The Music World Goes Anti-Israel – Part III | FrontPage Magazine

[Editor's note: This is the final installment of a three-part series. Click the following for Part I and Part II.] The campaign to pressure artists to boycott is part of a highly organised mass movement. As with pro-Palestinians generally, the so called BDS (Boycott Divestment Sanction) Movement continually draws parallels between apartheid South Africa and Israel. [...]

July 19th, 2010
Topic: News and Press Coverage

The Music World Goes Anti-Israel – Part III

Who is driving the hate-campaign to strip the Jewish State of credibility and defenses?

July 15th, 2010
Topic: FPM

O’Reilly’s Burqa Betrayal

Bill O’Reilly is clearly continuing his shameless and cowardly surrender to Sharia Law. Daily on his program, The O’Reilly Factor on FoxNews.com, he engages in the standard and phony obfuscations about the jihadi threat the West faces, consistently refusing to honestly name and label the Islamic foundations of the terrorist enterprise. Back in April 2010, [...]

July 15th, 2010
Topic: NRB

Pakistan sentences woman to be stoned to death for “illicit relations”: walking together with a man

Just as the media outrage over the planned stoning of an accused adulteress in Iran is winding down, with the predictable claims that Islam doesn’t sanction stoning, more Misunderstanders of Islam crop up, this time in Pakistan. “WAF outraged at jirga’s judgment of stoning to death,” from the Daily Times,…

July 10th, 2010
Topic: JW

Spencer vs. mainstream media “journalist”

As I said here, “We must no longer treat journalists as if they were objective reporters when they are ideologues and propagandists.” And here I am doing just that, withdrawing my sanction and refusing to accept their false pretense of objectivity, in Sweden last Monday. More videos from my…

July 9th, 2010
Topic: JW

Good news: Taliban not terrorists anymore

Of course, they’re still jihadis and Islamic supremacists. But everyone is just fine with that. “U.N. to remove Taliban from blacklist: Karzai,” from Reuters, June 22 (thanks to Block Ness): KABUL (Reuters) – The United Nations has agreed to remove Taliban members who renounce ties to al Qaeda from a…

June 22nd, 2010
Topic: JW

The Left’s Grand Inquisitor and the Tea Party

Jim Wallis, rebound spiritual adviser to President Obama, recently called for “dialogue” in his Huffington Post piece, How Christian Is Tea Party Libertarianism. Quick to seize the moment after Rand Paul, a libertarian, chimed in on the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Wallis must have spent a few hours on this clownish, but  self-revealing [...]

June 11th, 2010
Topic: NRB

Fitzgerald: The Tale of Hamid Mir

(L-R): Robert Spencer, Harvey Kushner, Hamid Mir, 2006 The other day at JW we learned more about Hamid Mir, a prominent figure in Pakistani broadcast journalism. The source was an article in The Daily Times, a Pakistani paper, fittingly titled: “Hamid Mir’s terrifying indiscretions.” That article spoke of “a…

May 19th, 2010
Topic: JW

Obama warns of tough new sanctions against Iran, but sanctions aren’t even on the UN Security Council’s April agenda

Empty words from the post-American president. “Iran Sanctions Not Even On UNSC April Agenda,” by Judith Apter Klinghoffer at History News Network, April 6: The deadly farce continues. The disbursement of strategic and economic goodies to Russia and China is accelerating. It is all for a good cause of getting…

April 6th, 2010
Topic: JW