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 [...]

Washington Post editorial cartoonist Tom Toles gets the Palestinian-Israeli conflict backwards in his featured August 2, 2010 drawing. Toles portrays Israel, this time in the person of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, as the obstacle to direct Israeli-Palestinian talks and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as the proponent. Astonished Post readers called CAMERA’s Washington office to [...]

A new song performed by a Palestinian children’s choir about the supposed glory attached to ‘martyrdom’ – dying a violent death while waging war and terrorism on infidels, in this case, Jews, has become a hit on Arabic websites. The choir is also reported as becoming one of the most popular children’s groups in the [...]

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 [...]