Professor Stephen Hawking’s decision to boycott Israel’s President’s Conference left a nasty taste in the mouth.
How Your Tax Money Funds Media Groupthink
One way to measure media groupthink is to find out which papers journalists are reading. And for the second year in a row, the most widely read newspaper by the BBC staff is The Guardian, a left-wing...
Queasy Rider Headlines
An Israeli airstrike killed an Islamic Jihadnik. Hithem Ziad Ibrahim Masshal was connected to recent rocket fire on Eilat. The rockets were fired from the Egyptian Sinai, so Masshal certainly internationalizes...
Media Overplays Airport Security Issue
Sensationalist reporting of unusual Israeli security measures.
UK Media: The Israel Line or The Bottom Line?
If the BBC wants to win over the Jewish community, it’ll have a lot of work to do. An Institute for Jewish Policy Research survey (pdf format) found that a whopping 80 percent of UK Jews believe...
Why Let An Inconvenient Truth Spoil a Great Mood?
The Guardian broke out the violins by publishing a Palestinian boy’s open letter to President Obama — in the paper’s news section. I hope the world will begin to speak out against the...
A Super Bowl of Silly BDS Coverage
As if the Mideast doesn’t have bigger things to worry about. The Guardian joins BDS nitpicking over a SodaStream factory’s West Bank location. The “sizzle” is that SodaStream happened to advertise...
Was Iran Responsible for Lockerbie?
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. According to an academic study (pdf) funded...
Editor’s Picks: 10 Best Blog Posts of 2012
Every blogger has his favorite blog posts. My list is a mix of evocative, witty or quirky posts. Some of them also had a long shelf life (that is, I frequently referred to it as the year progressed), or...
Squeezing a Story Out of Bethlehem
More politicization and abuse of Christmas by The Guardian.
