Israel/Palestine

A “one-eyed King among the blind,” “some kind of god, the creator of everything,” “brilliant” and “clever;” these are just some of the disturbing bona fides a new book analyzes that leftist billionaire George Soros has acquired for himself over his decades-long activist career. 

Harvard Law School Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz has weighed in to defend Elon Musk’s criticisms of George Soros and offered a few scathing remarks of his own.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell found a new and even sillier reason to label Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “controversial” on her Thursday show: he dared to disagree with President Biden’s assessment of Israelis Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed court reforms while he was visiting the country.

MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell took a brief break from all the Trump indictment news on her Wednesday show to discuss the current state of affairs in Israel. Teaming up with President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haas, Mitchell said it was “unbelievable” that Israel would raid the Al Aqsa mosque to prevent would-be rioters from gathering stones and fireworks while Haass described it as…

Our sister site CNS News had a story Thursday morning that highlighted the efforts of 2022 MRC Bulldog Award winner and conservative talk radio icon Mark Levin along with his wife and First America Legal Senior Counsel Julie Strauss Levin to raise money for OneFamily Fund through the Friday’s Jerusalem Half-Marathon to benefit the city’s “victims of terrorism”.

With co-host Whoopi Goldberg taking here usual Friday off, most of The View cast seemed to feel empowered to confront racist Sunny Hostin after she tried to defend Ilhan Omar, the antisemitism Minnesota Democratic Congresswoman who, after spewing hate for years, was punished on Thursday for when she was stripped of her position on the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Hostin was caught…

Tuesday’s Amanpour & Co. on PBS featured Diana Buttu, described by the program as a “political analyst and human rights lawyer,” but whose actual views were extremely hostile to Israel and radically pro-Palestinian -- and in sync with those of host Christiane Amanpour. Amanpour matched her guest by bringing her own long-standing hostility to Israel and concurrent embrace of the…

In a segment on MSNBC’s All In which sounded like it was written by anti-Semites like Ilhan Omar, guests Peter Beinart and Rula Jebreal each went into an anti-Semitic and anti-Israel tirade accusing the state of Israel of being a terrorist state and turning the West Bank into an apartheid state.

The Thursday edition of Andrea Mitchell Reports on MSNBC was in full spin mode as Republicans prepared to kick Rep. Ilhan Omar off the Foreign Affairs Committee for her history of anti-Semitic statements, but according to Mitchell it was simply “criticism of Israel.” Meanwhile, Washington correspondent Yamiche Alcindor alleged that Republican hypocrisy is the real story.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu politely, but firmly educated CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday on the alleged threat to democracy his “pretty outrageous” supreme court reforms pose by pointing out that what he is proposing is not all that different from countries like Canada and the United Kingdom.

On Tuesday, the broadcast networks used their flagship morning news shows to continue emphasizing their disdain for Israel and the Israeli people, blaming them and the “hardest right government in [their] history” for having “triggered” the latest “cycle of violence” with a “massive...raid” on the “occupied West Bank”.

As part of their Monday newscast, CBS Mornings downplayed a shooting attack carried out by a Palestinian terrorist against a synagogue in east Jerusalem as people were filing out after services. Co-anchor/Democratic donor Gayle King and correspondent Imtiaz Tyab obfuscated that fact. As they described the attack in vague terms, the latter suggested Israel was on a killing spree…

My maxim on the media’s use of ideological labeling is “The epic political battles of our time are between the ultraconservatives and the nonpartisans.” Journalists see Republicans as a whole as ultraconservative, or as a wholly owned subsidiary of the ultraconservatives. Exhibit A is NPR's program Fresh Air with Terry Gross, which isn't fresh at all.

Thursday's PBS NewsHour broke out every term for extremism in reporting on the new Israeli government. The online headline for the segment was "Netanyahu once again prime minister with most far-right government in Israel’s history."