Adelson’s casino in Singapore, to cultivate billionaire Sheldon Adelson, whose backing his brother Jeb wants for his run for the presidency.
The leading Jewish newspaper The Forward has a new ad in the NY subway celebrating all the diverse, sublime, cosmopolitan ways people can be Jewish. Israel is never mentioned. This is the trend. A divorce is at hand.
Jodi Rudoren’s latest sanctification of an Israeli artist who fears Iranian nukes shows that the Times has utterly abdicated the role of offering a balanced view of the conflict. It is dedicated to promoting the Israeli view, building support for Israel.
Neoconservative financier Paul Singer was Marco Rubio’s second largest backer in 2009-2014, so it’s no wonder Jeb Bush is pandering to Singer on Israel, he needs to compete with Rubio
Israel is preparing for another war that kills masses of civilians– and it’s preparing its propaganda campaign early with the New York Times happy to help.
Chris Matthews says that Jeb Bush was pandering to Jewish donors in the Israel lobby when he embraced his brother. But guests Jonathan Capehart and David Corn say it was just a screwup. Really?
On Sunday, May 9th, The New York Times ran a front-page story discussing efforts across various U.S. campuses to divest from Israel’s illegal occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, echoing pro-Israel students’ claims that such efforts are divisive. Unfortunately, this piece, co-authored by Jennifer Medina and Tamar Lewin, is the latest in a troubling series of prominent New York Times stories that misrepresent the campus divestment movement and strip it of essential context.