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Readers with good memories will recall the appointment of Jorge Palacios, a disgraced former Federal Police officer to head the city of Buenos Aires’s first autonomous police force. To put it mildly, it wasn’t an idea that prospered. Palacios was obliged to resign when indicted on charges of being involved in the cover up of the AMIA massacre and is now in prison while being investigated on charges of organizing illegal wiretaps. Among those who had their phone conversations illicitly listened in on was Sergio Burstein, a well known campaigner for justice for the families of the survivors of the AMIA attack.
Continue reading ‘Israeli Embassy Controls Buenos Aires City Hall’
Now here’s one item in The Guardian that’s really worth reading:
We should not have put the headline “Israel admits harvesting Palestinian organs” on a story about an admission, by the former head of the Abu Kabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv, that during the 1990s specialists at the institute harvested organs from the bodies of Israeli soldiers, Israeli citizens, Palestinians and foreign workers without getting permission from the families of the deceased (21 December, page 15). That headline did not match the article, which made clear that the organs were not taken only from Palestinians. This was a serious editing error and the headline has been changed online to reflect the text of the story written by the reporter.
How, I wonder, could such an error have been made?
Jay Adler directs me to this correspondence of his with Andrew Sullivan. Inter alia, Adler writes: “The problem in this is that Max Blumenthal and those particular ‘young left-wing Jewish political writers who criticise right-wing Israeli policies’ are not, simply, ‘writers who criticise right-wing Israeli policies.’ Blumenthal and Mondoweiss are both anti-Zionist. They are opposed to the existence of the Jewish state and are expressly working to bring about its demise.”
Continue reading ‘Andrew Sullivan Forecasts Israel’s Demise’
The increasingly nauseating Max Blumenthal is ably taken apart by Dvar Dea here. Serendipitously, Dvar’s piece came into my in-box while I was reading Blumenthal’s whine on the Huffington Post (look it up, I ain’t linking) comparing Israel’s security forces with those of Iran.
Should it ever dawn upon Blumenthal that intrepid journalism involves more than filming a bunch of drunken kids in the safety of west Jerusalem, perhaps he might venture to Tehran. Or at least London, where Press TV may well be willing to take him on, given that so many other pundits are bailing out on the voice of the Iranian regime.
Also recommended: Claudio Lomnitz and Rafael Sánchez in The Boston Review write about antisemitism in Chavez’s Venezuela.
Over at Harry’s Place, habibi congratulates UK pundit Iain Dale for announcing that he will no longer appear on Press TV, the Holocaust-denying mouthpiece of the Iranian regime which masquerades as a legitimate news outlet. And The Times has an excellent piece here. It’s clear that Press TV, which is based in west London, is violating UK broadcasting regulations. The UK government must act - and shut it down.
As Jonathan Hoffman of the UK Zionist Federation was leaving a book launch held at the British Parliament, someone informed him that the “Nazis should have finished the job.” Not as shocking as it seems when you know that the launch was for a new book penned by the squalid propagandist Ben White (if I really wanted to punish Z Word readers, I’d republish some of White’s godawful poetry, but I like to think of myself as a decent person.) Anyway, read Jonathan’s account of what happened.
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In case you had forgotten, I’ll remind you. Israel and Iran are at war. Any doubts about this should have been put to bed by the reports of a series of airstrikes by Israel on Iranian arms convoys bound for Hamas as they passed through Sudan.
Continue reading ‘Israel and Iran at War’
I have never pictured AJC, the organization which sponsors Z Word, and where I proudly work, as being driven by a particularly American Jewish “psychopathology;” nor have I ever been aware that AJC actively colludes with those who seek to wipe Israel out of existence; nor did I know that my colleagues would sit happily in the same room as those who would deny the Holocaust in which six million Jews, including members of my own family, were exterminated.
Continue reading ‘Durban Delirium’
This is a guest post by Karl Pfeifer, a veteran anti-fascist and journalist based in Vienna.
The sensationalist Austrian rag, Neue Kronenzeitung, accounts for 42 per cent of the country’s daily newspaper readership. On weekends, this increases to 65 per cent. The paper is no friend of the Jewish community, however.
Continue reading ‘Antisemitic Tropes in Austria’s Top-Selling Daily’
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Fintan O’Toole is a a prominent Irish writer, journalist and theater critic. Writing in the Irish Times, he lays into Israel, accusing it of all of manner lies and obfuscations to disguise the reality of its actions. There are references to other conflicts sprinkled throughout the text but the central intention is clear: strip away the rotten cladding of untruth and show the Israelis to be the blood-soaked monsters that they are.
Continue reading ‘Gaza: A Theater Critic Writes’
A number of British Jews have published an open letter concerning the current situation in Gaza. I’d like to make a couple of points about it.
Continue reading ‘Gaza: A Response to the Open Letter from British Jews’
“It seems to me to be important to allow a debate about the wisdom and morality of Israel’s current military incursion without accusing critics of being anti-Semites at the first opportunity,” writes Andrew Sullivan. “But it is equally important to note when genuine anti-Semitism really does rear its disgusting head.”
Continue reading ‘Antisemitism Most Foul: The Case of Taki’
Before today, I hadn’t come across the name of Brian Cloughley. But he’s writing for online rag Counterpunch - which stubbornly insists upon its leftist credentials despite being a fount of antisemitism - in terms that are indistinguishable from Klansman David Duke.
Continue reading ‘Gaza: Counterpunching the Jews’
Karl Pfeifer exposed Israeli anti-Zionist Professor Moshe Zuckerman’s claim that “400,000 civilians” had been killed in Gaza - made during in an interview with Deutschlandradio - here. An editor at the radio station now says it was a “bad mistake.”
Continue reading ‘German Radio Denies Gaza “Big Lie” Accusation’
