December 21, 2010 by Eric Rozenman I Say Terrorist, You Say Militant … Let’s Call Reporting Off. A caution signal about news media reliability regarding Arab-Israeli coverage has long been the use of “militant” as a sanitizing substitute for “terrorist” in describing attackers of Israeli non-combatants. Terrorism, defined by the U.S. Law Code, Title 22, [...]

October 20, 2010 by Ricki Hollander One of the main obstacles in previous peace-making efforts has been Arab unwillingness to accept Israel as a Jewish state and Muslim denial of Judaism’s historical and religious ties to Jerusalem. U.S. negotiator Dennis Ross complained that during the July 2000 negotiations at Camp David, Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat’s [...]

By: Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Over the years, two Jewish journalists – Thomas Friedman and Mike Wallace – have been the subject of particularly intense vituperation in the letters and e-mails received by the Monitor, and both gentlemen have been scrutinized here on several occasions. One of the most popular columns, in terms of reader [...]

by Dexter Van Zile Hostility toward religious and ethnic minorities has been a persistent problem in the Muslim and Arab countries in the Middle East and has gotten worse after the Iranian revolution of 1979. Christians can sometimes rely on secular rulers such as Saddam Hussein in Iraq, Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, and Bashar al-Assad [...]

by Steven Stotsky A guest Op-Ed titled “One American’s Response to the Israel-Palestine Conflict,” appearing in the September-October 2010 edition of the Juilliard Journal, the publication of the famed Juilliard music school, leveled a number of serious accusations against the Jewish state. According to its editors, the column generated “so many letters to the editor, [...]

Excerpts: Ahmadinejad vows Israel’s destruction. Iran elected new OPEC president. Again, the Danish cartoons. Jordan King meets G.W.Bush. Abbas ‘upbeat’ ; no mention of recognizing Israel’ sovereignty October 15, 2010 Excerpts: Ahmadinejad vows Israel’s destruction. Iran elected new OPEC president. Again, the Danish cartoons. Jordan King meets G.W.Bush. Abbas ‘upbeat’ ; no mention of recognizing [...]

by Tamar Sternthal Celebrated poet and fiction writer Margaret Atwood, the recipient of the Dan David Prize at Tel Aviv University last May, should stick to the world of fiction. In a Sept. 17 piece in Ha’aretz entitled “Suffering of Palestinian children is something both sides can agree on,” Atwood cites a 2009 report by [...]

by Eric Rozenman The Washington Post displayed a skewed sense of what’s newsworthy about Israel and Jews just before and after Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year and start of the Ten Days of Awe that close with Yom Kippur, the day of atonement. 1) The Post’s foreign desk featured a “Letter from Israel: Ultra-Orthodox [...]

Exclusive: Tuvia Grossman Interviewed by HonestReporting On September 30, 2000, The New York Times, Associated Press and other major media outlets published a photo of a young man — bloodied and battered — crouching beneath a club-wielding Israeli policeman. The caption identified him as a Palestinian victim of Israeli brutality — with the clear implication [...]

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/08/17/the-phony-number-maker.html Dan Ephron, Newsweek’s Israel Bureau Chief, Aug. 17, 2010: “The two-state solution rests on the idea that the Palestinian population is growing as the Jewish population shrinks. But what if that weren’t true?” ” The main purveyor of this new math is Yoram Ettinger, a retired diplomat and a staunch believer in Israel’s right [...]