May 12, 2008 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Morton A. Klein Phone 1: 212-481-1500 The Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) has criticized a major New York Times feature on Israeli Arabs timed for Israel’s 60th anniversary last week as inaccurate, distorted and misleading. The feature, by Ethan Bronner, ‘After 60 Years, Arabs in Israel Are Outsiders’ […]

Chesler Chronicles For fifteen years, (1993-2008), Charlie Bernhaut of Americans for a Safe Israel has been sending Open Letters to the staff at the New York Times. Charlie loves Jewish cantorial music and Jewish jokes. He is an amiable, sociable man. So, what has driven him to launch such a lonely, one-man crusade? I doubt […]

March 18, 2008 by Dexter Van Zile Judging from a children’s book and a Sunday school teacher’s manual published by the United Methodist Church in 2006, the anti-Israel activists in the denomination are fans of St. Francis Xavier, the 16th century missionary who proclaimed “Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may […]

62% of images in our study were sympathic to the Palestinians. Each month, Reuters selects about 250 images from thousands of its own photographs for inclusion in a “Pictures of the Month” package. These photographs depict people and events from around the world, encompassing culture, sport, politics and significant news events. Reuters uses these photo […]

The following are excerpts from an interview with American political scientist Norman Finkelstein, which aired on Future TV on January 20, 2008. The questions were in Arabic, and Finkelstein’s responses are in English. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit:http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1676.htm. I Do Want to Express Solidarity with [Hizbullah], And I Am Not Going to […]

February 5, 2008 by Ricki Hollander, Eric Rozenman, Tamar Sternthal Study: On Nation’s Op-Ed Pages, Israel’s Voice is Stifled Introduction According to many of Israel’s detractors, such as Jimmy Carter, Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, pro-Israel voices dominate the American media and drown out pro-Palestinian views. Yet, if the Op-Ed pages of three leading national […]

The media leaves the false impression that Israel has completely cut Gaza’s electricity. Today’s headlines include the LA Times’s “Gaza dark amid Israeli blockade” and The Guardian’s “Gaza plunged into darkness as Israeli fuel blockade takes effect”. Similar headlines appear in many media outlets. You could be forgiven for thinking that Israel has cut off […]

Our seventh annual recognition of the most skewed and biased coverage of the Mideast conflict. What a year of surprises. Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip. Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas talked peace in the presence of Saudi and Syrian dignitaries. BBC journalist Alan Johnston was held hostage for nearly four months. When Israel […]

November 26, 2007 CAMERA by Gilead Ini The Wall Street Journal is typically considered a source of solid, accurate coverage of the Arab-Israeli conflict. However, readers opening that newspaper on Nov. 20 found a story (“Checkpoints Splinter Palestinian Economy”) focused on checkpoints in the West Bank so biased against Israeli perspectives it could have been […]

by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook – October 9, 2007 The Palestinian Authority (Fatah) daily newspaper’s political cartoon today illustrated a prayer for the killing of Americans. A Muslim is shown kneeling in prayer facing a US B-2 Stealth Bomber. The words of his prayer are encased in missiles aimed at Americans: “Allah, scatter them!” […]