»The March-April 2001 issue of Utne Reader has an article by Karen Olson entitled "Palestine Exhibition Denied," describing the problems faced by Dan Walsh in trying to get exhibitions of his large collection of Palestinian solidarity posters. Walsh has found that on rare occasions such posters can be exhibited, if "balanced" by an exhibit of Israeli posters, but they are never considered for exhibit on their own in this country. But this constraint on free expression has been discussed only in the Utne Reader, as the same forces that preclude such an exhibit also rule out the media's considering this a free speech issue.
Similarly, when an America-Jewish journalist with the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle was fired in January 2001, immediately after publishing "Quest for Justice," an article by Judith Stone critical of Israeli policy, this fact flowed through e-mail networks but was not a free speech issue in the mainstream media. Neither is the incessant pressure that the pro-Israel lobby and activists exert on the media, that make the press in Israel itself notably more open and critical of Israeli policy than the U.S. media. Neither was the firing of Michael Lopez-Calderon from his job as an elementary school teacher at the Rabbi Alexander S. Gross Hebrew School in Miami Beach, Florida in February 2001, which resulted from outside complaints about his writings critical of Israel, despite the absence of any claim of less than satisfactory teaching performance.«