Sunday, November 6, 2022

Lot's of coverage about new govt. in Israel. Based on the coverage, you might be fooled into thinking the papers had something positive to say about the previous govt (before now). Not a word in today's NYTimes about the rockets fired at central Israel by Islamic Jihad in Gaza yesterday. Censoring news about terror does not make it go away, it only keeps the readers from understanding Israel. AP/NYT/LAT/WSJ etc. bemoan the rightward shift of the Israeli electorate and credits this to a rise in feelings of “Jewish supremacy,” while ignoring the increase in Palestinian attacks on Israelis, Palestinian rejection of multiple proposals that would have led to the establishment of the first-ever-to-exist Arab State of Palestine, the anti-Jewish rhetoric that spews from Palestinian mosques, schoolrooms, and media outlets, the PA’s “pay for slay” program, and Hamas’ firing missiles at Jerusalem when Israeli security forces dare to try to stop Palestinians’ hurling rocks and fireworks from the Al-Aqsa courtyard at Jews’ praying at the Western Wall. See related story on Thomas Friedman from JNS here.

Report from the Tehran Protests (London Review of Books-UK)




File these under #HeadlineFails
*Just 7% of Arab-Israelis consider themselves to be Palestinians, yet The New York Times headline: Palestinian Citizens of Israel Debate Whether It's Worth Voting
*A Hebron Hatchet Job: Three Ways The Media Misreported Israel’s Latest Terror Atrocity (Honest Reporting)  Saturday’s shooting was the latest in a string of deadly attacks targeting Israeli civilians and soldiers — Hanania became the third casualty in just three weeks. Yet this is how the Associated Press (AP), a global news institution with 1,300 clients such as The Washington Post, ABC News, and Fox News, framed the story: Palestinian gunman, Israeli man, dead in West Bank Attack

Wondering what Kyrie Irving was promoting? “Wakeup Black America” a revisionist historical portrayal of Jews as controlling the African slave trade. It is not only false but inflammatory and can lead to violence.