Hasby Award for Best Media Watchdog
The Hasby Award nominees for Best Media Watchdog this year are;BBC WatchCiF Watch Presspectiva Honest Reporting Canada The first three nominees are associated with CAMERA and the last with Honest...
View Article01/22 Links Pt2: In Failing to Confront Islamism, the Left Betrays Itself;...
From Ian:Tarek Fatah: In Failing to Confront Islamism, the Left Betrays ItselfAs the world struggles to understand and cope with the rise of pan-Islamism and international jihadi terrorism within...
View ArticleEven when Egypt "opens" Rafah, hardly anyone gets through
From Ma'an:Egyptian authorities on Thursday closed the Rafah crossing after it had been temporarily opened for three days.Palestinian crossing officials told Ma'an that 830 Palestinians in Gaza used...
View ArticleReporters in Malmo, Sweden put on a kipah, Stars of David and get threatened...
From The Algemeiner:Eighteen months after an intrepid gentile journalist strolled the streets of Malmo, Sweden wearing a yarmulke, in order to get a sense of how residents of the city view Jews, a new...
View ArticleThe NYT anti-Israel style guide adds a new phrase
Buried in a New York Times article today about friction between President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu is a phrase that the newspaper has never used before:Famously, many of those conversations...
View ArticleIran offers its weapons to any Muslim country to fight Israel
Dozens of Arabic media outlets are quoting FARS News saying that the deputy commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Hossein Salami, stressed that "all the targets of the Zionist...
View Article01/23 Links Pt1: Glick: Iran, Obama, Boehner and Netanyahu; An attack against...
From Ian:Caroline Glick: Iran, Obama, Boehner and Netanyahu Obama's message then is clear. Not only will the diplomatic policy he has adopted not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons (and the...
View ArticleDanish police, officials praise a mosque that supports ISIS. Really.
The bar for praising Muslims has hit a new low.From TheLocal.dk:Aarhus's Grimhøj Mosque was once again thrust back in the spotlight earlier this month after the airing of a documentary in which mosque...
View Article01/23 Links Pt2: Europe Offers Israel the Peace of the Dead; BHL & Prosor at...
From Ian:Sarah Honig: Zionism and etrogism The name switches of what until recently marketed itself as the Israel Labor Party offer fascinating insight into how Zionism has steadily lost its allure on...
View Article01/24 Links: Dershowitz: The Case Against the International Criminal Court...
From Ian:Alan Dershowitz: The Case Against the International Criminal Court Investigating IsraelIt is telling that Hamas has expressed satisfaction with the decision of the ICC to open an investigation...
View ArticleMiracle Allah Ear, 2015 edition
We saw it in 2007 with a baby born in Ramallah.We saw it again in 2010.Now, a baby in Bethlehem is the latest one with a malformed ear which resembles the Arabic word "Allah."This is considered a...
View ArticleElder gets results! NYT silently changes "1967 borders with Palestine"
On Friday, I noted that the New York Times sneaked in a new phrase in an article about Obama and Netanyahu, referring to the "1967 borders with Palestine" - a nonsensical phrase that the newspaper had...
View ArticleFour Molotov cocktails, two countries, one language, very different reporting
Molotov cocktails were thrown at the guard stations at the Jewish community of Bet El on Saturday. Another one was hurled at an Israeli bus south of Hebron.Both of these incidents are so routine that...
View ArticleSo, Where is the Argument? (Mike Lumish)
Those of you who follow my writings or Jon Haber's blog, Divest this!, know that we have been conversing about Israel, the western-left, and the Obama administration for a number of months.I don't want...
View Article01/25 Links: France most dangerous Jews; Official PA paper: Israel behind...
From Ian:Howard Jacobson: Try ‘and’ instead of ‘but’ and you’ll find that America and Israel are not to blame for all the world’s atrocities And so it has been these past few shameful weeks with the...
View ArticleHasby Award for Best Watchdog - Arabic Media and NGOs
The Hasby Award nominees for Best Watchdog - Arabic Media and NGOs are:MEMRI NGO MonitorUN Watch Again, even though there were only three nominees, it was a very hard category.And the winner of the...
View ArticleComic artists invoke Charlie Hebdo to support those who HATE freedom of speech
From JTA:Dozens of comics artists signed a letter calling for a boycott against any Israeli entity that does not “promote freedom and justice for Palestinians.”The open letter, cosigned by more than 80...
View ArticleHamas leader says "No Jew will ever enter Gaza"
Mahmoud Zahar gave a speech on Friday night, during a memorial for Hamas "martyrs" killed last year during Operation Protective Edge. It was widely published in Arabic media.During the speech, after...
View ArticleElder gets results (belated Gisha edition)
Another remarkable coincidence!Last month, I noted that Gisha, the Israeli NGO that pretends to care about freedom of movement of people and goods to and from Gaza, had never said anything bad about...
View ArticleGaza minister ends boycott of Israeli products that never existed
A bizarre article in Ma'an:Gaza's Ministry of Economy said Sunday that it would allow the entry of Israeli products into the Gaza Strip for the first time in five years.Imad al-Baz, assistant deputy of...
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