Even as a comedy show, there are lines SNL simply won’t cross with respect to minorities or vulnerable groups. But SNL tolerates offensive remarks about Jews in a way that they don’t tolerate racism against other groups. On the latest edition of the show that aired on 20 February, host Michael Che commented that, “Israel […]
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) is a far-left group and the second-largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), which is considered the official “voice” of the Palestinian people and whose chairman is Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. While the PFLP’s influence over the Palestinian people has ebbed and flowed, its […]
According to a former head of Israel’s military intelligence, the senior Iranian scientist assassinated last week was such a central figure in Tehran’s nuclear program that it would be nearly impossible to replace him and thus is liable to significantly set back the Islamic Republic’s atomic ambitions. “There is no doubt that [Mohsen Fakhrizadeh] was […]
Recent coverage of US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s scheduled arrival in the West Bank has fueled a steady stream of misleading reporting on the actual connection of Jews and Palestinians to the area. A piece written by Associated Press’ Joseph Krauss, “Pompeo expected to visit Israeli settlement in parting gift,” and published by ABC […]
In 2016, I wrote my first critique as an editor at HonestReporting. Titled, Is Murdering Israelis Just “Human Nature”? , it deconstructed a statement by then-UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon: Stabbings, vehicle attacks, and shootings by Palestinians targeting Israeli civilians have continued to claim lives . . . Yet, as oppressed peoples have demonstrated throughout […]
Any journalist worth his or her salt knows that it always pays to check one’s sources. But a recent story by Adel Zaanoun of Agence France-Presse (AFP) about a remarkable multipurpose device that fights the spread of coronavirus, allegedly invented by a Gazan woman, falls far short of the standards expected of any respectable news […]
The peace agreements between Israel and both the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were minimized by many media outlets, in addition to influential members of the international community, since none of the countries ever directly engaged in conflict. The same cannot be said for Sudan, which also recently announced that it would begin taking steps […]
Israel’s parliament is slated next Tuesday to vote on whether to approve the normalization agreement forged with Bahrain. The motion is expected to easily pass, not unlike the peace treaty signed with the United Arab Emirates that was essentially rubber-stamped by the legislature by a margin of 80 to 13 on October 15. An Israeli […]
An overwhelming majority of both chambers of Congress introduced new resolutions in support of the Abraham Accords to normalize ties between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain. 91 senators have cosponsored a version of the resolution, while reaffirming “its strong support for a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resulting in two states—a democratic Jewish State […]
by Jonathan Spyer The Times of Israel September 20, 2020 In early March, 2020, when international travel was still unambiguously possible, I was due to visit the United States on an Israeli passport. I had been invited to speak at the annual AIPAC policy conference. In addition, a number of other meetings were in the initial […]
