“Dear reader, as Israel slides ever deeper into a morass of racism and ethnic solipsism, please do not rely too heavily on Haaretz to understand how or why this ‘light unto the nations’ has grown so dim.” Jonathan Cook examines the politically significant differences between the English and Hebrew versions of a newspaper thought to be the conscience of Israel. Read more about The two faces of Ha'aretz
The BBC reportedly received more than 1,000 complaints after it moved a documentary comparing Israel’s arms programme to that of Iraq from prime time to a “graveyard” slot and replaced it with a repeated film on windmills. Cahal Milmo reports for The Independent.Read more about BBC rouses anger by 'burying' documentary on Israel
Ali Abunimah, Michael F. Brown and Nigel Parry3 March 2003
The inclusion in the new Israeli government of the racist National Union, which openly calls for the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians, received muted coverage in the US media and passed largely without comment. EI co-founders Ali Abunimah and Nigel Parry, and regular EI contributor Michael Brown analyse how the US media mishandled the story in this coverage trend. Read more about US media ignore Sharon's embrace of ethnic cleansers in new Israeli cabinet
I listened to Linda Gradstein’s report on Israel’s attack in Occupied Gaza on Morning Edition today, and I also listened to the report on the same incident on the BBC Arabic Service. The contrast between the two could not be greater, writes EI’s Ali Abunimah in a letter to National Public Radio. Read more about Comparing NPR's report on Israel's Gaza attack with the BBC's
On the road to Basra, ITV was filming wild dogs as they tore at the corpses of the Iraqi dead. Every few seconds a ravenous beast would rip off a decaying arm and make off with it over the desert in front of us, dead fingers trailing through the sand, the remains of the burned military sleeve flapping in the wind. “Just for the record,” the cameraman said to me. Of course. Because ITV would never show such footage. The things we see — the filth and obscenity of corpses — cannot be shown. First because it is not “appropriate” to depict such reality on breakfast-time TV. Second because, if what we saw was shown on television, no one would ever again agree to support a war. Robert Fisk writes in The Independent.Read more about The human cost - 'Does Tony have any idea what the flies are like that feed off the dead?'
Even with my cynic’s credentials established, the one thing I never expected anyone to do would be to just make up a quote from King; a quote that he simply never said, and claim that it came from a letter that he never wrote, and was published in a collection of his essays that never existed. Frankly, this level of deception is something special. The hoax of which I speak is one currently making the rounds on the Internet, which claims to prove King’s steadfast support for Zionism. Tim Wise investigates in Zmag. Read more about Fraud fit for a King: Israel, Zionism, and the misuse of MLK
NPR’s Linda Gradstein called the city of Hebron “a focus of violence,” but listed only incidents in which Israeli soldiers and settlers were victims. Gradstein ignored Israel’s continuous lethal attacks on Palestinians, and home demolitions in the city. EI’s Ali Abunimah explains in a letter to the network. Read more about NPR's Gradstein grossly distorts Hebron violence