Jeff Warner & Dick Platkin, Mondoweiss – In the past month much has been written about two incidents of anti-Semitism at the University of California campuses. According to the NY Times and the Los Angeles Times, they represent a national trend of revived campus anti-Semitism. We think an even cursory…
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To learn the details see: American Historical Association Censors Ad for Book on Israel, Palestine & the US: Keeping “Hidden History” Hidden, CounterPunch, March 27-29, 2015.
Recent news from the International Middle East Media Center, IMEMC (ignored by US media. Imagine the coverage if Palestinians had taken these actions against Israelis): Israeli Army Demolishes A Home, Four Residential Sheds, In Tubas Wednesday March 18, 2015 – 13:54 Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, two Palestinian villages in the…
From Saudi Arabi information service: CNN anchor Christiane Amanpour interviewed Prince Turki al Faisal and an excerpt was posted to CNN.com in which he responded to questions about the punishment of flogging for a Saudi blogger, about the prospects for the Israeli elections and about the Iran nuclear negotiations. For…
From Electronic Intifada Note: This video shows disturbing footage of Israeli police shooting and killing a Palestinian youth. At least thirty Palestinian citizens of Israel were arrested in the Galilee village of Kufr Kana on Sunday as protests spread over the cold-blooded police killing of a youth on Friday. The…
In a JTA article this week, Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan talk about the significance of their Jewish upbringing, of having 3 Jewish Justices on the US Supreme Court, and of Judge Kagan’s debt to Rabbi Shlomo Riskin (who has since founded a particularly notorious West Bank…
PBS NewsHour Executive Producer Sara Just and NPR Standards Editor Mark Memmott seem to have come up with almost identical statements about commentator David Brooks’ conflict of interest. (Brooks, who works for the New York Times, NPR and PBS, had kept hidden the fact that his son was serving in…
In recent weeks I’ve phoned and emailed the NPR ombudsman’s office several times about commentator David Brooks’ conflict of interest – Brooks’ son has been serving in the Israeli military while Brooks has been commenting on Israel without divulging that his son was in the Israeli army. Ombudsmen are charged…
Not surprisingly, NPR’s ombudsman goes with the flow that will neither interfere with his current employment nor injure his future prospects in American journalism. Following is an email to me from the Office of the Ombudsman, and below that is my response to NPR: Dear Alison, Thank you for contacting…
The New York Times ombudsman (“public editor”) has now said that the Times should disclose to readers the fact that the son of columnist David Brooks, who often comments about Israel, is serving in the Israeli military. Ethics codes require such disclosure. So far, however, PBS has stated nothing about…