In an April 7 post, we asked how many of the roughly 800 Jews currently living in the ancient city of Hebron Harriet Sherwood had spoken to or interviewed. Our interest in the Guardian […]
Guardian/AP story on Tunisia’s Jews omits history of antisemitic persecution
An AP story written by Bouzza Ben Bouzza, and published by the Guardian on April 27, entitled ‘Jews ease back into Tunisia for famed pilgrimage‘, reports on a three-day Jewish pilgrimage (which […]
Glenn Greenwald’s column at ‘CiF’: A safe space for antisemitic commenters?
A guest post by AKUS Antisemitic commenters at the Guardian’s ‘Comment is Free’ have discovered that Glenn Greenwald’s columns provide a useful forum in which to post racist commentary below the line […]
Jewish “terrorists” vs Arab “fighters”: An open letter to the Guardian’s Richard Norton-Taylor
The following is a letter written by a CiF Watch reader named David Shayne, and originally submitted to the Guardian’s Richard Norton-Taylor in response to his report entitled ‘British officials predicted war – and […]
Harriet Sherwood and Phoebe Greenwood take steps towards understanding Palestinian incitement
The failure of many to truly understand the ‘root causes’ of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and accurately contextualize news in the region is based in part on the MSM’s general tendency to ignore […]
Glenn Greenwald on the sage foreign policy wisdom of the ‘Underwear Bomber’
Glenn Greenwald’s response to the terrorist attack in Boston should come as no surprise to those familiar with his ‘Comment is Free’ blog, and his previous blog at Salon.com. In addition to […]
Jon Snow lunges for Richard Millett’s phone at LSE event while questioned on ‘Jewish lobby’ comment
The following is a first person account by Richard Millett On Friday (April 26) Channel 4 news presenter Jon Snow was at the London School of Economics to chair a panel of […]
Sounds Israeli: The music of ‘The Idan Raichel Project
Idan Raichel burst on to the Israeli musical scene in 2003, inviting collaborations from artists of multiple ethnicities and singing in languages as diverse as Spanish, Arabic, Amharic and Swahili. The resulting highly […]
The Guardian’s Andrew Brown: ‘The most warlike religion in the world is Buddhism’
Andrew Brown, the editor of ‘Comment is Free’ Belief, asks the following question in an April 25th post: Why are religion and violence now so closely linked? Whilst Brown devotes much of his […]
The Boston Marathon Bombing and America’s So-Called Faith Privilege
Cross posted by A. Jay Adler at the Algemeiner The Boston Marathon bombing provoked enactment of what has emerged, since 9/11, as a ritual of political theater refined even beyond its long […]
“Manchester Guardian Demands an Independent Jewish State in Palestine”
A CiF Watch reader recently alerted us to an interesting story from August 20, 1941 published by the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) – which was just republished online from the JTA archives […]
Guardian removes claim about Iran’s nuclear “weapons” program from ‘the pages of time’
If you go to the Guardian’s business page you’ll see a report by Rupert Neate about a British company which allegedly earned millions of pounds selling goods to Iran, “including to a state-owned firm […]
The moral ‘trooferism’ of Richard Falk and the Guardian’s Seumas Milne
UN official Richard Falk, a self-professed believer in 9/11 conspiracy theories, has been widely condemned for arguing that the Boston terror attack was the result of US foreign policy, as well as Obama’s recent […]
The Indy’s Alistair Dawber whitewashes terrorist crimes of Samer Issawi
An April 23 story in The Independent, written by the paper’s Jerusalem correspondent Alistair Dawber, entitled Palestinian prisoner gives up 250 day hunger strike after deal with Israel, begins with a photo of the […]
The Boston terror attack, and the selective empathy of Glenn Greenwald
This is a cross post by Marcus Brutus at Harry’s Place Reactions to massacres reveal almost as much as much about the human dark side as mass slaughter itself. The days of […]
Glenn Greenwald condemns the word ‘terrorism’ as racially-loaded
Our recent posts about the Guardian’s appalling use, on at least two separate occasions, of the term “political prisoner” to characterize violent Palestinian terrorists who murdered, or attempted to murder, innocent civilians weren’t […]
The Palestinian Marathon and Phoebe Greenwood’s selective credulity.
The Guardian published a story on April 21 by Phoebe Greenwood entitled ‘First Bethlehem marathon staged in howling wind and rain‘, which focused on the putative challenges faced by Palestinians in organizing their first-ever […]
The Guardian’s continuing obsession with Mordechai Vanunu
In 1985 Mordechai Vanunu left his job as a technician at Israel’s nuclear installation in Dimona. Before leaving, however, he stole several rolls of film about the facility, which he then used […]
Glenn Greenwald’s baseless charge that Jane Harman was stoking ‘Islamophobia’
In an April 17 post, we called out Guardian contributor Glenn Greenwald on his rank hypocrisy in condemning the ‘rush to judgment’ in the aftermath of the April 15 Boston Marathon terrorist attack […]
Sounds Israeli: The music of Mosh Ben-Ari
Mosh Ben-Ari was born in Afula, Israel in 1970 to a Yemenite mother and an Iraqi father. Though he first discovered music through the traditional ethnic chants that were part of his […]
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