By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor The trusty folks at CAMERA have assembled a handy guide to the falsehoods and facts surrounding the Gaza flotilla. Some salient excerpts: Falsehood: The purpose of the anti-Israel activists’ trip to Gaza was to deliver essential humanitarian aid to Palestinians. Fact: Organizers of the trip have themselves made clear this […]

Your protests hold Comedy Central to account but an offensive game remains “hidden” online. Comedy Central’s online game “I.S.R.A.E.L. Attack!” created a huge storm of protest after HonestReporting launched a campaign calling on the network to remove it. To recall, the game’s introduction featured a character who states: “You lied to me Jew Producer” before […]

April 25, 2010 by Tamar Sternthal Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi of Jerusalem, an academic affiliated with the Hebrew University, penned a lengthy letter, published in the April 21 edition of the International Herald Tribune, indignantly condemning author and Nobel Prize Peace winner Elie Wiesel for his full-page ad “For Jerusalem” which appeared in that newspaper and […]

by Yishai Goldflam, Ricki Hollander, Gilead Ini The Economist, with Al Jazeera hot on its heels, has dug up a new Israeli villain: traffic lights. This joins aphrodisiac bubble gum, poisonous candy, super rats, and stripper assassins in Israel’s purported arsenal of tools to oppress Arabs. According to a March 6, 2010 article in the […]

By: Steve K. Walz, Jewish Press Israel Correspondent At a time when media pundits are calling daily newspapers “print dinosaurs,” Las Vegas casino mogul and Zionist philanthropist Sheldon Adelson tweaked the “experts” by investing millions of dollars in the creation of Yisrael Hayom (Israel Today), a free Hebrew-language tabloid newspaper that was launched on July […]

MEMRI Special Dispatch | No. 2825 | February 25, 2010 Syria/Iran On the eve of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Syria, set for February 25, 2010, during which he is to meet with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad, Hizbullah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah, and Hamas political bureau head Khaled Mash’al, the Syrian government daily Teshreen published […]

by Steven Stotsky The Jerusalem Post has published a series of articles relaying accusations by the former head of the Palestinian Authority’s anti-corruption department, Fahmi Shabaneh, that close associates of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas engaged in embezzlement, land theft and fraud. According to Post correspondent Khalid Abu Toameh, Shabaneh possesses numerous documents exposing the theft […]

National Public Radio’s (NPR) news coverage of the Middle East often leaves the impression that Jewish settlement in the West Bank and Jerusalem is the main obstacle to an accord between Israel and the Palestinians. Meanwhile the unrelenting villification of Jews by Arab media, religious leaders and government institutions remains a largely taboo subject at […]

“Finding a route to peace in [Jerusalem] is not exactly a walk in the park,” says Jeremy Vine in a play on words to introduce the January 18th segment of BBC’s “Panorama,” entitled “A Walk in the Park.” The segment presents alleged attempts by Israeli Jews to “change the demographics of East Jerusalem” and the […]

Covering the failed attempt by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab to destroy a Northwest Airlines passenger jet over Michigan, ABC’s new anchor, Diane Sawyer, brought up the perennial question of Israeli airport security (World News with Diane Sawyer, December 28, 2009). While the veteran journalist allowed that Israeli security measures were “legendary,” she also emphatically and falsely […]