Comments on: Ha’aretz “Celebrity” Endorsement

By: juvanya

juvanya — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:49:22 +0000

Its respected because it has a nice slick English site and those two dont.

By: juvanya

juvanya — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:48:12 +0000

Anonymous is anyone who wants to take the label. You could be Anonymous if you wanted. Anonymous doesnt really have any uniform opinion beyond anti-authority and anti-internet oppression.

By: David

David — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:59:01 +0000

I like the way Ha’aretz so reported this story – so proud to be one of the “good” Jews. Are you sure that they are in israel? Seems to smell of ghetto mentality to me …

By: z303

z303 — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 09:20:41 +0000

COme to think of it, Steven Plaut teaches in our very own Haifa University, Israel’s #1 Arab academic institution.

By: mzk1

mzk1 — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 19:50:15 +0000

Ha’aretz got that reputation in the old days, when the other newspapers were considered party papers. Also, having an extreme left-wing slant doesn’t hurt. But to tell you the truth, Ynet (the web site of “Idiot”, our largest newspaper)may be worse.

Did you know the Jerusalem Post once was basically a Labor party paper? Till some guy in Canada bought it, I think.

By: ziontruth

ziontruth — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 18:13:07 +0000

“You may well characterize the newspaper with the largest circulation, arguably the most influential in Israel…”

You tell me I’m not well versed in how Americans think, and I can only accept that (or, more accurately, that I’m no longer up to date). Yet you make this claim that requires being an Israeli to verify.

Haaretz’s circulation has taken a sheer drop in the last 10+ years, and its influence is now confined to the closed-system ivory tower of stubborn far-Leftist readers who still read it. The influential magazines in Israel today are still Yediot Ahronot and Maariv, with the free right-wing Israel HaYom a significantly rising star. This is what I know as an Israeli.

“But Ha’aretz is cited by more U.S. media outlets than I can name when describing what is going on in Israel.”

That speaks volumes of the U.S. media outlets. America is in deep trouble as far the media is concerned. And the only light in the whole darkness is precisely the one single media outlet you and other Leftists want shut down.

“The rap that it has, of all things, an anti-Israel bias is absurd.”

Have you read it? Or, if you have, with eyes open? With Amira JudenHass, Gideon “Israel’s demands are the demands of a thief” Levy and its being habitually quoted by the lowest of the low (Electronic Intifada, Mound o’ Scheiss, Common Dreams, Dicksilver etc.), “anti-Israel bias” is putting it gently about Haaretz.

I go with what Steven Plaut says on this matter: Haaretz is Israel’s #1 Hebrew-language Arab newspaper.

By: juvanya

juvanya — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:18:15 +0000

Unfortunately so.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:15:56 +0000

The same New York Times whose reporter in Moscow in th 1930′s Walter Duranty covered up the Ukrainian famine and who claimed that the show trials in Moscow were convicting guilty folks.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:13:44 +0000

Most “respected” by Leftists throughout the world who really wish Israel would disappear. It has Amira Hass and Gideon Levy as columnists – google them and you will be shocked (actually you probably would not be) at who links to them.

By: Travis

Travis — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:12:01 +0000

It just shows you that to the Muslims – a Jews is a Jew is a Jew even if their are vile traitors such as Amira (juden)Hass and Gideon Levy.