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Sunday, January 22, 2023

Book review: Can 'The Whole World' Be Wrong? by Richard Landes

Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, by Professor Richard Landes, is a hard but important book to read. Landes does no less than directly taking on the orthodoxy of the liberal world that regards Israel as one of the worst human rights violators, that regards supporting the Palestinian cause as the archetype of progressive...

24 years since the PLO fooled Clinton into thinking they amended their charter

On this day in 1998, President Bill Clinton was bamboozled by Yasir Arafat into believing that the PLO had changed its charter. The very moment of the sham was captured in the photo above, as a roomful of Palestinians in Gaza pretended to vote to rescind the articles of the charter that called for the destruction of Israel.We know that the charter never changed. The 1968...

Expert says the Palestinians smashed the bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh before handing it over

On Monday, when the US said that the bullet that was said to have killed Shireen Abu Akleh was too deformed to allow a proper forensics exam, I tweeted this graphic as a joke:It looks like it wasn't a joke.From Arutz-7:Leading physicist and ballistic expert Nahum Shahaf, who refuted the story of 12-year-old Muhammad al-Durrah being shot by IDF soldiers in the opening days...

For Jews, Fake News Doesn't Go Back To Trump -- It Goes Back To Al Dura (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosEveryone knows about fake news. Some people know it's all Trump's fault, others know that it's all the media's fault. And now countries are generating it, using bots on social media. But for anyone who follows how the media reports about Israel, this is kind of old. How old? Daniel Rubenstein addresses this question in his first podcast, featuring...

10/01 Links P2: A look back at the Muhammad al-Dura affair, 20 years later; Jpost Editorial: Trump is no antisemite. Drawing comparisons with Hitler is just crass

From Ian: Richard Landes: A look back at the Muhammad al-Dura affair, 20 years later Yesterday was the 20th anniversary of one of the most disastrous events in the year 2000, an event that cast a long shadow over the unhappy early decades of a troubled new millennium. On September 30, 2000, a Palestinian cameraman clumsily filmed what he claimed was footage of a boy who came...

Al-Dura trial update

For those following the French hearing about the infamous Mohammed al-Dura videotape, Media Backspin has the latest:HonestReporting together with Take-A-Pen covered this afternoon's hearing in France where raw footage of the Mohammed Dura was publicly screened for the first time. HonestReporting/Take-A-Pen's Alain Benjamin, who saw the video in court, discussed by phone the...