Women's Mag Shifts Farther Left

(New York) An advertisement titled "This is Israel" featuring three prominent Israeli women was rejected by the editors of Ms. magazine because, according to managing editor Katherine Spiller, it was "outside the publication's mission."

"Our role at Ms. magazine is not to promote countries, it is to report on what's happening to women in different countries."

Sounds like double-talk to me and others concur. One author, Phyllis Chesler, said that the magazine has recently been "consistently and sickeningly anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian." Another author, Blu Greenberg, said that the forces at Ms. have aligned themselves "with those on the political far left whose agenda is to totally delegitimize Israel."

So, in rejecting the ad the editor of Ms. says it's not the mag's role while others say the mag is anti-Israel. Readers can make up their own minds. I'd say the latter makes more sense.