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NYT Ties Turkish Group to ‘Terrorism’–by Mixing It Up With a Different Group
Ever since the Israeli raid on a Turkish group's boat filled with aid for the Gaza Strip, there has been a lot of attempts in the press, following Israel's lead, to label the Turkish humanitarian group IHH a supporter of "terrorism."
The latest salvo comes from a New York Times article about the Turkish group having [...]
Isabel Kershner misleads on Israel’s ‘far-reaching proposal’
New York Times reporter Isabel Kershner writes a news analysis of why "peace talks" between Israel and the Palestinians are at a virtual standstill, despite the "upbeat atmosphere" in Washington following Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Obama's recent meeting.
When she attempts to contextualize the "peace talks," Kershner throws in this misleading history:Mr. Netanyahu's predecessor, [...]
‘NYT’ ‘authorizes’ an atrocity
The NYT, last week, reporting on indictments springing from the Gaza conflict of '08-'09:Beyond that, the [Israeli] military said a battalion commander was indicted on suspicion of deviating from “authorized and appropriate” army behavior and from an Israeli Supreme Court ruling when he authorized a Palestinian man to act as a kind of human shield [...]
Beinart says he was silent for years out of deference to friends
Haaretz has a too-long interview of Peter Beinart on a visit to Israel that reminds us how important his NYRB piece was that attacked the American Jewish leadership for supporting Israel blindly.Beinart is having a huge effect inside the Jewish community, but the meaning/nonmeaning of this shift is the issue. I've excerpted some interesting bits [...]
Daniel Schorr waltzes with Bibi
The other night (Transcript or Audio) NPR's senior news analyst Dan Schorr described the impasse in Palestinian-Israeli negotiations as: "Netanyahu will not accept the Palestinian state with its own defense capability. The Palestinians will not accept a Jewish state that nibbles away with settlements in [...]
Pastel settlers
One of the pleasures of reading the New York Times is learning to recognize different writers’ structural biases. I don’t really know Jim Rutenberg or Mike McIntire, but I’ve been reading Ethan Bronner’s work for years now. His work is tendentiously pro-Zionist; he’s the commensurate ‘hugger and wrestler’ with Israel. Somewhat pitifully, [...]
CNN Editor fired for Tweet
CNN has announced/reported that “CNN’s senior Middle East editor, Octavia Nasr, has left the network after a controversial posting on Twitter about a Shia cleric who had longtime ties to and voiced strong support for Hezbollah. Nasr, who joined CNN in 1990, posted a Tweet over the weekend that said, ‘Sad to hear of [...]
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When the Police Control the Press
by Stephen Engelberg, ProPublica
The Serbian soldier blocking the bridge cradled his AK-47 assault rifle as he delivered a ruling that brooked no argument: You cannot cross the river. Not today.
We implored him to reconsider. We are journalists. We'v...
The new mixed-Jewish establishment