Jackson Diehl, the Deputy Editorial Page Editor of the Washington Post—and not exactly a close friend of Israel, wrote a great editorial in Monday’s Post urging Obama to “end the spat with Israel”. The situation is one in which Obama is painting himself into a corner with his anti-settlement rhetoric, and the more adamant... »
Archive for July 2nd, 2009
Haifa University: No Jews Allowed
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
In an absolutely unbelievable story, Haifa University hosted an Islamic extremist speaker, Sheikh Raed Salah, to speak on its campus and, as if that weren’t preposterous enough, they banned all Jews from the auditorium during his speech! In a followup article, the Jerusalem Post reports that university vice president, Amos Gaver, will think twice... »
Media Looks Away As PA Covers Up Torture Death
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Khaled Abu Toameh reports an unknown story about a recent cover-up by the Palestinian Authority of the death of a detainee at their hands, possibly by torture, which is only “unknown” so far because those covering it up were Palestinians and not Israels. The story of the detainee is described by Abu Toameh as... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]