October 21, 2013 15:45 by Pesach Benson Ever wonder what Hezbollah’s educational system is like? Educators will be shaken by what reporter Thanassis Cambanis found. He writes in the Financial Times (click via Google News): Mahdi schools are expected to turn out competitive, well-trained students who are also loyal to Hizbollah’s resistance ideology and can […]
October 23, 2013 13:51 by Pesach Benson Today’s Top Stories 1. The Toronto Transit Commission put a red light on an anti-Israel ad campaign on buses and subways. A spokesman told the JTA the commission considered the ads misleading: “Our legal opinion,” Ross said, “is that there has never been a finding by any international […]
October 13, 2013 15:49 by Pesach Benson Auditors say £1.95 billion EU aid lost in Palestine. The Sunday Times reports: Brussels transferred more than £1.95bn to the occupied territories between 2008 and 2012 but had little control over how it was spent, the auditors say in an unpublished report seen by The Sunday Times. EU […]
October 1, 2013 13:48 by Pesach Benson While President Obama and Prime Minister Netanyahu met (CBS News nailed the nuance), Bret Stephens (Wall St. Journal via Google News) argues that Israel needs to strategically distance itself from Uncle Sam and not rely on American diplomacy or promises of military action to deal with Iran: That […]
October 6, 2013 16:05 by Simon Plosker On October 3, the Irish Times published a particularly hateful opinion piece under the headline “It is the everyday harassment that shows the hatred behind official Israeli ideology.” That the writer, Eamonn McCann, should be filled with hate towards Israel comes as no surprise when he refers to […]
October 2, 2013 10:41 by Simon Plosker This opinion piece by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished from The Algemeiner. A recent Washington Post / ABC News opinion poll found that an overwhelming 79 percent of Americans expressed their support for a U.S.-Russian plan to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons. This, despite 68 percent of those […]
Sign the Petition October 2, 2013 14:02 by Simon Plosker Recent cases of anti-Israel bias have crossed the line. Demonization of Israel is recognized as a form of anti-Semitism in both the U.S. State Department and European Union Working Definitions of Anti-Semitism. It’s time for the media to adopt these recognized and considered definitions of anti-Semitism. Find out more […]
July 31, 2013 15:01 by Pesach Benson Fadi Arouri is one of Ramallah’s biggest opponents of normalizing Israeli-Palestinian ties. He’s also a photographer who isn’t interested in separating his professional journalism and political activism. And that raises questions about his association with the Reuters wire service and China’s Xinhua News Agency. HonestReporting has learned Reuters […]
September 16, 2013 10:39 by Simon Plosker Sunday’s New York Times gave the front page of its Sunday Review to Professor Ian Lustick to make a case against a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. From his ivory tower, Lustick displays an incredible disconnect to the reality of Israel and its people. Going way beyond […]
September 15, 2013 13:57 by Simon Plosker While Jews around the world were marking Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, trust The Guardian to publish an opinion piece advocating against freedom of religion at Judaism’s holiest site. Dr Giles Fraser of St Mary’s Newington church in south London explains in “An Israeli claim […]
