Concordia University’s student paper, The Link and Tariq Ali label HonestReporting as a member of the sinister Israel lobby. Here’s the snippet from the Q+A:
Neil MacDonald was heavily criticized when he was CBC’s chief Middle East correspondent. One group awarded him the “Israel conspiracy award.” And he was reporting—
He was reporting the truth. He was reporting the truth, but you’re not allowed to report the truth about Israel in North America. Because the power of the Israeli lobby in the United States is phenomenal. Jewish professors who are hostile to what the Israeli army is doing are hounded out of universities. It’s shocking.
We gave MacDonald this award in 2004 — for a report falsely implicating Israel in the Abu Ghraib scandal.
