By Jim Naureckas. FAIR – Read this headline from the New York Times (11/16/14): Palestinian Shot by Israeli Troops at Gaza Border Think for a second about what kind of image that calls up. How much does that image change when you read the story’s second sentence? A spokeswoman for the hospital said the Palestinian was a 10-year-old boy. […]
By Richard Silverstein. Tikun Olam – All the U.S. national news headlines speak of yesterday’s heinous synagogue terror attack by Palestinians in the West Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Nof (largely populated by Haredi Jews). The assault resulted in five Israeli dead with the two Palestinians attackers killed as well. U.S. news programs have also focused on the American citizenship of […]
Israeli forces also shoot three Palestinians with rubber-coated steel bullets Ma’an — An Italian was critically injured on Friday afternoon after Israeli forces opened live fire on a protest march in the village of Kafr Qaddum west of Nablus. Palestinian Minister of Health Jawad Awwad told Ma’an that an Italian solidarity activist he identified as […]
Steven Pruzansky “is the spiritual leader of the largest synagogue in Teaneck in what may well be the biggest modern Orthodox suburban community in America.” JTA – If Rabbi Steven Pruzansky of Teaneck, N.J., had his way, Arab rioters and stone throwers would be shot with live ammunition. Arabs would be barred from the Temple […]
JTA, Amy Eden – It’s been a big Jewish week for Texas Sen. Ted Cruz The headliner was the annual dinner of the Zionist Organization of America, a can’t-miss night on the calendar, especially for those who unabashedly support Israeli settlements, believe Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority are bent on destroying Israel, and think the Obama administration isn’t […]
Teaneck Cleric Calls for Expulsion of Palestinian ‘Animals’ Forward — The rabbi of a major modern Orthodox synagogue in New Jersey has written a blog post that calls for Israel to collectively punish Arab Israelis and Palestinians until they realize “they have no future in the land of Israel.” In the post, written Friday and […]
JTA (Reuters) As the United States and other powers negotiate down to the wire on a nuclear deal with Iran, one voice has been unusually quiet – the main pro-Israel lobby in Washington. Israel deeply distrusts the attempt to reach a deal at talks in Vienna that would lift harsh international sanctions on Iran in […]
By Jordan Kutzik. The Jewish Daily Forward – I hate to say I told you so. But the fatal shooting of two Palestinian teens in the West Bank this summer? Not faked. Not “Pallywood.” Not even close. It was exactly what it appeared to be. On May 15, four Palestinians, three of them children, were shot […]
By Alan Hart. AlanHart.net – Question: What’s the difference between the Zionist lobby in America and the Zionist lobby in Britain? Answer: In America it gives money to politicians to make them. In Britain it denies them money to break them. The headline in The Independent On Sunday was Labour funding crisis: Jewish donors drop “toxic” Ed Miliband (the son of Jewish […]
By L. Michael Hager. CounterPunch – “You are not entitled to that information!” That’s what a staffer in Senator Markey’s office bluntly told me when I called to ask for help in identifying Members of Congress who hold dual citizenship. Seems that’s a question no one wants to hear. The Internet sources are flaky, with only […]
