It’s Israel Apartheid Week once again. Let’s counter the vicious smear
The vile Jew-hating Jew-baiting Israel Apartheid Week (IAW) has kicked off again in the US and Europe. The IAW is a major advocacy event of the BDS (Boycott, Sanctions, Divestment) movement, and offers...
View ArticleIn other news, water is wet, night is dark, the UNHRC condemns Israel
Ho hum, here we go again. In case we might have been allowed to forget, the UN’s favourite whipping boy is back in the stocks. In its annual Bash-Israel day (or week, or month, or year) Israel was the...
View ArticleAntisemitism in the media – home-grown and foreign
Following the ADL’s wide-ranging report on antisemitic attitudes worldwide, it should not come as a shock to discover how these attitudes are expressed in real life. Nevertheless the following stories...
View ArticleThe disproportionate hatred of Israel
This post was originally going to be yet another article about media bias against Israel, but as I began compiling links it dawned on me (my brain is on a go-slow through internet-overload) that this...
View ArticleAnti-Zionism = Antisemitism: The hypocritical obsession with Gaza
The longer Israel’s war against the barbaric nihilist jihadists of Hamas drags on, the more anti-Israel protests take place around the world, and the more antisemitic those protests become. I addressed...
View ArticleMedia bias, anti-semitism, and the anti-anti-semitic pushback
This post is going to be a catch-up of sorts of some of the news items I let slip over the last few days. They all have a connection, if only tangential, to Israel’s war against the Hamas in Gaza. …...
View ArticleBreathtaking disingenuousness: UNHRC head Navi Pillock Pillay criticizes...
UN Human Wrongs Rights Council head witch Navi Pillock Pillay has come out with what can only be described as a case of extreme blindness, total self-unawareness and a moronic level of disingenuousness...
View ArticleThe Media Intifada – looking at the media’s anti-Israel bias
As regular readers of this blog know well, media bias is a “favourite” bugbear of mine. The outrageous injustice and unfairness of the mainstream media’s bias against Israel, expressed in tendentious...
View ArticleA reporter’s inside story about the disproportionate focus on Israel
If you read nothing else about the war, aka Operation Protective Edge, read this article. Matti Friedman, a former AP correspondent, explains how he and his colleagues got Israel so wrong in this...
View ArticleSunday morning videos: Israel advocacy
Here are three great videos about Israel advocacy which you should watch: I wrote about Matti Friedman’s searing essay slamming the international media for their anti-Israel bias and one-eyed view of...
View ArticleAfter the Paris murders: Islam and the West, and blaming the Jews
The horrific terrorist murders in Paris have led to much thinking and opining about the root causes of the attacks and Muslim hostility towards the West and the Jews. The prime root cause in my humble...
View ArticleWilliam Schabas resigns from UN’s anti-Israel Gaza inquiry
Finally! Some great news from the UN – William Schabas, the head of the kangaroo court known as the Schabas Commission, the commission of inquiry established by the Human Rights Wrongs Council to...
View ArticleBizarro World at the UN
Yesterday was the thrice-yearly Hate Israel Day at the UN, (what? only 3 times a year? I thought it was an everyday occurrence) as Hillel Neuer of UN Watch explains: Today is Hate Israel Day at the...
View ArticleZionism is not a dirty word. Let us reclaim the narrative
Anyone who swims in the murky waters of the internet and the lower reaches of social media will have come across anti-Israel “activists” – antisemites by any other name – who take great delight in...
View ArticleThe UNHRC publishes its Schabas Charade
When William Schabas resigned from the UNHRC Commission of Inquiry into “Israel’s war crimes” (OK, that wasn’t the exact title of the commission of inquiry but it might as well have been, because that...
View ArticleA one-man pro-Israel advocacy effort – let’s join in and help him
As readers of this blog know well, media bias is one of my pet hates. It is so frustrating to read the lies and agit-prop and yet be unable to effectively counter the lies. Thankfully there are now...
View ArticleThe Facebook experiment: do all lives matter? Not Israeli lives apparently
Shurat HaDin, the Israel Law Center, recently conducted a very interesting and eye-opening experiment which clearly demonstrates the built-in anti-Israel bias in the media: In a simple test, the...
View ArticleBan Ki Moon and the New York Times pile on against Israel
In an earlier post I quoted Arlene Kushner who talked about UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon’s outrageous assertion that Palestinians are stabbing Israeli civilians, throwing rocks and firebombs, and...
View ArticleAt the UN, only Israel is considered an “occupier”
Just like only Jews can be ethnically cleansed without a worldwide outcry, so too at the UN, only Israel – out of all the hundreds of brutal invasions and occupations – is called an “occupier”. This...
View ArticleNetanyahu’s excellent speech at the UN
I missed Bibi’s speech last night as I was at a wedding. I’ve now caught up on it (via Israellycool) and “excellent” doesn’t begin to describe it. Here’s the video: You can read the full text of his...
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