Fair – Reporting

by Melanie Phillips:   In the Spectator (link) In the Guardian, Giles Tremlett writes about Europe’s first Christian theme park in Mallorca. He writes: Exact details are scant, but the Buenos Aires park offers its re-enactments of the creation of mankind, the birth of Christ, the resurrection and the last supper eight times a day. With [...]

by Isi Leibler. Please click on  Candidly speaking from Jerusalem which is the  link to the web page article..  In future all posts will be linked like this rather than using a tinyURL   It is once more déjà vu. Magnificent speeches bubbling with visions of reconciliation and goodwill between Israelis and Palestinians. Global media editorials pontificating and [...]

The EU’s response to anti-Semitism? “No Comment.”  by Bret Stephens    http://tinyurl.com/2vtncve              If a top European mandarin mouths off about Jews and the rest of Europe’s political class acts like it’s no big deal, does that make them cowards, accomplices—or just politically astute? Probably all three. Earlier this month, Karel De Gucht, the European Union’s trade commissioner [...]

http://tinyurl.com/22qy6ds Jpost….. “It would be nice if something made sense for a change,” Alice said. Somehow, in this upside down, modern world, people love the underdog, even if the perceived underdogs are murderous terrorists. Perhaps the Mad Hatter can explain. In the meanwhile, each time I see a soldier – each of whom allows me [...]

CAMERA: Time magazine adds its voice to the chorus of those attempting to delegitimize the Jewish state. http://tinyurl.com/23ewlsa As we approach the Jewish New Year 5771, the Jewish state is again under attack. Middle East figures call for the eradication of Israel while a global campaign is underway to delegitimize the nation, her leaders, army [...]

CIF Watch by Adam Levick….  http://tinyurl.com/232rdfo This Seymour Martin Lipset article in a 1971 edition of the New York Times Magazine entitled, The Socialism of Fools, is quite astonishing. Lipset, writing for the NYT of the early 70s (a newspaper, politically, almost unrecognizable from the Grey Lady of today) uncovers the ominous ideological trends occurring [...]

Institute for Global Jewish Affairs by Adam Levick   http://tinyurl.com/2f3vgsn Cartoons have to express ideas in an easy-to-understand way. Therefore they are often accessible even to people who cannot read. Cartoons are also an efficient way to transmit hate and prejudices, including anti-Semitism. Anti-Semitism in cartoons has been investigated, among others, by the Belgian political scientist [...]

by Ted Belman Arutz Sheva http://tinyurl.com/3y7gt8m “Israel’s presence in Judea and Samaria is not illegal and the UN has never claimed it to be” Occupation Israel is accused of occupying the West Bank and formerly, Gaza, and  these territories are described as “the occupied Palestinian territories.” Not only are they not occupied in a legal [...]

BBC Broadcast Friday, September 03, 2010 First of all we had the headlines about Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s pledge to kill more Israelis, but they used the phrase “Israeli targets” which subtly lends legitimacy to their murderous intentions. Of course the real threat is to Israeli civilians, but the BBC would rather we didn’t realise [...]

SPECTATOR Melanie Phillips   http://tinyurl.com/327k9xd Obama has called it   senseless slaughter. On the contrary, the cold-blooded murder of four Israeli civilians near Hebron was not senseless at all. Just look at the reaction in influential parts of the western media, in which the dead have effectively been blamed because they were ‘settlers’ and thus are deemed [...]