| A case study in anti-Israel media bias, from @Time magazinenoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 01 May 04:45 AM Let's examine the many ways Time magazine | | Let's examine the many ways Time magazine shows anti-Israel bias in this short piece in its latest print edition. It first mentions Israel's reaction to rocket fire before mentioning the rocket fire itself, making it sound like the reaction is the real story and rockets aiming at Israeli citizens are no big deal and not worth such a huge reaction. The print edition of the magazine included news from as late as April 26, but Israel re-opened the border on April 25, only a day later, so it was a very limited response. TIME doesn't mention this. Why not? Because it would detract from the "evil Israel" narrative. The piece makes it sound like Israeli police initiated and escalated hostilities on the Temple Mount, when they were defending themselves from rocks and fireworks. The escalation was entirely from the pro-Hamas rioters on the Temple Mount. The police had no intention to escalate, and in fact delayed their response, but Time frames it as if the only party responsible for escalation is Israel. This is false, inflammatory and irresponsible. The short article calls the Temple Mount "The site of Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque." The Temples were there centuries before anyone heard of "Al Aqsa." Time swallows the Arab narrative and ignores Jewish history. Time is linking the events at the Temple Mount with Gaza rocket attacks. The terrorists pretend...Read More |
From Ian: Security guard killed in Ariel terror attack named as Vyacheslav Golev The security guard killed in a terror shooting at the entrance to the West Bank settlement of Ariel on Friday night was identified as 23-year-old Vyacheslav Golev. Golev was a former student at Ariel University. He had recently moved to live with his fiancée in the West Bank community. They were engaged just a few weeks before the attack. He is survived by his parents and seven siblings who live in Beit Shemesh, and his fiancée who was stationed at the guard post during the attack. Golev used his body to shield her from the hail of bullets, saving her life, according to military officials. His fiancée, named as Victoria Fligelman from the southern city of Ashkelon, was not wounded in the attack The Beit Shemesh municipality said it was embracing Golev's family. "The security guard showed supreme heroism and saved the life of the security guard who worked with him," Mayor Aliza Bloch said. Mossad said to foil plot by Iran's IRGC to assassinate Israeli diplomat in TurkeyThe Mossad spy agency foiled a recent Iranian attempt to assassinate an Israeli diplomat working at the consulate in Istanbul, Hebrew-language media reported Saturday. The outlets said...Read More |
From Ian: Mark Regev: Why the Left went from being pro-Israel, Zionism to opposing them This Sunday, socialists across the globe will be proudly waving red flags at May Day parades to mark International Workers' Day. Once widely celebrated by labor, social democratic and socialist parties worldwide (including extensively in Israel), today May Day is primarily associated with the regime-sponsored events in authoritarian socialist countries and with the familiar radical left demonstrations across the West and the Global South. This year in cities from Johannesburg to Toronto, and from Dhaka to Athens, protesters will be advocating revolutionary change, a world liberated from the capitalist system "that puts profits before people." Overwhelmingly, May Day 2022 marchers will also self-identify as staunch enemies of the Jewish state. This anti-Israel hostility is not limited to strident criticism of Israel's behavior but encompasses the repudiation of Zionism itself. Today's militant socialists reject the legitimacy of the Jewish state, the very right of the Jews to national self-determination in their homeland. Across the contemporary radical left, including Europe's Mélenchonists, Podemitas, Corbynistas and Sinn Féiners, it is widely believed that the Jewish state should never have been established. They often erroneously view Israel as an illegitimate colonialist creation, a state founded on racist precepts and built...Read More |
IfNotNow, the hate-Israel group that used to be able to grab headlines and not much else, had been in serious trouble for a while now.
We noted last October that the group sent out a mailing to its list, asking its own people why it should exist and trying to figure out what it should do next.
Yet a look at their website shows that they have been floundering for a while. They haven't issued a press release for over a year. Their blog hasn't been updated since August 2020. And they haven't updated their news section since 2019! Even Jewish Currents noted last year that the group was imploding.
On their Facebook page, to kick off 2022, they started a fundraiser to raise $40,000 for "leading our community to reject apartheid and embrace equality, dignity, and safety for all."
They did not get a single donation. Today, anti-Israel group IfNotNow's co-founder quit the group. He says there is a new leadership team, but they are nowhere to be found in their webpage.
On that webpage, however, they have a section describing their "principles...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: The betrayal over the Iranian bomb As a State Department report observed last week: "Serious concerns remained outstanding regarding possible undeclared nuclear material and activities in Iran," and noted that the Islamic Republic had "not fully cooperated with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) which is trying to investigate possible secret nuclear activity at four sites around the country". Moreover, as Andrea Stricker and Anthony Ruggiero write for the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies: "The Biden administration has failed at each quarterly IAEA Board of Governors meeting to recommend that the body censure Iran for its restrictions on IAEA monitoring, non-cooperation with a separate IAEA investigation into Tehran's undeclared nuclear activities, and flagrant nuclear escalations — the majority of which have occurred on the Biden administration's watch". Now the Israelis are talking to the Biden team about a "Plan B" following the likely collapse of a deal. But the awful logic of the team's approach is that the United States won't move on from the 2015 agreement but will treat it as a kind of zombie deal—neither dead nor alive. As Behnam Ben Taleblu of the Foundation for the Defence of Democracies told Benny Avni of The New York Sun, the more likely outcome is "a 'plan C': not announce that the talks have collapsed, but also not revert...Read More |
It's Quds Day, so that means that there are lots of articles predicting Israel's imminent destruction. Of course, these predictions have been coming regularly for decades. * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
Israel Hayom reports: In a recent letter to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton, and Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, attorney and chairman of the Temple Mount Organizations Aviad Visoli claims that the destruction of antiquities on the Temple Mount was similar to the damage the Islamic State did to antiquities at Palmyra when they controlled the city during the Syrian war. "What our people have seen following the riots on the Temple Mount on Friday and Saturday, April 15-16, 2022, was horrifying. The riots pulled out ancient stones, including sections of columns, and threw them around the Temple Mount," the letter reads. "Hundreds of antiquities were thrown on the eastern path of the Temple Mount toward the Dome of the Rock, with the purpose of blocking the path to religious Jewish visitors who visit the Mount and circle the Dome of the Rock," it continues. We've been discussing this since the riots began. The newspaper shows some examples of the stones being moved and broken, many in an attempt to build roadblocks so Jews cannot walk around the perimeter of the site, especially along the eastern wall where many of the ancient...Read More |
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