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In a New Statesman cover story, John Pilger illogically explains the significance of the first

Last Sunday, two Palestinian terrorists murdered an Israeli couple near the Gaza border. The perpetrators

A recent independent assessment of the Palestinian security forces found them in a state of

While the official PA newspaper continues to glorify terrorists as ‘martyrs’ (shahids): … Palestinian journalists

The British group StandUp4Israel is running a YouGov poll aimed at soliciting opinion from the

Rarely does a media outlet show the human face of the IDF. But the Christian

Given Reuters’ strident policy against using the word “terror” in coverage, we’re a little curious

NY Times coverage of Saturday night’s murder of the Kol couple (pictured) gets a thumbs

The latest in the ongoing ‘Blaming Israel for ___’ series, submitted by Frimet Roth: On

Tom Gross in the Jerusalem Post: Had Israeli police shot dead an innocent foreigner on

Nearly the same exact article, here accredited to Knight Ridder’s Dion Nissenbaum, and here accredited

The Jerusalem Post reports that Egyptian media are quoting a number of local ‘experts’ linking

Two Israelis, 2 Gaza gunmen die in new violence They just ‘died’, seemingly equivalent deaths…

For the third anniversary of Media BackSpin, we gave the blog a facelift, with emphasis

The latest HonestReporting communique – on Reuters’ unreliable sources in covering the murder of a

From Baltimore Sun cartoonist Kevin Kallagher:

Reuters, relying on unnamed ‘witnesses’, reported that a 12-year-old Palestinian was stabbed to death by

Melanie Philips: I wondered who would be the first person in Britain to openly blame