The shades of Bishop Williams bit (“the suffering of hundreds of thousands of Jewish civilians”) which falsely and insultingly – pace Norman Finkelstein – alleges that Westerners are being prevented from being sympathetic to Palestinians because of guilt over the Shoah:

When do Westerners stop allowing our shame at our own past racism, which resulted in the suffering and death of hundreds of thousands of Jewish civilians, from preventing us from taking a stand against the suffering and death of Palestinian civilians?

The bit falsely alleging that Palestinians are privileged to have a Hamas government demonstrating both her woeful ignorance about Hamas and her woeful bigotry of low expectations for Palestinian civil liberties:

Israel would be far better off noting that Hamas gained power because it takes care of the needs of Palestinians. It is a government elected on the promise of continuing to provide what no-one else does.

The bit that uses Soviet era (Zionist imperialism and Zionist colonialism) and libelous (apartheid) sloganeering (which I’m not sure Bowers even comprehends) to promote, or boost the discriminatory BDS campaign which has repeatedly failed:

There is a growing international “boycott, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) campaign against Israel’s apartheid system, as ordinary citizens position themselves against Zionist colonialism.

And last, but not least, the bit which – pace Walt, Mearsheimer and Counterpunch – falsely alleges that on behalf of some unnamed collective “we”, Bowers was in some mystifying way coerced to write that she and “we” aren’t antisemites, because of a nefarious Canadian and American pro Israel lobby and that this is what she, as an owner and editor of a newspaper, finds to be “one of the most irritating things about writing about the war in Gaza”:

And obviously, and despite the power of the pro-Israel lobby in Canada and the US (evidenced, in part, by the necessity for the irritating length of this introduction)

Well, I am not impressed by the huffing and puffing of people so obviously biased as you are – people who don’t allow documented facts to stand in the way of their hysterical propaganda.

Well I’m darned sure of how the Yookay would react: If the rockets were landing anywhere north of Watford Gap or any of the chavvy areas of London, there would be a deathly media silence and if the natives dared complain they would be swiftly condemned as racist scum. If, however, the rockets were endangering the Islington types they would do what they did in the last war, pile their kids and themselves on a boat to a safe, faraway country and leave the lower orders to die on their own.

There is a growing international “boycott, divestment and sanctions” (BDS) campaign against Israel’s apartheid system, as ordinary citizens position themselves against Zionist colonialism. Meanwhile OUR government has shamefully blamed this war on Hamas.

This exposes the complete biasness of the writer of this article.

Thanks Petra, I was aware of the bogus quote and the NY Times correction after publishing Khalidi’s citation of it. It seems to me that Bowers’ egregious sanctimony, her conviction, nay faith that nothing could possibly be worse than US or Zionist Imperialism and her bigotry of low expectations for Palestinian civil liberties, shields her from ever considering the possibility of her actually living under a regime like Hamas and what it really would be like for her.

Gaza’s “overwhelmed” hospitals (Bowen)

Except that they were not. The Rafah hospital had plenty of space, and Hamas prevented any wounded being moved to Israeli or Egyptian hospitals, where better treatment was available. Bowen is a f***ing disgrace. The trouble is, so are nearly all the rest. If it is raw facts untainted by Hamas distortions or anti-Israel sentiments, you can trust the Jerusalem Post, Tom Gross, Michael Totten, Richard Landes, Pierre Rehov, Harry’s Place, and very few others.

Good for HP in keeping up the pressure on this issue.