Comments on: Ms. Magazine refuses to publish ad about Israel’s most powerful women

By: Elisson

Elisson — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 01:18:00 +0000

If I had a subscription, I’d cancel it.

Oh, wait: I have the first issue down in the basement somewhere. Maybe I’ll pull it out and urinate on it.

By: Laura SF

Laura SF — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 04:53:57 +0000

I subscribed to Ms. for 12 years – from its inception to when it got bought by an Australian firm and redesigned as a glossy women’s magazine. It flopped badly and was bought up by Robin Morgan, who put it out as a no-ads “news-oriented” magazine. At that point, I gave it another chance – but I ended up canceling after about 2 issues, because of its grotesque anti-Israel slant (courtesy of Ms. Morgan, Ms. Dworkin, et al). I wrote them a long letter about it… from which they dishonestly quoted 2 lines that made it sound like *I* was criticizing Israel. They’ve long since lost any credibility… they’re just another far-left organ.

By: Noga

Noga — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:43:03 +0000

LynnB (#14):

Thanks for correcting me on this.

By: Passing By

Passing By — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:33:37 +0000

4,000 years of jealousy and Jew-hating. Nothing new here. The liberals, anti-Semites and Islamists have become boring and predictable with their recycled and rehashed expressions of hatred for the Chosen People.

By: m shoag

m shoag — Sun, 13 Jan 2008 05:45:15 +0000

best response is to cancel subscriptions to this piece of garbagew and tell them why.

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 22:19:41 +0000

The magazine’s line now is that two of the women in the ad were from a particular party and it’s not the magazine’s policy to get involved in the domestic politcs of another country.
Pull the other one, ladies, it’s got bells on it.

By: Herschel

Herschel — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 18:44:36 +0000

For someone to demonize Israel at every opportunity is classic anti-Semitism, and that to me, is the litmus test of whom, and what organizations, I will support.

Unfortunately, the left wing has corrupted liberal Democrat ideology so much that I can no longer support any of the Democrat’s candidates. The other sad fact is if they are this wrong about Israel, what other long held liberal beliefs are also bogus?

By: Karen

Karen — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:35:22 +0000

While the magazine has the right to decide what goes into their magazine, this reeks of blatant hypocrisy. If Queen Noor (Jordan) and Nancy Pelosi(American) are featured why not Jewish successful women also? I would think they’d want anyone who would show how important women affect the world. These women will be noted in history. Will MS. magazine even be remembered?

By: Alex Bensky

Alex Bensky — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:44:56 +0000

I used to insist that I was still a liberal, Meryl, until I finally realized that terms do change meaning and it would be confusing at best for me to insist to people that I was a liberal. I wonder if the same thing hasn’t happened to “feminist.”

After I stopped calling myself a liberal I used to say that I was part of the Joe Lieberman wing of the Democratic Party. So much for that.

By: LynnB

LynnB — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 15:34:03 +0000

Noga (#13)–

There was no separate entrance at Annapolis. That story has been acknowledged as false by both the US State Dept. and the Israeli foreign ministry as well as the journalist who originally reported it.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1198517197778&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull