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Posts Tagged ‘pro-Israel Media Bias’

Mohamed Khodr – America’s Media? A Colonial Force for Israel’s Infallibility

By Mohamed Khodr • Oct 29th, 2009 • Category: Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

“Their/our” media is the true Apartheid Wall between Israel and our nation. It strangles our capitol like an elastic beltway that it tightens and loosens according to Israel’s directions.

It is the whip that keeps our cowardly politicians in tow and our populace ignorant of the truth about Israel “our ally and only democratic government in the Middle East”. Israel is the huge sucking sound that drains our money, military, and mind set while we like indoctrinated puppets cheer it on. We are helping Israel in its strategy to create our own national suicide.
And not only that: Twenty of the 47 fundraisers that Obama's campaign identified as collecting more than $500,000 have been named to government positions. If you look closely you will find that the vast majority of these donors are Jewish, many from Wall Street, or Pro-Israel activists.



Mazin Qumsiyeh – A Tale of Two Trains

By Guest Post • Jun 25th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Zionism

In this my first week back in North America, I was reminded that there are two Americas: a decent caring one and one of delusion.
This is as if there are two trains heading to different destinations. The hypocrisy train has big PR budgets, has a huge lobby that managed to get most of the politicians [...]



Ahmadinejad's courageous dream of a just and equal global society

By Guest Post • Apr 22nd, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY AVIGAIL ABARBANEL  (artwork by Alessio Marazzi)
I read or heard somewhere that Ahmadinejad's speech was denying the Holocaust. I just read the full text. There is no Holocaust denial in this speech at all. He is also labelled racist by Israel and of course he is not. He is not talking about the character [...]



Dima Omar – So what did we learn about anti-Semitism?

By Guest Post • Apr 6th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Education, Gilad Atzmon, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Well, not much really…. Just that when you invite people who don’t consider each other to be “within the pale”, as British columnist David Aaronovitch said, then the discussion on anti-Semitism turns into character assassination.  
No one expected a calm discussion during the debate entitled “Anti-Semitism – Alive and Well in Europe?”, which was organised by [...]



Obama's Third War

By Guest Post • Feb 28th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Middle East Issues, Newswire, Palestine, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY William Cook
Ironically our “only democratic ally” in the mid-east, as constantly reiterated by our mainstream media and talking heads, has locked the media out of Gaza in order to isolate truth to its Public Relations campaign begun the day it invaded Gaza three weeks ago. Consequently, Americans receive their news from those that decided to break international law and their own responsibilities as an occupying force under the Geneva conventions. No truth, no morality, only raw force serves this Zionist nation beholden only to itself and those it owns, including our Congress. Yet the news gets out. The people of Gaza transmit the truth by phone cameras and a handful of Al Jazeera journalists that report from the killing fields. These pictures inundate the Internet and even a European press on occasion.



Sameh M Brill – Gaza, the Reckoning Day

By Guest Post • Jan 29th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, War, Zionism

Soon after we had seen a unilateral ceasefire from Israel followed by the withdrawal of the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) after a 22-day assault on the Gaza Strip, we hear the usual two sides of the story, from both Israel and Hamas, each one claiming that Victory was on its Side and all goals were achieved. [...]



Israel's Lies, London Review of Books special

By Mary Rizzo • Jan 24th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Education, Features, Israel, Mary's Choice, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY Henry Siegman
 
Western governments and most of the Western media have accepted a number of Israeli claims justifying the military assault on Gaza: that Hamas consistently violated the six-month truce that Israel observed and then refused to extend it; that Israel therefore had no choice but to destroy Hamas's capacity to launch missiles into [...]



How Israel Gets Away With Murder

By Guest Post • Jan 14th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Features, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

WRITTEN BY GEOFFREY WHEATCROFT
Indifference to criticism of the bombing and invasion of Gaza is the result of indulgence by the West
When Lord Derby asked Sir Lewis Namier, the great historian of Georgian England, why he, as a Jew, didn't write Jewish history, Namier replied: "There is no modern Jewish history, only a Jewish martyrology, and [...]



Dan Alba – Will AP Ever Stop Lying for Israel?

By Guest Post • Jan 11th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Counter-terrorism, No thanks!, Hasbara Deconstruction Site, Israel, Newswire, Palestine, Religion, Resistance, War, Zionism

In opening a scathing dismantlement of historical myths on Israel-Palestine, world-renowned investigative journalist, John Pilger, recently wrote:
"When the truth is replaced by silence," the Soviet dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko said, "the silence is a lie."
When life-saving — arguably genocide-preventing — information is systematically and deliberately misreported and concealed by the world's largest news organizations, you can safely consider it, too, an act of lying.
On January 9, The [...]



Ramzy Baroud – Is Israel Winning the "Media War" over Gaza?

By Ramzy Baroud • Jan 10th, 2009 • Category: Analysis, Features, Israel, Newswire, Opinions and Letters, Palestine, Resistance, Somoud: Arab Voices of Resistance, Uprooted Palestinians' Testimonies, War, Zionism

 
"We are all Hamas," screamed a scrawny Mauritanian, repeatedly, as he determinedly drew his face closer to a TV camera. Behind him, thousands more tunefully chanted similar words, chants that were heard in different Arabic dialects, in fact in many different languages all across the globe.
 
Yet, Israel, somehow is claiming victory in the media war, [...]