Left-Wing, Pro-Palestinian Groups Assail Scarlett Johansson, SodaStream

julia.seymour — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:24:45 +0000

BDS calls for Oxfam to drop Johansson over endorsement.

Julia A. Seymour

A growing anti-Israel movement recently targeted fizzy drink machine maker, SodaStream, and its celebrity spokesperson: Scarlett Johansson.

— Julia A. Seymour is Assistant Managing Editor for MRC Business at the Media Research Center. Follow Julia A. Seymour on Twitter.

NYT Mag Cover Story Admires Stone-Throwing Palestinian Protests in a West Bank Village

clay.waters — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 17:21:08 +0000

Clay Waters

"'If There Is a Third Intifada, We Want to be the Ones Who Started It,'" the New York Times magazine's 8,000-word cover story by Ben Ehrenreich (son of left-wing author Barbara Ehrenreich), is an admiring profile of purportedly "non-violent" protests put on by the West Bank village of Nabi Saleh. The story starts with the release from an Israeli prison of Palestinian activist and habitual prisoner Bassem Tamimi.