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  1. HA’ARETZ – Spain contest bans Israeli team affiliated with West Bank college
    Move is latest in a string of European sanctions against Israel over its West Bank settlements. 

    1. guardian.co.uk – Spain expels Israeli scientists from solar energy competition
      Jewish groups have recently claimed anti-semitism is on the rise in Spain. A decision by El Mundo newspaper to publish an interview with the British …
       

  2. ACHGUT Machen wir uns nichts vor
    Die radikale Linke ist eine tödliche Gefahr für Juden: The blog Counterpunch, which is edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair, has published an article which alleges that the blood libel is true and is related to purported Israeli thefts of human organs from Palestinians. The blood libel, the charge that Jews ritually murdered gentiles and used their blood to cast spells, was a mainstay of medieval European anti-Semitism. In Europe, the blood libel led to pogroms, mass slayings and expulsions. The Counterpunch article may be the first instance of an American leftist media outlet promoting the blood libel.

  3. HONESTREPORTING Demonization From Down Under
    Australia’s 60 Minutes deliberately sets out to portray all Israeli settlers as extremists.
    Jewish settlements on the West Bank have featured prominently in the news in recent months. There is no consensus on the issue in Israel or the Diaspora and it would be naive to expect any positive coverage from a hostile media.
    We should, however, expect the media to cover the story without prejudice and to accurately reflect the realities on the ground without becoming advocates for the Palestinian position. On this, Australian Channel Nine’s
    60 Minutes fails.

    Reporter Liam Bartlett begins the segment with the wholly erroneous statement that „hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers are moving into the West Bank, building new towns on Palestinian land.“
    Putting aside the thorny issue of what actually constitutes „Palestinian land,“ hundreds of thousands of Jewish settlers are certainly not moving into the West Bank. Instead, the settler population continues to grow within existing communities mainly due to natural growth. While this has allowed building and development within existing boundaries, the Israeli government has not authorized the creation of any new towns for many years.
    Referring to „a day in the life of the West Bank,“ Bartlett focuses on a video of a settler shooting a Palestinian in Hebron, replaying it throughout the report, replete with dramatic background music for added effect. Bartlett interviews a Palestinian virtually helping him to „reconstruct“ the incident without question.
    This shooting is certainly not indicative of „a day in the life of the West Bank“ and caused something of an uproar in Israel in December 2008 – some nine months before Bartlett’s report. As is the case in a democracy where the rule of law is taken seriously, this incident was thoroughly investigated by the police and the suspect involved was charged with and prosecuted for assault.
    While Bartlett takes the video and his Palestinian interviewee at face value, ensuring that it fits his agenda, the
    other side of a more complicated story did not appear in the report. Nor did the judge’s statement that the Palestinians were partly at fault for what had transpired. „In their behavior the Palestinians contributed greatly to the incident’s grave consequences.“ 

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