Why it should have taken two writers – both Observer ‘chief reporter’ Tracy McVeigh and Guardian Jerusalem correspondent Harriet Sherwood – to put together what is in fact no more than a […]
What the Guardian won’t report and the influence on perceptions of Israel.
Foreign correspondents are in the position of being able to influence on a daily basis how others perceive the country in which they work. Not only do they shape that country’s image […]
Harriet Sherwood on the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike – high on pathos, low on fact.
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought?” George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, (1949), pt. 1, ch. 3) Next month will mark the second anniversary […]
Comment is (apparently far from) Free.
Many a CiF Watcher landed on these pages as a result of having been censored, banned or both on the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ website and therefore has first-hand experience of just […]
Postcard from Israel – Rosh Hanikra
Right up in the north-west corner of Israel, on the border with Lebanon, are the sea-sculpted caverns of Rosh Hanikra. With a marvellous view of the Mediterranean coast – and a peek […]
My interview on Philadelphia talk radio about CiF Watch, Zionism and being an Israeli
I was interviewed by Adam Taxin and Bob Guzzardi, on Philadelphia Talk Radio WWDB 860 AM, about my work at CiF Watch. The show was broadcast live on Monday, April 23. (Taxin and Guzzardi […]
More from the Guardian ‘Style Guide’.
As many of us were surprised to learn earlier this week, not only does the ‘Guardian and Observer Style Guide’ arbitrarily declare that Jerusalem is not the capital of Israel, but it […]
Guardian writers and pro-Iranian propaganda.
As all regular readers of the Guardian and its ‘Comment is Free’ website are aware, that paper long since chose to take a ‘Stop the War Coalition’-style stance on the subject of […]
Meeting Ambesagir – an illegal migrant to Israel.
The baggy hospital pyjamas and the pale blue hoodie he wears on top of them at first disguise just how painfully frail and thin Ambesagir is. There is a worried, introverted look […]
Happy Independence Day!
Every year since the very first anniversary of Israeli independence (with the exception of 1957), the Ministry of Education has produced a poster celebrating Yom HaAtzmaout. Anyone flying in or out of […]
Harriet Sherwood promotes the mantra of “death of the peace process”.
Just hours ahead of the Independence Day celebrations in Israel, Harriet Sherwood chose to promote an advocate of the ‘one-state solution’ in an article published in the World News section on the […]
From Staring to Praying.
A guest post by Truthy Ruthie I don’t know exactly when I made the transition from appreciatively eyeing up the gorgeous Israeli soldiers to uttering a silent prayer for heavenly protection over them. […]
Remembering Israel’s Fallen.
Ten years ago, as part of the commemorations on Memorial Day (Yom HaZikaron), the IDF radio station Galei Tzahal initiated a project entitled “Soon We Will Become a Song” in which prominent […]
CST secures amendments on the ‘Comment is Free’ website.
Readers may remember that back in February of this year, CiF Watch ran a cross post from the blog of the Community Security Trust regarding an article by Rachel Shabi posted on […]
Guardian publishes clarification of its Jewish Chronicle smear.
Two days ago Adam Levick wrote here on the smearing of the Jewish Chronicle and its editor Stephen Pollard by Guardian Diary Editor Hugh Muir, blogger Richard Silverstein and MPACUK over a […]
Ben White BDS letter published on Guardian letters page.
Guardian contributor Ben White is well known for having built a career based upon his dedication to promoting anti-Israel falsehoods in print and through his activities in almost any and every organisation […]
You may need to read this twice – the Guardian Denies that Jerusalem is Israel’s Capital.
A guest post by AKUS Read the caption to the picture below, captured off the Guardian’s website. “Passengers on a tram in Jerusalem observe a two-minute silence for Yom HaShoah, when the […]
My interview on Norwegian TV, about CiF Watch’s work combating antisemitism at the Guardian
While in Metula on March 30th, on Israel’s border with Lebanon, covering the Global March to Jerusalem, I met a journalist named Haakon who worked for TV Visjon Norge, who was also […]
The Guardian & Richard Silverstein’s battle to see who can most smear the UK Jewish community
In the Guardian Diary, on their Op Ed Page, on April 19th, with the grossly misleading headline, “A BNP bigwig writing for the Jewish Chronicle. Some mistake surely?, Hugh Muir, writes: With their party […]
Guardian’s Phoebe Greenwood obsesses, imputes racism, over Israeli construction of detention facility
A guest post by Anne, who blogs at Anne’s Opinions Last week the Guardian slaked its anti-Israel obsession with an article written by Phoebe Greenwood focusing on a proposed detention center for […]
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