This is cross posted by Diana Muir Appelbaum at Jewish Ideas Daily What made Greece, long a pro-Arab country with a history of anti-Semitism and a notoriously soft line on terrorism, stop political activists from sailing […]
H/T Margie and Medusa (Though this essay, by Sarah Elshazly, was first published in 2004, her passionate, and quite heterodox polemic – on Israel, the Arab world, and root of the Palestinian […]
This is cross posted at the blog, Autonomous Mind A couple of weeks ago the Audit Bureau of Circulations figures for national newspapers for June was reported in the Press Gazette. It shows […]
This is cross posted at Point of No Return With Israelis camping out in the streets in protest against a chronic shortage of affordable housing, who should jump on the bandwagon but Mya Guarnieri, al-Jazeera’s […]
This is cross posted at Daphne Anson Oslo, 2006. Miriam Shomrat, Israel’s Ambassador to Norway, was incensed. And with good reason. In September that year, a month after Oslo’s Jewish cemetery was […]
In a brief update on the region from the Guardian’s “Middle East Live” page on July 20th – their blogging on “Uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa” – Marwan Barghouti […]
As we’ve noted before, connecting the political dots is not one of Harriet Sherwood’s greatest strengths. Indeed, Sherwood’s latest unintentionally comical effort to draw some sort of political parallel between protests in Israel over […]
When even the New York Times can’t avoid noting the Islamist motivations of the Army private who was arrested this week, near his (Fort Hood) military base in Texas, in what local law […]
Israel’s UK Embassy Spokesperson, Amir Ofek, had a letter printed at The Guardian, regarding Harriet Sherwood’s recent fishing expeditions off the coast of Gaza (See our posts here, here, here, and here) worth […]
You’d be hard pressed to find a more perfect illustration of ideologically driven obfuscation regarding the threat posed by Islamist inspired terrorism – even at the Guardian – than Associate Editor Seumas […]
This is cross posted by Simon Plosker at the blog of Honest Reporting RSS feeds often publish the first version of an article without any subsequent updates or corrections. I was surprised […]
The University College Union, one of the biggest academic trade unions in the world, representing more than 120,000 lecturers, researchers and staff who work in universities and further education colleges, passed a resolution […]
The Guardian Online has been confusing lately. More and more Guardian articles are closed to comments. Why is that? Are they having to lay off moderators or rely on school leavers/holiday job […]
Dear Harriet, Recently you and some apparently intrepid ‘human rights operatives’ went out for a sail with a fleet of Gazan fishermen to experience for yourselves how Israeli ships patrol the sea off […]
A guest post by AKUS When it comes to setting up fishing trips and trying to provoke an incident, The Guardian’s Jerusalem correspondent (Chicken Lady) Harriet Sherwood (no comments allowed) is right on board. […]
This 2-minute StandWithUs video contains more facts about the history of the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) than most people have probably ever heard, and represents (along with “The Truth about the West […]
As I noted about the blog when they were first included as part of the Guardian Comment Network, The Arabist devotes an entire page of pejorative characterizations of AIPAC, called “AIPAC Logo Remakes”, several […]
In November of 2009, CiF Watch exposed (Guardian moderator) “BellaM” engaging in an ad hominem attack on Melanie Phillips in her capacity as a Guardian staff member: As we noted, “Her comment spurred post after post […]
Henning Mankell is a best-selling Swedish author. He’s also a Hamas flotilla activist who accused the Israelis who were attacked by IHH activists on board the Mavi Marmara of setting out to intentionally “commit […]
This was written by Chas Newkey-Burden, and published today at The JC. With revelations about phone-hacking and related press scandals, there is a renewed sense that the media is out of control […]
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