Time and Israeli Taxwashing

As long as the Gaza economy remains stifled, Israel can do no right, even when it releases $100 million in…

By Pesach Benson December 01, 2011

As long as the Gaza economy remains stifled, Israel can do no right, even when it releases $100 million in tax revenues to the PA.

Karl Vick doesn’t use the word “taxwashing” in this Time piece, but that’s the word that comes to mind when I see this “Yes, but” attitude.

Taxwashing, pinkwashing, whatever.

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.

Time and Israeli Taxwashing

Pesach Benson

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