A recent report by Harriet Sherwood entitled “Palestine seeks world heritage status for Church of the Nativity“, from June 27th, contained a few passages about the city of Bethlehem only tangentially related […]
It’s officially summer as of last week and so Israelis are off to the beach to enjoy sun, sea and sand. One of Israel’s many beautiful beaches is Hof HaBonim, near the moshav […]
The Guardian posted a report by Julian Borger and Saeed Kamali Dehghan, titled “Iran sanctions will halve oil sales but may still not succeed“, June 29. Borger and Dehghan, while musing on the possible effects […]
Quite why it was deemed necessary down at Guardian HQ to publish an article by Harriet Sherwood which does nothing but regurgitate the words of another article it published fourteen minutes earlier […]
The following is an English translation of an essay published in the Hebrew edition of Ha’aretz by Yishai Goldflam, director of Presspectiva – a site dedicated to ensuring accuracy and responsibility in the […]
Veteran Israeli journalist Ben Dror Yamini has written extensively on the subject of the treatment of Palestinian refugees in Arab countries. This article (translated by CiF Watch) was published on June 22nd 2012 […]
What precisely would it take for the Guardian to report a story about antisemitism on the part of Iranian leaders? While every Israeli policy conceivably affecting its Arab citizens, or the Palestinians, […]
Cross posted by Richard Millett I was back at Parliament last night for the launch of a joint report by Save The Children and Medical Aid for Palestinians called Falling Behind – The Effect Of […]
Sir Gerald Kaufman, Labour MP, at the House of Commons on January 15, 2009: “The spokeswoman for the Israeli army, Major Leibovich, was asked about the Israeli killing of, at that time, 800 […]
The murder, September 23rd, 2011: On September 23rd, 2011, Asher Palmer buckled his infant son Yonatan into the car and drove from Kiryat Arba heading to Jerusalem to meet his pregnant wife […]
Even by Guardian standards the propaganda value of a recent ‘Comment is Free’ essay, June 26, titled “Iran is trying to broker a political solution to Syria“, by Mohammad Ataie, is off […]
Yesterday, June 25, in ‘Harriet Sherwood taken for a ride in Acre’, Hadar Sela effectively fisked Sherwood’s latest report, Israel’s historic city of Acre faces tourist and settler tensions, June 24, and made […]
First there was this: And then came this: Cosy.
Although the south of Israel was still under rocket attack on June 24th, Harriet Sherwood decided to take a trip north to Acco. The headline of her subsequent article declares that “Israel’s […]
Is there something in the British air? What precisely gives rise within that country’s public sphere to the malign hatred of the one majority Jewish nation in the world? What makes self-described “sensible”, […]
It was announced late this afternoon that Muslim Brotherhood (MB) candidate Mohamed Morsi won Egypt’s Presidential elections, and will become the country’s first Islamist head of state. While the American educated Morsi campaigned […]
Here’s a multiple choice question: Maya Sela, literary correspondent for Ha’aretz, penned an essay for ‘Comment is Free’ (Alice Walker’s ‘The Color Purple” should be read in Israel, June 22nd) opposing the […]
As the sixth day of rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip upon one million civilians living in the south of Israel comes to a close, with a school (fortunately empty) hit today […]
Situated at 2,600 feet above sea level, on a spur on the slopes of the northern Golan Heights, it is easy to see why the site of Kal’at Nimrod would have been […]
Our last post was inspired by a June 20th Guardian report on Alice Walker’s decision not to permit her book ‘The Colour Purple’ to be translated into Hebrew. Moreover, as we noted, Walker isn’t merely […]
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