Maybe AJE deserves to be given the benefit of the doubt. It just released an excellent special documentary on the Nakba. I've seen more left-leaning and pro-Palestinian articles and videos on AJE than any other mainstream news outlet. We should keep that in mind when examining this incident.

How shameful! Still it does not surprise me. The Qatari-owned, US-lauded news station (despite its coverage of the 2008-9 Gaza Massacre) has more and more been offering nothing but lip service to the Palestinian cause every since it became the main source to propagate the romanticized ideals (as well as in Syria, its own country's speculative motives) of the "Arab Spring" to a world audience.

Timely coverage of Israeli settler violations, BDS wins/developments, and most of all the plight of hunger striking prisoners most notably Khader Adnan have proved EI a far superior station on Israel/Palestine news than AJE - culminating in this hapless surrender to Zionist outcry.

AJE's removing Dr. Joesph Massad's lynchpin argument, which uses Theodore Herzl's own words to re-present an uncomfortable truth of how European Jews became strangers in the land of Palestine, reveals the true colors of the movers and shakers of this questionable news station - perhaps a new beginning to its end of Palestinian trust.

Why doesn't Electronic Intifada publish the Massad article?

Al Jazeera used to be a respected publication but you cannot ignore the fact that it is a mouthpiece for Qatar's monarchy. Part of their soft power to allow them to have a bigger say in regional affairs. Doesn't surprise me at all given the amount of journalists who have left in the last 2 years citing censorship/government meddling in the running of the station.

Someone at Al Jazeera must have read Ali's article, because now the mobile site no longer has the article either. They don't even have the guts to tell readers what they've done. All they have to say is this:

"Error.

An error occurred while processing your request."

As daughter of a German anti-nazi who fled Germany 1939 to Latin America because of prosecution I can assure you that Massad is fully true.
My father had a lot of jewish friends in studying time, never let them go because of nazis will and never saw them different to any other Germans, as well as they themselves didn't.
Refer to Heinrich Heine, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Kurt Tucholsky, Albert Einstein, Karl Marx and many, many other jews of German or Austrian descent: they NEVER saw themselves different from their nation or culture. And nobody who reads their books will ever see them as works born from an other culture and nation than the own one.
There is no jewish race and the whole so-called anti-semitism is nothing else than old christian hostility towards other religions, now thrown against islam.

I don't know about the rest of al Jazeera, but al jazeera US has been largely inflitrated by liberal zionists right from the beginning..the informal network of lib z's were the ones al jazeera contacted about getting US correspondents, and with the likes of Cami Graves reporting for al Jazeera US, the zionists have had nothing to fear from it.

The story by Joseph Massad, "The Last... " should not have been censored, should be carried by every major American newspaper, indeed, global carry, have the audience of Aljazeera readers.

The Zionist fear and actions, official and of self-appointed, evidences their criminality in this regard.

To not have refuted, instead, is something of its criminality in action.

And to the story/article itself, to anyone reading it, will be of such revelation as to become a cause to make it and its thesis all the more valuable and worthy of defense.

Bravo! to Joseph Massad. I have read past stories/articles and printed them for distribution to those who have any chance of seeing beyond the propaganda of the Zionist juggernaut.

Shame on Al-Jazeera's censors. It should be clear that zionism is the most evil ideology that has plagued humankind, exceeding nazism, fascism, and communism. For the eventual betterment of humankind, it, too, will ultimately be defeated as all others had perished, and its adherents that were responsible for the war criminality that they inflicted upon the innocent peoples of Palestine and Lebanon and continuen to do so with impunity will be summoned before the forthcoming Jerusalem Tribunals to be tried and punished under the precedent of the Nuremberg Trials and israel's own trial and execution of the nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann. Not the inept 1.7 billion Muslims worldwide will bring about their downfall, but rather those increasingly numerous warm-hearted anti-zionist Jews who have won my admiration and respect will do so. Jew-hating Jew zionists refer to them as "self-hating Jews". I refer to them as the world's emerging saviors of humankind's calamity under that despicable ideology. The Palestinians and Lebanese who suffered the immense anguish, misery, pain and suffering at the hands of zionists and their radical, extreme, ultra fundamentalist, hypocritical Christian eschatological fanatical supporters will have their Day of Joy. Patience, my brothers and sisters. Mssrs. Time and History are your guarantees.

Adil Cherkaoui of Al Jazeera, Washington, DC who requested a copy of my 4th book that blew the Whistle on US Foreign Policy RE: Israel's WMD and USS LIBERTY:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/...

As a regular reader of AJE, while I've found much to respect on the site, I've also noticed a definite trend away from hard news challenges to U.S. policy over the last couple of years. I think the turning point was Al Jazeera's coverage of the civil war in Libya. It was Al Jazeera that first ran the false story claiming that Libyan planes had attacked anti-Qaddafi demonstrators, a fiction that turned out to be crucial in establishing the propaganda cover for the U.S.-NATO invasion. The genesis of that story remains unclear, but it's worth noting that AJE has a very good series that critiques media errors ("The Listening Post"), but that this very eventful journalistic misfire has never been examined there, to the best of my knowledge.

I'm afraid the censorship of Dr. Massad is one more link in that very unfortunate chain. Though he deserves credit for his original contributions to cultural history, what Massad writes about Zionism is anything but new and is supported by much writing on the subject. To name just one (recent) example, the important links between Nazism and the Zionist intellectual leadership of the 1940s are discussed in some detail in The Invention of the Jewish People by Israeli historian Shlomo Sand.

Beyond the shame of appeasing American power, AJE's real crime in this instance is its suppression of an important set of truths. I hope this turns out to be an exception, not the new rule.