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Mideast Media Sampler – 06/05/2013 – Erdogan’s straits

Posted by David Gerstman on June 05, 2013 8 Comments

1) Talkin’ Turkey Claire Berlinski provides the recent background for the foment going on in Turkey: Of late, almost every sector of the electorate has felt unease about one part or another of Erdoğan’s agenda. Restrictive new alcohol legislation, rammed through parliament, as usual, with...

Mideast Media Sampler 04/09/2013 – New York Times op-ed Index for March 2013

Posted by David Gerstman on April 09, 2013 1 Comment

Final Total – Anti-Israel – 12 / Pro-Israel – 3 / Neutral – 3

Israeli tanish-pinkwashing must be condemned

Posted by William A. Jacobson on November 24, 2011 11 Comments

Yesterday I noted the accusation by an anti-Israeli LGBT activist writing in The New York Times that Israel engages in “pinkwashing,” the promotion of its not-gay bashing, not-gay stoning, not-gay hating policies to cover up its suppression of Palestinians. How long before Israel is accused...