Let’s recall to mind once again, for the sake of the Old Fish Christiane Amanpour and her willing collaborator and host Jon Stewart, doesn’t want anyone to think he has any special feelings for Israel, a few home truths. To wit: 1. Israel did not seek, and did not want, a war with Hamas in […]
Jon Stewart Takes No Notice of the UN’s Double Standard and Anti-Israel Bias
Christiane Amanpour and Jon Stewart want to make sure you understand how terrible Israel really is: “Jon Stewart & Christiane Amanpour Use Daily Show Interview to Muddle Image of Israel,” by Chaim Lax, HonestReporting, April 11, 2024: Near the end of the interview, Stewart questions why the war between Israel and Hamas is “not the […]
Christiane Amanpour and Jon Stewart Ignore Israel’s Efforts to Minimize Civilian Casualties
Christiane Amanpour and Jon Stewart recently had a highly questionable televised tête-a-tête: “Jon Stewart & Christiane Amanpour Use Daily Show Interview to Muddle Image of Israel,” by Chaim Lax, HonestReporting, April 11, 2024: Amanpour credits Al Jazeera with “trying to tell the truth in this waging war,” ignoring the fact that it is a news […]
Old Fish and Jon Stewart Beat Up On Israel
I call Christiane Amanpour an “Old Fish” because that is what alumnae of New Hall, a Catholic girls’ school in Chelmsford, England, call themselves. I know this because several of my relatives attended that school a few years ahead of Amanpour. And that’s exactly what Amanpour, with her special house blend of arrogance and ignorance […]
Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, Dave Chappelle, and Jon Stewart, and Their Special Dispensation For Jew-Hatred
Micha Danzig has noticed that Jon Stewart deplores anti-black hate speech and wants it to be severely punished, while he has a surprising tolerance for antisemitic hate speech, Danzig’s analysis can be found here: “Irving, Stewart and Chappelle and the Double Standard for Jew-Hatred,” Jewish Journal, November 23, 2022: As anyone paying attention to the […]