Two extraordinary events have come together to place Al Jazeera in a vise-like squeeze that may result in the death of a major TV documentary expose about the power and operations of the Israel Lobby in the U.S. The same investigative team producing this project created the remarkable four-part film, The Lobby, about the UK Israel Lobby. In that … [Read more...]
Israeli Anti-BDS Ministry Pays for Best ‘Journalism’ Money Can Buy
Gilad Erdan's ministry for strategic affairs has become a third intelligence branch (let's call it "the third eye") of the Israeli state alongside the Shin Bet and Mossad, It's brief is to fight an existential battle against the world-wide campaign to destroy Israel, aka "delegitimization." This primarily takes the form of a war to the death against BDS, a … [Read more...]
2017 Israeli Democracy Poll
I've reported in past years on the Israel Democracy Institute's annual poll on the health (or illness) of Israeli democracy. The results are usually quite dispiriting if you ever believed in such a concept. But they are always instructive. Given the IDI is a liberal Zionist organization intent on maintaining what little remains of Israeli democracy, many … [Read more...]
Bryan Singer Must Have the Busiest Lawyer in Hollywood
I don't usually write about Hollywood "affairs" unless they relate to Israel. But I am always intrigued by censorship and the cold, brutal hand of the censor, where they're in Israel or Hollywood. And tonight director Bryan Singer's lawyers are working overtime rooting out all online/media evidence of the latest charges against him involving molestation of … [Read more...]
