By Peter Hart. CommonDreams – It’s fair to say that US media don’t do enough to feature Palestinian voices in discussions of Palestinian issues. NBC‘s Meet the Press managed to interview a Palestinian on August 3–but host David Gregory saw this mostly as a chance to determine how much his guest dislikes Hamas. David Gregory invited Riyad Mansour, the permanent […]
By Tariq A. Al Maeena. Gulf News – The Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere in the Occupied Territories have been living in the world’s largest concentration camp for decades. Every shred of hope for peace with their Israeli neighbours is quickly shattered as the Israeli government has mastered the art of delaying and eventually shelving off […]
By Deepa Kumar. Salon – Israeli propaganda has hit a new low. While the world was still trying to come to terms with the mass deaths in Shejaiya, Benjamin Netanyahu went on CNN to state that Hamas uses the “telegenically dead” to further “their cause.” He added that for Hamas: “The more the dead, the better.” Even while Netanyahu followed […]
By Alison Weir. Following are a few short questions for the New York Times in regard to a recent news report: 1. When are you going to cover the killing of Palestinians the same way you cover the killing of Israelis? Israel’s killing of at least 8 civilians in one day was relegated to the […]
By Charlotte Silver. Electronic Intifada – Noor Elashi has not been able to hug her father for more than five years. Each time she visits him at United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois, they must communicate through a wall of Plexiglass. “It is unnecessarily cruel,” she told The Electronic Intifada. Her father, Ghassan Elashi, is one of […]
By Nureddin Sabir. Redress Information & Analysis – The BBC has abandoned all pretence of impartiality and let a prominent journalist for a right-wing Israeli newspaper write for its website. On 23 July an article by Gil Hoffman, an Israeli Wehrmacht reservist and chief political correspondent of the Jerusalem Post, appeared in the Middle East […]
Huffington Post – NEW YORK — CNN has removed correspondent Diana Magnay from covering the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after she tweeted that Israelis who were cheering the bombing of Gaza, and who had allegedly threatened her, were “scum.” “After being threatened and harassed before and during a liveshot, Diana reacted angrily on Twitter,” a CNN […]
By Glenn Greenwald. The Intercept – Ayman Mohyeldin, the NBC News correspondent who personally witnessed yesterday’s killing by Israel of four Palestinian boys on a Gazan beach and who has received widespread praise for his brave and innovative coverage of the conflict, has been told by NBC executives to leave Gaza immediately. According to an NBC source upset at his […]
Talk show rhetoric doesn’t equal good intelligence on the domestic danger posed by Iraq’s terrorists. By Philip Giraldi. The American Conservative – Americans have become so accustomed to going to war based on lies that they hardly flinch when the latest round of bellicose innuendo surfaces. The public knows that Iraq was a foreign policy disaster, […]
The Jerusalem Post – The Education Ministry and Wikipedia are joining forces to enable Israeli pupils to fill in missing information on the online encyclopedia’s site, it was announced Tuesday. Education Minister Shai Piron and Jan-Bart de Vreede, chairman of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, have agreed on a collaborative program to train history, […]
