A column on anti-Semitism in the Boston Globe, which is quickly becoming my favorite mainstream newspaper. And unless I miss my guess, the author is not Jewish (though according to some, that doesn’t mean he’s not part of the “cabal”).
Anti-Semitism, with its racial overtones, is a modern phenomenon. Contempt for Jews and Judaism is ancient. Such impossible threads weave invisibly through attempts to reckon with Israel’s dilemma, forming a rope that trips up the well-intentioned and the unaware, even as others use it, as so often before, to fashion a noose.
The London Telegraph notices the vitriol flung at Jill Carroll by conservative bloggers.
Speaking of Jill Carroll, she’s in Boston. And damned happy.
”I finally feel like I am alive again,” Carroll told reporters from her newspaper, The Christian Science Monitor, who accompanied her on the crowded flight to Logan International Airport. ”To be able to step outside anytime, to feel the sun directly on your face, to see the whole sky. These are luxuries that we just don’t appreciate every day.”
Members of Hamas are in the top of arrestees involved in terror attacks. Gee, I thought there was some kind of “calm” they were supposed to be observing. I guess not so much.
Hamas, which is not directly involved in terror attacks, has kept its place at the top of the list of arrestees – 234 since the start of the year compared to 266 in the first quarter of 2005.
“That figure just shows that under the surface Hamas is involved in attacks, albeit not directly,” explained the source.
I appreciate the class you’ve demonstrated with Ms. Carroll, as well as that shown by several other conservative bloggers.
Personally, I’ve long felt that the CSM was the best at advancing an objective view among mainstream media publications. When bias was thick in the accounts of lefty and righty MSM outlets, I’d run to CSM to get what seemed like the balanced view.
And I suspect, from the comments of her editors and Marine spokesmen, that she has carefully kept her politics hidden precisely so she could conduct interviews without hitting kneejerk defenses. If she comes across as sympathetic to everyone she interviews, I’d suspect she’s just learned to excel at her craft.
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