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May 22 Links

• Video Shows Assad’s Uniformed Gunmen Opening Fire on Demonstrators Amateur cameraman in Hama comes under direct fire in the most damning Syrian video yet. • The Blowup With Israel I liked the Washington Post…

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• Video Shows Assad’s Uniformed Gunmen Opening Fire on Demonstrators
Amateur cameraman in Hama comes under direct fire in the most damning Syrian video yet.

• The Blowup With Israel
I liked the Washington Post response to the Obama-Netanyahu summit.

• Exposing Abbas
Credit Benny Morris with the most authoritative fisking of that Mahmoud Abbas op-ed.

• Preoccupation with Israel in the British Media
In-depth Just Journalism study examines the UK media’s fixation on Israel in the 12 months leading up the Arab Spring. Why was Fleet Street caught off guard by the Arab Street?

Israel at War: The Media Battlefield – Briefing #26

CNN Platforms Biased Journalists in Coverage of Iran, Gaza

UK Media Platform Extremist Mouthpiece for Iranian Regime

Voice of America’s Gaza War Recap Omits Vital Context

Ex-PLO Spokesman Rashid Khalidi Explains Away Oct 7 Hamas Massacre in Guardian Feature

Pesach Benson

A Baltimore native, Pesach was with HonestReporting from 2011 to 2020. He edited the Israel Daily News Stream and authored the e-book, Red Lines: HonestReporting’s 8 Categories of Media Bias. Before moving to Israel in 1995, he worked as a reporter for the Baltimore Jewish Times. Pesach has a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland-Baltimore County, where he was executive editor of the campus newspaper.

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