Updated: Tony Kushner’s Anti-Israel Falsehoods Thwart CUNY Award

Update: Board of trustees reverse decision and grant degree. The award-winning playwright, much accustomed to kudos and hero-worship, is shocked to find not everyone accepts his slanders about Israel. Displaying characteristic indifference to the facts of Israel's long efforts to achieve peace in the face of aggression, he claims it's a terrible historical problem that modern Israel came into existence."

Backgrounder: A Palestinian Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI)

Bibi Abbas ObamaPalestinian leaders have said they will gain statehood via UDI (a Unilateral Declaration of Independence) rather than through negotiations with Israel. This would violate their agreements with Israel as well as US assurances to Israel, and would be likely to provoke violence. It would also be unlikely to actually achieve statehood.

Washington Post Allows Carter to Shill for Hamas

No sooner had the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas initialed a unity agreement, than Jimmy Carter turned up on The Washington Post's Op-Ed page, urging the United States to give anti-Israel actors a chance. Again.

Why Did Bin Laden Hate America? Was it Because of Israel?

Bin LadenNow that Osama bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan by US forces, it is important for the media and the general public to remember just what triggered his anti-American obsession – it was United States support for Saudi Arabia, not Israel.

Still Over-Emphasizing the Palestinian Arabs

What’s bigger news for The Washington Post than an Afghan officer killing 9 Americans or the deaths of Yemeni protesters? Palestinian factions initialing an agreement. The paper trips again over its own "Palestinianism."

UPDATED: LA Times Gets Its Facts Wrong on Lifta

In addition to misreporting the "Nakba Law," which only applies to government-funded bodies, and does not involve any fine, the Los Angeles Times' Edmund Sanders is wrong about Israeli government buildings and the Hebrew University sitting on Lifta land.

Washington Post Strains Murder through Palestinian Filter

Compare Washington Post coverage of the murder of Israeli-Arab actor and "resistance theater" director Juliano Mer Khamis with the newspaper's reporting of the killings of five members of the Israeli Fogel family. The former is lionized; the Fogel are never more than statistics.