A Super Bowl of Silly BDS Coverage

As if the Mideast doesn’t have bigger things to worry about. The Guardian joins BDS nitpicking over a SodaStream factory’s…

By February 06, 2013

As if the Mideast doesn’t have bigger things to worry about.

The Guardian joins BDS nitpicking over a SodaStream factory’s West Bank location. The “sizzle” is that SodaStream happened to advertise during the Super Bowl.

Is every single BDS press release a story for The Guardian?

© Divuach Ne’eman R”A, 2025

Pesach Benson

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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