Media outlets tiptoeing around Islam are a dime a dozen, but the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) stands apart for the egregiousness of its self-censorship and bias… Continue reading
With the arrival of Jodi Rudoren as correspondent, New York Times coverage of Israel and related issues has now gone to a new level of ridiculous bias… Continue reading
Suppose you read in the Washington Post about a democratic politician who was a refugee from persecution by a dictatorship. Would you be surprised to learn that he was in fact a vicious antisemite… Continue reading
And yet the West — with all its institutions of higher learning, including governmental agencies dealing with cultural and religious questions — is still thoroughly “confused” as to what Islam teaches… Continue reading
A media orchestrated political storm blew through the volatile Middle East last year with the release of over 1,600 confidential documents relating to Palestinian negotiations with Israel… Continue reading
A drive-by shooter in the beautiful, almost magical, city of Toulouse, France, murders three Jewish children and a teacher in front of their school… Continue reading
Fíorscéal usually repackage French made programmes for an Irish language audience by doing little more than adding a very brief introduction to the topic… Continue reading
It is bizarre for the headline to focus exclusively on Israel… Continue reading
It is truly astonishing how, it often seems, how Western media coverage must blame Israel for everything that “goes wrong” in the Middle East… Continue reading
A 27-year-old American-Israeli law school student decides he’s going to go to Egypt… Continue reading
While there is nothing new or surprising in a paper’s refusal to own up to its misreporting… Continue reading
Gingrich said Palestinians are an “invented” people… Continue reading
On September 30, 2000, state-owned France 2 Television broadcast a news report, filmed by a Palestinian cameraman, of the fatal shooting of a… Continue reading
I realized that there was a totally different and far more revealing way of approaching this issue… Continue reading
With the comedy of the UN obsessing over Israel this week, and the Durban III Conference, where the acceptable face of racism will hold sway, it is perhaps appropriate to look at the anti-Israel bias of the biggest international news agency in the world… Continue reading
With The Palestinian Authority seeking UN recognition of a Palestinian state this month in New York… Continue reading
This article in The Economist is so horrendous that I admit to laughing hysterically while reading it… Continue reading
Sometimes when one of the better reporters around tries to be fair the result shows up the low quality of Middle East coverage generally… Continue reading
The effort to make Israel look bad is simply ridiculous. But even in this context, the following lead paragraph caught my eye… Continue reading
People in English-speaking countries are often horrified and outraged by what’s published in their language’s mass media… Continue reading
A reader asks me: But why is media reporting so bad (obviously with many honorable exceptions). I first wrote on this topic… Continue reading
So constant are the lies told in mass media coverage of Israel-Palestinian issues that it is hardly worthwhile to critique individual articles… Continue reading
Here’s one of a thousand examples of how Middle East reality is being misrepresented. I’m told by people that the deputy head of… Continue reading
American journalists on the ground in the Mid-East these past few weeks, elbow-to-elbow with al-Jazeera reporters like never before… Continue reading
Here’s an experience that I think is very revealing. I was asked by an NPR program to be interviewed on the situation in Egypt… Continue reading
The weak point here is not what Israel says or does — since even documented reports are ignored or ridiculed — but the credulity, unprofessional behavior, and sometimes malice of the journalists involved… Continue reading
Several people have asked me what I think about the new “Palestine Papers” which have been “obtained” (that means the PA gave it to them) by al-Jazira, the Guardian, and perhaps others, in imitation of Wikileaks… Continue reading
Honestreporting issued a communique questioning the reports of mainstream media outlets on the death of a Palestinian woman allegedly killed by inhaling tear gas during a protest against Israel’s security barrier… Continue reading
In een lang afscheidsinterview met de Jerusalem Post laat Seaman, enigzins teleurgesteld, al zijn opgehoopte frustraties de loop over zijn werk en de verhoudingen tussen de Westerse media en Israël. Het is dus een openhartig interview geworden, maar het belangrijkste… Lees verder
As usual, a nice cartoon by Dry Bones about how TV anchors are concerned about political correctness when talking about mail bombs like those that were mailed to synagogues in Chicago by al-Qaeda jihadists in Yemen… Continue reading
This is a new cartoon by Yaakov Kirschen on Islamophobia. It’s of course satire, but his insight and humor is pointing out how media is biased on Israeli Issues and how political correctness is denying true criticism of Islam… Continue reading
Ok, het is Al-Jazeera televisie, maar het verhaal is toch onthullend. Het gaat over de luchthaven van Gaza en de manier waarop inwoners van Gaza de start-en landingsbanen openbreken voor het verzamelen van… Continue reading
Hizballah zegt dat Israel schuldig is aan het vermoorden van de populaire Libanese leider Rafik Hariri in 2005. Genoeg voor de NOS om het zonder tegenspraak op te nemen in het 20.00 uur journaal… Lees verder
Here’s what happened this morning along the so-called Blue Line, the internationally recognized UN-codified border between Israel and Lebanon. Israeli soldiers were… Continue reading
Would mainstream media mavens be willing to discuss their practices and listen to critics? Will discussions like this change anything in terms of how stories about conflicts are framed and phrased… Continue reading
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