How does Rupert Murdoch’s New York Post report an attack when it’s “only” committed by a white person (instead of a Muslim?)
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Why don’t we regard extreme Jews as a threat?
The extremism of the ultra-Orthodox community is revealed once again in this Der Spiegel article: The community of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel is half a million strong and growing. They live in a parallel universe cut off from the modern world in tight-knit communities where everything revolves around religion. Only a few dare to abandon…
What men in Gaza are doing to get food on the table
An interesting Associated Press story that explains why so many in Gaza are keen to be Hamas policemen. Not because of Islamist ideology but simply getting money to support families.
Is anybody taking America seriously in the Middle East?
Barack Obama has behaved in the Middle East exactly like his predecessor, George W. Bush. Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas is right: Barack Obama does have a foreign policy. It’s called war. But wait, pleads Hillary Clinton, we’re trying so damn hard: Call it Hillary Rodham Clinton’s “Keep Hope Alive” tour. The secretary of…
When neo-Nazis and Zionists are in bed together
How disturbed should we be when the far-right shows support for Israel because the Jewish state is supposedly fighting radical Islam? A blast from the past.
The New York Times has at least one vaguely honest writer on Israel/Palestine
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen is one of the better mainstream American commentators on the Middle East. Though unbelievably mild and seemingly unwilling to suggest Washington do anything to pressure Israel apart from harsh words (like that’s going to work), his latest piece continues the admirable trend: For over a century now, Zionism and…
The American campus is the new Israeli battleground
Israel is facing an increasing challenge to get its voice heard at American universities. That’s what happens when you spend decades occupying another people. Take this continually interrupted speech by Israeli Ambassador Michael Oren. Hours before he spoke this was released: UCI’s Muslim Student Union said in an email today that its members “condemn and…
Israel’s gender apartheid should be damned
The Jewish Forward editorialises strongly against Israel’s growing religious extremism (just remember what the Western media says when genders are divided in Muslim nations): The need to restrain the burgeoning power of Jewish fundamentalism in Israel grows ever more urgent. The latest flashpoint is public transportation. For several years, on an increasing number of public…
Why the Western powers will never win Afghanistan
Unique journalism is getting an angle rarely reported or understood. Take this fascinating British Dispatches program that features inside the “enemy camp in northern Afghanistan”:
Is this the best way to deal with anti-Islam hatred?
Israeli historian Benny Morris – a Jewish man who rather likes the concept of bombing Arabs and/or Iranians – has run into a problem in Britain: The Cambridge University Israel Society have cancelled a talk by former Cambridge student Benny Morris after pressure from students. The political historian, who was due to speak at Catz,…