Talk:Washington Report on Middle East Affairs

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[edit] Obscenely long Criticism section

The criticism section is longer than the main info about the subject itself, which is pretty much the way this STRANGE "encyclopedia" handles anything perceived by the wiki mafia as REMOTELY "anti-Israel". This makes wikipedia a JOKE, because if the pro-Israeli articles are edited that way, they are IMMEDIATELY reverted and soon locked.

  • For now, I'm removing this section and archiving it in the Talk Page, since it conflicts with a number of Wikipedia rules.--Kitrus 09:08, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] All References/Sources have Zionist tilt

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--Kitrus 09:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Criticism Section moved

[edit] Criticism

The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs has been characterized by the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America as "virulently anti-Israel,"[1] as "bitterly anti-Zionist" and "the most conspiratorially-minded of the anti-Israel forces" by the Middle East Quarterly,[2] as "a journal known for its strong anti-Israel bias" by Honest Reporting,[3] and as "an anti-Israel publication that frequently serves as an apologist for Muslim American groups advocating anti-Semitism and support for terrorism" by the Anti-Defamation League.[4] Canada's National Post has also described the magazine as "anti-Israel,"[5] the Jewish Virtual Library has stated that the "WRMEA publishes many articles that are considered to be anti-Israel and anti-Zionist",[6] the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles notes that critics view it as "guilty of frequent factual distortions" and "an unrelenting polemic against Israel",[7] and Jonathan Tobin, executive editor of The Jewish Exponent has described the publication as "the guidebook to the Arabist lobby in the United States" that "specializes in defaming Israel."[8]

An article in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs written by Sister Elaine Kelley, Chair of "Friends of Sabeel—North America" (a support group for the Palestinian Christian anti-Zionist[1] groupSabeel), July 2001, claims that Daniel Pipes told an audience at Portland State University that "The Palestinians are a miserable people ...and they deserve to be"[2]. Pipes strongly rejects this allegation, and wrote a letter to the editor of WRMEA to reply "to this made-up quote": "Your reporter, Elaine Kelley, has it wrong in her report in your July 2001 issue on my talk at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon on April 19, 2001. I never said anything along the lines of 'The Palestinians are a miserable people …and they deserve to be.' That's not how I think, speak, or write. Here is what I wrote in an article just prior to that talk (The Left's ongoing Oslo delusion," The Jerusalem Post, April 25, 2001), which accurately reflects my thinking, both in April and now:..." At the end of the cited article, Pipes had written: "In brief, far from thinking the Palestinians a miserable people, I call attention to their dignity and talent, then propose how to liberate them from their demons so they can build a civil society and decent lives."[3]

It has featured many articles by members of and supporting the organization If Americans Knew.

[edit] Andrew Cockburn & Pat Buchanan are like 2 peas in a pod!

The fact that this organization employs racist reactionists like Andrew Cockburn, Pat Buchanan and Ilan Pappe, is enough to tell any intelligent individual that they are biased, anti-Israel, and even anti-Jewish. These three men all have one thing in common: They HATE Israel. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.174.116.207 (talk) 21:35, 3 December 2007 (UTC)