By: Dr. Michael Widlanski Accuracy in Media (Exclusive to Accuracy in Media) On Easter/Passover Eve, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman served up “A Middle East Twofer,” his newest seasonal Mid-East peace plan combining Friedman’s own special home recipe of hypocrisy, lovingly layered with finger-licking idiocy: “Palestinians need to accompany every boycott, hunger strike or [...]

NoisyRoom By: Fern Sidman Tensions flared between dozens of pro-Israel demonstrators and members of “Students for Justice in Palestine” on Sunday afternoon, October 16th outside of Columbia University on the third and final day of the 2011 National Students for Justice in Palestine “teach-in” organized by members to prepare for their upcoming Israel Apartheid Week [...]

By: Roger Aronoff Accuracy in Media The Palestinian Authority’s (PA) actions at the U.N. on September 23 have effectively ended the near-future possibility of a peaceful two-state solution between Israel and a Palestinian state. On that day, PA president Mahmoud Abbas made a speech at the United Nations formally requesting the Security Council to grant [...]

By: Roger Aronoff Accuracy in Media Though today the Palestinian Authority, through President Mahmoud Abbas’ speech at the United Nations, formally requested the Security Council to grant full UN membership to an independent Palestine, it is still unclear how this will all play out. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu followed Abbas with his own impassioned [...]

NoisyRoom By: Fern Sidman Before noon on Wednesday, September 21st, scores of stalwart Christian supporters of Israel along with sizeable contingents of Jews, poured into Dag Hammarskjold Plaza near the United Nations to express their indignation over the unilateral Palestinian bid for statehood expected to take place on Friday as part of the annual UN [...]

Gulag Bound IRL-2 of 2 on 9/3 From NewsBusters to Bloomberg Open Thread: Republicans Unveiling Bill to Bring Major Changes to the UN By NB Staff | August 30, 2011 | 10:11 House Republicans are introducing a bill today with hopes to force major changes on the United Nations. The bill would require the UN to allow [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week. Oddly enough, both the Council and non-Council winners this week dealt with the same subject, the mainstreaming and legitimizing of Antisemitism. This week’s winner, Simply Jews for The Labor Of Hate dealt with how [...]

Omar Barghouti is a Columbia University educated Palestinian commentator and “human rights activist.” He is a founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel (PACBI) and the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel. The talk (below) was presented on July 1, 2011, at the United States International [...]

NoisyRoom By: Fern Sidman Introduced by Pastor John Hagee, the founder and chairman of Christians United For Israel (CUFI), Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed a gathering of thousands of ardent Christian Zionists via satellite from Jerusalem on Tuesday afternoon, July 19th at a special “Middle East Briefing” session at the sixth annual CUFI national [...]

NoisyRoom By: Fern Sidman John Bolton, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations, had some strong words for the world body on Monday evening, July 18th as he delivered a broad-based foreign policy speech during the Chairman’s Club dinner at the sixth annual Christians United For Israel (CUFI) national summit in Washington, DC. Speaking [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council To those of you suffering from the heat, here’s a consolation… Washington DC is a lot hotter and sweatier just now. And I’m not just talking about the weather. Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes recorded and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. This week we again ended up with a tie between two pieces, The story of a fanatic or why Alice Walker is sailing to Gaza by Simply Jews, an [...]

NoisyRoom By: Latma Caroline Glick: The Audacity of Dopes Band Proudly Presents: Guns, Guns, Guns

From: The Watcher’s Council You just never know when a Great White will pop up out of nowhere to spoil your whole day… Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the verdict is in and the results for this week are carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. This week’s Watcher’s Council nominations were especially scrumptious and I personally had a difficult time voting. To make things even worse, in the end we wound up with a [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. There’s a major scandal brewing in the Obama Administration and this week’s winner, Joshuapundit, explored the extraordinary details in Fast And Furious – How The Dept. Of [...]

NoisyRoom Hat Tip: Patriot Action Network By: NakedEmperorNews So typically anti-Israel… And a nut. How do these people get elected? Lynn Woolsey is a progressive Marxist and needs to go.

From: The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. This week’s winning piece, An American Descent Into Hell by The Noisy Room definitely sees the glass as half empty in her take on what she thinks [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for [...]

By: Janet Smiles Gulag Bound Found at Now The End Begins: Obama Signs Document That Tells Israel Jerusalem Is Not Your Capital MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF STATE SUBJECT: Suspension of Limitations Under the Jerusalem Embassy Act Obama signed this on June 3, 2011 – Pursuant to the authority vested in me as President by [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. This week’s winner, What Does Peace Mean, Anyway? by Joshuapundit took a look at the often used term peace…what it is, what it isn’t and how actual [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for [...]

NoisyRoom By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton The Tea Party vs. Adam Kokesh Recently, I posted videos of the arrests at the Jefferson Memorial by those who were dancing in violation of a court ruling prohibiting such actions at the monument. While I still stand by my original objection, which was against a heavy handed police overreaction and [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. We had a tie in the Council this week between The Razor’s Occam’s Razor Unnecessary To Cut Short Weiner and The Political Commentator’s tribute, A Memorial Day [...]

NoisyRoom Hat Tip: Brian B. From: The Daily Beck

From: The Watcher’s Council Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week, carved eternally in the records of cyberspace. This week, Israel was very much in the news after President Obama’s speech demanding a settlement of the Israeli-Arab conflict based on the pre-’67 lines and Israeli [...]

From: The Watcher’s Council Like Greg over at Rhymes From Right says – we’re all for those pre-’67 lines, as long as we start with the right ones! Welcome to the Watcher’s Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the ‘sphere and the longest running group of its kind [...]