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2011 Dishonest Reporting Awards
It has been a year of big stories – Gilad Shalit, the Israel-Turkey meltdown, and the Palestinian statehood bid – all taking place against the backdrop of the Arab Spring and Iran’s atomic urgency. We...
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Israel Daily News Stream 06/10/2012
Syrian rebels set up a British journalist for death. Hamas terrorist basks in legitimacy of UK op-ed soapbox. Convicted of corruption in absentia, Yasser Arafat’s financial advisor begins “settling...
View ArticleEU Sanctions Knock Iran’s Press TV Off the Airwaves
Thanks to the latest EU sanctions against Iran, Press TV was cut off from Europe’s airwaves this morning. Eutelsat began blocking it and 18 other TV/radio stations operated by the Iranian state...
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Another American Journalist Disappears in Syria
Everything you need to know about today’s coverage of Israel and the Mideast. Join the Israel Daily News Stream on Facebook. Today’s Top Stories 1. Is Bushehr the next Fukushima? A NY Times op-ed cites...
View ArticleTaking a Bullet for Alaa Al-Aswany’s Freedom of Speech
Yesterday, we took issue with the NY Times giving a column to an anti-Israel conspiracy theorist, Alaa Al Aswany. We laid out a number of examples of Aswany’s comments that crossed the line. One reader...
View ArticleVideo: Free Speech in Gaza?
Reporters with the New York Times and the Independent (UK) interview Palestinians in Gaza. They believe that only some are comfortable being critical of Hamas. Why would anyone living under a...
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US Limiting Arms Sale to Israel?
Today’s Top Stories 1. Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agreed to a five-day truce. The ceasefire had a bumpy start last night, but it’s been holding up. 2. An Italian journalist working for...
View ArticleDefending a Professor’s Freedom of Speech?
The saga of the Professor who wrote that pro-Israel students were “brain dead” continues in Illinois and on the pages of the New York Times. Our video, “Steven Salaita: Free Speech or Anti Israel...
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Paris Terror: The Aftershocks
Today’s Top Stories 1. A terrible weekend for French Jewry: on the heels of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, a terrorist stormed the Hyper Cacher kosher supermarket in Paris, killing four hostages before...
View ArticleLancet Under Pressure to Retract Anti-Israel Letter
A group of 500 doctors, including a number of Nobel laureates, have accused the editor and publisher of the British medical journal, The Lancet of “grossly irresponsible and damaging editorial misuse...
View ArticleSorry BDS, Your Boycott Isn’t Free Speech
The United States of America has a long history of treating boycotts of foreign nations not as free speech, but rather as a highly sensitive tool of statecraft reserved exclusively to the Federal...
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LA Times Hands Down Flawed Opinion on BDS
A staff editorial is typically understood to reflect the opinion of the entire newspaper. Yet this particular editorial by the LA Times strikes me as a group of journalists drawing legal conclusions...
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Why the LA Times Defends Threats, Intimidation and Anti-Semitism
The United States Congress is trying to reduce anti-Semitism on college campuses, while the LA Times is trying to defend it. Yes that’s right, the LA Times is defending anti-Semitism. What...
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Can’t We Sue the Media?
The latest from my inbox. The bolding is mine. From: …@bigpond.net.au Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2017 at 11:53 AM Subject: Court Action Thank you for all your articles on the continuous bias in the media...
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Boycotting Israel – Is it Free Speech?
There’s almost no end to the claims that boycotting Israel is “free speech,” protected by law. But this actually reflects a misunderstanding of how the US Constitution and similar laws of other Western...
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Can You Sue the Media for Bias?
Every so often, readers ask us, “Can’t we sue the media for bias?” People posing this question tend to make any or all of the following points: Apologies and corrections are a waste of time. Free...
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Is Antisemitism Free Speech or Hate Speech?
Is antisemitism free speech? I have heard antisemitism justified as “freedom of speech” more times than I can count. Whether it’s an antisemitic cartoon in the New York Times, the hateful rhetoric of...
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Trending: Israel Considering Laws To Hold Social Media Giants Liable For...
A team of experts working for the Israeli Ministry of Communications is considering new laws that would hold social media companies liable for incitement posted by users on their platforms. Though...
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