Gabrielle Giffords, Tom Hurndall and Palestinian Children: Shot in the Head
Alison Weir, CounterPunch - There is something particularly horrifying when someone is shot in the head. Perhaps it's the gruesome image, the destruction of the brain, the clear intent to kill. The...
View ArticleCritical Connections: Egypt, the US, and the Israel Lobby
Minimally explored in all the coverage of the momentous Egyptian uprising taking place over the last 10 days [Jan-Feb 2011] are the Israeli connections.
View ArticleDenying Nazi-Zionist collusion: The Sacramento Bee, Darrell Steinberg, and...
In an inversion of journalistic ethics, the Sacramento Bee reported on opposition to an event before and after it took place, but didn't cover the event itself. It featured an entire report on...
View ArticleMedia omissions on Itamar: Murdering babies is "permissible" when they're...
US media widely and repeatedly reported on the horrific March 11th murder of three small Israeli children and their parents. While no one yet knows who committed this grotesque act, reports presume...
View ArticleVIDEO: AIPAC and Stealth Israel Political Action Committees
Janet McMahon of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs explains the history and impact of "stealth PACs." Why has the American Israel Public Affairs Committee spawned a network of PACs across...
View ArticleIsrael Lobby Dominates Congress, Media Covers it Up
You might think that 20 percent of the American Congress going on all-expenses-paid, week-long junkets to a foreign country -- paid for by a lobby for that country -- would be newsworthy, especially...
View ArticleIsraeli video games in Gaza: "Minimal collateral damage"
He looks at the camera with bright eyes and the beginning of a smile, wearing a miniature dark blue zipper sweatshirt, the cuffs folded up a bit to make it fit. I can imagine his mother dressing him...
View ArticleAmerican Taxpayers Pay and Pay: Subsidizing Israel's Ascendancy Over the U.S.
Israel's Jerusalem Post newspaper recently published an article calling Israel "The New Golden Country" for young people from around the world. It reports that Israel boasts "an ever-increasing GDP, a...
View ArticleSpinning the Egyptian Anti-Israel Protest
Today's New York Times front-page story on Egyptian protests against the Israeli embassy largely neglects a primary cause of the anger: Israeli forces' killing of five Egyptian policemen. Egyptian...
View ArticleShop Talk: The Sacramento Bee
Editors at McClatchy's Sacramento Bee recently made a series of questionable decisions in their coverage of a local event. They ran news stories about opposition to an upcoming event beforehand and...
View ArticleThe Real Story of How Israel Was Created
To better understand the Palestinian bid for membership in the United Nations, it is important to understand the original 1947 UN action on Israel-Palestine. The common representation of Israel's birth...
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