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Writer. Views expressed are my own. My latest novel - Words Apart @yedbooks Commentator @MaarivOnline Formerly Globes, Channel 2, HuffPost, Channel 10, Ha'Aretz
Sep 6 12 tweets 5 min read
1. If you're Jewish please follow this thread: @nytimes featured a Yiddish "expert" who causally vilified... Hebrew - the 3,000 year old biblical language that I've been speaking since I was born. The fact about the Bible does not appear in this pseudo-intellectual op-ed. Insane Image 2. "For some"? Yes, for some crazy bigots who associate the ancient Jewish language with negative traits. The ridiculous piece shows how Yiddish was hated when used by diaspora Jews, but does exactly the same to Hebrew.
The writer: one of many tokenized Jews in @nytimes -> Image
Aug 1 10 tweets 4 min read
This @TheFP article about the @nytimes "mistakes" and "corrections" that are actually just a part of a newsroom propaganda machine, have been proved in my study for Bar Ilan University. Follow thread to understand how bad it really is
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(link at the end) Image We all remember the fake report @nytimes published only 10 days after the Oct 7 massacre and refused to retract, right?
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Apr 17, 2022 13 tweets 5 min read
Since I began monitoring NYT there have been some low points, but today's series of anti-Israeli headlines is a new low.
The "brief clashes" mentioned here include violent riots, stoning a bus of Jewish worshipers, and more threats from Hamas, all preceding police actions. The headline here tells the outcome while hiding the cause: most of the "14 Palestinians" mentioned were terrorists, not innocent bystanders. The operation in WB was needed because PA has lost control of Jenin, a terror nest. Notice how the word terror is absent from the report.
Apr 16, 2022 6 tweets 2 min read
So we managed to have a Passover holiday with no terror attacks. Israeli defence minister Gantz decided to discontinue the lockdown in WB, because hopefully, the violent wave that Hamas worked so hard to incite - is over. None of these words are to be found in NYT this weekend. No mention of 15 yr old Palestinian girl who stabbed a 47 yr old man in Haifa yesterday. If you wonder why a 15 yr old would just up and stab someone, it's due to incitement in Palestinian schoolbooks, urging kids to kill Jews and become shaheeds. No mention of that on NYT either
Mar 3, 2022 13 tweets 4 min read
NYT has a long heroic story about Rashida Tlaib today. It mentions she's "been called antisemitic", but fails to explain the reason or magnitude of her hateful stand. “If the US cares about democratic values, then upholding Palestinian rights is inherently American” says Tlaib-> and that’s hard to argue with. The marginal fact that Tlaib and this story keep avoiding, is that Palestinian rights are mostly trampled on by Palestinian leadership.
Not by Israel.
Therefore focusing on Israel as the major problem of the Palestinians its actually antisemitic.
Mar 2, 2022 5 tweets 2 min read
Today’s story about Israel in NYT deals with a court ruling on 4 Palestinian families in East Jerusalem. Gaza tensions are mentioned, but as usual - Hamas is not, although it is the terror organization that rules Gaza ever since Israel completely pulled out of it 17 years ago Everything in this article is very one sided, and the complex history is partial, neglecting to mention any Arab aggression. In a nutshell, in 1948 Palestinians joined Arab countries’ aiming to massacre or expel all Jews from Israel, and failed.