Reflections on Al Durah Staged and Conspiracy Theory by Richard Landes
The Al Durah coup was pulled off by a core of planners and actors, a larger circle of people who cooperated once the tale had been set in motion, and finally a broader circle of believers who were duped by the coup. In a basic sense, the issue is how many people need to know it’s a fake, and how many are duped? If it takes a really broad group of people who know it’s a fake and play along (including people at high public levels), then we’re dealing with a conspiracy. If it only takes a few who know and many more who are duped, it’s a sting. ...
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Bell tolls for anti-Semitism by Howard Jacobson
I'd call this implicit racism if I were a citizen of those circumambient Muslim countries that aren't being boycotted - a tacit assumption that nothing can ever be done, say, about the persecution of women, the bombing of minorities, discrimination against Christians, the hanging of adulterers and homosexuals, and so on, because such things are intrinsic to their cultures - but at least now that we have got rid of anti-Semitism, tackling Islamophobia should not be slow to follow. ...
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Aunty a poor judge of bias by James Allan
Personally, I think there is real bias at the ABC. But let's say I'm wrong. Why not at least improve the awful appearances and pick, say, at least one conservative host of Media Watch (ever) or make sure that exactly half of those who appear on Insiders have a lineage on each side of politics? ...
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State Liberals propose privatising ABC, SBS by Josh Gordon
Classic ol' bun fight about the Australia's most sacred cow ...
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Radicals, Moderates and Islamists by Daniel Greenfield
To the Western observer, a suicide bomber is radical, a Muslim Imam willing to perform gay weddings is moderate and the Muslim Brotherhood leader who supports some acts of terror, but not others, is moderately radical or radically moderate. ...
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Fisking Rachel Shabi: How Dare the Israelis Suggest Palestinians Lied! by Richard Landes
When the Guardian came out with their first article on the Israeli report on Al Durah, I thought that even though it was done by Sherwood, it was fairly neutral. I should have known that CiF would deliver the goods. Below the reaction of Rachel Shabi, with fisking. ...
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Reflections on Al Durah Staged and Conspiracy Theory by Richard Landes
The Al Durah coup was pulled off by a core of planners and actors, a larger circle of people who cooperated once the tale had been set in motion, and finally a broader circle of believers who were duped by the coup. In a basic sense, the issue is how many people need to know it’s a fake, and how many are duped? If it takes a really broad group of people who know it’s a fake and play along (including people at high public levels), then we’re dealing with a conspiracy. If it only takes a few who know and many more who are duped, it’s a sting. ...
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Bell tolls for anti-Semitism by Howard Jacobson
I'd call this implicit racism if I were a citizen of those circumambient Muslim countries that aren't being boycotted - a tacit assumption that nothing can ever be done, say, about the persecution of women, the bombing of minorities, discrimination against Christians, the hanging of adulterers and homosexuals, and so on, because such things are intrinsic to their cultures - but at least now that we have got rid of anti-Semitism, tackling Islamophobia should not be slow to follow. ...
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Fisking Rachel Shabi: How Dare the Israelis Suggest Palestinians Lied! by Richard Landes
When the Guardian came out with their first article on the Israeli report on Al Durah, I thought that even though it was done by Sherwood, it was fairly neutral. I should have known that CiF would deliver the goods. Below the reaction of Rachel Shabi, with fisking. ...
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It’s easy being Green at the ABC, survey finds by Pia Ackerman
Is this why ABC journalists are so hostile to Jews? ...
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Letter: Coalition is expected to conduct a thorough reform of the ABC by Merv Bendle
Soundings on attitude to media reform ...
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Deciphering delegitimization by Martin Sherman
Rolling back the decades of distortion, deception and delusion that have become entrenched in the collective international consciousness will be a Herculean task. But the immensity of the task cannot diminish the imperative of its implementation. ...
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Iran Defends Its Election As Chair Of UN Conference On Disarmament As U.S. Announces Boycott by Louis Charbonneau
"This makes a mockery of disarmament issues, and the world's sincere desire to make progress," he said. "In Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere, the regime is working directly against global disarmament goals and subverting the fundamental principles of this committee." ...
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From al Durah to Badawi: Lethal journalism and Palestinian Propaganda’s Manufacturing of Consent by Philippe Assouline
But when the French court ordered France 2 to produce the unedited reels used by Enderlin in his report, things rapidly unraveled for the accusers. In the footage, after Enderlin had declared Al Durah dead, the boy miraculously moves his body, lifts his arm and looks out. Instead of gun battles, the footage showed Palestinian participants faking injuries, staging and choreographing "battle" scenes in full view of dozens of reporters from leading news agencies -- all as children wander in front of the Israeli position, unperturbed. The Al Durah story -- the trigger for an explosion of violence and suffering -- was a lie. "You know, it's always like that" and "oh, they do that all the time," France 2 officials and Enderlin are reported to have said when confronted with the staged "news". ...
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Boycott Israel? Good Grief by Michael Ordman
Dear BDS member. By boycotting Israeli treatments and research you will cause the deaths of millions of children from Hepatitis B because they couldn’t have SciGen’s Sci-B-Vac only third-generation Hep B virus vaccine. You would have to destroy the research by Hadassah Medical Organization that located the gene that causes recurrent life-threatening infections and bone marrow failure in children. The babies born deformed and blind from ectodermal dysplasia cannot touch the gene therapy that Israel’s Technion has developed. ...
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Iran Defends Its Election As Chair Of UN Conference On Disarmament As U.S. Announces Boycott by Louis Charbonneau
"This makes a mockery of disarmament issues, and the world's sincere desire to make progress," he said. "In Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and elsewhere, the regime is working directly against global disarmament goals and subverting the fundamental principles of this committee." ...
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From al Durah to Badawi: Lethal journalism and Palestinian Propaganda’s Manufacturing of Consent by Philippe Assouline
But when the French court ordered France 2 to produce the unedited reels used by Enderlin in his report, things rapidly unraveled for the accusers. In the footage, after Enderlin had declared Al Durah dead, the boy miraculously moves his body, lifts his arm and looks out. Instead of gun battles, the footage showed Palestinian participants faking injuries, staging and choreographing "battle" scenes in full view of dozens of reporters from leading news agencies -- all as children wander in front of the Israeli position, unperturbed. The Al Durah story -- the trigger for an explosion of violence and suffering -- was a lie. "You know, it's always like that" and "oh, they do that all the time," France 2 officials and Enderlin are reported to have said when confronted with the staged "news". ...
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Stuart Rees attacks Julia Gillard on 'populist' gesture by Christian Kerr
SYDNEY Peace Foundation head Stuart Rees has lashed out at Julia Gillard for signing the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism, calling the gesture "childish, thoughtless but easily populist". ...
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Reality ignored in rush to judgment on 'apartheid' Israel by Bruce Loudon
But comparisons between South Africa then, and Israel now, are neither fair nor sustainable. And they certainly do not accord with reality.
The two situations are vastly different, and it is a pity people such as Hawking allow themselves to be persuaded otherwise. ...
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Strange way to promote peace by Editorial
THE Sydney Peace Foundation's stated purpose is "to promote universal human rights and peace with justice" as the building blocks of any civil society. Foundation chairman Stuart Rees, however, has cast a cloud over the organisation's bona fides by dismissing the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism as "childish, thoughtless but easily populist". His condemnation of Julia Gillard and opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne for "cowardice" in signing it almost beggars belief. ...
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Stephen Hawking Rejects the Zionism of Einstein by Shmuley Boteach
Perhaps it's because Hawking believes the demonstrably false lie that Israel is an apartheid state. But then a scientist like Hawking would check facts before he would embrace such fraudulence and could easily discover that Arabs serve in the Israel Knesset – where they freely and regularly disagree with Israel – as well as the Israeli Supreme Court, the civil service, and every other area of Israeli lif ...
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BBC whitewashes Islamist antisemitism with semantics by Staff writer
Paper shuffling to bury the complaint ...
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BBC whitewashes Islamist antisemitism with semantics by Staff writer
Paper shuffling to bury the complaint ...
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The Church of Scotland’s War on Judaism by Ben Cohen
At the beginning of May, the Church of Scotland published a document entitled “The Inheritance of Abraham? A Report on the ‘Promised Land.’” Now, doing what I do, I spend a great deal of time reviewing anti-Zionist and anti-Semitic literature, and I like to think that I am passed being shocked.... ...
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Successes and Failures of the BDS Campaign by Adam Shay
The counter-effort often adopted by Israelis and Israel-supporters of engaging these operatives and attempting to debate, explain, and hopefully reach some sort of resolution, is usually counter-productive and may achieve the exact opposite effect. Arguing with BDS operatives online merely generates more exposure for their cause. ...
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The Benghazi Lie by Mark Steyn
A failure of character of this magnitude corrodes the integrity of the state... and rings a warning bell for Jews who trust in allies ...
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