How the New York Times Laundered Dubious Sexual Abuse Claims Against Israel

Key Takeaways: The New York Times opinion piece alleging sexual abuse against Palestinian prisoners relied on sources with documented pro-terror sympathies and failed to disclose crucial background information that would have helped readers assess their...
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Why They Deny The Crimes of October 7

Key Takeaways: Holocaust denial and October 7 denialism both serve the same ideological function: protecting perpetrators while casting Jewish suffering as inherently suspect or manipulative. The denial of Hamas’ sexual crimes is not driven by...
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Terror’s Civilian Disguise: The Double Lives the Media Keeps Ignoring

Key Takeaways: Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Hezbollah systematically embed operatives within civilian professions, from journalism and medicine to education and policing. Terror groups themselves have repeatedly identified “civilians” later reported by the media as medical...
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Contradictory Frames: The Marathon Images That Collided With Gaza’s Famine Narrative

Key Takeaways: Within days of global media outlets amplifying famine and starvation imagery from Gaza, thousands of Palestinians participated in highly publicized marathon events in Gaza and Bethlehem. The issue is not whether hardship exists,...
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How the New York Times Laundered Dubious Sexual Abuse Claims Against Israel
Why They Deny The Crimes of October 7
Terror’s Civilian Disguise: The Double Lives the Media Keeps Ignoring
Contradictory Frames: The Marathon Images That Collided With Gaza’s Famine Narrative

NORTHERN THREAT

▶ Why Is Variety Turning a D-List Actress Into an Anti-Israel Cause?
Why did Variety post about Melissa Barrera five separate times in a single day?...
▶ When Gaza Photos Look Staged, Reuters Should Have Questions 
Not every misleading image is AI-generated. Sometimes the setting is...
▶ Sesame Street Posted About Matzo Ball Soup. The Antisemites Showed Up.
Sesame Street posted a short video for Jewish American Heritage...
▶ Mamdani Condemned the Synagogue, Not the Mob Outside It
Parents trying to bring their children to a Jewish preschool...
▶ The Other Side of the Nakba: The Forgotten History of 1948
Key Takeaways: The repeated rejection of partition offers, from 1937...
▶ Why “Judea and Samaria” Isn’t Just a Name: The Erasure of Jewish History
The term “Judea and Samaria” is often dismissed as political,...
▶ Not Protest, Just Hate: A Week of Antisemitism Across the Globe
In just one week, the world saw a disturbing escalation...
▶ How Internet Slang Is Normalizing Antisemitism
Antisemitism online often spreads through jokes, memes, and coded language....
▶ The Strokes’ Political Turn: From Coachella Visuals to Controversial Claims
A recent performance by The Strokes at Coachella has drawn attention not just for...
▶ What’s Really Happening in Iran? The War, the Regime, and the Silence
3 Key Takeaways: Iran’s internal struggle is widely misunderstood. The...
▶ Why Is Variety Turning a D-List Actress Into an Anti-Israel Cause?
Why did Variety post about Melissa Barrera five separate times in a single day?...
▶ When Gaza Photos Look Staged, Reuters Should Have Questions 
Not every misleading image is AI-generated. Sometimes the setting is...
▶ Sesame Street Posted About Matzo Ball Soup. The Antisemites Showed Up.
Sesame Street posted a short video for Jewish American Heritage...
▶ Mamdani Condemned the Synagogue, Not the Mob Outside It
Parents trying to bring their children to a Jewish preschool...
▶ The Other Side of the Nakba: The Forgotten History of 1948
Key Takeaways: The repeated rejection of partition offers, from 1937...
▶ Why “Judea and Samaria” Isn’t Just a Name: The Erasure of Jewish History
The term “Judea and Samaria” is often dismissed as political,...
▶ Not Protest, Just Hate: A Week of Antisemitism Across the Globe
In just one week, the world saw a disturbing escalation...
▶ How Internet Slang Is Normalizing Antisemitism
Antisemitism online often spreads through jokes, memes, and coded language....
▶ The Strokes’ Political Turn: From Coachella Visuals to Controversial Claims
A recent performance by The Strokes at Coachella has drawn attention not just for...
▶ What’s Really Happening in Iran? The War, the Regime, and the Silence
3 Key Takeaways: Iran’s internal struggle is widely misunderstood. The...
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The popular media monitoring column Eye on the Media that was initiated in The Jerusalem Post by its venerated late editor David Bar-Illan more than 30 years ago was relaunched this weekend by HonestReporting executive director and executive editor Gil...
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