Drudge gives the Qassam missile attack on an Israeli school “top of his” prominence. Certainly, when schools are hit by deliberate rocket attacks, that seems appropriate. That is, unless you’re the NY Times. Then, you start by telling how Israel is bombing Gaza, how Gazans are bombing each other, followed, at paragraph 9, with an en passant mention about a little thing like bombs aimed at Israeli school children. Apparently some news is more fit to print than other news.
Filed under: Israel, Media matters, Palestinians
Hello Bookworm,
I don’t know if you read the most recent poll from the EU about the increasing levels of anti-Semitism. But it’s pretty disturbing…
Because I’m feeling a bit lazy today, here’s the statistics I post on my blog. (You know, it almost feels like the whole world is turning into Germany just before the rise of the Nazis…)
In a European poll, 44% believe that Jews have too much say in international markets. 58% of the Polish people believe that it’s “probably true” that “Jews still talk too much about what happened to them in the Holocaust”. The poll was done in France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Poland, and overall, those countries averaged at 47% in agreement to that last question that Jews talked too much about the Holocaust…