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 [...]
Second Rate Has-Been Danny Glover, Hanoi Jane, and Friends Protest Against Israel
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The New York Post is reporting that in an online letter to event chiefs of the Toronto International Film Festival and in other public statements, traitor Hanoi Jane Fonda, self-hating Jew Naomi Klein, second-rate has-been bit actor Danny Glover, musical has-been David Byrne, vagina-obsessed Eve Ensler, and several others looking for that long-lost spotlight have protested the festival’s choice to spotlight the city of Tel Aviv and 10 Israeli moviemakers.
“We are deeply disturbed by [TIFF's] decision to host a celebratory spotlight on Tel Aviv… We protest that TIFF, whether intentionally or not, has become complicit in the Israeli propaganda machine…we object to the use of such an important international festival in staging a propaganda campaign on behalf of … an apartheid regime.”
To their credit, the festival heads refused to back down, insisting it would continue to show “the best films we can find.” Unfortunately, though, this noble stand was quickly tainted by an open letter posted on the TIFF web site by Cameron Bailey, the festival’s co-director, in which he wrote:
We recognize that Tel Aviv is not a simple choice and that the city remains contested ground. We continue to learn more about the Palestinian-led Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
Since when is Tel Aviv contested ground? I know that the Palestinians have been gradually redefining the playing field over the decades and planting many seeds of falsehood that have taken root by now, but has the bar moved that much already that Tel Aviv is now contested?
And what exactly is there to learn about the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement other than the fact that it is an anti-Semitic, bigoted, hypocritical movement, the members of which should hopefully suffer from all the diseases and terror attacks that Israel has innovatively addressed through their successful tactocs and inventions—that they should be sure to boycott.
Anna 
PMA
[...] little over four months ago, I posted about second-rate has-been Danny Glover’s idiotic decision to dabble in politics (if you thought he was bad at acting…). Well, it seems he can’t keep his big mouth shut [...]