The Forward's Op-Ed by Sari Bashi might be the most dishonest account if Israel's vaccine program in the mainstream press. camera.org/article/forwar…
2/ How did @jdforward reply to the complaint that the article falsely claims that Israel bases its distribution of the vaccine on ethnicity, and that the ethnic group eligible for the vaccine are the Jews? @rudoren

Here's how:
3/ Editors told me the piece clearly states Israel vaccinates its Arab residents. No, it doesn't.

Worse, *after* the concerns were raised, they added another sentence purporting that Israel only gets vaccines for Jews: "Because I am Jewish, the authorities bought me…vaccine."
4/ How could the @jdforward claim the piece says Israel vaccinates its Arab citizens when it says no such thing? Presumably they're referring to the sentence that says Israel "has procured enough" to vaccinate all Israeli citizens including Arabs. That fails for many reasons:
5/ First, you don't have to be a wordsmith—or an editor—to recognize that "procures enough for" is different in meaning than "vaccinates."

Especially in a piece that repeatedly argues Israel only vaccines Jews, "it has enough to vaccinate others" doesn't pass muster. And worse:
6/ This very article uses against Israel the talking point, meant to substantiate the claim that it is using ethnic criteria to decide who gets the vaccine, that Israel has enough supply to vaccinate Palestinians but let's the doses languish in the freezer rather than inoculate.
7/ In other words, the assertion that Israel *procured enough doses for* everyone doesn't show that Israel is vaccinating its Arabs. To the contrary, in the context of the piece it works an argument that Israel's ethnic criteria is all the more "egregious." @rudoren
8/ In other other words, nowhere does the piece state that Israel is vaccinating Arabs and all other ethnic groups in the country.

It slurs Israel with *not* vaccinating Arabs, with deciding that only Jews are eligible for the vaccine, and only buying vaccines for Jews.
9/ Again: After the errors were brought to the @jdforward's attention, they added a line reiterating that only Jews get vaccines: "Because I am Jewish, the authorities bought me two doses of vaccine."

They responded by making doubly sure readers were misled.
As always, pls forgive typos.

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10 Mar
Updated to highlight self-contradiction. If
a) Israel "controls the movement of goods" and "approves or doesn't approve the entrance of…drugs" into Gaza; and
b) 20,000 doses of vaccine were imported into Gaza; then
c) can't be true that “refuses…to distribute vaccines” to Gaza.
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Of course, Israel doesn't control Gaza. It doesn't "acknowledge" it effectively controls Gaza, as the author suggests, and it doesn't, as she claims, control what goes in and out.
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14 Jan
1/ Remember last year's letter fiasco in the Guardian? Well, here we go again. Let's take a look at who signed a recent letter in the paper that attacks the IHRA definition of antisemitism.
2/ The letter in question, published by a prominent newspaper, seeks to redefine antisemitism. It is signed by people who:
* Openly charge Jews with disloyalty to their countries
* Say Jews manipulate the world through a “Jewish media machine”
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* Accuse Jews with “whining” and “lying” about the Holocaust while behaving worse than the Nazis
* Describe a 1929 anti-Jewish massacre that killed over a hundred Jews as “resistance” by "martyrs"
* And the murderer of a four-year-old Jewish girl as a “martyr”
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2 Dec 20
1/ I'd like to see those defending "river to the sea" as if it means nothing more than "one democratic state" be more forthright in acknowledging what it really means. To both proponents and critics.

Why skirt the central issue?
2/ Both "river to sea" and "one democratic state" are slogans. The former is chanted more often by people who shake their fist, and latter by those who seek a more refined look, but both describe the same broader idea: Disempowering a historically oppressed people, the Jews.
3/ How is it that "one democratic state" amounts to disempowerment? It sounds so nice!

Because democracy isn't the end being demanded. When you understand that "one democratic state" is a euphemism for "one democratic Jewish-minority state" is the demand, the debate more sense.
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1/ Peter, who now embraces the "river/sea/free" rhyme, KNOWS it's tied to, dependent on, and entirely about Palestinians being a majority in the new state he demands.

It's a rhyme about making Jews a minority in a Palestinian state. Period.

His noble words are spin-room sauce.
2/ And of course, he knows that in the current existent state, Arabs and Jews do have the same rights under the same laws. He knows that by pretending the West Bank and Israel are one state, he can mislead the average reader.
3/ No. Jews don't like the slogan because, whether out of the mouth of Hamas or Tlaib, it means ending Israel, and ending it because a Jewish majority country is unacceptable to them.

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Q: In what world does saying "kill the Jews wherever you find them" make you "against Zionism"… and demanding the ethnic cleansing of Jews in a "Palestine from the river to the sea" amount to a "dispute over land and maritime borders"?

A: 620 8th Ave, New York, NY 10018
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5 Oct 20
1/ A thread on *framing* in NY Times coverage of Israel.

Let's look at yesterday's story on the UAE deal and Arab Israelis, to see how the words "many," "some," etc are funny — capable of rerouting a story into a narrow, preferred frame.

Here's the top of the story:
2/ It's already clear from the hed and dek how the piece is meant to come across.

We have at its heart a story about how Israel's growing relationship with the Arab opens opportunities for Israeli Arabs. But it's clearly framed as, mostly, a story about the "Palestinian cause."
3/ Note that subhead again: "MANY say they are loath to undercut the Palestinian cause."

But when you get to the actual story, "many" quickly becomes "SOME." Here's paragraph 2:
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