In Gaza, Krauthammer Finds 'Moral Clarity' Where Amnesty Finds Potential War...
The Associated Press reported on December 27 that "thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have...
View ArticleIsraeli Pitfalls, Palestinian Lives
When you routinely report about Israel and Gaza through the eyes of Israelis, the results can be awkward, like today's New York Times front-pager that frames what was a human catastrophe for many...
View ArticleFAIR Activist: Friedman's Phony Evidence That Terror Works
Posting his letter to the New York Times on FAIR Blog, FAIR activist bpb points out that not only is Thomas Friedman claiming that terrorism works, he's making up evidence to claim that terrorism...
View ArticleNPR 'Worse Than Worthless' on Middle East
National Public Radio watchdog Mytwords (NPR Check, 3/3/09) is moved to declare the network's Palestine/Israel coverage "worse than worthless" after "yesterday morning first featured Michele Kelemen...
View ArticleSeeing Cracks in Big Media's Pro-Israel Opinion Wall
Asserting that "one positive aspect of the wreckage left by the Bush presidency is that many of the most sacred Beltway pieties stand exposed as intolerable failures, prominently including our...
View ArticleWaPo Devolved Into Neocon 'Propaganda Sheet'
Veteran journalist Robert Parry (Consortium News, 3/15/09) has a message for anyone left who, when they "hear the name Washington Post," might "still think of… brave journalists facing down a corrupt...
View ArticleNYT, WaPo 'Reticent' on NIC Uproar
As "the American foreign policy community worked itself into something resembling a frenzy over the appointment of Charles W. 'Chas' Freeman to chair the National Intelligence Council"–because "at...
View Article'Tensions' and 'History' in Jerusalem
The New York Times' Ethan Bronner and Isabel Kershner (5/9/09) wrote about the Israeli government's development planin Jerusalem–a "$100 million, multiyear development plan in some of the most...
View ArticleRule of Law vs. 'Blind Support' for Israel in Media
Responding to "both Likud Party members in Israel as well as their Americans supporters" who "complain that the Obama administration is unduly 'interfering' in Israeli politics"–as exemplified by Ben...
View ArticleObama Has Sweets, but No Questions, for Helen Thomas
FAIR associate Sam Husseini has blogged his reaction (Husseini.org, 7/4/09) to a Barack "Obama Photo Op with Helen Thomas" in which the president "came with cupcakes to wish Helen Thomas a happy...
View ArticleNewsHour Poses a Moral Conundrum
PBS's NewsHour's Gwen Ifill (9/15/09), quizzing Richard Goldstone on his U.N. fact-finding mission that found that both Israel and Palestinian fighters had committed war crimes in the Gaza conflict:...
View ArticleNYT: Gaza War Worked
Isabel Kershner writes a piece in the New York Times (10/9/09) that starts out as a profile of an Israeli artist who makes flowers out of Qassam rocket pieces. The main point, though, is to discuss...
View ArticleEthan Bronner on the Non-Crisis in Gaza
When I saw the July 3 New York Times headline "Setting Sail on Gazaâ┚¬Ã¢”ž¢s Sea of Spin," I expected the worst. Times reporter Ethan Bronner's analysis piece on the Gaza humanitarian...
View ArticleTimes: U.S. Mideast Policy's "Uncomfortable Position"
In today's New York Times, Jennifer Steinhauer notes the remarkable number of Congressmembers– more than 80–who are heading to Israel thanks to a program affiliated with AIPAC, the powerful pro-Israel...
View ArticleCBS Gives Iran Nuclear Fearmongering a Voice
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been sounding alarms over Iran's nuclear program for two decades. On Sunday CBS Face the Nation gave him yet another chance to make dubious claims about...
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