Those who can get through the Jerusalem Post paywall to read Jerusalem Report content can find an interesting review of the book “The Sons of Pigs and Apes: Muslim Antisemitism and the Conspiracy of Silence.”

Tibor Krausz writes:

In his new book, “The Sons of Pigs and Apes,” Neil J. Kressel, who directs the Honors Program in the Social Sciences at William Patterson University in New Jersey, cites … videos in tackling what he sees as a blind spot — “a conspiracy of silence” — among Western academics, policymakers and journalists about the extent of Muslim anti-Semitism. In Arab societies, he notes, the very words “Jew” and “Zionist” have become generic slurs. “For many [Muslims], Israel has become a central element in a collective obsessional delusion,” Kressel writes.

Yet many Western opinion formers, Jews included, remain willfully blind to the issue, Kressel argues. “Otherwise reliable opponents of bigotry too often duck when confronted with massive evidence of Jew-hatred in Arab and Islamic countries,” he notes. “They offer either dismissive interpretations or complex justifications in lieu of plainspoken opposition. Those who don’t ignore the subject outright prefer to downplay it, dismiss it as a peripheral cultural phenominon, or justify it as a righteous response to Israel’s maltreatment of the Palestinians.

The reviewer goes on to cite an Egyptian cleric who admitted that anti-Semitism is not about the Palestinians. “If the Jews left Palestine to us, would we start loving them? Of course not,” Muhammad Hussein Ya’qub said, shortly before adding: “They would be our enemies even if they had not occupied anything.”

In several January articles, Time magazine claimed that Israel had shelled a UN school in Gaza and had killed over 40 of the civilians there seeking shelter. Israel did not shell the school and no one was killed in the school.
Israel did target and strike rocket-launching Hamas terrorists across the street from the school, and unfortunately a few bystander civilians were also killed.

CAMERA wrote to Time magazine urging that corrections be published. Below are Time magazine’s dismal “clarifications,” which do more to obfuscate than clarify.
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UPDATE: Time Magazine Published Clarifications, but they obfuscated more than they clarified.
Click here to read about the Dismal Clarifications.
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It is now clear that, even according to the UN, Israel did not attack the UN school in Gaza in January of 2009 and no one inside the school was killed. CAMERA contacted Time magazine editors, urging them to correct the January 7, 8, and 14th articles, as well as any others which made similarly inaccurate claims that Israel shelled a UN school and killed 40 civilians seeking shelter inside the school. As of February 24th, Time has failed to set the record straight.

As reported by Ha’aretz, February 3rd,

“Maxwell Gaylord, the UN humanitarian coordinator in Jerusalem, said Monday that the IDF mortar shells fell in the street near the compound, and not on the compound itself.

“Gaylord said that the UN ‘would like to clarify that the shelling and all of the fatalities took place outside and not inside the school.’ ” [ www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1061189.html ]

Israel struck back at Hamas combatants who were launching rockets at Israel from near the school. 3 Israeli shells landed in the vicinity of the school, but not inside the school compound. Not a single person inside the school was killed, although 9 Hamas terrorists were killed and unfortunately 3 (not 40) nearby civilians.

Following are Time magazine articles that need to have corrections published, particularly the online versions that people continue to read.
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Hamas turned medicine bottles into grenades. Has the mainstream media in your town reported on this sickening example of Hamas’ misuse of humanitarian aid? If not, urge them to report the story. For photos of the medicine bottle grenades and for more details, click here to read the Jerusalem Post article.

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East is working to get signatures on a petition protesting discrimination against Israeli academics and institutions.

Click here to view the SPME Statement on Discrimination Against Israeli Academics and Institutions.

To sign the petition, click here.

Please forward this petition to professors and others who work for a university or college.

This “Open Letter to a Citizen of Gaza: I am the Soldier Who Slept In Your Home”, originally published in Hebrew in the Maariv newspaper, shows the compassion and humanity of Israeli soldiers and also points the way to a solution to the conflict. Please consider copying and pasting this soldier’s letter into a new message and forwarding it to government leaders, clergy, editors, friends and family. It is very powerful.
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USA Network, an NBC affiliate, aired on Oct. 24, 2008 a “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” encore episode (entitled “30”) which had been originally broadcast by NBC on Feb. 27, 2007. At that time, CAMERA’s Web site documented the problematic broadcast in a report entitled “NBC’s ‘Law & Order’ Promotes Anti-Jewish, Anti-Israel Sentiment.”

In this segment’s plot, Israel is a suspect in the fatal polonium poisoning of an American investigative journalist. The episode also portrayed fictional Israeli brutality towards Palestinians and depicted fictional New York police detective Mike Logan (played by Chris Noth) repeatedly hectoring his Jewish captain, Danny Ross (played by Eric Bogosian), with the dual-loyalty canard accusation (including covering up for Israel).

That CAMERA posting was cited as the source in a March 11, 2007 Jerusalem Post report by Michael Freund who wrote:

Contacted by The Jerusalem Post, NBC sent a statement via e-mail which said, “As you know, the program material on Law & Order: CI has traditionally addressed provocative, contemporary issues. Its ‘ripped from the headlines’ stories often spark debate on many controversial subjects. As noted on air, the program is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event.” An NBC spokesman declined to respond to questions concerning allegations of anti-Semitism in the show’s dialogue and plot.

The “ripped from the headlines” story line for this L & O episode was presumably ripped from a headline story having absolutely nothing to do with Israel: A former Russian spy turned Russian dissident, Alexander Litvinenko, was poisoned by polonium 210 in London in 2006 and subsequently the British justice system charged a former officer of the Russian special services with the crime.

Such a defamatory, mean-spirited show that incites scorn for Jews and Israelis is hardly worthy of the Law and Order: CI series, or of USA Network, or NBC.

In the August 17th New York Times Magazine, the author Brigitte Gabriel is unfairly and inaccurately labeled as a “radical Islamophobe.” To be a radical Islamophobe means to have an irrational fear of radical Islam/Muslims, or to be prejudiced against them. It’s interesting, and outrageous, that the Times’ editors apparently believe that opposition to Islamic totalitarianism and supremacism must by definition be irrational or arising from prejudice.

Since when did it become irrational or prejudiced to oppose supremacists who scorn, harass and/or murder people for not being the “right” religion? Does the New York Times similarly label as crazy or bigoted the many Americans who oppose white supremacists?

* What oh-too-clever title did the Times use for this article about a Lebanese Christian activist who opposes the spread of Islamic totalitarianism? “The Crusader.”

While normally calling an activist a “crusader” is a compliment, in the context of a Christian opposing Islamic totalitarianism, it inappropriately juxtaposes Gabriel’s legitimate criticism of Muslim extremists with the Christian Crusaders who murdered thousands of Muslims (and Jews) in the Crusades.
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The Washington Post’s Griff Witte covers the story of the brutal terror attack in Jerusalem as a eulogy for the Palestinian terrorist. Palestinian Hussam Edwyat went on a deadly rampage with a huge bulldozer through the streets of Jerusalem, crushed to death three Israelis and injured dozens, but the Post was mostly interested in how the terrorist used to have a Jewish girlfriend and what a seemingly nice guy he was.

So perhaps one would conclude, the murderer actually liked Jews, must have closed his ears and eyes to anti-Jewish incitement on Arab TV and radio stations, and was not likely to have been an actual terrorist?

A May 15th CNN report by Ben Wedeman on Israel’s 60th birthday parrots many similar segments in the media which focus not on Israel, but on the Palestinians’ view of the event. An Arab man emotively and inaccurately claims that the “establishment of Israel” caused the Palestinian refugee problem. Wedeman fails to note that it was actually the Arab attack against the reborn Jewish state which created the war and refugee problem. If the Arabs had not attacked the Jews, there would not be a single Palestinian Arab refugee.

To read a reliable source on the creation of the refugee problem, see Efraim Karsh’s excellent annotated Commentary article by clicking here.

Click here to submit a complaint to CNN.