ABC’s McNeill vowed to be an advocacy journo, and she delivered
September 26, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
Sophie McNeill’s decision to file virtually the exact story that she proposed in 2011 as an example of the sort of journalism she “want(s) to do” to promote her advocacy agenda, and her ABC editors’ decision to let her, stands as an indictment of the ABC’s ability to do its job in an impartial way as required by law.
PA again insists terrorist stabbers are “unarmed Palestinians” who were “executed”
September 23, 2016 | Gareth Narunsky
Following a period of relative calm over the last few months, eight attacks in five days last week shattered the illusion that the terror wave that began a year ago might finally be over.
Fatah uses controversial Australian cartoon by Glen Le Lievre to promote antisemitic conspiracy theories
September 23, 2016 | Glen Falkenstein
Fatah’s “Mobilization and Organization Commission” has re-publicised a controversial Australian cartoon drawn by Glen Le Lievre which originally appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald. Fatah’s implication is that Jews are in control of acts of terrorism and violence around the world. The infamous cartoon of a Jewish person with a large nose, wearing a Jewish skullcap, seated in an armchair with an emblazoned Star of David, causing violence with a remote control device, was published on that Commission’s website on Sept. 20 according to Palestinian Media Watch.
Palestinian feminists contest issue of election discrimination & textbook stereotyping
September 12, 2016
Female activists in the Palestinian territories have had a lot to be concerned about over the past few weeks. First, several Palestinian electoral lists refused to publish the names and pictures of female candidates contesting the municipal election (originally scheduled for October 8), instead referring to these women as the ‘wife of’ or ‘sister of’ Palestinian men. Then, the release of new Palestinian textbooks to be taught in the first and second grade was met with outrage for its portrayal of women as witches and sorceresses.
Setting the facts straight on Hebron
September 9, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
Palestinian Embassy’s latest fact sheet on Hebron is interesting for the sources it quotes directly, the source material it distorts, and what facts it leaves out.
Settlement hype, not ‘activity’, reaches new high
September 7, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
The significance of the issue of construction within Israeli settlements in the West Bank has long been overemphasised and exaggerated in international diplomacy, but White House and State Department criticism of Israel last week over construction in its West Bank settlements may just have set a new high-water mark for settlement hysteria.
Explosion rocks Israeli satellite industry
September 6, 2016 | Rachel Kaye
Israel’s satellite industry is in crisis after a SpaceX rocket carrying an advanced Israeli communications satellite exploded on the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, Florida last Thursday 1 September. The accident and the subsequent loss of the Israeli-built satellite has been described as a “crushing blow” to Israel Aerospace Industries.
Media Week – It’s not all right; Church and Hate
September 2, 2016 | Allon Lee
On August 29, the Age, Canberra Times and Sydney Morning Herald websites ran a Washington Post report about the controversial Palestinian village of Susiya in Area C of the West Bank – that is the area under full Israeli control, with relatively few Palestinian residents.
The Israeli courts have ordered the village demolished, accepting arguments that it its residents are squatters and have illegally built there.
The report further stated that, “the Israeli government right now wants to formally annex Area C in the West Bank.”
There is no Israeli government move or discussion to annex Area C.
Media Week – Rinse Saikal; Notes and Stones; Seriously Silly
August 26, 2016 | Allon Lee
According to ANU’s Professor Amin Saikal in the Canberra Times (Aug. 22), “upon assuming the presidency, Obama…had to deal with a hostile Republican-dominated Congress, where Israel’s interests have repeatedly trumped those of the United States. As a result, he…has backed away from securing a resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a means to demonstrate that the US is a dispassionate and unbiased player in the region.”
Saikal is betraying his usual inability to comprehend that US support for Israel might conceivably be based on principle and shared interests.
At Fairfax, Hamad gets gold medal for propagandising
August 23, 2016 | Ahron Shapiro
Fairfax columnist Ruby Hamad recent blog is an impassioned plea to ignore what she calls the “symbolic” Olympic Truce principle – of setting aside conflicts for the sake of the games – and instead embrace the demonisation and singling out of Israeli athletes at the Olympics, because, in her view, they deserve it.
Media Week – A baffling declaration; Aid el-Vice; Hamad screed
August 19, 2016 | Allon Lee
In the Spectator Australia (Aug. 13), the ECAJ’s Alex Ryvchin ridiculed Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki’s declaration that Palestinians will sue Britain for the 1917 Balfour Declaration supporting a Jewish national home in Palestine.
