Rev. Dr. Stephen Sizer's recent visit to Iran is a violation of the spirit, if not the letter, of an agreement he made with the Church of England and the Board of Deputies of British Jews. .jpg)
News reports about Twitter posts by Iranian officials caused a stir in the media. But context and skepticism are important in journalism, even when reporters really want to believe. 
Eleanor Clift is entitled to respect Helen Thomas despite her explicitly anti-Jewish statements. But Clift's readers are entitled to a forthright telling of the controversy. It is not about "anti-settler" remarks. It is not even about anti-Israel comments. It is about anti-Semitic remarks. 
Laudatory obituaries for Helen Thomas, first female White House reporter for a major news service, minimized her 2010 anti-Israel, anti-Jewish outburst. They noted her "apology" but omitted her retraction. And Thomas' unprofessional hostility to the Jewish state went largely unreported. 
Rev. Peter Marty, chairman of the Christian Century's board of trustees, affirmed the decision by the magazine's editors to keep James M. Wall on its masthead. 
CAMERA has contacted the trustees of the Christian Century Foundation about the presence of James M. Wall on the magazine's masthead. Wall is now listed as associate editor of Veterans News Now, a fringe website that demonizes Israel and its supporters. 
It is time for The Christian Century, the house organ for mainline Protestantism in the United States, to remove the name of James M. Wall from its masthead.