Just another example of the liberal media giving a megaphone to an anti-Israel academic.

Tamar Sternthal of Camera.org reports.

The LA Times’ Ongoing Assault on Israel

The editorial pages of the Los Angeles Times continues its ongoing assault on the legitimacy of the state of Israel with an Op-Ed yesterday by radical academic Neve Gordon arguing for the replacement of the Jewish state of Israel with a bi-national state (“Rethinking the two-state solution“). The Times has long held that Israel’s right to exist is a topic for debate. Earlier pieces arguing for the one-state solution and the dismantlement of the Jewish state include those by Jonathan Kuttab, Saree Makdisi (here and here), Tony Judt, and Ben Ehrenreich.

Additional Los Angeles Times Op-Eds assaulting the legitimacy of the Jewish state include Ian Lustick’s depiction of Israel as a pariah state, George Bisharat‘s insistence that no Israeli response to Palestinian attacks is legitimate, Adam Shatz‘s twisted rendering of international law to assert that Israel shows no concern for humanitarian or civilian life, and a blatantly anti-Semitic cartoon meant to depict Israel’s supposed stranglehold over the United States.

An associate professor at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Gordon’s previous contribution to the paper termed Israel an apartheid state and called for a boycott against the nation (“Boycott Israel,” Aug. 20, 2009).

After the paper came under heavy criticism for the publication of Gordon’s first piece, Jim Newton, the editorial-page editor, defended his decision to print the incenidary boycott call, asserting that “had Hitler submitted an excerpt from Mein Kampf in the late 1930’s,” he would have published it “because the world would have benefitted from exposure to evil ideas.” Newton cited former Senator Alan Cranston’s attempt to publish Hitler’s work for that very purpose.