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Gabriel Pais outside the Israeli mission to Belgium, the UN, and NATO in his hometown of Brussels. (Courtesy)
January 3, 2020, 6:51 am
Belgian 13-year-old takes European media to task, starts Israel advocacy group
In 6 weeks, Gabriel Pais’s videos have gotten tens of thousands of views on his new organization’s Facebook page. His goal: To play outside without the need for a military escort
By Yaakov Schwartz
The Guardian offices in London (CC-BY WordRidden, Flickr)
January 23, 2019, 10:38 am
Israel lambasts The Guardian for accusing it of ‘killing with impunity’
UK paper’s blistering editorial is an exercise in ‘cheap moralizing,’ deliberately ignores Palestinian violence, Foreign Ministry says
By Raphael Ahren
Avital Leibovich
May 16, 2018, 2:15 pm
Avital Leibovich
Don’t confuse me with the facts on Gaza
News reports called the border violence a Palestinian protest against the US embassy move. It wasn’t
Yarden Frankl
March 14, 2018, 11:17 am
Yarden Frankl
The fake news cop-out
If you want to know what’s really going on in the world, mainstream media is required reading — biases and all
Andrew Silow-Carroll
February 21, 2018, 11:56 am
Andrew Silow-Carroll
But were there any Jewish victims?
It feels icky to focus on the Jews’ experience of larger tragedies, but there are good reasons why we do it
Howard Feldman
February 14, 2018, 1:56 pm
Howard Feldman
Racist BDS-movements
I am fighting this war of words by calling the push for bigotry what it is
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and his wife Sara Netanyahu at the Knesset in Jerusalem, June 28, 2017. (Olivier Fitoussi/Pool)
January 29, 2018, 12:23 pm
After tape of irate wife leaks, Netanyahu tells media to back off
PM says journalists willing to ‘shed blood’ of his family after uncomplimentary recordings of Sara and son Yair are published in past month
By Raoul Wootliff
Michal Shilor
January 22, 2018, 3:44 pm
Michal Shilor
Your ‘fake news’ is my real news
Facebook, your new plan for users to sign off on trusted news sites will only make the echo chamber much, much worse
Michal Shilor
January 10, 2018, 2:40 pm
Michal Shilor
The Jerusalem we know
If our multicultural holy city is to see peace, then sticking her with labels that don’t fit isn’t going to help
US President Donald Trump (L) and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hold a joint press conference in the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
December 29, 2017, 10:05 am
With an eye to Trump and Netanyahu, Israeli university takes on ‘fake news’
As politicians disseminate more and more misinformation while discrediting and bypassing the media, University of Haifa hopes to help students ‘analyze and understand reality’
By Raoul Wootliff
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr. speaking at The New York Times’ New Work Summit in Half Moon Bay, California, February 29, 2016. (Kimberly White/Getty Images for New York Times/via JTA)
December 20, 2017, 5:56 am
The Sulzberger family: A complicated Jewish legacy at The New York Times
Throughout the generations, the paper has maintained a veneer of objectivity — even as it buried stories of WWII atrocities against Jews
By Josefin Dolsten
Pope Francis delivers a blessing during the Angelus noon prayer in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, November 26, 2017. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)
December 17, 2017, 12:45 pm
Pope says ‘fake news’ a ‘very serious sin’
‘Sins of communication’ include one-sided reporting, sensationalizing old news, pontiff says
By AP
Sean Durns
July 7, 2017, 2:59 pm
Sean Durns
WaPo disappears some Palestinians
Selective reporting risks missing key stories, like how Hamas-Fatah politics affect the lives of ordinary folks
Yarden Frankl
June 2, 2017, 11:25 am
Yarden Frankl
When a Palestinian dies of cancer
The Washington Post ignored Hamas priorities that put terror tunnels and rockets ahead of chemo wards
US President Donald Trump, right, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint press conference in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC, February 15, 2017. (AFP/Saul Loeb)
March 6, 2017, 4:39 am
Bashing and baiting the press — a tactic used by many world leaders
Trump, Netanyahu just several heads of state who appear to enjoy ragging on the media, drumming up hostility
By AP
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