Dive into the archives.
- It All Makes So Much Sense Now
The New York Times has all but confirmed to The Electronic Intifada (EI) that the son of its Jerusalem bureau chief Ethan Bronner was recently inducted into the Israeli army. Over the weekend, EI received a tip suggesting this had been the case and wrote to Bronner to ask him to confirm or deny the [...]
- Editorializing in the NYT
The council has a long history of focusing on Israel, while ignoring human rights abuses in other member states like China and Saudi Arabia. (full article…)
- The NYT Always Gives Israel the Final Word
By the Israeli military’s count, 1,166 people were killed in the war: 295 noncombatants, 709 of what it called Hamas terrorist operatives, and 162 men whose affiliations remain undetermined. The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza said 1,417 died: 926 civilians, 236 combatants and 255 police officers. Israel says about 400 Gazans die of [...]
- Glenn Greenwald on the Standards of the Washington Post
The Washington Post’s Anne Kornblut today produces an extreme piece of government-serving, stenographic “journalism,” publishing a dubious administration press release masquerading as a lengthy news article on Obama’s approach to Terrorism and civil liberties. The Post depicts Obama as heavily and heroically engaged in disrupting the alleged Najibullah Zazi domestic terrorist plot and — repeatedly [...]
- Micheletti’s Propaganda in the Washington Post
Coups do not allow freedom of assembly, either. They do not guarantee freedom of the press, much less a respect for human rights. In Honduras, these freedoms remain intact and vibrant. (full article…) Why does the Washington Post run this propaganda without any contrasting perspective? The slimy turnspeak of Lanny Davis is all over this [...]
- The Cost of U.S. Propaganda
Alhurra, set up under former President George W. Bush to broadcast an American perspective of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East, was the subject of a joint investigation last year by ProPublica and CBS’ 60 Minutes. The investigation and a series of ProPublica articles revealed serious staff problems, financial mismanagement and long-standing concerns inside [...]
- Does Anyone Take Alan Dershowitz Seriously?
Dershowitz: Palestinians ‘Played A Significant Role In The Holocaust’
- Less Subtle U.S. Propaganda
The scrolling electronic sign, a low-tech version of New York’s Time Square ticker, escalated the US’s propaganda war with Cuba’s leader three years ago by flashing human rights messages in five-foot high crimson letters. But history, or more specifically Barack Obama, appears to have pulled the plug on the billboard which flitted across 25 windows [...]
- Zionist Media
“during the Gaza war I felt as though every radio station was staffed by propagandists, every newspaper by a government spokesman or spokeswomen. It was not any law which told them to say and write as they did. There was no need for a law – the journalists and analysts probably felt what I was [...]
- The Western Press Justifies the Overthrow of Democracy
They removed him over fears that he was trying to undermine the Constitution and extend his tenure. (more…)
- (Baseless) Statements from the NYT
He made no mention of American troops in a nationally televised speech, even though nearly 130,000 remain in the country; most had already pulled back from Iraq’s cities before Tuesday’s deadline. The excitement, however, has rung hollow for many Iraqis, who fear that their country’s security forces are not ready to stand alone and who [...]
- The Western Press Justifies the Overthrow of Democracy
Mr. Zelaya, who took office in 2006, has moved steadily to the left during his presidency, railing increasingly against the country’s elite, who he says have opposed his politics of inclusion. Critics accuse Mr. Zelaya, who comes from a well-off family of landowners, of blatant populism and of doling out cash to try to solidify [...]
- “Brutal”
Iranian officials stepped up efforts to crush the remaining resistance to a disputed presidential election on Wednesday, as security forces overwhelmed a small group of protesters with brutal beatings, tear gas and gunshots in the air. (more…) Somehow, I don’t think the Western press has ever referred to Israel’s weekly beating of demonstrators in the [...]
- Virtually No Coverage
These reasons explain why over recent weeks while the Iran elections were happening there has been virtually no coverage in most media of demonstrations numbering in the tens of thousands in Georgia or Peru. It has even been reported in Peru that dozens of persons have been killed during the protests, or “clashes” as they’ve [...]
- Israeli Propaganda, Courtesy of the NYT
Israeli forces on Monday killed four gunmen from Gaza who attacked an army patrol along the Gaza border in one of the most audacious raids since Israel ended its military campaign in the Palestinian coastal strip in January. (more…) When has Isabel Kershner ever described Israeli attacks as “audacious”? Israeli attacks are always “anguished retaliation” [...]
- On Leonard Cohen
“You will perform in a state whose propaganda services will extract every ounce of mileage from your presence. They will use it to whitewash their war crimes.” (more…)
- Noam Chomsky: “Exterminate All the Brutes”
On Saturday December 27, the latest US-Israeli attack on helpless Palestinians was launched. The attack had been meticulously planned, for over 6 months according to the Israeli press. The planning had two components: military and propaganda. It was based on the lessons of Israel’s 2006 invasion of Lebanon, which was considered to be poorly planned [...]
- Israeli Newspeak
Over the last four weeks the powerful Israeli propaganda machine has been churning out lie after lie about Hamas in order to excuse its own inexcusable onslaught. Israel stopped journalists going into Gaza, preventing any independent reporting on the war crimes its forces were committing. Truth is usually the first casualty in war. Gaza was [...]
- Spoiled Crybabies
Branding foreign journalists “spoiled crybabies” unwilling to make “a little effort” to get into Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, Government Press Office head Danny Seaman denied Sunday there had been any ban on their entry into the Strip during the battle. (more…) Just like an Israeli propaganda chief to call the international media “crybabies” while [...]
- Israel’s Lies
Middle East peacemaking has been smothered in deceptive euphemisms, so let me state bluntly that each of these claims is a lie. Israel, not Hamas, violated the truce: Hamas undertook to stop firing rockets into Israel; in return, Israel was to ease its throttlehold on Gaza. In fact, during the truce, it tightened it further. [...]
- An Extension of Israel
Look at New York City. Look at the major newspapers. They have a Zionist agenda. They do. I’m not Jewish. I’m not anything. I don’t care about the Israelis. And I’m not anti-Semitic. It’s just a fact. I suggested to my publisher writing a book on Israel, and he said forget it. You can’t talk [...]
- Israeli Propaganda
The report concludes that, when it comes to covering wars, editors and reporters behave in a patriotic manner that is “almost instinctual” and that, instead of scrutinizing press releases, they eat out of the hands of official spokespersons. As Be’er puts it: “In crisis situations, the media constantly endeavor to justify military actions, and they [...]
- Israeli Propaganda (Courtesy of the New York Times)
The Israeli government’s stated war goals were relatively modest: to reduce Hamas’s ability and will to fire rockets and to change the security equation in the south. (more…) Isabel Kershner really takes the cake when it comes to waving the Israeli flag for the New York Times. I mean, Steven Erlanger and Ethan Bronner are [...]
- Israeli Propaganda Targets harmonicminor.com
The Immigrant Absorption Ministry announced on Sunday it was setting up an “army of bloggers,” to be made up of Israelis who speak a second language, to represent Israel in “anti-Zionist blogs” in English, French, Spanish and German. I had been receiving an unusual quantity of pro-Zionist comments over the last few days, some of [...]
- Angry Arab on Steven Erlanger
I am not sure whether the top Israeli propaganda award should go to Steven Elranger or Ethan Bronner or Isabel Kershner of the Times. I mean all three did their best to explain and justifiy Israeli crimes against Palestinian civilians. Look at this article by Erlanger: “Whatever the military and political results of Israel’s 21-day [...]
- Israeli Propaganda (Courtesy of the New York Times)
Steven Erlanger, in a particularly appalling article, excuses Israel’s grotesque behavior in Gaza. He no longer even attempts to justify his reporting of Israeli allegations as fact; he simply accepts it all verbatim: “Hamas fighters are also putting civilians at undue risk by storing weapons among them, including in mosques, schools and allegedly hospitals, too, [...]
- Israeli Propaganda
Israeli ministers will be heading out next week for a ‘PR attack’ in foreign media. Ynet has learned that six ministers are scheduled to travel to countries that have a distorted public opinion on Israel’s operation in Gaza in an attempt to change the situation. (more…)
- Israel Shuts Out World Press
Then Seaman lets everyone know what he expects from them: “You’re here, and you are covering our side.” This means that — even two weeks into Israel’s Operation Cast Lead against the Palestinian organization Hamas — no independent reporters are being allowed into Gaza. Seaman has no qualms about making it clear that Israel wants [...]
- This is Zionist Media
“The suffering of the citizens of Gaza is unbelievable. It’s hell. But we are not uninvolved. We are broadcasting for our citizens,” said Reudor Benziman, chief executive of Channel 10 News, one of the two major private stations in Israel. “We don’t pretend to show the whole picture, as though we are covering a war [...]
- This is the American Media
[Newsweek:] It must have been a difficult decision to send Israeli troops into Gaza by land. [Tzipi Livni:] Yes, it was a very difficult decision, but right now it looks good. (more…)
- Robert Fisk on Israeli Propaganda
I write the following without the slightest doubt: we’ll hear all these scandalous fabrications again. We’ll have the Hamas-to-blame lie – heaven knows, there is enough to blame them for without adding this crime – and we may well have the bodies-from-the-cemetery lie and we’ll almost certainly have the Hamas-was-in-the-UN-school lie and we will very [...]
- Oh, Well Then It’s Ok
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday “it’s hard” for Israeli troops to shield civilians in Gaza because the area is so densely populated and Hamas uses people as human shields. (more…)
- Israeli Propaganda (Courtesy of the New York Times)
Before boarding my flight this morning, I picked up a copy of the New York Times (I had forgotten what a strange printing dimension it is – very narrow) and discovered this picture adorning the front page: According to the caption, the image depicts, “Soldiers rested on the Israeli side of the border with Gaza [...]
