Advertisements Jones offered a half-hearted and insincere apology for his dehumanization of Palestinians, but stood by his insane conspiracy theory about Iran and Qatar fabricating elements of the Gaza genocide. Read more at Cutting Through Continue Reading
Advertisements The strawmen came out in force in a piece by Alexis Grenell in, of all places, The Nation. Using the recent flap over a commencement speech at CUNY, Grenell attacks anti-Zionists, employing the classic and tiresome nonsense about opposition to a political ideology being, by definition, antisemitism. In the latestContinue Reading
Advertisements The fighting in Gaza will continue for some time, as a ceasefire agreement brokered by Egypt fell apart. Despite the bellicose language Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has employed over the past week, it was Hamas and not Israel that rejected the proposal. This was, to be sure, the direct result of thatContinue Reading
Advertisements Al Jazeera unloaded a bombshell on the US-brokered Israel-Palestine diplomacy today when they released the first wave of what they are calling “The Palestine Papers.” These papers consist of some 1,600 internal documents (e-mails, minutes of classified meetings, maps and strategy papers) from negotiations between the Palestinians and IsraelisContinue Reading
Advertisements There was a time when the Washington Post was understood to be one of the better mass media newspapers in the country, often regarded as on a level with the New York Times as a serious paper. Media analysts (which is where I started this work, so I’d countContinue Reading
