News Nosh 01.25.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Monday January 25, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"How is the Israeli consensus manufactured? It happens when awful facts associated with 50 years of occupation, discrimination and systematic land theft are never “exposed” in prestigious investigative programs such as Uvda. It is achieved by the decisive voice of the “objective truth” touting a “democratic and Jewish state” (barring a few weeds,) a moral IDF, even when it bombs civilians and massacres children, with statements such as an “anti-Semitic world,” “the Arabs want to annihilate us,” “there is only one Holocaust and its ours” and “we all want social justice” (except for a few corrupt ones who we exposed in our program.)"
--Michal Peleg, an activist with the left-wing Ta'ayush organization, slams the Israeli media for its collaboration with the Occupation, in a powerful Op-Ed in Haaretz+.

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News Nosh 01.26.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Tuesday January 26, 2016
 
You Must Be Kidding: 
"In the fall of 2015, a series of stabbings were made across the country. Most of them were committed by Arab citizens of Israel ..."
--False information in the controversial new Israeli civics textbook.
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News Nosh 01.27.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Wednesday January 27, 2016

 
Quote of the day:
“After Operation Protective Edge, Cast Lead, Pillar of Defense and thousands upon thousands of dead and injured that the IDF left in Gaza, a state whose government ministers and MKs call on civilians to shoot to kill; a state whose soldiers shoot and kill Palestinians every day; in whose army a soldier killed a youth who went out to collect thistles; and the trials of those who committed real atrocities goes on and is dragged out and later it turns out that none of them are really responsible for their actions – in a country like this, that’s what bothers us? One dead Palestinian?
--Israeli writes letter to the editor lambasting the ‘racket’ raised by the State of Israel, which arrested three left-wing and human-rights activists.**
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News Nosh 01.28.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Thursday January 28, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
"As one of the only ones here who grew up in a dictatorship, I am telling you that (you) are going in a very wrong direction."
--MK Haim Yellin (Yesh Atid), who immigrated from Argentina during that country's "Dirty War" period of state terror, tells Culture Minister Miri Regev after she presented her controversial 'Cultural Loyalty' bill to Knesset.**
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News Nosh 01.29.16

APN's daily news review from Israel
Friday January 29, 2016
 
Quote of the day:
“The search, identification and marking of alleged traitors is an old fascist characteristic, an ugly and dangerous one.”
--Likud MK Benny Begin slammed the campaign 'outing' left-wing artists as traitors and called for Im Tirtzu’s funding sources to be exposed.**
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