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Are You Ready to Take Your Israel Advocacy Up a Notch?

Just finished reading one the most unbelievably skewed commentaries I’ve ever seen. It’s so bad, I actually see it as a teachable moment. So rather than debunk it myself, I’m turning this over to the…

Pesach Benson
May 29, 2012
12:00 am

Reading time: < 1 minutes

So take a stab at addressing the issues raised by Belfast Telegraph columnist Eamonn McCann. We’re talking about:

The Boycott-Divestment-Sanctions movement.
The International Criminal Court’s ruling against Israel’s security barrier.
The Palestinian “right” of return.
Accusations of Israeli apartheid.
IDF baby killers and a comparison with the Nazis.

Are you up to “fisking” McCann? Are you ready to take your Israel advocacy up a notch?

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Tags: apartheid, BDS, Belfast Telegraph, Boycott Divestment Sanctions, Eamonn McCann, International Court of Justice, Israel advocacy, Palestinian refugees, Qana, security barrier, settlements

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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