Israel/Palestine
AP Cameraman Fired After Criticizing Palestinians for Beating Reporter
May 30th, 2020 10:45 AM
Covering the news in the Middle East can be a very dangerous job, especially when opposing forces become intensified during clashes between warring factions. That was the situation this week, when Eyad Hamad, a veteran cameraman for the Associated Press, stated that he was fired after the Palestinian Authority filed a complaint against him for criticizing security forces who had arrested and…
Rosanna Arquette: Israel Profiting Off Coronavirus With Vaccine Sales
Culture
March 17th, 2020 1:04 PM
Oh Hollywood. To its denizens, everything that conservatives or Donald Trump mutter before the press is a cultish conspiracy theory, but celebs can push whatever anit-semitic fever dream BS they want and expect us to hear them out. That’s what actress Rosanna Arquette hoped for on Tuesday with her crazy anti-Israel tweet.
Jewish Orgs Demand TX Music Festival Pull ‘Anti-Semitic’ Roger Waters
Culture
February 12th, 2020 5:08 PM
Former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters’s billing at the SXSW music festival may is in jeopardy after his history of radical lefty and antisemitic activism. Algemeiner.com reported that several Jewish groups have called on the famous Austin, Texas, film and music festival folks to reconsider showcasing an interview with the legendary classic rock musician.
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Ayman Mohyeldin Tells Joy Reid of 'Brutal Israeli Military Occupation'
February 1st, 2020 3:33 PM
On Joy Reid's MSNBC show, commenting on the Trump administration's proposed Israeli/Palestinian peace plan, MSNBC's Ayman Mohyeldin told Reid that the plan fails to deliver on the Palestinian desire "not to live under a brutal Israeli military occupation that has now been for more than 50 years."
When ‘Never Again’ Means Nothing
January 29th, 2020 10:49 PM
This week, the world marked the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz by Allied forces during World War II. Politicians of all stripes dutifully tweeted, “#NeverAgain.” Meanwhile, many of those same politicians continued to forward the worst sort of anti-Semitism, blithely ignoring the fact that anti-Semitism isn't a relic of the past but a thriving part of the present.
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John King Now Says Trump Is Interfering in Israeli Politics
January 29th, 2020 5:32 PM
CNN's large impeachment panel took a brief break on Tuesday from impeachment for breaking news when President Trump announced his Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. Of course, the panel had to tie it back to impeachment with John King saying that, just as impeachment is about alleged election interference, here was Trump trying to help Benjamin Netanyahu.
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CBS, NBC Suggest Middle East Peace Plan a Ploy to Hedge Impeachment
January 28th, 2020 10:13 PM
On Tuesday, President Trump along with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and his challenger Benny Gantz, together announced a new peace plan to settle the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It was a plan that guaranteed a two-state solution, but during their evening newscasts, CBS and NBC chastised the plan and suggested it was just a ploy to save Trump from impeachment and…
Jeopardy! Walks Back Israel Question Due to Enraged Palestinians
Culture
January 14th, 2020 10:45 PM
TV game show “Jeopardy!” producers have responded to online uproar from Palestinian sympathizers over a controversial in-game question regarding the state of Israel.
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Netflix’s Anti-America, Anti-Israel ‘Messiah’ Preaches Open Borders
Culture
January 5th, 2020 8:00 PM
2020 is shaping up to be worse than 2019 if Netflix has anything to say about it. After releasing a gory fantasy just days before Christmas, Netflix kicked off the New Year with its religious drama Messiah. Let's just say the violence may have been preferable compared to this.
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CNN's Kayyem Claims Giuliani 'Spewing Anti-Semitism' at Soros
December 26th, 2019 7:26 AM
On Monday's CNN Tonight, CNN terrorism analyst Juliette Kayyem accused Rudy Giuliani of "spewing anti-Semitism and hatred" during a discussion of a recent interview he did with reporter Olivia Nuzzi of New York magazine, saying "Soros is hardly a Jew."
NYTimes Tries to Turn Tables on Trump Protecting Jews, Backfires Badly
December 17th, 2019 10:18 PM
The New York Times has gotten itself mired in more controversy and embarrassment of its own making while spending the last week desperately trying to put a negative spin on President Trump’s recent executive order to fight anti-Semitism on college campuses: "The order will effectively interpret Judaism as a race or nationality, not just a religion..." Wrong, said people who…
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PBS's Amanpour Hypes Theory Netanyahu 'Incited' Yitzhak Rabin's Murder
December 3rd, 2019 11:54 PM
On Monday's Amanpour & Co. show on PBS (also shown on CNN International), host Christiane Amanpour devoted a segment to interviewing the director of a film, titled Incitement, that has come under criticism for suggesting right-leaning Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu helped stoke up "incitement" that led to the 1995 assassination of left-leaning Prime Minister Yitzhak…
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Media Wrongly Claim Trump Reversing 'Decades' of Policy on Israel
November 21st, 2019 8:17 PM
In the aftermath of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's announcement that the Donald Trump administration was essentially reversing the Barack Obama policy of declaring Israeli settlements as illegal, most of the dominant media have inaccurately claimed that Trump has reversed "decades" or "40 years" of U.S. policy on the matter.
The J Street Democrats
October 30th, 2019 12:57 PM
This week, four of the top candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination — Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Julian Castro and Bernie Sanders — gathered at the J Street Conference to explain why the United States ought to pressure the state of Israel to make concessions to terrorists, why the Obama administration was correct to appease the Iranian regime and why American…
