Mike Antonucci, who normally writes about teacher unions, is tracking the Arab press’s response to recent events in his terrorism email newsletter, plaintext. Today’s cluelessness award goes to Hafez Al-Barghouthi, editor of the Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, who has a problem with NYC’s mayor going by Rudy instead of his full name.
“He hides his first name, chosen for him by his Italian father,” wrote Al-Barghouthi of the mayor, “so as not to remind the Jewish voters of the infamous Rudolph Hitler (sic).”
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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)
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