New York Times Iran Coverage: ‘Mind-Boggling,’ ‘Impossible To Parody’, by Ira Stoll (Algemeiner)
Jan. 8, 2020 President Trump’s decision to kill Qassem Soleimani is offering The New York Times an opportunity to put all its worst habits on display — and the newspaper’s many critics are having a field day pointing out the problems in the paper’s coverage. Israel’s former ambassador to the US, Michael Oren, took issue with an op-ed piece the Times published. […]
Read More →What I Did As An IDF Soldier to Palestinians by Hananya Naftali (Youtube)
Dec. 21, 2019 Click here for 3 min. video
Read More →Reuters and AP Call Temple Mount Rioters “Worshippers” – Tamar Sternthal (CAMERA via Daily Alert)
Aug. 23, 2019 Reuters and AP Call Temple Mount Rioters “Worshippers” – Tamar Sternthal Photo captions by Reuters and Associated Press confused non-worshippers and worshippers in their coverage of violence earlier this month on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The captions misidentified Jewish visitors to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, as worshippers, even though they were not conducting Jewish prayers and rituals, […]
Read More →The Media’s Intersectional Embrace of Anti-Semitism, by Ben Shapiro (Townhall)
Aug. 21, 2019 Imagine two sitting Republican Congresspeople planned a trip to a foreign country in conjunction with a nongovernmental organization. Imagine that particular NGO had a long history of Jew hatred: It had run a piece on its website quoting anti-Semitic myths about Jews imbibing Christian blood, republished a neo-Nazi article decrying the “Jew-controlled […]
Read More →The Charlottesville Lie, by Steve Cortes (Prager University)
Aug. 5, 2019 Did President Trump call neo-Nazis “very fine people” during a famous press conference following the Charlottesville riots of August 2017? The major media reported that he did. But what if their reporting is wrong? Worse, what if their reporting is wrong and they know it’s wrong? A straight exploration of the facts […]
Read More →An Iranian lie unfolds in the Spanish media, by Ben Cohen (JNS)
July 29, 2019 As the old English proverb has it that there are none so blind as those who will not see; the reason the writer of a controversial journalistic series fell for such a poorly executed hoax is that he had already arrived at his conclusions. Amid the profusion of commentary about the hostile […]
Read More →How Silwan Became an Arab Neighborhood, by Luke Moon (Providence via Mosaic)
July 17, 2019 A recent article in the New York Times complained of a “right-wing Jewish settler group” that “has moved hundreds of Jews” into the predominantly Arab eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan. But, notes Luke Moon, the article says nothing about the area’s history: Silwan’s first inhabitants were Yemenite Jews who in 1881 spent six months traveling […]
Read More →Let’s have some truth about the situation in Gaza, by Barbara Kay (National Post)
July 9, 2019 Compare Palestinians under Israeli rule with Palestinians in Jordan, who experience continual problems https://nationalpost.com/opinion/barbara-kay-lets-have-some-truth-about-the-situation-in-gaza (includes photos) In late June, the Globe and Mail published a front-page feature article by former Mideast bureau chief Mark MacKinnon concerning the depressed situation of Palestinians and Gazans under Israeli rule. The article does point to the […]
Read More →Treating Israel as a Friend Who Doesn’t Need to Be Ordered Around – Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS via Daily Alert)
Jun.25, 2019 Treating Israel as a Friend Who Doesn’t Need to Be Ordered Around – Jonathan S. Tobin (JNS) When the New York Times gave the Democratic presidential candidates a chance to answer 18 policy questions, the only one that touched on the Middle East was: “Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights?” That question […]
Read More →Must Read: HOW SHOULD WE READ THE AMERICAN PRESS? IN ARABIC, by Lee Smith (Tablet)
Oct. 31, 2018 News of the News: Like in the Middle East, U.S. political operatives and intelligence officials are increasingly using the cloak of journalism as a tool for their aims Click here for full article
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