The PA’s now investigating three people, Al-Jazeera reporter Clayton Swisher, an unnamed Frenchman, and former British intelligence official Alistair Crooke, for their connection to the PaliLeaks. Crooke’s...
Hamas Spin Chief Gets Op-Ed Space
Granting Osama Hamdan, Hamas’s international relations dept head chief spinmeister the legitimacy of op-ed space in The Guardian’s print edition to respond to PaliLeaks is pretty sick. What’s...
The Guardian Was Right to Publish The PaliLeaks
Jonathan Freedland’s column defending The Guardian’s decision to publish the Palestine papers is a sign that The Guardian’s pro-Israel (and now pro-Palestinian) critics are talking...
4 Reasons Why The Guardian Was Al Jazeera’s Best PaliLeaks Pair
Our new Question of the Week asks: Why might Al Jazeera have chosen The Guardian over larger Western news services to partner in the Palestine Papers leak? Here are my four reasons why The Guardian made...
Bad Day For a Meeting
When I scheduled a meeting with HonestReporting’s wunderkind graphic designer to make a mockup of what Backspin will look like (this is not the final look), nobody had an inkling that a decade’s...
Rounding Up the Reax to PaliLeaks
A collection of what’s being said about the sturm und drang of the Palestinian Papers published in The Guardian: Elliott Abrams: Third, what some newspapers are calling “offers” or “agreements”...
The Palestine Papers: So What?
So the Palestinian Authority and its Fatah cadres are having a hissy fit over a slew of documents leaked to Al-Jazeera and then shared with The Guardian. Big yawn. The whole leak is just a localized...
Insights Into West Bank Mosque Incites
CNN looks into PA efforts to rein in the invective and incitement of Palestinian preachers. I credit reporter Kevin Flowers for drawing attention to the problem, but there’s a nuance he doesn’t...
“Travel Palestine” Tourism Ad Erases Israel
Since when were tourists able to visit Jerusalem in a state of Palestine stretching from the Med to the River Jordan?
“Squeezing Out Christians and Muslims” – Irish Times Blames Israel
Article claims Israeli policies ‘designed to cause animosities.’



