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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

A @NYTimes essay by @TareqBaconi justifies, and ultimately cheers, murdering Israeli civilians

How many ways can one minimize and then legitimize terror attacks against Jews?Tareq Baconi, former senior analyst for Israel/Palestine at the International Crisis Group and the author of “Hamas Contained” who is now president of the board of al-Shabaka, the Palestinian Policy Network, displays a lot of them in New York Times guest essay.Purportedly an analysis of Jenin,...

HRW "Apartheid" report destroyed by NGO Monitor

Although it took way longer than I would have liked, NGO Monitor released a thorough, line by line debunking of the Human Rights Watch 2021 report that accused Israel of "apartheid."No unbiased person can read the NGOM report and end up concluding that the HRW report has a shred of intellectual honesty.The HRW report is not just filled with errors. That is an understatement....

The editorial malpractice of Roger Cohen

In what is perhaps his most remarkable feat, Roger Cohen's latest op-ed for the New York Times - where he critiques Binyamin Netanyahu's speech to the UN last week - gets everything wrong. Even more remarkably, his main arguments are refuted by the contents of the speech itself. Which means that either Cohen didn't listen to or read the speech itself, or he consciously chose to lie about it. Op-ed writers of course have more latitude than reporters...

Goldstone Report website launches

A new website, set up by prominent bloggers and writers, goes into detail on the Goldstone Report's problems. The main organizer is Professor Richard Landes, historian and writer of the Augean Stables blog and Second Draft site. Many other people, including myself, contribute to the website. As the website says: Those of us who have constructed Understanding the Goldstone Report, have been following the claims under contention since the events...

Must read: Richard Landes fisking Goldstone's NYT piece

Professor Richard Landes does a superlative job fisking Judge Richard Goldstone's op-ed in the New York Times today. And while I have been spending what time I have on the minutae of the large Goldstone Report, Landes' post goes to the very heart of the topic, and shows exactly what is problematic about the entire enterprise. It casts great doubt on Goldstone's honesty, at least with regards to this topic. It is a must-read, as are the links Landes...