A disturbing media trend blames Israeli policy for the Islamist war on Western civilization. The recent coordinated bombings against British targets in Istanbul, occurring just days after the dual bombings of Istanbul synagogues, make the Islamic terrorist message brutally clear: their targets are the Jewish people and Western democratic civilization. What most Americans recognized after […]

The United Kingdom’s Political Cartoon Society has chosen a virulently anti-Israel cartoon for first place in its annual Cartoon of the Year competition. In January, 2003, at the height of Israel’s election campaign, editorial cartoonist Dave Brown of Britain’s Independent drew a caricature of a grotesque Ariel Sharon eating an Arab child. Sharon is seen […]

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The Associated Press (AP) has coined a new term for attacks by Palestinian terrorists: “revenge bombings.” Israeli counter-terror strikes are said to ” lead to” or “trigger” “revenge bombings” or “revenge attacks.” Characterizing as “revenge” the deliberate terrorist targeting of Israeli civilians – on buses or in their homes and public spaces – mangles the […]

Recently, a weekly television program that focuses on Israel featured a debate between a young woman from an Arab-American organization and the show’s host, who in real life is a prominent attorney and real estate developer. A second guest, a reporter from a local Jewish newspaper, joined the host in attempting to rebut the young […]

Syrian president Bashar Al-Assad, in an interview on September 30, 2003 with the Italian daily newspaper Il Corriere della Sera, discussed his country’s role in Iraq, its complex relationship with the U.S., the ‘road map,’ weapons of mass destruction, and human rights in Syria. The following are excerpts from the interview which was conducted by […]

On Tuesday, August 19, the New York Times published a front-page, above-the-fold, story with an accompanying photograph on an inside page about the possibility several Israeli Jews are involved in “terror attacks” against Palestinian civilians (“Israelis Worry About Terror, By Jews Against Palestinians,” Ian Fisher, August 19, 2003). The article raises real questions about the […]

SoundVision.com Visitors Applaud Jerusalem Suicide Bombing. The murder of 18 bus-riding Israelis by a militant Islamic terrorist on August 19 met with the expected joy in the Palestinian and Lebanese street (“Several hundred young men poured into the streets of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon on Tuesday and handed out sweets to celebrate a […]

How went the Bush-Abbas meeting at the White House last Friday? Depends on whom or what you read. Most newspapers highlighted Bush’s criticism of Israel’s security wall while relegating to secondary status the president’s sharp words to Abbas about the necessity of halting Palestinian terror. A random sampling: Though the Boston Globe trumpeted its piece […]

In recent months, many Americans have been dismayed to see mainstream media outlets publishing cartoons with anti-Israel and anti-Semitic images reminiscent of Nazi-era propaganda. (See CAMERA analysis of Chicago Tribune cartoon.) The latest such drawing is one by syndicated cartoonist Tony Auth of United Press Syndicate in which a Star of David fences off Palestinians. […]