Under the Radar, 3/3/14 – And the winner is … Arnon Milchan! Anyone watching the Oscars on Sunday – or reading/watching news Monday morning – knows that 12 Years a Slave earned the Academy Award for Best Picture. But when the star-studded cast and director crowded the stage at Hollywood’s Dolby Theatre to accept their trophies, it […]
By Philip Weiss. Mondoweiss, 2/18/14 – The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York has spiked a planned appearance by John Judis, author of the groundbreaking new history of Truman and the establishment of Israel, as too controversial. I’m told that Judis had agreed on a date, June 1, with the programming director of the museum, Gabriel Sanders, and […]
By Barbara Erickson. TimesWarp, 2/18/14 – In The New York Times, Palestinian land has become something else again. It is not the State of Palestine, not simply Palestine, not the occupied Palestinian territories and not really Israel either. It is all murkier than that. This should not be difficult for the Times. There is plenty of established […]
By Annie Robbins and Phil Weiss. Mondoweiss, 2/17/14 – Last month the LA Times ran a cute test on its op-ed page to show that Israel doesn’t practice apartheid, and that Palestinians are treated very well by Israel. Today the NY Times runs an op-ed saying that Israel gives Palestinians all the water they need, and as the region dries out, Palestinians are […]
By Stuart Littlewood. Redress, 2/12/14 – The head of the Holocaust Educational Trust, Karen Pollock, has once again succeeded in wringing an apology from a British MP for remarks about what happened to Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe and what is happening now to Palestinians in Israeli-occupied Gaza and the West Bank. “Offensive” truth During the same parliamentary debate in which Sir […]
AntiWar.com, 2/10/14 – It may seem like an incredibly lazy and not particularly inventive strategy, but Israel is willing to bet that, amid threats of a new push for boycott and divestment from the settlements, they can slander boycott advocates into silence. Israel held a whole special “ministerial meeting” on the matter recently, according to the […]
Everyone remembers the Israeli athletes murdered during the 1972 Olympic games, but no one commemorates the hundreds of people (mostly civilians) killed by Israel’s heavy air attacks in Syria and Lebanon launched the following day. By Alison Weir. Counterpunch, 2/11/14 – The Washington Post has published a moving article, “Russian Jews remember Israeli athletes murdered at 1972 […]
“America gives Israel money, arms and advice. Israel takes the money, it takes the arms, and it rudely rejects the advice. The fundamental problem with American support for Israel is its unconditional nature. Consequently, Israel does not have to pay a price for acting unilaterally in a multilateral world, for its flagrant violations of international law, […]
By Chris Roush. TalkingBizNews, 01/16/14 – Wall Street Journal technology editor Jonathan Krim sent out the following staff announcement on Thursday: We’re excited to announce a number of appointments as we continue our global expansion of technology coverage: Amir Mizroch will shortly take on the role of tech editor for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, spearheading tech […]
By Manny Friedman. The Times of Israel, July 1, 2012 – We Jews are a funny breed. We love to brag about every Jewish actor. Sometimes we even pretend an actor is Jewish just because we like him enough that we think he deserves to be on our team. We brag about Jewish authors, Jewish politicians, […]
