Tag: anti-Israel Bias
Sir Michael Ellis: ‘BBC’ is ‘institutionally antisemitic’
A Jewish politician and barrister in the United Kingdom spoke out about the deleterious effects of Middle East war coverage that has been churned out by the country’s state-sponsored news service since Oct. 7.
Sir Michael Ellis,...
Investigation explodes myth that Israel targets journalists
Despite Israel’s herculean efforts to avoid killing noncombatants in the Gaza Strip, a new wrinkle has been added to media charges of indiscriminate Israeli killing—a kind of blood libel within a blood libel—namely that...
Who is dehumanizing whom?
There have been countless accusations against Israel since the Oct. 7 massacre and the ensuing war. Some can be understood in the context of the desire to protect civilians at any cost despite the...
Some 200 anti-Israel activists force evacuation of Berkeley event
Some 200 people protested violently outside an event with a former Israel Defense Forces soldier at the University of California, Berkeley on Monday night, forcing Jewish students at the event to evacuate.
Anti-Israel students banged...
Pentagon mum on whether airman’s self-immolation sign of ‘bigger issue’
Air Force Maj. Gen. Pat Ryder, the U.S. Defense Department press secretary, twice dodged an Associated Press reporter’s questions at the department’s Feb. 26 press briefing about whether Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation protest outside the Israeli embassy in Washington,...
The pro-Hamas fifth column intends to kill people
Sigmund Freud always took a somewhat jaundiced view of the human psyche, but in the wake of the horrors of World War I, it turned even darker. Confronted with mankind’s capacity to destroy itself,...
Educating about antisemitism
My maternal grandmother is Jewish. That makes me Jewish according to Jewish law. As an agnostic—and for many other reasons—I go through peaks and troughs regarding my Jewish identity. But as author David Baddiel...
No more ceasefires
At the moment, 26 out of the 27 E.U. member states support an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas without requiring Hamas to unconditionally release all its hostages and surrender. At the same time,...
Qatar’s tech conference for antisemites
The biggest tech conference in Europe is coming to the Middle East on Feb. 26-29, bringing together thousands of investors and startups in what is billed as a “tech utopia” bursting with “digital optimism.”
Tech enthusiasts should beware. The...
British MPs melt down over Gaza
When Queen Elizabeth II died, people mourned not only the loss of a beloved and admirable monarch but what they believed was the passing of the beloved and admirable Britain that she had embodied.
The...