Cleansing Hindus from Pakistan ‘The land of the ‘Pure’
In his 1993 BBC television series Akbar S Ahmed, former ambassador from Pakistan to Britain and presently Ibn Khaldun Chair of Islamic Studies at the American University in Washington DC, stated that Jinnah had created Pakistan so that India’s Muslims could be “safe from Hindu reaction”. But he has remained largely silent on the Hindus […]
Gov. Scott Walker Defends Reforms; ‘Our Most Powerful Tool Is the Truth’
Gov. Scott Walker delivered a passionate defense of Wisconsin’s reforms at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Friday night. The embattled Republican governor used his keynote speech at CPAC to outline what’s at stake in Wisconsin and other states if his budget reforms are rolled back. “Our most powerful tool is the truth,” Walker told […]
Voices of Opposition Speak Out Against Obama’s Contraception Mandate ‘Accommodation’
“Simply unacceptable.” That’s the near-unanimous response to President Obama’s supposed “accommodation” offered to those who objected to Obamacare’s mandate that religious institutions pay for contraceptive products and services—including abortion-inducing drugs. That mandate — which tramples heavily on religious liberties — drew tremendous fire across the board, from Christians and Jews alike, drowning the President in a political maelstrom of […]
Report: What Will An Israeli Attack on Iran Look Like?
As the rampant speculations that Israel will soon launch a military strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities continue, a report on NBC on Friday revealed what such an attack may look like. The report, the main points of which were presented by Israel’s Channel 10 News, is based on conversations the American network held with current […]
Report: Syrian Armored Forces Move Nearer to Israel
According to reports from the Free Syria Army, the Syrian military has moved forces stationed in the southern part of the Syrian Golan Heights closer to Israel. The Syrian military did not come close to the border with Israel. However, armored forces that were stationed along the Syria-Jordan border, which were recently reinforced, were moved […]
BBC Bias Alert: Justifying and Humanizing Terrorist Murderers
When is murder not murder? According to the BBC, when Jews or Israelis are the victims. In a feature on Palestinians prisoners released and exiled as part of the Gilad Shalit deal , the BBC states: The releases were enormously controversial in Israel, where some of the prisoners were seen as mass murderers. When terrorists […]
Update: Canadian Network Disapproves of TV Host’s Anti-Israel and Anti-Jewish Remarks
We republished HonestReporting Canada’s call for action against Quebec TV show host Stéphane Gendron, who lamented that “unfortunately, Israel has not yet collapsed” and that Israel “does not deserve to exist”. Thanks to the many of you who responded, the V-Network was bombarded with complaints and the story was picked up by a number of Canadian media outlets. Courtesy […]
Embassy Baghdad in Decline
by Daniel Pipes February 7, 2012 Cross-posted from National Review Online: The Corner Ever since the U.S. government announced in March 2004 plans to build “the largest embassy ever run by any country,” I have been on the case, poking fun at its over-wrought size (21 acres), excessive expense (US$750 million), and gargantuan personnel (16,000) […]
The MidEast PR Machine: From Assad to the Palestinians
The following by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished courtesy of The Commentator. Israelis are often, and sometimes with justification, criticized for their inability to get their message across in the media and to the world at large. But what about Israel’s neighbours in the Middle East? The leaking of hundreds of emails from Syrian President Bashar Assad’s office by the ”Anonymous” hacking group […]
Rep. Price: Obama’s Contraception ‘Accommodation’ is ‘All Rhetoric’
The chairman of the House Republican Policy Committee blasted the president’s self-styled “accommodation” of religious employers required under the Obamacare law to provide contraceptive services to employees in apparent violation of the Constititoin’s protection of religious liberty. “Under the President’s proposal,” explained Heritage’s Jennifer Marshall, “employers and employees will still bear the cost of paying for […]
Defense Report Gets Failing Grade
America’s military is witnessing yet another attempt to recast the negative impact of massive defense cuts, this time in a report by the Council on Foreign Relations that attempts to illustrate the effect that slashed spending will have on U.S. forces and security. Unfortunately, the report uses some of the same ill-founded assumptions that the […]
