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Why Do Some Jews Turn on Israel? Benjamin Kerstein on the Elite Class He Calls Jews of Privilege
"I don't think any of the Jews of privilege see themselves as useful idiots. I think they genuinely believe that they are a caste of saints."
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Who Will Keep Me Safe? Yaakov Katz on What Israel's First Election Since October 7 Really Means
"When Israelis go to the polls, they ask themselves really the ultimate question: Who's gonna keep me safe?"
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Can the Rift Be Closed? Daniel Gordis on What Divides American Jews and Israelis
"We are a people, and America is not Zion." For most of the last century and a half, Daniel Gordis argues, American Jewish life rested on a bargain:…
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Human Sacrifice, Not Human Shields: Col. Richard Kemp on How Hamas Fights in Gaza
Colonel Richard Kemp commanded British forces in Afghanistan and worked on counterterrorism at the Cabinet Office. In Kabul, he once had to order an attack on an al-Qaeda…
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Surviving October 7th: A Livestream Conversation with Nova Survivor Shahar Horovitz
This Wednesday, October 7, we pause to remember.
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Antisemitism Isn't a Prejudice. It's a Lie: Dara Horn on Who Profits When People Fall for It
A rabbi picks Dara Horn up at the airport and tells her someone had been posting online about murdering children on the playground of the town's Jewish day…
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Did Israel Go Too Far in Gaza? Elliot Kaufman on What Really Happened Inside Israel's War Room
"If you are Hamas, you have to be laughing at how easily you can play the international and American news media."
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M is for Martyr: Marcus Sheff on the School Books Teaching Hate Against Israel
A fourth-grade math problem asks Palestinian children to add the martyrs of the First Intifada to the martyrs of the Second. A physics lesson teaches Newton's second law…
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Apartheid, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity: Hillel Neuer on Who Wrote the Charges Against Israel
Twenty-five years ago, the UN held a World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa. Hillel Neuer says it became "a notorious hate fest."
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"Israel Killed More Journalists Than Any Other Country" — Why That Number Is Wrong
You have heard the line: Israel has killed more journalists than any other country in the world. It comes, almost always, from one place — the Committee to…
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Nobody Posts a Swastika Anymore: Dr. Matthias Becker on the Jew-Hatred Hiding in Plain Sight
Ask most people to picture antisemitism online and they'll picture a swastika, a slur, someone anonymous in a dark room. Dr. Matthias Becker will tell you that's the…
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Zionism is Racism: Izabella Tabarovsky on the Soviet Roots of Modern Anti-Zionism
In 2018, Izabella Tabarovsky walked past a protest on an American university campus and recognized the signs. Not the sentiment, the actual sentences. She called her father and…
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Why Is It Always the Jews? Cliff May on Who's Paying to Keep It That Way
A sixth-grade teacher from an American public school gets flown to Doha. First class, five-star hotel. Nobody asks her for anything, they just send her home with some…
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What If It's Just Envy? Alana Newhouse on What Israel Has That Nobody Else Does
In 2021, Alana Newhouse wrote an essay called "Everything Is Broken" that named the disease she thought was hollowing out American life: flatness, the demand for frictionless, hierarchy-allergic,…
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What "Globalize the Intifada" Actually Looks Like: Arnold Roth on 25 Years Since the Sbarro Bombing
On August 9 2001, Arnold Roth's fifteen-year-old daughter Malki went for pizza with her best friend in the center of Jerusalem. A young man walked into the Sbarro…
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Why Is the Jew the Enemy? Rawan Osman Describes How Arab Antisemitism Is Built, and How to Break It
She ran out of the grocery store so fast she left her purse in the shopping cart. Rawan Osman was in her twenties, newly arrived in Strasbourg, and…
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The Most Important Story on Earth? Matti Friedman on the Media's Israel Obsession
Matti Friedman spent five years (2006–2011) as a reporter and editor inside the Associated Press's Jerusalem bureau — the biggest international bureau of the world's biggest news organization.…
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There Is Nowhere Else: Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi on Israel After October 7
Six months before the worst day in Israel's modern history, one man wrote a report with a boiling frog on the cover that warned Israel was sleepwalking toward…
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Jews Aren't a Religion: Ben Freeman Makes the Case for Jewish Indigeneity
The founder of the Jewish Pride movement says Jews have spent so long fighting for the right to exist that they've forgotten how to be proud that they…
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There Were Two Refugee Crises in 1948. Why Does the World Only Know One?
In 1948, the same year Israel was established, over 850,000 Jews were expelled from Arab countries and Iran. Their property was seized. Their communities, some dating back 2,500…
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Eve Barlow Was Blacklisted for Calling Out Queer Antisemitism. She Keeps Speaking Up.
It's Pride Month, and at a queer women's sauna night in Barcelona, two married Jewish women wearing Stars of David were surrounded, interrogated, and thrown out to chants…
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Dr. Charles A. Small Reveals How Qatar Bought a Seat in America's Classrooms
Qatar has funneled an estimated $100 billion into American universities, and campuses that took the money have up to 300% more antisemitic incidents. That's not a coincidence: Dr.…
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The Lawfare War Against Israel: Natasha Hausdorff Explains Why the West is Next
The word genocide was coined by a Jewish lawyer to describe the Jewish experience of the Holocaust. It is now being systematically deployed against the Jewish state, not…
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The Honest Take LIVE: Kristof’s Unbelievable Tale | With Rachel O’Donoghue
On May 11, Nicholas Kristof published a column in the New York Times titled "The Silence That Meets the Rape of Palestinians" - a 1,500-word piece alleging systematic…
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Yossi Klein Halevi Reveals the Untold History of 1948
The word "Nakba" now appears in headlines and history books as settled fact. The settler-colonial framework is taught in universities and cited in international courtrooms. And the story…
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What’s Really Happening in Iran? The War, the Regime, and the Silence
What is really happening in Iran, and why has so much of the world looked away?
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Elite, Educated, Antisemitic: Shai Davidai Reveals How Academia Fosters Jew Hate
What happened on American campuses after October 7 did not come out of nowhere.
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The UN Is Broken: How Hillel Neuer Is Working to Fix the UN From the Inside
For decades, the United Nations has positioned itself as the world’s moral authority on human rights.
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Who Edits the Truth? Ashley Rindsberg on Wikipedia, Reddit, and the Battle for Reality
Wikipedia promised to be the repository of collective truth. Instead, it was caught in a net of its own making, and has become a battleground for online information…
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The Lie That Lit the Match: Hebron, Nazis, and the West's Vanishing Memory
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is often thought of as a protracted political dispute based on two peoples fighting over one land. Often, they place the start date at 1948.…
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How “Neutral” NGOs Laundered Hamas Crimes — And the Media Amplified It
In this episode of The Honest Take, Olga Deutsch, vice president of @NgoMonitor, joins HonestReporting to unpack newly declassified Hamas documents that blow apart the myth of “neutral”…
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Israel's election framing, Cenk Uygur's Michigan ad, and who really lit France's "student protests"
CHECKED is HonestReporting's weekly live show. Every Wednesday, Ben Chertoff and Joe Truzman take apart the week's coverage of Israel. They look at what got reported, what got…
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CHECKED Ep 2: Israel Votes, and Steals Your Bananas
CHECKED is HonestReporting's weekly live show. Every Wednesday, Ben Chertoff and Joe Truzman take apart the week's coverage of Israel. They look at what got reported, what got…
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Gaza Hunger, Olive Harvest Theater, Palestine Action U.S. | CHECKED Ep 1
Hunger is back in the headlines. The press is doing the same work it always does.
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CHECKED by HonestReporting - Ep 2 | Israel Votes
It's Israeli election week, and we're checking how the world's media covered it. Ben Chertoff and Joe Truzman break down the week's coverage live.
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