Professor Steven Salaita had a job offer rescinded because of anti-Semitic tweets he posted about the 2014 Gaza war – now he is to be keynote speaker at a conference on freedom of speech and academic boycotts of Israel. The Irish Times report omits key context and seems to adopt Salaita’s warped narrative of Israel, portraying him as a victim.
The metal detectors are just another excuse for Palestinians to delegitimize Israel and incite terrorism and religious war against the Jews. Israel, on the other hand, is not looking to change the status quo at the Temple Mount, because Israel isn’t looking for war – only for security. That is why Israeli compromises won’t help – and that’s what the media have been ignoring all along.
Reducing the conflict to “Israel = bad; Palestinians = good” is not only false and unhelpful but is counterproductive to efforts for tolerance, dialogue, education, and improved relations between Israelis and Palestinians. All it does is make the activists feel better about themselves. Thom Yorke understands this. We can only hope that other artists follow his lead.
The LA Times accuses Israel of demonizing and excluding BDS activists, who it misrepresents as merely opposing the occupation – but why is the LA Times less concerned about the hateful, vitriolic BDS movement that demonizes and excludes Israel and Jews, while perpetuating hatred and violence towards them?
The Independent’s reports on Al Quds Day downplay Iran’s genocidal opposition to Israel while labeling its president a “moderate.”
Conn Mac Gabhann visited Israel purportedly to “better understand the political situation of the region.” Unfortunately though, it doesn’t seem that he gained much understanding at all.
Of course Wonder Woman is a natural target for BDS, who cannot allow any Israeli success, not least from an Israeli woman who has served in the IDF and done her part to defend the Jewish state.
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown whitewashes Palestinian terrorism against civilians, and delegitimizes Israeli defense and the Haganah, which was founded to protect Jews against attacks and later became the IDF.
An author visited the West Bank on a trip with Breaking the Silence, and wrote an essay in which she completely denies Jewish ties to Israel, while demonizing and dehumanizing Israelis – and the Irish Times promotes her hateful, false narrative.
Paul McGeogh is so focused on searching for similarities between Israel and North Korea, he neglects the most basic facts and glaring differences that would make any sort of comparison totally void.
An ABC guide to the two-state solution aims to clear up any confusion on the issue for its readers. Instead it leads its readers to adopt the Palestinians’ favored and distorted version of history and the conflict, leading to only more confusion.
The Associated Press illustrates a report on a Palestinian terror attack with photos of the mourning relatives of a Palestinian involved in terror who was killed in a totally unrelated incident. Is it too much for the AP to portray Israelis as victims when they are targeted by Palestinian terrorists?
Excusing terrorism, promoting lies and discrimination against Israel, and calling for the dismantling of the Jewish state, based on those lies, are the very epitome of demonization.
Robin Briant dismisses Palestinian terrorism as “retribution” for settlements, displaying more understanding and sympathy for terrorists than their victims.
The International Business Times relies on a Hamas-supporting hate site to accuse Israel of using a Palestinian child as a human shield.
Mahmoud Abbas is an Israeli collaborator, the Canadian Prime Minister is too pro-Israel, and Israel’s neighbors cause it occasional anxiety, according to Gerald Caplan in The Globe and Mail.
Going by Lara Marlowe’s sympathies for how terrorists are portrayed, her denial of Israel’s history, and her apparent objection to Israel having defensible borders, it seems her vision isn’t so different to that of the Palestinians.
The New Statesman acts as a mouthpiece for the extremist Palestine Solidarity Campaign, publishing a one-sided article that demonizes Israel and ignores the existence of Palestinian terrorism.
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