Al Jazeera deletes its own controversial Op-Ed, then refuses to comment | Glenn Greenwald

The bizarre behavior by the media giant reflects brewing tensions as it seeks to enter the US television market

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Last Tuesday, Al Jazeera English published a lengthy Op-Ed by Columbia professor and Middle East scholar Joseph Massad entitled "The Last of the Semites". Massad's argument was obviously controversial: he highlighted the shared goal between the early Zionist movement and Europe's anti-Jewish bigots (namely, the removal of Jews from the continent), detailed the cooperat...