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Boston Marathon aftermath. (photo: Pete Tschudy/CC BY-NC 2.0)

The Right’s latest invention: ‘Gazans celebrated Boston bombings’

The birth and growth of an utterly baseless, extremely damaging claim. If you Google “Gazans celebrate Boston Marathon bombings” or variations of that entry, you will have your reading cut out for you. Such a scene was reported by Pamela Gellar, possibly America’s best-known Muslim-basher, on her website Atlas Shrugs. The story was headlined “DANCING…

By Larry Derfner April 24, 2013

Now Bibi is calling Yair Lapid an anti-Semite

People who see Netanyahu as the great Jewish avenger should know how low he’s willing to go in exploiting the memory of Jewish suffering. I can never get over the shamelessness with which Israeli nationalist power freaks will exploit people’s memories of anti-Semitic persecution for their own low purposes. Nobody’s better at it than…

By Larry Derfner March 3, 2013

Palestinian family in Sheikh Jarrah days away from eviction

On December 31, as Americans celebrate New Year’s Eve and Israelis lift a glass to “Sylvester,” a Palestinian family will be evicted from their East Jerusalem home to make way for Jewish settlers. The Jerusalem District Court has ruled that the Shamasneh family must leave the house they have been living in 1964—three years before…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat December 27, 2012

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