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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…

Pesach Benson
May 22, 2011
12:00 am

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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?

▶ What Is the Crisis at CBS News?

▶ When Journalists Cross the Line

Shawarma, Smoothies And… Starvation? New York Times Prints Most Contradictory Gaza Claims Yet

▶ Do Women and Children Really Make Up 70% of the Gaza Death Toll?

▶ Who’s Really Blocking Aid in Gaza?

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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