Archive for April, 2009

The word is ‘commemoration’ — I think

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Administrators at the Concentration Camp Museum at Majdanek in Poland might want to get a little help on their English translations:

State Museum at Majdanek, together Museum – Memorial Site in Belzec, would like to invite you to the celebration of the 67th anniversary of the first deportations to the death camp in Belzec

Bias-sphere

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

My column this week: The “Anti-Zionist vs. Anti-Semite Personality Quiz”:

Some say anti-Semitism is in the eye of the beholder and cannot be objectively measured. And others say conjunctivitis is also in the eye of the beholder but can be accurately diagnosed. To close the gap between these camps, I offer the following test. Use it whenever you are not sure if what you are reading is anti-Zionist, anti-Semitic, or an editorial in Ha’aretz.

 D. On which network is the commentator most likely to appear?

1. Fox News
2. CNN
3. NPR
4. Al Jazeerah

E. To which of the following does the commentator compare the pro-Israel lobby?

1. The National Rifle Association
2. Skull and Bones
3. The Trilateral Commission
4. The Elders of Zion

F. How does the writer refer to Hamas?

1. “An Islamofascist terror outfit”
2. “Gaza’s democratically elected government”
3. “An unfairly maligned social service agency”
4. “My good friends Khaled and Ismail”

Read the whole thing here.