Weir’s 2014 exposé on Israel partisans’ role in the US media cover up on Israel-Palestine, including Israel-centrism in NYT, AP, Gannett, NPR, CNN, Weider history magazines, Time Magazine, etc…
Tags: new york times
Dishonest coverage by NPR & NY Times of Israel’s attack on Gaza
Once again, the U.S. mainstream media is missing — or covering up — a central reason that Israel carried out a preemptive attack on Gaza, killing 46 Palestinians, including 16 children.
Washington Post, NYT, LA Times are erasing Palestine
Journalists on major papers are blocked from truth-telling about Palestine and the apartheid practices of Israel. Such censorship in top American newspapers is troubling – and not unprecedented.
NY Times & Israeli paper feature photos of all 67 Palestinian children killed in Gaza
In unprecedented actions, the front pages of the New York Times and the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz featured photos of the 67 children in Gaza who were killed by Israeli airstrikes this month. Some Israel partisans called this a ‘blood libel.’
Falk: Thomas Friedman unconditionally supports Israel, ignores Palestinian grievances
Richard Falk reports that “Progressive Except Palestine” journalist Thomas Friedman is an unapologetic Israel apologist, putting a positive spin on Israeli actions that can be spun, and simply avoiding comment on issues when it’s convenient.
Friedman drove the radical overhaul of US policy on Israel-Palestine
NYT reports that Trump’s bankruptcy lawyer-turned-ambassador leaves his post having radically overhauled policy toward Israel and the Palestinians… The administration moved ahead with a raft of policies previous administrations, both Republican & Democratic, had resisted…
‘NY Times’ story on Iran-Al Qaeda is dishonest — and could help justify a U.S./Israeli attack
Trump and Netanyahu could be using the same scare tactics to justify any attacks on Iran they may be planning — and the Times may have fallen into their trap. The Times published a misleading report on its front page that further raises the risk that Trump and Netanyahu could provoke a conflict with Iran during the Trump administration’s final 66 days…
A sensationalist, award-winning ‘NY Times’ podcast on Islamic Jihadism was based on a fraud
An award-winning breathless New York Times podcast about Islamic Jihadism that was downloaded millions of times in 2018 turns out to have been based on a fraudulent liar — but so far the paper and its reporter, Rukmini Callimachi, have declined to fully acknowledge their error. Callimachi has connections to Israel lobby organizations…
Israeli envoy calls Thomas Friedman & Dennis Ross spokesmen for Israel
A former Israeli ambassador has confirmed that New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and former White House Middle East negotiator Dennis Ross are propagandists for Israel…
As US Consigns Iranians to Death, Media Look the Other Way
The best way to remedy the inordinate harm the Iran sanctions do, would be to lift the sanctions, but few in the corporate media are making this rather obvious point.(Israel and its partisans have long targeted Iran.)