Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Perhaps sensing that the liberal media’s attack template of Sarah Palin as lightweight rube had not made a discernible difference in the campaign polling numbers – and may in fact have driven swing voters to the McCain-Palin ticket – The New York Times appeared to be trying a different tack last […]

August 5, 2008 by Eric Rozenman When Israeli forces raided several West Bank institutions believed to be allied with Hamas (the terrorist Islamic Resistance Movement), The Washington Post made “Unease Over West Bank Raids; Israeli Crackdown on Charities Problematic for Palestinian Authority” its lead July 18 World News article. But when the worst fighting between […]

By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Wednesday, July 16, 2008 There is one question readers have asked the Monitor with far greater frequency than any other. It’s a simple one, and it goes basically like this: What is the most important thing you can say about the media after doing a column like this for ten years? […]

By Jason Maoz, Senior Editor The Jewish Press, July 25, 2008 Honestreporting.com is out with a study of how The New York Times covered Israel in 205 news stories between July 2007 and June 2008. The verdict: particularly in the way it employs headlines and photos, “it is clear that there is an inherent bias […]

Initial BBC and the AFP headlines ignore the victims in second bulldozer attack Less than three weeks after a Palestinian from east Jerusalem used a bulldozer to kill three people on a busy street in Israel’s capital, another east Jerusalem resident attempted to replicate the attack. The second attacker rammed his bulldozer into a bus, […]

By:Jason Maoz, Senior Editor Wednesday, July 2, 2008 When I agreed to take over the Media Monitor column (the first with my byline ran 10 years ago this week), both it and I were relatively recent additions to the paper – the column as basically a repository for press releases put out by media watchdog […]

June 17, 2008 by Steven Stotsky Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) bills itself as an organization of “activists inspired by Jewish tradition to work together for peace, social justice, and human rights” who “support the aspirations of Israelis and Palestinians for security and self-determination.” Its moral outrage, however, is decidedly one-sided, directed overwhelmingly at Israel. […]

Following are excerpts from an interview with Hamas Minister of Culture ‘Atallah Abu Al-Subh, which aired on Al-Aqsa TV on June 15, 2008. To view this clip on MEMRI TV, visit: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/1793.htm. ‘Atallah Abu Al-Subh: “Assalam Alaykum and Allah’s mercy and blessings upon you. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate. May Allah […]

The New York Times carries a review of a film called ‘Hot House’ that goes inside Israeli prisons and examines the lives of Palestinian prisoners. We’re not recommending the film or the review ..But we do want to share our feelings with you about the beaming female face that adorns the article. You can see […]

Efraim Karsh May 2008 “1948, Israel, and the Palestinians— Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world that is subjected to a constant outpouring of the most outlandish conspiracy theories and blood libels; whose policies and actions are obsessively condemned by the international […]