Marcelo Wio, at The Blogs

Oct 29, 2021, 11:27 PM

The Palestinian ‘time-freezing’ cult of suffering and sacrifice

It’s not really a novelty. Freezing time – pretending to do so – to await the arrival of a utopia (that justifies every action, behavior, silence), that is, postponing the future until preconceived conditions are optimal. But Palestinian leaders,...

Jun 29, 2021, 11:03 PM

Emotions Replace Facts in Middle East Coverage

“In the long run my observations have convinced me that most men, reasoning preposterously, first establish some conclusion in their minds which, either because of its being their own or because of their having received it from some person...

Dec 14, 2020, 10:56 PM

Let’s be blind to Iran’s ambitions

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani recently “expressed his opposition to a bill approved by parliament the previous day to suspend U.N. inspections and boost uranium enrichment, saying it would be ‘harmful’ to diplomatic efforts aimed at restoring the 2015 nuclear...

Oct 31, 2020, 10:58 AM

Antisemitism, the stain

The stained, the contaminated. He, she who is placed and exposed before the eyes of others as an object of opprobrium, as a scapegoat, as the easy and vulgar explanation: as the summary of all their fears, their biases,...

Mar 7, 2020, 1:46 AM

News coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict as demagoguery

Coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict often resembles the demagogue who tells the public that nothing is their own fault – thus, avoiding the complexity of causes, of facts. But, unlike the demagogue who strokes the sullied ego of his...

Feb 10, 2020, 7:07 PM

Antisemitic Language Is An Ongoing Action

Maybe, the key to understanding the puzzle of antisemitism lays in its own sentences. This may seem a truism, but it may not if sentences can do more than just describe things. In his book How To Do Things...

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The author is a media analyst and the Associate Director of ReVista de Medio Oriente, the Spanish Department of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis (CAMERA).