The AP makes sure it doesn’t actually accuse anyone of, er, you know, anti-Semitism or anything. Just because vandals spray-painted anti-Jewish slogans on Rosh-Hashanah, well, it could be anything, you know … Where does the AP think it’s publishing? In France?
THE CASE OF CHRIS HEDGES: Chris Hedges is the New York Times reporter who has claimed to document appalling human rights abuses commtted by the Israeli military, most famously in a magical-realist piece he wrote for Harpers. A critic parses all the various permutations of Hedges’ story, as it was written, discussed and explained by the reporter. There are, let’s say, some discrepancies.
SO, JONAH …: How about a date?
The Dish 