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New York Times headline makes Jerusalem terror attack sound like an accident

Sarkozy denounces vicious beating of Jewish teenager (& BBC promotes anti-Semitism)
Libya’s Gaddafi says Israel will kill Obama – “as it did JFK” (& U.S. intel warnings)
Top Nazi war criminal spotted mingling with Croatian soccer fans in Austria
Israeli company develops system to see through walls (& bacteria that produces petrol)
So who would you put your money on? Buffett or Ahmadinejad?
The List: The worst places to be a terrorist (& other articles)
Iran’s Ahmadinejad attacks Jews at UN food summit in Rome
More on al-Dura: “It’s hard to exaggerate the significance of this case”

French state TV loses al-Dura libel case (& Amy Winehouse to undergo drug rehab in Israel)
Lebanese Prime Minister: “Even Israel never dared to do to Beirut what Hizbullah has done”
Rupert Murdoch: European media hostility to Israel has anti-Semitic roots
Parting gift?: “Bush to offer Israel crucial new radar system” (& Iranian shell kills Israeli)
Israel at 60: “Well done for surviving – and flourishing”
Israel at 60 (part 2): “Israel was a dream, since the time of Moses”
Israel at 60 (part 3): Still dealing with outlandish conspiracy theories and blood libels
Journalist of the year calls Israel “shit,” as Israel marks Holocaust Memorial Day

Bahrain set to appoint Jewish woman as its ambassador to the U.S. (& Yemeni girl, 8, gets divorced)
Hamas enraged by mixed dancing on the West Bank (& Egypt builds a wall)
Obama’s advisors blame the Jews; & McCain was right: Iran’s help for Sunni terrorism
BBC Arabic service “boosts terrorists” (& the Shin Bet goes online today)
Al-Hayat: Jimmy Carter to meet Hamas in Damascus; Hamas murders more Israeli civilians
Into Ramallah with George W. Bush

Note
Guardian editor finally apologizes for comparing Israel to al-Qaeda
U.S. State Dept. confirms: Much anti-Semitism now in the guise of hatred of Israel
Saving Baby Mohammed
Fatah’s young guard: “Blessed martyrdom operation in occupied [West] Jerusalem”
The myth of America’s unpopularity (& the “McCain-Soros conspiracy,” says Iran)
Dying for a degree; & Ashkelon under attack
Code Red in Sderot: Living in the most heavily bombed place in the world

Ahmadinejad: Israel is a filthy bacteria (& shock as the BBC apologizes for Hizbullah coverage)
As Musharraf’s party concedes defeat, an analysis of Pakistani-Israeli relations
He’s not quite Osama Bin Laden... But he almost is
In flip-flop, U.S. says Iran may be able to make nukes by next year (& more stonings in Iran)
“Not since John Kerry has America had such an outstanding candidate for the Presidency”
(1) The poor of Africa (2) The media’s selective use of photos
Sinai now “open gateway” for Palestinian terrorists as suicide bombers hit Israeli shopping mall

Norman Finkelstein “votes against his own motion”; Gandhi forced to resign; Anne Frank abused again
Does Oxford think it ok to honor a man who calls Anne Frank a “Holo-porn” star?
A rare apology from The Washington Post (& Mohammed cartoons editor jailed for three years)
“Ahmadinejad secretly met with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Qatar”
Egyptian magazine confirms Arafat was behind Munich Olympic and other murders
Time magazine gets rids of its two conservative columnists, & The NY Times hires one
Iranian hardliners appear to endorse Mike Huckabee
Christmas Smear (& Ha’aretz editor to Condoleezza Rice: America please “rape” us)
Poll of Saudis: Don’t like Jews or Christians, want nuclear weapons and Israel destroyed

British intelligence: Israelis are right, U.S. is wrong; Iran is rushing to acquire nukes
Ahmadinejad doesn’t want a nuclear bomb? Just like there are no gays in Iran?

NY Times and WaPost “comment writer” threatens to kill Israelis (& Syria blocks Facebook)
Palestinian oligarch to the rescue? (& Launching rockets from U.N. schools)
CNN plans worldwide expansion (& all Starbucked out)
Worst terror attack since 9/11 almost totally ignored by the media
French Fries are back in fashion (& Larry King and Jerry Seinfeld: Two egos clash)
Al-Jazeera: “U.S. Air Force, carrying tactical nuclear weapons, flew with Israel during Syria raid”
Islamic regime’s new pin-up girl: Maureen Dowd (& 52% in U.S. support military strike against Iran)

Muslim contractor waives fee to build synagogue (& MSNBC says I’m the world’s worst person)
Stewart’s future, Economist’s past (& what is Clinton doing in Chinatown?)
Syria update: “This was one of the five most important acts in Israel’s history”
Lockerbie: Has an innocent man been locked up?
Outrage after Holocaust denier David Irving invited to Oxford Union (& “Not Nobel Winners”)
Ahmadinejad given bravery award for going to Columbia (& videos of new anti-regime demos in Iran)
Underreported news from Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world
Israeli “invisible” jets foiled Russian radar in Syria (& UK Israel boycott ruled “illegal”)

“Bravo, bravo, bravo, Columbia!” (& Hillary Clinton “confirms” Israel took out Syrian nukes)
Deny Holocaust? Get welcomed by Columbia University (& invited to lunch by the NY Times?)
Hunt for Israeli Bond girl is on (& U2’s Bono is Jewish, apparently)
BBC children’s site removes offensive page on 9/11 attacks – at least for now
What the BBC is telling children about 9/11 (& Palestinian rocket injures 69 Israelis)

BBC forced to remove Jesus “bastard” slur (& CrackBerrys “bad for the soul”)
Dutch Catholic Bishop tells Christians to call God “Allah” (& A “Muslim Jesus” on British TV)
U.S. presidential politics 2008 (& Cannibal tribe apologizes for eating Methodists)
Arafat’s widow expelled from Tunisia (& Poland criticizes EU’s anti-Israel bias)
One year on, Hizbullah remains a threat (& Reuters’ Titanic error)
Harry Potter is a Zionist agent (& Irish UN official: Bush’s goal is genocide)
Reuters runs false report, says AP (& Newspapers to offer free bibles)
Now it is Hamas vs. Islamic Jihad (& From Russia to Gaza with love?)

Building the biggest bridge in the world: A Bin Laden project (& Iran’s American hostages)
Hamas thanks Jimmy Carter, its “useful idiot” (& Syria occupies Lebanon. Again.)
“Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in limbo” (& Giuliani’s girls vs. Obama’s girls)
Palestinians given yet another chance. Will they take it?
PFLP chief: “Arafat died of AIDS” (& suicide bomb making factory in Syria)
American “Rachel Corrie” judge compares Israel to Nazis (& Stoned to death in Iran)
Mamma Mia! It’s “Tony Blair: The Musical!” (& Syria blocks hotmail)
“Just around the corner from Tony Blair’s new home, I was able to buy a copy of Mein Kampf”
Abbas aide says rescue of Alan Johnston was staged by Hamas
The Docs of War (& Did irresponsible journalism lead to murder?)
On boycotts and reality: Opposing the British boycott from Austria to India

1966 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage comes to life in Israel (& BBC’s “Hamas” employee enters Gaza)
Abbas the moderate? Abbas as a leader?
Congratulations Hamas: Getting an opinion piece into NYT and WP on the same day is unprecedented
Arafat’s Nobel Prize, Suha’s gowns looted (& Gaza’s Christians fear for their lives)
UK Times: “Mamma Mia!” could be first victim of boycott retaliation
Gaza slips towards civil war (& Shimon Peres elected Israeli president)
My Generation
The Doctor was blindfolded, handcuffed, shot six times and then tossed into the street
Six days of war: the media’s idea of balance
The Six-Day War: one of the most stunning military victories in modern history

Chai Shalom, 13, suffered from cerebral palsy... (& Israel rescues Gazan baby)
BBC attacks WSJ over article on kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent
Nobel laureate cancels UK trip over Israel boycott (& a tale of two terror groups called Fatah)
Al-Qaeda group threatens “crusader and Zionist” Sarkozy (& “Was Osama Right?”)
DePaul’s disgrace: “The Jewish David Irving”
Time Magazine leaves Pres. Bush off their 100 most influential people list
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, arguably the bravest and most remarkable woman of our times
Iran bans Western haircuts, eyebrow plucking for men
Sarkozy: The Palestinians deserve a homeland, but the security of Israel is not negotiable
Belgian MEP says she feels like “strangling” Israeli Ambassador
NY Times-owned Herald Tribune runs Iranian government advert to build nuclear reactors

Anti-Israel ads on Washington subway (& Why not El Salvador?)
New Iraqi terror group named after Hamas (& Christiane Amanpour admits activism)
The French go to the polls, as Ramallah renames street after Jacques Chirac
Guardian editor condemns U.K. journalists’ call to boycott Israel
Auschwitz death toll was higher, UK government archives reveal
For first time, British journalists officially vote to boycott Israeli goods
Cartoons and Photos: A visual warning
“No pot on Passover” (& Israelis invent Internet-free computer connection)

“BBC pays £200,000 to cover up report on anti-Israel bias” (& Live crocodiles seized at Gaza border)
New Palestinian Islamic party seeks to be moderate (& Money pours into Gaza)
Why the elites are driving Tony Blair from office (& The Sun’s guide to Tel Aviv)
Chirac “secretly urged Israel to topple Assad” (& 28% of Israeli Arabs say Holocaust is a myth)
Islamic fury at Palestinian lesbian conference in Haifa (& Arab praise for kidnapped BBC man)
“Passover of Blood” book now being used by Islamists and Neo-Nazis
Saudi gang-rape victim gets 90 lashes for International Women’s Day
Provocative Iran issues new banknote with nuclear insignia (& top Iranian general disappears)
America: “It’s lonely at the top”

Kibbutz where Jerry Seinfeld picked bananas, finally gives up on communism
YouTube becoming site of choice for al-Qaeda to spread propaganda
Stanford University to show Turkish blood libel film (& Saudi Prince to build hotel in Tel Aviv)
“Israeli Apartheid Week” kicks off around the world
Ilan Halimi brought to rest in Jerusalem (& Elie Wiesel assaulted in a San Francisco hotel)
Ahmadinejad promises “giant achievements” next Sunday (& UK charities leap to his defense)
Saudis “helped thwart Baker’s Iraq plan” (& 20 foreigners arrested for dancing)
Israel’s first woman president (& Kafiyehs with Stars of David)
Jack Bauer under attack: Muslims protest hit TV series “24”

David Irving: Auschwitz “was a tourist attraction” (& British Muslims scrap Holocaust Day)
Iraq learns from Yad Vashem (& The first Arab to be named a Righteous Gentile)
Six Gulf states say they would support U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear program (& Fatah-Eilat bomb details)
Jimmy Carter “interceded on behalf of Nazi SS Guard” (& Saudis may ban Letter “X”)
War on Want wages War on Israel
Halutz is forced to resign, but was the Hizbullah war in fact a victory for Israel?
Israel’s economy soars ahead, while Palestinians squander millions
Israel appoints its first Arab cabinet minister (& Mossad-KGB double agent dies)
Spain fears rebirth of Islamic kingdom (& Palestinians continue to mourn Saddam)
AP apologizes for claiming “Zionists exaggerated the Holocaust” (& BBC bias as usual)
The Six Day Phwoar (Israel: A new gay icon?)

UK paper: Virgin Mary is a “Palestinian refugee in Bethlehem”
Pope’s speech which angered Muslims wins award
“Polite society helped pave the way for Iran’s Holocaust conference”
Saudis “to buy nuclear bomb” from Pakistan to counter Iranian threat
An interview with Walter Laqueur
Iraq 28: “If we left now, we’d be back in again within a year”
Jimmy Carter called an anti-Semite live on American TV
Benny Morris responds to “numerous historical errors” in The Independent

70 percent of Israelis say they will stay even if Iran gets the bomb
“Girl With a Pearl Earring” and “Da Vinci code” banned in Iran. Is Google next?
A remarkable documentary
“Political correctness gone mad”: Christian charity bans Christmas
So busy attacking Israel, they forgot about these beheadings
Al-Jazeera launches in English today, using an Israeli satellite provider
America and Israel: Tests for an old friendship
Note

Now playing in New York: The sad case of Rachel Corrie
Soros plans an alternative to AIPAC (& other news items)
A touch of humor
Human Rights Watch confirms: Hizbullah used cluster bombs against Israel
New calls by Hamas to target U.S. (& Palestinian rockets now have Hebrew captions)
“Evening, infidels! Here is the news from the BBC...”
Dubai paper: “What Muslims can learn from the Jews” (& al-Qaeda strikes in Gaza)
The Holocaust’s Arab heroes (& Polish righteous Gentile recommended for Nobel Prize)
Khamenei: “Don’t masturbate during Ramadan” (& Iran’s persecution of Arabs)
Shin Bet seeks computer wizards (& Israel’s “pink” diplomats)
A colossus of our time

Israel warns that foreign reporters’ vehicles might be being used by terrorists
Mozart cancelled in Germany due to fear of offending Muslims (& Egypt seizes papers)
Plot to decapitate Israeli ambassador to Norway (& Israel welcomes Swedish elections)
Saudi police ban the sale of cats and dogs (& Gaddafi’s son: Pope must convert)
Cartoonists against the Pope
Palestinians attack churches as anti-Pope sentiment grows around world
Something different from the BBC (& Black freedom movements meet in Israel)
Ignoring 9/11 and blaming George Bush
Al-Qaeda call on Seymour Hersh, George Galloway & Robert Fisk to “join Islam”
Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and Heidi convert to Islam in Turkey
“The Arabs have become wise enough to know TV victory from real victory”
Israeli remains on display at makeshift Hizbullah museum

Australian foreign minister criticizes world media for telling lies about Israel
UN Resolution 1701 is “the Mideast’s Munich agreement”
Firm with Nazi past buys 25% of Ha’aretz (& animals recover from Hizbullah)
Suha Arafat “remarries” (& anti-Hizbullah comment starts W. Bank wedding riot)
Hollywood stars blast Nasrallah, but Spielberg, Streisand and others remain silent
The media war against Israel
Note
Iraq 27: “Did any nation-state fall from the heavens wholly made?”

Norway: Olmert as “Nazi commander in Schindler’s list”
Nasrallah “to go to Damascus today” (& Hizbullah's “Nazi salute”)
Iran sends suicide bombers, while Miss Lebanon and Miss Israel are “best of friends”
Olmert: foreign media biased in Hizbullah coverage (& Arnie for Israel)
Israel’s next war has begun, the one with Iran
The French love bombing (but not by Israel)
Israel, Lebanon, Hizbullah: 14 more observations on the situation
At least 8 killed in rocket attack on Haifa; Over 100 Iranian agents in Lebanon aiding Hizbullah
Grandmother and her 7-year-old grandson become the latest Israelis to die
Israel, Lebanon, Hizbullah: 12 points about the situation
The truth comes out, courtesy of AP; but Jews attack Israel
Saudi columnist: “Hamas is acting like a terrorist organization”
Donald Trump invests $300 million in Israel (& more Islamic gay-bashing)
Israeli soldier kidnapped? Not on the BBC

Saving Corporal Shalit
“Londonistan”: “I’d rather take ricin than publish this”
Human Rights Watch admits Israel likely not responsible for Gaza beach deaths
Arab world enraged at Ghana player’s salute to Israel (& Jihadists attack soccer)
Iran bans The Economist & Turkey bans Winnie the Pooh
Banning the World Cup, Israeli wine labels, and other items
Suha Arafat, TVs for the World Cup, and Gaza’s so-called “humanitarian crisis”
Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson says West must intervene to free Iran
Hamas prime minister’s nephews “served in the Israeli army”
“Not statesmanship, but stupidity”

Reuters employee issues “Zionist pig” death threat
Tel Aviv, Beersheba within range of new Hizbullah rocket (& Israel re-enters Gaza)
EU falls for Palestinian protection racket (& Will anyone speak up for the chickens?)
Matthias Goering Goes Kosher (& Film shows suffering of Jews Britain sent to Outback)
“Much of Europe prefers a traditional Muslim woman who keeps her mouth shut”
Israel to have its own baseball league (& Iran bars women from soccer matches)
Bon Appetite: Buffalo meat declared kosher (& Aliza Olmert’s art quadruples in value)
BBC slips up with taxi driver (& Rapper Jay-Z: Anti-Semitism not cool)
“Da Vinci Code” movie banned by Egypt, Lebanon, Syria & Jordan
“The BBC pro-Israeli? Is the Pope Jewish?” (& American teen Danny Wultz dies)
Olmert calls Ahmadinejad a “psychopath” who “speaks like Hitler”
Mainstream media ignores yesterday’s anti-regime protests in Iran
Al Aqsa leader: American Jewish teens are our ideal target (& Fisk on Walt)

The New York Times and the “Israel lobby” (& Brandeis to honor Kushner)
“The mushroom cloud is on its way” (& American teen victim loses leg)
“The victims are no different from those slain on September 11, 2001”
Football killing fields: International soccer singles out Israel
Iranian regime swoops on universities to crush dissent, cracks down on blogs
Media news 8: “First impressions are not the same as thoughtful commentary”
Speaking out against Sharia-backed sexual abuse of women and children
Explorers find the “true” source of the Nile river (& Jesus “did walk on water”)
Dr. Ruth to lecture IDF officers (Hummus, Ricky Martin & other items)
Israeli cabinet to declare Sharon “incapacitated”; Olmert to form government

Israeli elections 2006: Kadima “moving forward” to permanent borders by 2010
Now Neturei Karta pledge their allegiance to Hamas
“How I learned to love the wall” & more on Wafa Sultan, other Muslim “dissidents”
“Possibly the most maligned country on the planet is in the news again”
Wafa Sultan receives death threats, mainstream media attention (& other items)
On Chechnya, Chad, and “Chinese walls in the mind”
“How Iran duped the west”; Iranian Holocaust (denial) conference “begins today”
Terror victims relieved as “Paradise Now” and “Munich” fail to win Oscars
The barbarians of Europe

David Irving says from prison: “The Jews will see a second Holocaust in 20 to 30 years”
Ilan Halimi: Tortured and killed in Paris because “the Jews have money”
(1) Iranian fatwa approves use of nuclear weapons (2) Contain Iran: Admit Israel to NATO
(1) Iranian anger over German football cartoon (2) Iran to hang teenage rape victim
(1) Poland will not let Iran “research” Holocaust (2) German Gypsies condemn Iran
“To be or not to be, that is the question,” not just asked by a famous fictional Dane
Portraying the prophet from Persian art to South Park
Belgium Muslim leader calls on Arabs to use Danish flag as a substitute for toilet paper
“War on Denmark! Death to Denmark!” (& Oprah visits Auschwitz)

Nervous Palestinians circulate Hamas jokes (& Palestinian elections “not democracy”)
Hamas’s charter: The martyrs’ oath; and European press reaction
Hamas wins big (& anti-Zionism at the Davos Conference)
Munich (3): BBC set to name woman agent who killed Olympics massacre mastermind
Israeli leaders brace for possible Hamas “landslide”
“It’s the demography, stupid” and “A Letter to the Europeans”
Ready, aim, and fire more accurately without bullets (& Iran, India updates)
Western editor, angry at lack of alcohol in Gaza, says Abba Eban was right after all
“Middle Beast”: Ariel Sharon as a target of anti-Semitism
Iran planning to host international Holocaust (denial) conference
When was the last time you saw Khaled Abu Toameh interviewed on BBC or CNN?
Venezuelan President Chavez: “The descendants of the Christ-killers” control the world

Yasser Abbas
New internal BBC memo warns staff over “terrorism”
Thorough new UCLA study finds U.S. media more left-wing than previously thought
Munich (2): Spielberg: “For me this movie is a prayer for peace”
Munich (1): “Spielberg is no friend of Israel”
A Muslim in a Jewish land (& Arab enrolment jumps at West Bank “settler” college)
Al Jazeera.net: As Saddam’s trial resumes, Palestinians cheer him as a hero
Abbas approves assistance to “martyrs” and then condemns suicide bomb
Sharon prepares to withdraw from “virtually all” the West Bank by 2008
Jews against Israel: King, Kaufman, & Judt, Europe’s so-called “good Jews”

London Mayor Ken Livingstone may be Jewish: “I could be a self-hater, couldn’t I?”
BBC sanctions reporter who cried for Arafat (& “Hitler” running in Fatah primaries)
The real apartheid: Saudi teacher to be flogged for 15 weeks for praising Jews
Pakistan quake orphans “adopted” for jihad (& attacks against Christians ignored)
General note: A new website
Tehran Times today: The phenomenal lie of the “Holocaust” (& Ha’aretz’s dangerous misreporting)
Elections imminent as Shimon Peres ousted (& items on French riots, NY Times, Islam)
Israeli, Palestinian & Jordanian DJ’s play together, (& news on Madonna, Phil Collins)
Ruins of “oldest church” found in Israel (& Tel Aviv to boast world’s largest coffee shop)
Red Cross: Persecution of Christians “outside our area of expertise” (& other items)
Israel receives surprisingly strong international support over Ahmadinejad comments

Grenade found hidden under a baby (& CIA trained Palestinian terrorists)
Small signs of improving Arab-Israeli relations (despite today’s suicide attack)
Poem praising killing of Jews included in new UK national children’s poetry book
(1) Norway school bans Star of David (2) Norwegian says she infiltrated the Mossad
Germany suspends anti-Semitism laws to let Iran sell hate literature at Frankfurt Book Fair
14-year old Palestinian boy forced to carry out suicide bombing (& other items)
“Don’t be silly, Ann, there’s no racism on the left”
Hamas: “No dancing and no gays”; & on banning Winnie the Pooh...

Synagogue to become Hamas museum (& “an Islamic guide on how to beat your wife”)
(1) Bibi-v-Arik showdown today (2) The media, Hamas, and Rita
Remembering Milena Hubschmannova
President Musharraf to U.S. Jews: “Pakistan has no direct conflict with Israel”
Faked atrocity on French television? (updated & resent version)
Islamic militant Hizb ut-Tahrir infiltrates Reuters (& Prince Harry apologizes)
Blair urged to ditch Holocaust Day; UK government advisor says Holocaust “a myth”
Palestinians burn Gaza synagogues as P.A. police watch on
Hamas’s secretive military branch comes out of hiding
Muslims ransack Christian village in West Bank (& Arafat cousin killed in street)
Al Qaeda, Kuwaitis & Iranians “congratulate” Hurricane Katrina, and thank Allah
Faked atrocity on French television?

Palestinians “to rename settlements after Arafat and Yassin”
Ariel Sharon should get the Nobel Prize, says Italian MP
Israeli army begins preparations for largest noncombat operation ever
“Today Gaza, tomorrow Jerusalem,” says PA prime minister
If only a fraction of this number of reporters were covering Darfur...
Bill Gates to visit Israel (& Moshe Dayan’s eye patch for sale on eBay)
“The great hummus robbery” (& U.S. soldier from Florida becomes Iraqi Sheik)
“Mazal tov Beckham, you’re Jewish” (& World’s oldest living married couple)
Denmark’s leading paper: “We are all Israelis now” (& email us your fatwas)
Iran’s new President, sworn in today, praises “the art of martyrdom”
Blue vs. Orange in the Israeli war of the ribbons – even on wedding bouquets

Egypt state TV blames Israel for Sinai bombings (& more on Mayor Livingstone)
Dilpazier Aslam, extremist member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, sacked by The Guardian
Shooting a Brazilian: Living with terror in London and Israel
London bomber traveled to Israel; Britain begins to “wake up” to reality of suicide bombing
Palestinian terrorist leader in Jenin appears in Reuters staff party video
The six golden rules when writing a New York Times editorial
Guardian staff journalist exposed as member of extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir
London bomber: He loved cricket and drove his Dad’s Mercedes
The London bombs: The BBC discovers “terrorism,” briefly
Gaza mosque & radio station welcome the “blessed acts” in London (& other reaction)
As bombs rock London, Bin Laden’s brother says he will pay for his defense
New Pope says he will visit a synagogue and pray in Hebrew
Growing bolder, Arab media begin to act in democratic way, but blocks remain
Outspoken Arab commentators lament anti-Israel & anti-U.S. lies

The New York Times finally covers the Le Monde verdict
Jihad Warning: Is there a coming “Eurabian threat to the West”?
“My dream was to be a suicide bomber”
“Lies in the library” and Comic book controversy
Resend & update: Israeli leftists and centrists speak out against Gaza disengagement
Israeli leftists and centrists speak out against Gaza disengagement plan
A tale of two museums: (1) Arafat’s belongings (2) Arabs respecting the Holocaust
Le Monde “J’accuse” follow-up
Israeli scientists say they have found the root of sarcasm (& Ashkenazi “highest IQ”)
J’Accuse: Anti-Semitism at Le Monde and beyond
Senior role for pro-Nazi Parliamentarian (& Egypt blocks playwright)

French court fines Le Monde journalists for “racist defamation” of Israel
AUT 3: 21 Nobel laureates urge British academics to end Israel boycott
Barcelona teachers’ training manual compares security barrier to Holocaust
Lebanon pulls out of tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest because an Israeli will sing
Media news 7: NPR’s Mideast coverage may be officially monitored (& NYT, WSJ)
AUT 2: British Mideast minister calls for resolution of Israel academic boycott
(1) IDF recruits Harley Davidsons; (2) 50,000 Germans sing for Israel
Media News 6: Irresponsible journalism costs lives (Newsweek and America)
German tennis club: Jews weren’t missed (& Egyptian ping-pong boycott)
Weblogs make a run for the mainstream as newspaper circulation falls
Theater critics compare Rachel Corrie to Primo Levi and Anne Frank
Palestinian Fatah officials send Happy Birthday greetings to Saddam Hussein
The historic sources of French hostility to Israel: A special report

Al-Quds University in east Jerusalem criticizes UK academic boycott of Israel
Anti-Israel propaganda sells out on London stage
Jewish despair as Queen Elizabeth set to honor the BBC’s Orla Guerin
PA Chairman Abbas sends holiday greetings to “Jews everywhere”
Viagra ruled Kosher for Passover; and Gorillas keeping Kosher too
Iran bans Al-Jazeera (& note on the new pope’s stint in the Hitler youth)
Hamas’ leading bombmaker the star of a new Syrian-produced TV series
The liberation of Belsen: The BBC didn’t believe their own reporter
My Name is Rachel Corrie, Levy, Thaler, Levi, Gavish, Charhi, Shabo
New Zealand MP says he is sick of the Holocaust (& other items)
Khatami denies, but Assad admits, Katsav handshake at Pope’s funeral
Israeli Arab wins quiz on Zionism (& soccer update)
Iran says Pope was too close to “evil” Jews
A world record: 35,000 new stories on the Pope in 24 hours
Arab media coverage of Pope’s death infuriates Islamists

Scoring goals against the “Israeli apartheid” myth
Teachers object to book showing Jewish children
Yassin home to be turned into a museum (& Canadian teachers praise terror)
Al-Jazeera to be launched in English in America
Putin to visit Israel – a first for Russia
Auschwitz awareness jumps sharply in the UK
Arafat killed by high tech laser attack
AP to offer two different leads for the same story
Attack on statue of “eternal leader Hafez Assad” blamed on Israel
Kofi Annan, Turkey updates
Annan bow at Arafat’s grave sparks outrage
World’s top soccer coach Jose Mourinho to visit Israel
Mein Kampf is a bestseller in Turkey for second month in a row
Kofi Annan to attend the re-opening of Yad Vashem
Ha’aretz interviews Asper on the future of the Jerusalem Post
Eichmann was dressed up in an El Al uniform (more on Peter Malkin)
“Better than James Bond” (The death of Peter Malkin)
The BBC admits “lack of balance” over “A family in mourning”

“A family in mourning” (The BBC means the bomber’s)
Israeli woman wins Mrs. World; & Israel’s new bobsled team
YWCA says Israel is “just like Hitler”
Teheran bemused as France bans anti-Semitic Iranian TV station
“Patricia Roxborough,” the Mossad’s Christian superspy, buried in Israel
London’s mayor still refuses to apologize for “Nazi remark”
Humane portrayal of Palestinian suicide bombers at Berlin Film Festival
“Israel killed Hariri”: Latest Arab and Iranian conspiracy theory
Kuwaiti newspaper: “America being held hostage by the Jews”
Jerusalem Post co-owners now go to court in two continents
Now Palestinian parents ask: Were suicide attacks worth it?
Mithal al-Alousi: Paying a heavy price for recognizing Israel’s existence
How can Arabs influence the media in the west?
Reporting on Auschwitz: 2005 & 1942
Fans flock to Harry Potter’s grave in Israel & Coming soon: Arafat-Park
The struggle for control of “The Jerusalem Post” heats up
Israeli technology to bring Super Bowl to the world

(3) Auschwitz, 60 years on: “Evil Too Great to Grasp – or Remember”
(2) Auschwitz, 60 years on: “Witnesses for the witnesses”
(1) Auschwitz, 60 years on: “My father was no longer there”
Tehran Times marks Holocaust Day by denying it happened
The New York Times and the Holocaust, and other items
Update: VW sues over fake suicide bomber ad
AFP, AP, CNN: Where the reporting stops
Spoof Volkswagen suicide bomber ad sparks global row
Further BBC misrepresentation of the Holocaust & UK govt: 4m Jews died
Forgetting to mention the Jews: The BBC, Prince Harry, and the Holocaust
Latest conspiracy theory: “Mossad agents running ops inside the U.S.”
Latest myth: “Israelis to establish settlement in Turkey”
Abu Mazen and the Munich Olympics massacre (continued)
Abu Mazen and the Holocaust (continued)

Tunisian accuses Arab world of “a deafening silence” on Darfur
Iranian TV: Israelis steal Palestinian children’s eyes
Nobel Peace laureate compares Israeli nukes to Nazi gas chambers
Ukraine’s poisoned Yushchenko to have Plastic Surgery in Israel
Outrage re (1) Hitler art near Dachau (2) Swastika flowers in Melbourne
CNN, BBC, Eurosport refuse to air Ron Arad campaign
Hamas admit BBC Gaza Correspondent is one of their own
“French Jewish doctor treated Arafat in Paris”
Zionists “secretly control” both Al-Jazeera and the National Geographic
Hamas art goes on display in Australia
“Stoned to death in France: Why Europe is starting to lose faith in Islam”
New poll: 51 per cent of Germans equate Israel with Nazis
Alan Rickman, Rachel Corrie, David Irving, and Robert Fisk
Julie Burchill follow-up; and “Great Britain stands indicted”

The Sacramento Union stands by its criticism of Arafat
An evening to celebrate the life of Yasser Arafat: Dec 7, 2004 (& SOAS)
“My nation of heroes, my chosen people...” (& BBC complaints cover-up?)
Columbia University, “a Poison Ivy”
Examples of U.S. Media against the Israeli government and army
“They had lost their names” (and other items)
“Arafat as Moses.” Arafatmania
A partial list of some of Yasser Arafat's victims
Yasser Arafat, “the stuff of legends”
Former Guardian columnist: “There is a heaven. And its name is Israel”
Osama Bin Laden praises Robert Fisk (& other items)
Danish NGO helped fund yesterday's Tel Aviv suicide bomb
U.S. elections: “Will Jews still vote like Puerto Ricans used to?”

English Queen (finally) to host Holocaust survivors (& other stories)
Operation Guardian and the U.S. elections (Part 2)
Operation Guardian (Part 1)
The “media intifada”: Is it running out of steam?
BBC “to ditch Reuters”?
Leading medical journal compares Israel to al Qaeda
The Jews are an “inferior race,” says Diana, 26, Budapest
Arab intellectual: It is time to stop blaming the Jews for 9/11 and Beslan

Egypt bans Madonna after Israel visit
On bus bombs and bystanders
Iraq war leads Jewish voters to Kerry, poll finds (and other items)
The global head of Reuters news responds
France to show “Shoah” in schools (and other articles)
Moderate Muslims speak out; also warn “liberal Jews” to “wake-up”
Iraqi official wishes “shana tova” to the Israeli people
Madonna to celebrate Jewish New Year at Rachel’s Tomb
London convention will celebrate 9/11 (and other items)

European Union funding and the Beersheva massacre
NY Times: Ariel Sharon “defining Israel’s boundaries and its very identity”
On the first day Israel was shunned, on the 12th it won gold
Sudan genocide 2: Where’s Sean Penn when you need him? Where’s the ISM?
Sudan genocide 1: Israel to blame, says Sudanese foreign minister
Israeli Army To Combat Stress With Cannabis (and other items)
New Zealand, France, Canada, Uzbekistan, Winston Churchill, & other items

Explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict through numbers
Arafat’s greatest defender in the U.S., the NY Times, calls on him to go
Arab media: “Arafat should go”

“For al-Qaeda maniacs, we are all Jews…”
BBC’s former Mideast correspondent: BBC is much too pro-Israel
The BBC conducts its very own Middle East foreign policy
The Intifada comes to an end?
How Arafat intimidates Palestinian journalists and deludes Western ones
Media news 5: Looking into the lens of Al Jazeera (and other items)
Media news 4: The IHT, An American In Paris (and other items)
Media news 3: Ex-Mossad chief to protect NBC in Athens (& other items)

“Write your own Thomas Friedman column!”
Notes on Rafah: A biased media, but better than Jenin 2002
“Media buying into Palestinian lies over Gaza raid,” says IDF chief
Recommended new books; book reviews
“The Uncomfortable Question of Anti-Semitism”
The Modern “Hep! Hep! Hep!”
Gays attacked at Palestinian protest, and other items
Ma’ariv catches CNN exaggerating again, and other items
Media news 2: NY Times “appoints new Jerusalem bureau chief”
Media news 1: Liberal radio’s “bad jokes and worse taste”
Iraq 26: “This war is also about sex” (2) Kicking body parts of dead Jews
“Compared to the rest of the Mideast, Gaza is quiet”; Toska dies
Thousands mourn slain mother, girls
NY Times public editor: Paper wrong to say Yassin was a “spiritual leader”

Schwarzenegger, Russell Crowe, Colin Powell, Robert Fisk, Mussolini, others
Backlash begins against ex-diplomats’ “poisonous views” on Iraq, Israel
BBC “goes bananas” with excitement as ex-ambassadors attacks Israel
Vanunu released: What nuke whistleblower doesn’t know scares Israel
Meshal 1: Hamas leader speaks at length to BBC
Rantissi 3: The Observer newspaper: Rantissi “loved children”
Rantissi 2: A minute’s silence by British MPs for Sheikh Yassin
Dr Abdel al-Rantissi, “the Pediatrician of Death,” in his own words
German version of Google removes “Jewwatch”; U.S. won’t
“Palestinian Imam planned to bomb Budapest Holocaust museum”
When should people stop supporting Israel?
Gibson’s “Passion” a hit in Beirut, Damascus, Kuwait, Ramallah
Yassin 2: “Spiritual brother of Osama bin Laden”
Yassin 1: Charming and Witty?
Iraq 25: “Iraqi Christians fear Muslim wrath”
Iraq 24: The NY Times and College Basketball

(1) NPR: “Poisoning American Minds” (2) UK magazine: Israel as al Qaeda
The NY Times’ idea of democracy; the BBC’s idea of balance
Madrid 2: “The terrorists toppled a European government”
Nearly half British Muslims would become suicide bombers
Madrid 1: Does Bin Laden wish to reclaim “Occupied Spain”?
Iranians in Lebanon, including “lawyers”, “professors” throw rocks at Jews
Palestinian PM came close to winning Nobel Prize
What’s popcorn in Aramaic? (Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion”)
Lithuanian hoops team’s Nazi “prize”: Ten Jews to kill
Human rights groups and Islamic terrorism
(1) A Frenchman or a Jew? (2) British and Israeli MPs as Fagin

The NY Times, Al Jazeera, and Holocaust distorters
Sweden 4: “The Crucifixion of Arafat”; Jews afraid to be Jews
The Saudi Separation Fence. (Also: Rumsfeld on Israel)
John Kerry’s family “hid Czech Jewish heritage just like Albright’s”
Google News and “Palestinian commandos”
Slightly improved coverage in NYT, IHT, Guardian (& other news)
France to ban “revolting” anti-Semitic TV broadcasts; and other reports

Sharon and Hitler share space at Anne Frank house in Amsterdam
As edited by... “The International Herald Tribune”
For and against: the British MP who would be a suicide bomber
Sweden 3: Suicide posters removed from subway stations
Sweden 2: The ambassador and the artist debate live on radio
Sweden 1: The killer as Snow White
The BBC’s Arab problem
Syria and the NY Times: Two Languages, Two Versions
Israeli army says goodbye to the Uzi; upgrades female combat soldiers
Palestinian women protest Chirac’s proposals

“Saddam” a popular new name for babies born since his capture
“On the twelfth day of Christmas, Arik Sharon sent me...”
9/11: Palestinian terrorist “Abu Nidal trained Mohammed Atta in Baghdad”
Many Palestinians mark “black day” as Saddam is captured
The Guardian: More from Julie Burchill and others
Fury at French comic's “Heil Israel” jibe
Conflicting views on the “Geneva accords”

European media and anti-Israel bias
The Guardian discovers modern anti-Semitism
“Cartoon of the Year” awarded to Sharon eating babies “blood libel” cartoon
Italians join Jews in solidarity Sabbath services
EU body shelves report on anti-Semitism
“Surge in German attacks on Jews”
World media reaction to Istanbul bombings
French banks refuse to clear Israeli checks
French schoolbook: “It was an exam day in the occupied West Bank”
French “help thwart UN resolution protecting Israeli children”
“The dangers of Fisking”
Article on “Jeningrad” and the British media
Poll shows 17 percent of Italians oppose Israel’s existence
Israeli cabinet minister compares Greek composer to Hitler
Singapore and India: Examining antisemitism in an honest way
Both Reuters and AP omit Israel from world terror victim lists
BBC: Fatah is funding Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades
CBS: Arafat transfers $100,000 a month to his wife in Paris
“A letter to Leah Rabin”
NY Times 2: More dove-loving terrorist profiles
NY Times 1: The infamous Walter Duranty
Jeremiah Duggan: it was “no suicide”
Antiglobalism’s Jewish Problem
Inquest opens tomorrow into the death of Jeremiah Duggan

We’re all Israelis now, says Australian politician
Pan-European poll calls Israel the biggest threat to world peace
Iraq 23: “Another Vietnam? No,” says military expert
A world divided over “Mahathir’s charming message”
Dr. Mohamad’s fantasies, Islam and the Jews
“A visit to Oxford Street, London”
Malaysia apologizes after PM says “Jews rule world”
Iran 4: “Iran and Israel: best of enemies?”
Iran 3: Missing Israeli airman “in Tehran cell”
Iran 2: An “Imminent Threat to British Jews”
Iran 1: Nobel calling
Arafat reported seriously ill
Haifa 3: The Financial Times & British politicians compare Israel to the Nazis
Haifa 2: “Something was missing from the BBC news bulletins”
Haifa 1: Three generations wiped out in “slaughter of the families”: Did CNN notice?
Bombed Israeli bus to be exhibited in New York, and other stories

Terrorist who killed baby released from prison two months ago
Terrorist shoots dead 7-month old girl during Rosh Hashanah meal
IMF: “Arafat diverted $900M to private account”
Celebrities fly in to salute Shimon Peres’s 80th birthday
Arab commentator: the “new anti-Semitism must be clearly denounced”
Second Jewish man murdered in Morocco since Thursday (and other items)
Palestinian columnist: Time to recognize Israel, at least for now
Auschwitz museum balks at Israeli flyover
Survey: 83% of Israelis satisfied with their lives
Israeli scientists make important lung cancer discovery
300,000 attend sixth annual Love Parade in Tel Aviv
Israeli and Palestinian children in Japan for football and friendship
World’s first Hasidic soap opera airs on Israeli TV
The problem with France

Rantisi: “The False Holocaust – The Greatest of Lies” (and other items)
Arafat, the great con man of modern politics
A child goes to his grave
Hatred in the air: The BBC, Israel and anti-Semitism
“Orwell’s warning: The BBC is blind to its bias”
“Many dead and maimed” in Jerusalem terror attack
Up to 1400 Arab journalists rally to defend Zayed Center
UAE closes Zayed Center (“Harvard and the Holocaust” Follow-up)
The death of an Israeli teenager
Diet watermelons and memorial asteroids
Arnie opponent “has consistently defended terror groups”
Arnie and the Jews
Iraq 22: Iraqi shepherd takes Rumsfeld, Franks to court
Iraq 21: There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world

Iraq 20: Tourism down in Baghdad (and up in Israel)
Iraq 19: The Associated Press now says Iraq forced out its Jews
Iraq 18: Deaths, threats, and allegations
Iraq 17: 99-year-old Iraqi Jew reaches Israel at last
Saudis to Host World Conference on Human Rights
“Saudi Arabia fingerprints all over 9/11”
Albeit reduced, the terror continues
Update: Many media still misreporting Road Map conditions
Palestinian TV last night: “Mohammed Ordered Muslims to Kill Jews”
“Palestinians confirm: There was no Jenin massacre”
“Hamas will now set the agenda”
Hamas Dot Com
Prisoner releases are not a part of the road map
News from Europe and Australia
Report on Washington Post “Bias”
UNESCO designates Tel Aviv as World Heritage Site, and other stories
Rutgers University to hold sessions on how to pressure Israel
Passover Bomb claims further victim, and other updates
Divisions over Oxford academic

Success – AP corrects their wording on the “Hudna” (ceasefire)
AP misreports ceasefire declaration
Follow-up on the BBC and Oxford University
Israel breaks links with BBC in anger at “demonization”
Egypt bans “Matrix Reloaded”
Leon Uris, author of “Exodus,” dies aged 78
Harry Potter taught at Bar-Ilan University
Mein Kampf sequel to be published in English
An Englishman in Auschwitz and other Holocaust articles
Voice of Palestine justifies murder of 7 year old girl in Israel
“Fridge bomber” named special adviser to Arafat
“President Bush doesn’t have a clue,” American says
Hamas: We killed 16 “settlers”
Abu Mazen and the Munich Olympics massacre
Abu Mazen and the Holocaust
Harvard and the Holocaust

Boy, 17, murdered for “looking like a Jew”
Road map 5: Abbas says Arafat still in charge
Road map 4: “A road map based in denial and wishful thinking”
Road map 3: “The value of the written or spoken word is worthless”
Road map 2: “This little sliver of land called Israel”
Casablanca 3: “What do these barbarians think they are doing?”
Casablanca 2: Jews ponder uncertain future
Real victims: Fifth suicide bombing in 48 hours in Israel
Terror in Morocco: Malaysian PM says Israel should be blamed
The Atlantic, June 2003: Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura?
Follow-up: BBC, Economist and others on “Jewish cabal”
Seinfeld, Norah Jones, lead Israel support parade
Senior British politician steps up attacks on “Jewish cabal”

Road map to peace, or to war?
Iraq 16: Edward Said: “A Stupid War”
Iraq 15: CNN’s “propaganda flowed like wine” (Washington Times)
Iraq 14: CNN: “The news we kept to ourselves”
Iraq 13: An Iraqi writes: A personal view on the liberation of my country
Iraq 11: “Smiles and flowers for U.S. Marines in Baghdad”
Syria next?
Church of the Nativity: Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Straw excommunicated
British media under fire over Israel, Iraq

Iraq 7: Weddings with Gas masks
Further attacks on young French Jews
Iraq 6: Stars and Gripes
Iraq 5: Views of Elie Wiesel, Jimmy Carter, Simon Wiesenthal & Winston Churchill
All The News That's Fit To Print? The NY Times and Israel
High school victims
BBC: How the Israelis have stolen Christmas
Saudi dictator tells Gadhafi “Your death awaits you”

Arafat appears on “Forbes” world’s richest list
Egyptian government paper: “Talmud and Torah behind burning of Iraq”
Donkeys more important than Israelis, suggests American animal rights group
Unlikely partners: White supremacists ally with Moslem extremists
Israel Harel, “The man who made the Mossad”
Iraq 3: Iraq for the Iraqis
Iraq 2: Kurdish and Iranian victims and hopes
Iraq 1: Criticizing the antiwar marchers
British paper apologizes for citing Holocaust denier in anti-Israel piece
EU to finally investigate whether it’s funding Palestinian suicide attacks
Israel reacts with fury to Belgium decision

Suicide bombers and professors
New record in 2002 for media obsession with Israel

Mamet, Fonda, Ensler, Spielberg, Streisand: Hollywood and the Middle East
Not much joy at a Saudi Christmas
Not all children are equal: UN ignores Jewish Israeli child victims
Boycott of world-class Israeli scientists “could cost lives” elsewhere
Mr. Assad takes tea with the Queen
Columbia University “may offer Tom Paulin a permanent position”
Suicide bomber game tests the boundaries of taste
Madame Tussauds to remove Arafat making “V” for victory sign (& a Spanish MP speaks out for Israel)
Kenya bomb attacks: “Terror is terror is terror” (& “British tourists shun Israelis”)

Mossad to track down those behind triple bomb attacks in Kenya
“Slaughter of innocents,” notices The Guardian and The Independent
Saudi paper: Paulin’s views on Jews are “repulsive”
Harvard reinvites Oxford’s Paulin; “Harvard Crimson” calls Paulin “ghastly, repulsive and sickening”
AP: the Muslim terrorists are “devout” while the 12 Jewish victims are “radical”
“Time Out” magazine launched in Tel Aviv, & the shame of “Fortune” magazine
Harvard withdraws its invitation to Tom Paulin
Developments in Palestinian terror strategy and thinking
Harvard invites Oxford academic who wants some Jews “shot dead”
Egyptian government defends the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as art
Israel “a nightmare that gives Jews a bad name,” & other election comment

HRW: Suicide bombs against Israel are crimes against humanity
The BBC, olive groves, and the murder of teenage girls
German embassy in Israel to honor SS
Finally, The New York Times reports on Arab Anti-Semitism
The question of Palestinian refugees
“America in the dock”: myths and truth
Toronto Star, BBC, Washington Post and others hit back at bias claims
Bali backlash against the “lets blame Israel” sections of the media
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