The mangling of truth when reporting the Middle East

Following the publication here in early September of a new SBS news directive that told journalists not to use the term “Palestinian land” to, er, describe Palestinian land, today’s Australian newspaper has some responses: Tzvi Fleischer, editor of Australia/Israel Review, which is put out by the Australia/Israel and Jewish Affairs Council, backed SBS’s position. “It’s…

Not saving “anti-Semitism” for when it really matters

Following recent comments by Zbigniew Brzezinski that the US could and should stop any Israeli bombing mission against Iran, the Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick – a woman with a history of Zionist extremism – writes the following: If Zbigniew Brzezinski had his way, the US would go to war against Israel to defend Iran’s nuclear…

Nazis are everywhere, especially under Israeli beds

Gideon Levy in Haaretz reminds us that Israel is very happy to cheapen the memory of the Holocaust when it suits their needs: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu cheapened the memory of the Holocaust in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday. He did so twice. Once, when he brandished proof of the…

Is a Shia revolution the best way forward?

The founder of Conflicts Forum, a site that discusses Islamism in all its form, is interviewed by Mother Jones. Alastair Crooke is an intriguing fellow: Crooke understands today’s Middle East as similar to Sarajevo in 1914, where a random event could precipitate a cascade that changes the world. Someone will overreach—Israel, Syria, Lebanon…­—and then everything…

Rabbi calls for a one-state solution

An intriguing post from The Magnes Zionist that indicates that public debate… how Israel/Palestine is starting to get mugged by reality: …  When a young modern orthodox pulpit rabbi in Chicago calls for an unlimited right of return of Palestinian refugees to the State of Israel, and proposes a bi-national Israel-Palestine, conjuring up the ghost of…

When the penny drop about the occupation?

Israel, you are being watched and increasingly so: Citing “European Union political guidelines” regarding “occupied territories,” the Spanish Housing Ministry has disqualified a group of Israeli academics from competing in a Solar Decathlon held every two years, because they are from the Ariel University Center of Samaria, located over the Green Line. Engineers, architects, solar…

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