re: #4 Atlas Fails

This poster is a known bot who always links to articles that are either anti-Palestinian or, like this one, ridiculously conspiratorial. Complaining that the media doesn’t mention Israel’s history of welcoming refugees when it reports on alleged immigrant abuses is like saying nobody can point out the U.S.’s troubling history on race relations without also mentioning that it was the world’s first modern democracy. Sorry, but doing something nice doesn’t automatically exempt you from everything ever.

No, but it’s reasonable to ask if coverage has been reasonably even-handed or well-informed, which some of it has not. Phoebe Greenwood, in the London Guardian, has been particularly problematic.

This is not a made-up problem, although some of what Aigle reports is silly sniping at Reuters. There is a genuine problem when there are multiple condemnatory articles claiming to go in-depth on this subject which ignore Israel’s actual history both early and recent, current available options, and the context of the region. This is not too hard for journalists to do, and they need to do it.

I realize that people are immensely hurt that Aigle continues to be a bot, but if Charles wants it gone, Charles can ban it. What it brings up is sometimes stupid, but often relevent.