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March 2010
Washington Post: Obama’s behavior to Israel is “startling” and “puzzling”
Palestinian Authority honors top terrorist the moment Biden leaves the West Bank
MSNBC’s Matthews and NYT’s Bronner’s racist slur against Israelis
Israel has its faults, but apartheid isn’t one of them (& Another hit job by the FT)
Delegitimization is a genuine threat for Israel (and so is anti-Semitism)
Senior Saudi: kill those who oppose gender segregation (& Paul Martin’s plight)
February 2010
Only one group could be behind the latest hit -- the Irish Jews
Journalism 007: Reporting fiction as fact
Is Israel the only suspect over Dubai death?
Goldstone co-author: Hamas fired “something like two” rockets before Gaza war
Police probe “Kill Jews” remark at Oxford univ. (& Mussolini iPhone app withdrawn)
Christian Aid apologizes for Nazi comparisons on Holocaust Memorial Day
Less Mideast “peace processing” please (& Berlusconi: “Let Israel join the EU”)
January 2010
Iran: “Israeli doctors stealing Haitian organs” (& Jerusalem mayor attacks BBC “lies”)
Obama misjudges his misjudgment (& Israeli and Iranian ministers shake hands)
And his name will be ‘Israel’: Mother of Haitian baby honors IDF rescuers
“Taliban may be descended from Jews” (& Iran finds a friend in Italy)
Iran rejects Kerry -- and Egypt expels Galloway
Science fiction soon to become reality as Israel develops robot weapons
The cold-blooded internet murderer Fatah and Hamas want free
December 2009
Amazing Video – Iranian protesters save men from hanging, then get shot
BBC feeding infamous anti-Semitic lies to Iranians -- in Persian (& Europe’s Israel obsession)
Britain’s singling out of Israel goes further than ever (& Is Prince Harry a war criminal?)
Leading Ha’aretz writer: “Netanyahu is positioning himself left of Rabin”
Ehud Olmert in his own words: What I offered President Abbas
“Let’s substitute Israel Apartheid Week with Palestine Democracy Week”
Israel quietly helps to build Palestine, without Obama and the EU’s interference
November 2009
Israeli gold winners left to sing their own anthem (& British diplomat “outs” Jews)
“Oh I forgot, the Jews have all the oil” (& Obama’s home teleprompter malfunctions)
Life of Mohammed to be filmed (& BBC quiz winner thinks al-Qaeda is an Israeli organization)
Holocaust denier appointed as Iran’s media boss (& Saudi F-15s bomb Yemen)
“Don’t count on Goldstone to curb Israel’s response to attacks on Tel Aviv”
Britain’s West Bank torturers; & The Guardian runs an extraordinary attack on Melanie Phillips
October 2009
Does Obama believe in human rights? (and what that might mean for Israel)
HRW senior staff compare Israeli conduct to the 3.5 million dead and raped in Congo
As the UN endorses Goldstone report, even Goldstone now criticizes the UN
UNRWA proposes teaching Holocaust in Gaza after all (& Anne Frank online)
Israeli businessman seeks to buy Al-Jazeera (& The Guardian’s KGB-style Israel cleansing)
Israelis are from Mars and Palestinians from Venus. How will we reconcile them?
“We thought we’d never see the day when France’s president shows more resolve than America’s”
Even B’Tselem now criticizes Goldstone (& Saudi Arabia’s interfaith Nazi)
September 2009
“Goldstone’s crime against human rights” (& a mental patient at the UN)
Transcript: CNN grills Netanyahu on Israeli “war crimes” (& other items)
Dachau survivor asks Goldstone: How dare you? (& Peres: Goldstone “legitimized terrorism”)
Iran: “Einstein secretly converted to Shi’a Islam” (& Reuters “terrorist” journalist)
Associated Press: thousands of Arabs moving into Jewish areas of Jerusalem
Gadhafi celebrates 40 years in power by blaming Israel for “all of Africa’s conflicts”
And were there never any Romans in Rome either?
Obama’s approval rating in Israel falls to new low (& No male teachers allowed)
August 2009
A Jewish tune with a universal appeal (From the Beatles to Bollywood to the Starship Enterprise)
Dutch journalist: Flu pandemics are a Jewish conspiracy (& Swedish media blood libel)
Israel criticizes Human Rights Watch for its fundraising from Saudi regime
How many degrees does Gilad Shalit have? (& Facebook closes Hamas leader’s fan page)
Lockerbie: Has an innocent man been locked up?
The truth about Fatah – revealed by Fatah itself (& Fatah’s general secretary claims that Abbas helped “murder” Arafat)
July 2009
The Brides wore Black: Hamas widows re-marry (& The idiocies of Naomi Klein)
Happy birthday, Tel Aviv (& Ilan Halimi trial verdict)
“Nuke could wipe Israel out in seconds”; “Saudis give nod to Israeli raid on Iran”
Another luxury Palestinian shopping mall opens; & “Haifa university: “No Jews allowed”
June 2009
Fatah: “Wailing Wall is ours”; Egyptian cleric cracks the Pepsi code; & other items
Twitter 1, BBC 0: online videos show the real face of Ahmadinejad
What Iran has been doing while you were watching the protests (& other aspects of the uprising)
Official transcript of Israeli PM Netanyahu’s speech calling for demilitarized Palestinian state
“The Cost”: a military exchange between American and Israeli friends
“The speech President Obama won’t dare give to the Muslim world”
Protests against appointment of UNESCO head who wants to burn Israeli books
King of Morocco acknowledges truth of Holocaust (while more Israeli Arabs deny it)
May 2009
The Jewish Nakba: in many ways worse than the Arab
Mossad’s hidden successes against Iran so far – but they are not enough
“Why Israel will bomb Iran” (& “The myth of meaningful Iranian retaliation”)
“Obama, and the world, in 2012, after he fails to deal with Iran”
UNESCO makes Beirut “World Book Capital 2009” as it bans “The Diary of Anne Frank”
Media News 9: Happy Birthday, YouTube! (& other media matters)
April 2009
Swiss government requisitions 40 lavish hotel rooms for Ahmadinejad (& Elie Wiesel abused at Durban II)
“By the time the Soviet Army reached Auschwitz, my father was no longer there”
Obama to host Passover seder in the White House (& French supermarket Intifada)
What Avigdor Lieberman actually said (& When Amish met Heimish)
Fatah activists threaten to kill Palestinian conductor who played for Holocaust survivors
“Israel’s Sudan strike targeted weapons capable of hitting Tel Aviv and Dimona”
March 2009
Exclusive: This is CNN (& BBC-UNRWA connection revealed)
A proud Israeli Bedouin writes (& Japanese paper criticizes UN over Durban II conference)
Boycott apartheid Egypt! (& shoe hurled at Mahmoud Ahmadinejad)
Riots in Sweden; torture in Argentina; Arab-Jewish duo at Eurovision
As Hillary arrives, Israelis are still waiting for a Palestinian Anwar Sadat
Miracle: Hamas terrorist comes back to life (& Israeli school hit by rocket)
Middle Eastern and Western anti-Semites compete to outdo each other
February 2009
Jane’s: Syria building chemical weapons plant (& Dubai bans novel with gay characters)
Denmark – no Jews at our schools please (and “anti-Semitism in London’s theatreland”)
Israel votes (& Washington Post latest to report IDF didn’t hit Gaza school)
Major Australian paper latest to attack UN for disseminating “lies” about Gaza
Investigation by Canada’s leading paper finds: No Palestinians killed in the UN school in Gaza
“We didn’t run away. It was an orderly walk backwards.”
January 2009
“Dear Palestinian Arab brethren…” (& “Israel refuses to win”)
“The moral chasm that separates Jews from their enemies”
Gaza doctor: Hamas exaggerated Gaza death toll – 500 to 600 killed, mostly fighters, not 1,250
“This isn’t a reality TV show or an episode of Big Brother”
Annihilation of terrorists; no one protested. (No Jews involved.)
Even in Florida: “Nuke, nuke Israel… the Jews need a big oven”
Seven ways to make Israel’s response proportionate
Amos Oz: Hamas’s crimes against humanity
December 2008
Barack Obama: If somebody was rocketing my two daughters as they slept at night…
New low for British media: Ahmadinejad invited to address UK on Christmas
‘Tis the season for anti-Israel tunes (& “Jews for Christmas”)
Protecting against dirty bombs; questions over Hillary; colorful Islamic fashion
Top Egyptian cleric asked to purify hand after accidentally shaking Peres’ hand
Jimmy Carter pleads with Hizbullah to meet him, but Hizbullah refuse
“The luckiest Jihadi in town” (& U.S. Jewish groups train against Mumbai-style attack)
“Whodunit!?” (& So, why kill the rabbi?)
No, they weren’t “practitioners” (& Time magazine, aiding anti-Semites?)
November 2008
If this isn’t terrorism, what is?
Afghan schoolgirls blinded with acid for not wearing a full burqua (& other items)
Egyptian lawyer on top Arab TV station: Israeli women should be threatened with rape
Al-Jazeera TV commentator: “Rahm Emmanuel is an officer in the Israeli Mossad”
Former Times editor: The media “votes early and votes often” – for Obama
CIA’s loss of top spies is “catastrophic” (& Obama-Petraeus “fall out”)
October 2008
Israel to become ultimate swing state? (& Sarkozy: Obama’s stance on Iran is “utterly immature”)
Shimon Peres to be knighted by Queen Elizabeth II; Malaysia: women mustn’t wear trousers; & other items
Will Barack Obama make John McCain his Secretary of Defense?
“Saudi women must wear one-eyed black veils” (& America kills a Swede in Iraq)
Hamas: Jews to blame for global financial crisis; major upsurge of anti-Semitic postings on Internet
“Flirting” with Sarah Palin earns new Pakistani president a fatwa (& other items)
September 2008
First permanent foreign military force takes up positions in Israel (& a warm welcome on the Upper West Side)
Peres at UN: Ahmadinejad is a “disgrace to Islam” (& still no word on missing American in Iran)
Netanyahu: “Joining a coalition under Livni is like joining Lehman brothers”
Iran prepares Salman Rushdie’s coffin, as Hillary Clinton cancels appearance at NY rally against Ahmadinejad
Watching “Friends” in Gaza as first ever Palestinian soap opera is postponed
How dare they be working class – and how dare she be a woman?
Ahmadinejad: Zionists behind S. Ossetia, Abkhazia conflicts (& 63% of Americans support Israeli strike on Iran)
Top Iranian mullah compares women to donkeys (& a note on Sarah Palin)
August 2008
Soft on Iran: Serious concerns in Israel about Joe Biden
Italy admits it shielded Palestinian terrorists; & al-Jazeera apologizes to Israel
The lessons for Israel and other small democracies from the Georgian conflict
Syrian nuclear chief eliminated (& IDF soldiers risk lives to rescue Fatah men)
At last, Reuters tells the truth about Hamas (& Obama: Ich Bin Ein Beginner)
July 2008
Israel sanctions al-Jazeera after it holds party for released child-killer (& other items)
Israelis’ Obama skepticism (& McCain on Israeli TV last night: I won’t allow a second Holocaust)
Hizbullah moves into “every town” in south Lebanon (& world media reaction to Kuntar release)
A long way from Entebbe: Hizbullah’s triumph, as Israel lets murderers go free
17 girls rescued from Brussels hotel after being “enslaved” by UAE royals (& other overlooked items)
Colombia hostage rescue: Israeli help revealed (& King of Jordan ridicules Israel boycott)
New York Times headline makes Jerusalem terror attack sound like an accident
June 2008
Sarkozy denounces vicious beating of Jewish teenager (& BBC promotes anti-Semitism)
Libya’s Gaddafi says Israel will kill Obama – “as it did JFK” (& U.S. intel warnings)
Top Nazi war criminal spotted mingling with Croatian soccer fans in Austria
Israeli company develops system to see through walls (& bacteria that produces petrol)
So who would you put your money on? Buffett or Ahmadinejad?
The List: The worst places to be a terrorist (& other articles)
Iran’s Ahmadinejad attacks Jews at UN food summit in Rome
More on al-Dura: “It’s hard to exaggerate the significance of this case”
May 2008
French state TV loses al-Dura libel case (& Amy Winehouse to undergo drug rehab in Israel)
Lebanese Prime Minister: “Even Israel never dared to do to Beirut what Hizbullah has done”
Rupert Murdoch: European media hostility to Israel has anti-Semitic roots
Parting gift?: “Bush to offer Israel crucial new radar system” (& Iranian shell kills Israeli)
Israel at 60: “Well done for surviving – and flourishing”
Israel at 60 (part 2): “Israel was a dream, since the time of Moses”
Israel at 60 (part 3): Still dealing with outlandish conspiracy theories and blood libels
Journalist of the year calls Israel “shit,” as Israel marks Holocaust Memorial Day
April 2008
Bahrain set to appoint Jewish woman as its ambassador to the U.S. (& Yemeni girl, 8, gets divorced)
Hamas enraged by mixed dancing on the West Bank (& Egypt builds a wall)
Obama’s advisors blame the Jews; & McCain was right: Iran’s help for Sunni terrorism
BBC Arabic service “boosts terrorists” (& the Shin Bet goes online today)
Al-Hayat: Jimmy Carter to meet Hamas in Damascus; Hamas murders more Israeli civilians
Into Ramallah with George W. Bush
March 2008
Note
Guardian editor finally apologizes for comparing Israel to al-Qaeda
U.S. State Dept. confirms: Much anti-Semitism now in the guise of hatred of Israel
Saving Baby Mohammed
Fatah’s young guard: “Blessed martyrdom operation in occupied [West] Jerusalem”
The myth of America’s unpopularity (& the “McCain-Soros conspiracy,” says Iran)
Dying for a degree; & Ashkelon under attack
Code Red in Sderot: Living in the most heavily bombed place in the world
February 2008
Ahmadinejad: Israel is a filthy bacteria (& shock as the BBC apologizes for Hizbullah coverage)
As Musharraf’s party concedes defeat, an analysis of Pakistani-Israeli relations
He’s not quite Osama Bin Laden... But he almost is
In flip-flop, U.S. says Iran may be able to make nukes by next year (& more stonings in Iran)
“Not since John Kerry has America had such an outstanding candidate for the Presidency”
(1) The poor of Africa (2) The media’s selective use of photos
Sinai now “open gateway” for Palestinian terrorists as suicide bombers hit Israeli shopping mall
January 2008
Norman Finkelstein “votes against his own motion”; Gandhi forced to resign; Anne Frank abused again
Does Oxford think it ok to honor a man who calls Anne Frank a “Holo-porn” star?
A rare apology from The Washington Post (& Mohammed cartoons editor jailed for three years)
“Ahmadinejad secretly met with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates in Qatar”
Egyptian magazine confirms Arafat was behind Munich Olympic and other murders
Time magazine gets rids of its two conservative columnists, & The NY Times hires one
Iranian hardliners appear to endorse Mike Huckabee
Christmas Smear (& Ha’aretz editor to Condoleezza Rice: America please “rape” us)
Poll of Saudis: Don’t like Jews or Christians, want nuclear weapons and Israel destroyed
December 2007
British intelligence: Israelis are right, U.S. is wrong; Iran is rushing to acquire nukes
Ahmadinejad doesn’t want a nuclear bomb? Just like there are no gays in Iran?
November 2007
NY Times and WaPost “comment writer” threatens to kill Israelis (& Syria blocks Facebook)
Palestinian oligarch to the rescue? (& Launching rockets from U.N. schools)
CNN plans worldwide expansion (& all Starbucked out)
Worst terror attack since 9/11 almost totally ignored by the media
French Fries are back in fashion (& Larry King and Jerry Seinfeld: Two egos clash)
Al-Jazeera: “U.S. Air Force, carrying tactical nuclear weapons, flew with Israel during Syria raid”
Islamic regime’s new pin-up girl: Maureen Dowd (& 52% in U.S. support military strike against Iran)
October 2007
Muslim contractor waives fee to build synagogue (& MSNBC says I’m the world’s worst person)
Stewart’s future, Economist’s past (& what is Clinton doing in Chinatown?)
Syria update: “This was one of the five most important acts in Israel’s history”
Lockerbie: Has an innocent man been locked up?
Outrage after Holocaust denier David Irving invited to Oxford Union (& “Not Nobel Winners”)
Ahmadinejad given bravery award for going to Columbia (& videos of new anti-regime demos in Iran)
Underreported news from Saudi Arabia and the Muslim world
Israeli “invisible” jets foiled Russian radar in Syria (& UK Israel boycott ruled “illegal”)
September 2007
“Bravo, bravo, bravo, Columbia!” (& Hillary Clinton “confirms” Israel took out Syrian nukes)
Deny Holocaust? Get welcomed by Columbia University (& invited to lunch by the NY Times?)
Hunt for Israeli Bond girl is on (& U2’s Bono is Jewish, apparently)
BBC children’s site removes offensive page on 9/11 attacks – at least for now
What the BBC is telling children about 9/11 (& Palestinian rocket injures 69 Israelis)
August 2007
BBC forced to remove Jesus “bastard” slur (& CrackBerrys “bad for the soul”)
Dutch Catholic Bishop tells Christians to call God “Allah” (& A “Muslim Jesus” on British TV)
U.S. presidential politics 2008 (& Cannibal tribe apologizes for eating Methodists)
Arafat’s widow expelled from Tunisia (& Poland criticizes EU’s anti-Israel bias)
One year on, Hizbullah remains a threat (& Reuters’ Titanic error)
Harry Potter is a Zionist agent (& Irish UN official: Bush’s goal is genocide)
Reuters runs false report, says AP (& Newspapers to offer free bibles)
Now it is Hamas vs. Islamic Jihad (& From Russia to Gaza with love?)
July 2007
Building the biggest bridge in the world: A Bin Laden project (& Iran’s American hostages)
Hamas thanks Jimmy Carter, its “useful idiot” (& Syria occupies Lebanon. Again.)
“Bush is not going to leave office with Iran still in limbo” (& Giuliani’s girls vs. Obama’s girls)
Palestinians given yet another chance. Will they take it?
PFLP chief: “Arafat died of AIDS” (& suicide bomb making factory in Syria)
American “Rachel Corrie” judge compares Israel to Nazis (& Stoned to death in Iran)
Mamma Mia! It’s “Tony Blair: The Musical!” (& Syria blocks hotmail)
“Just around the corner from Tony Blair’s new home, I was able to buy a copy of Mein Kampf”
Abbas aide says rescue of Alan Johnston was staged by Hamas
The Docs of War (& Did irresponsible journalism lead to murder?)
On boycotts and reality: Opposing the British boycott from Austria to India
June 2007
1966 sci-fi movie Fantastic Voyage comes to life in Israel (& BBC’s “Hamas” employee enters Gaza)
Abbas the moderate? Abbas as a leader?
Congratulations Hamas: Getting an opinion piece into NYT and WP on the same day is unprecedented
Arafat’s Nobel Prize, Suha’s gowns looted (& Gaza’s Christians fear for their lives)
UK Times: “Mamma Mia!” could be first victim of boycott retaliation
Gaza slips towards civil war (& Shimon Peres elected Israeli president)
My Generation
The Doctor was blindfolded, handcuffed, shot six times and then tossed into the street
Six days of war: the media’s idea of balance
The Six-Day War: one of the most stunning military victories in modern history
May 2007
Chai Shalom, 13, suffered from cerebral palsy... (& Israel rescues Gazan baby)
BBC attacks WSJ over article on kidnapped BBC Gaza correspondent
Nobel laureate cancels UK trip over Israel boycott (& a tale of two terror groups called Fatah)
Al-Qaeda group threatens “crusader and Zionist” Sarkozy (& “Was Osama Right?”)
DePaul’s disgrace: “The Jewish David Irving”
Time Magazine leaves Pres. Bush off their 100 most influential people list
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, arguably the bravest and most remarkable woman of our times
Iran bans Western haircuts, eyebrow plucking for men
Sarkozy: The Palestinians deserve a homeland, but the security of Israel is not negotiable
Belgian MEP says she feels like “strangling” Israeli Ambassador
NY Times-owned Herald Tribune runs Iranian government advert to build nuclear reactors
April 2007
Anti-Israel ads on Washington subway (& Why not El Salvador?)
New Iraqi terror group named after Hamas (& Christiane Amanpour admits activism)
The French go to the polls, as Ramallah renames street after Jacques Chirac
Guardian editor condemns U.K. journalists’ call to boycott Israel
Auschwitz death toll was higher, UK government archives reveal
For first time, British journalists officially vote to boycott Israeli goods
Cartoons and Photos: A visual warning
“No pot on Passover” (& Israelis invent Internet-free computer connection)
March 2007
“BBC pays £200,000 to cover up report on anti-Israel bias” (& Live crocodiles seized at Gaza border)
New Palestinian Islamic party seeks to be moderate (& Money pours into Gaza)
Why the elites are driving Tony Blair from office (& The Sun’s guide to Tel Aviv)
Chirac “secretly urged Israel to topple Assad” (& 28% of Israeli Arabs say Holocaust is a myth)
Islamic fury at Palestinian lesbian conference in Haifa (& Arab praise for kidnapped BBC man)
“Passover of Blood” book now being used by Islamists and Neo-Nazis
Saudi gang-rape victim gets 90 lashes for International Women’s Day
Provocative Iran issues new banknote with nuclear insignia (& top Iranian general disappears)
America: “It’s lonely at the top”
February 2007
Kibbutz where Jerry Seinfeld picked bananas, finally gives up on communism
YouTube becoming site of choice for al-Qaeda to spread propaganda
Stanford University to show Turkish blood libel film (& Saudi Prince to build hotel in Tel Aviv)
“Israeli Apartheid Week” kicks off around the world
Ilan Halimi brought to rest in Jerusalem (& Elie Wiesel assaulted in a San Francisco hotel)
Ahmadinejad promises “giant achievements” next Sunday (& UK charities leap to his defense)
Saudis “helped thwart Baker’s Iraq plan” (& 20 foreigners arrested for dancing)
Israel’s first woman president (& Kafiyehs with Stars of David)
Jack Bauer under attack: Muslims protest hit TV series “24”
January 2007
David Irving: Auschwitz “was a tourist attraction” (& British Muslims scrap Holocaust Day)
Iraq learns from Yad Vashem (& The first Arab to be named a Righteous Gentile)
Six Gulf states say they would support U.S. strike on Iran’s nuclear program (& Fatah-Eilat bomb details)
Jimmy Carter “interceded on behalf of Nazi SS Guard” (& Saudis may ban Letter “X”)
War on Want wages War on Israel
Halutz is forced to resign, but was the Hizbullah war in fact a victory for Israel?
Israel’s economy soars ahead, while Palestinians squander millions
Israel appoints its first Arab cabinet minister (& Mossad-KGB double agent dies)
Spain fears rebirth of Islamic kingdom (& Palestinians continue to mourn Saddam)
AP apologizes for claiming “Zionists exaggerated the Holocaust” (& BBC bias as usual)
The Six Day Phwoar (Israel: A new gay icon?)
December 2006
UK paper: Virgin Mary is a “Palestinian refugee in Bethlehem”
Pope’s speech which angered Muslims wins award
“Polite society helped pave the way for Iran’s Holocaust conference”
Saudis “to buy nuclear bomb” from Pakistan to counter Iranian threat
An interview with Walter Laqueur
Iraq 28: “If we left now, we’d be back in again within a year”
Jimmy Carter called an anti-Semite live on American TV
Benny Morris responds to “numerous historical errors” in The Independent
November 2006
70 percent of Israelis say they will stay even if Iran gets the bomb
“Girl With a Pearl Earring” and “Da Vinci code” banned in Iran. Is Google next?
A remarkable documentary
“Political correctness gone mad”: Christian charity bans Christmas
So busy attacking Israel, they forgot about these beheadings
Al-Jazeera launches in English today, using an Israeli satellite provider
America and Israel: Tests for an old friendship
Note
October 2006
Now playing in New York: The sad case of Rachel Corrie
Soros plans an alternative to AIPAC (& other news items)
A touch of humor
Human Rights Watch confirms: Hizbullah used cluster bombs against Israel
New calls by Hamas to target U.S. (& Palestinian rockets now have Hebrew captions)
“Evening, infidels! Here is the news from the BBC...”
Dubai paper: “What Muslims can learn from the Jews” (& al-Qaeda strikes in Gaza)
The Holocaust’s Arab heroes (& Polish righteous Gentile recommended for Nobel Prize)
Khamenei: “Don’t masturbate during Ramadan” (& Iran’s persecution of Arabs)
Shin Bet seeks computer wizards (& Israel’s “pink” diplomats)
A colossus of our time
September 2006
Israel warns that foreign reporters’ vehicles might be being used by terrorists
Mozart cancelled in Germany due to fear of offending Muslims (& Egypt seizes papers)
Plot to decapitate Israeli ambassador to Norway (& Israel welcomes Swedish elections)
Saudi police ban the sale of cats and dogs (& Gaddafi’s son: Pope must convert)
Cartoonists against the Pope
Palestinians attack churches as anti-Pope sentiment grows around world
Something different from the BBC (& Black freedom movements meet in Israel)
Ignoring 9/11 and blaming George Bush
Al-Qaeda call on Seymour Hersh, George Galloway & Robert Fisk to “join Islam”
Pinocchio, Tom Sawyer and Heidi convert to Islam in Turkey
“The Arabs have become wise enough to know TV victory from real victory”
Israeli remains on display at makeshift Hizbullah museum
August 2006
Australian foreign minister criticizes world media for telling lies about Israel
UN Resolution 1701 is “the Mideast’s Munich agreement”
Firm with Nazi past buys 25% of Ha’aretz (& animals recover from Hizbullah)
Suha Arafat “remarries” (& anti-Hizbullah comment starts W. Bank wedding riot)
Hollywood stars blast Nasrallah, but Spielberg, Streisand and others remain silent
The media war against Israel
Note
Iraq 27: “Did any nation-state fall from the heavens wholly made?”
July 2006
Norway: Olmert as “Nazi commander in Schindler’s list”
Nasrallah “to go to Damascus today” (& Hizbullah's “Nazi salute”)
Iran sends suicide bombers, while Miss Lebanon and Miss Israel are “best of friends”
Olmert: foreign media biased in Hizbullah coverage (& Arnie for Israel)
Israel’s next war has begun, the one with Iran
The French love bombing (but not by Israel)
Israel, Lebanon, Hizbullah: 14 more observations on the situation
At least 8 killed in rocket attack on Haifa; Over 100 Iranian agents in Lebanon aiding Hizbullah
Grandmother and her 7-year-old grandson become the latest Israelis to die
Israel, Lebanon, Hizbullah: 12 points about the situation
The truth comes out, courtesy of AP; but Jews attack Israel
Saudi columnist: “Hamas is acting like a terrorist organization”
Donald Trump invests $300 million in Israel (& more Islamic gay-bashing)
Israeli soldier kidnapped? Not on the BBC
June 2006
Saving Corporal Shalit
“Londonistan”: “I’d rather take ricin than publish this”
Human Rights Watch admits Israel likely not responsible for Gaza beach deaths
Arab world enraged at Ghana player’s salute to Israel (& Jihadists attack soccer)
Iran bans The Economist & Turkey bans Winnie the Pooh
Banning the World Cup, Israeli wine labels, and other items
Suha Arafat, TVs for the World Cup, and Gaza’s so-called “humanitarian crisis”
Ayatollah Khomeini’s grandson says West must intervene to free Iran
Hamas prime minister’s nephews “served in the Israeli army”
“Not statesmanship, but stupidity”
May 2006
Reuters employee issues “Zionist pig” death threat
Tel Aviv, Beersheba within range of new Hizbullah rocket (& Israel re-enters Gaza)
EU falls for Palestinian protection racket (& Will anyone speak up for the chickens?)
Matthias Goering Goes Kosher (& Film shows suffering of Jews Britain sent to Outback)
“Much of Europe prefers a traditional Muslim woman who keeps her mouth shut”
Israel to have its own baseball league (& Iran bars women from soccer matches)
Bon Appetite: Buffalo meat declared kosher (& Aliza Olmert’s art quadruples in value)
BBC slips up with taxi driver (& Rapper Jay-Z: Anti-Semitism not cool)
“Da Vinci Code” movie banned by Egypt, Lebanon, Syria & Jordan
“The BBC pro-Israeli? Is the Pope Jewish?” (& American teen Danny Wultz dies)
Olmert calls Ahmadinejad a “psychopath” who “speaks like Hitler”
Mainstream media ignores yesterday’s anti-regime protests in Iran
Al Aqsa leader: American Jewish teens are our ideal target (& Fisk on Walt)
April 2006
The New York Times and the “Israel lobby” (& Brandeis to honor Kushner)
“The mushroom cloud is on its way” (& American teen victim loses leg)
“The victims are no different from those slain on September 11, 2001”
Football killing fields: International soccer singles out Israel
Iranian regime swoops on universities to crush dissent, cracks down on blogs
Media news 8: “First impressions are not the same as thoughtful commentary”
Speaking out against Sharia-backed sexual abuse of women and children
Explorers find the “true” source of the Nile river (& Jesus “did walk on water”)
Dr. Ruth to lecture IDF officers (Hummus, Ricky Martin & other items)
Israeli cabinet to declare Sharon “incapacitated”; Olmert to form government
March 2006
Israeli elections 2006: Kadima “moving forward” to permanent borders by 2010
Now Neturei Karta pledge their allegiance to Hamas
“How I learned to love the wall” & more on Wafa Sultan, other Muslim “dissidents”
“Possibly the most maligned country on the planet is in the news again”
Wafa Sultan receives death threats, mainstream media attention (& other items)
On Chechnya, Chad, and “Chinese walls in the mind”
“How Iran duped the west”; Iranian Holocaust (denial) conference “begins today”
Terror victims relieved as “Paradise Now” and “Munich” fail to win Oscars
The barbarians of Europe
February 2006
David Irving says from prison: “The Jews will see a second Holocaust in 20 to 30 years”
Ilan Halimi: Tortured and killed in Paris because “the Jews have money”
(1) Iranian fatwa approves use of nuclear weapons (2) Contain Iran: Admit Israel to NATO
(1) Iranian anger over German football cartoon (2) Iran to hang teenage rape victim
(1) Poland will not let Iran “research” Holocaust (2) German Gypsies condemn Iran
“To be or not to be, that is the question,” not just asked by a famous fictional Dane
Portraying the prophet from Persian art to South Park
Belgium Muslim leader calls on Arabs to use Danish flag as a substitute for toilet paper
“War on Denmark! Death to Denmark!” (& Oprah visits Auschwitz)
January 2006
Nervous Palestinians circulate Hamas jokes (& Palestinian elections “not democracy”)
Hamas’s charter: The martyrs’ oath; and European press reaction
Hamas wins big (& anti-Zionism at the Davos Conference)
Munich (3): BBC set to name woman agent who killed Olympics massacre mastermind
Israeli leaders brace for possible Hamas “landslide”
“It’s the demography, stupid” and “A Letter to the Europeans”
Ready, aim, and fire more accurately without bullets (& Iran, India updates)
Western editor, angry at lack of alcohol in Gaza, says Abba Eban was right after all
“Middle Beast”: Ariel Sharon as a target of anti-Semitism
Iran planning to host international Holocaust (denial) conference
When was the last time you saw Khaled Abu Toameh interviewed on BBC or CNN?
Venezuelan President Chavez: “The descendants of the Christ-killers” control the world
December 2005
Yasser Abbas
New internal BBC memo warns staff over “terrorism”
Thorough new UCLA study finds U.S. media more left-wing than previously thought
Munich (2): Spielberg: “For me this movie is a prayer for peace”
Munich (1): “Spielberg is no friend of Israel”
A Muslim in a Jewish land (& Arab enrolment jumps at West Bank “settler” college)
Al Jazeera.net: As Saddam’s trial resumes, Palestinians cheer him as a hero
Abbas approves assistance to “martyrs” and then condemns suicide bomb
Sharon prepares to withdraw from “virtually all” the West Bank by 2008
Jews against Israel: King, Kaufman, & Judt, Europe’s so-called “good Jews”
November 2005
London Mayor Ken Livingstone may be Jewish: “I could be a self-hater, couldn’t I?”
BBC sanctions reporter who cried for Arafat (& “Hitler” running in Fatah primaries)
The real apartheid: Saudi teacher to be flogged for 15 weeks for praising Jews
Pakistan quake orphans “adopted” for jihad (& attacks against Christians ignored)
General note: A new website
Tehran Times today: The phenomenal lie of the “Holocaust” (& Ha’aretz’s dangerous misreporting)
Elections imminent as Shimon Peres ousted (& items on French riots, NY Times, Islam)
Israeli, Palestinian & Jordanian DJ’s play together, (& news on Madonna, Phil Collins)
Ruins of “oldest church” found in Israel (& Tel Aviv to boast world’s largest coffee shop)
Red Cross: Persecution of Christians “outside our area of expertise” (& other items)
Israel receives surprisingly strong international support over Ahmadinejad comments
October 2005
Grenade found hidden under a baby (& CIA trained Palestinian terrorists)
Small signs of improving Arab-Israeli relations (despite today’s suicide attack)
Poem praising killing of Jews included in new UK national children’s poetry book
(1) Norway school bans Star of David (2) Norwegian says she infiltrated the Mossad
Germany suspends anti-Semitism laws to let Iran sell hate literature at Frankfurt Book Fair
14-year old Palestinian boy forced to carry out suicide bombing (& other items)
“Don’t be silly, Ann, there’s no racism on the left”
Hamas: “No dancing and no gays”; & on banning Winnie the Pooh...
September 2005
Synagogue to become Hamas museum (& “an Islamic guide on how to beat your wife”)
(1) Bibi-v-Arik showdown today (2) The media, Hamas, and Rita
Remembering Milena Hubschmannova
President Musharraf to U.S. Jews: “Pakistan has no direct conflict with Israel”
Faked atrocity on French television? (updated & resent version)
Islamic militant Hizb ut-Tahrir infiltrates Reuters (& Prince Harry apologizes)
Blair urged to ditch Holocaust Day; UK government advisor says Holocaust “a myth”
Palestinians burn Gaza synagogues as P.A. police watch on
Hamas’s secretive military branch comes out of hiding
Muslims ransack Christian village in West Bank (& Arafat cousin killed in street)
Al Qaeda, Kuwaitis & Iranians “congratulate” Hurricane Katrina, and thank Allah
Faked atrocity on French television?
August 2005
Palestinians “to rename settlements after Arafat and Yassin”
Ariel Sharon should get the Nobel Prize, says Italian MP
Israeli army begins preparations for largest noncombat operation ever
“Today Gaza, tomorrow Jerusalem,” says PA prime minister
If only a fraction of this number of reporters were covering Darfur...
Bill Gates to visit Israel (& Moshe Dayan’s eye patch for sale on eBay)
“The great hummus robbery” (& U.S. soldier from Florida becomes Iraqi Sheik)
“Mazal tov Beckham, you’re Jewish” (& World’s oldest living married couple)
Denmark’s leading paper: “We are all Israelis now” (& email us your fatwas)
Iran’s new President, sworn in today, praises “the art of martyrdom”
Blue vs. Orange in the Israeli war of the ribbons – even on wedding bouquets
July 2005
Egypt state TV blames Israel for Sinai bombings (& more on Mayor Livingstone)
Dilpazier Aslam, extremist member of Hizb ut-Tahrir, sacked by The Guardian
Shooting a Brazilian: Living with terror in London and Israel
London bomber traveled to Israel; Britain begins to “wake up” to reality of suicide bombing
Palestinian terrorist leader in Jenin appears in Reuters staff party video
The six golden rules when writing a New York Times editorial
Guardian staff journalist exposed as member of extremist Hizb ut-Tahrir
London bomber: He loved cricket and drove his Dad’s Mercedes
The London bombs: The BBC discovers “terrorism,” briefly
Gaza mosque & radio station welcome the “blessed acts” in London (& other reaction)
As bombs rock London, Bin Laden’s brother says he will pay for his defense
New Pope says he will visit a synagogue and pray in Hebrew
Growing bolder, Arab media begin to act in democratic way, but blocks remain
Outspoken Arab commentators lament anti-Israel & anti-U.S. lies
June 2005
The New York Times finally covers the Le Monde verdict
Jihad Warning: Is there a coming “Eurabian threat to the West”?
“My dream was to be a suicide bomber”
“Lies in the library” and Comic book controversy
Resend & update: Israeli leftists and centrists speak out against Gaza disengagement
Israeli leftists and centrists speak out against Gaza disengagement plan
A tale of two museums: (1) Arafat’s belongings (2) Arabs respecting the Holocaust
Le Monde “J’accuse” follow-up
Israeli scientists say they have found the root of sarcasm (& Ashkenazi “highest IQ”)
J’Accuse: Anti-Semitism at Le Monde and beyond
Senior role for pro-Nazi Parliamentarian (& Egypt blocks playwright)
May 2005
French court fines Le Monde journalists for “racist defamation” of Israel
AUT 3: 21 Nobel laureates urge British academics to end Israel boycott
Barcelona teachers’ training manual compares security barrier to Holocaust
Lebanon pulls out of tonight’s Eurovision Song Contest because an Israeli will sing
Media news 7: NPR’s Mideast coverage may be officially monitored (& NYT, WSJ)
AUT 2: British Mideast minister calls for resolution of Israel academic boycott
(1) IDF recruits Harley Davidsons; (2) 50,000 Germans sing for Israel
Media News 6: Irresponsible journalism costs lives (Newsweek and America)
German tennis club: Jews weren’t missed (& Egyptian ping-pong boycott)
Weblogs make a run for the mainstream as newspaper circulation falls
Theater critics compare Rachel Corrie to Primo Levi and Anne Frank
Palestinian Fatah officials send Happy Birthday greetings to Saddam Hussein
The historic sources of French hostility to Israel: A special report
April 2005
Al-Quds University in east Jerusalem criticizes UK academic boycott of Israel
Anti-Israel propaganda sells out on London stage
Jewish despair as Queen Elizabeth set to honor the BBC’s Orla Guerin
PA Chairman Abbas sends holiday greetings to “Jews everywhere”
Viagra ruled Kosher for Passover; and Gorillas keeping Kosher too
Iran bans Al-Jazeera (& note on the new pope’s stint in the Hitler youth)
Hamas’ leading bombmaker the star of a new Syrian-produced TV series
The liberation of Belsen: The BBC didn’t believe their own reporter
My Name is Rachel Corrie, Levy, Thaler, Levi, Gavish, Charhi, Shabo
New Zealand MP says he is sick of the Holocaust (& other items)
Khatami denies, but Assad admits, Katsav handshake at Pope’s funeral
Israeli Arab wins quiz on Zionism (& soccer update)
Iran says Pope was too close to “evil” Jews
A world record: 35,000 new stories on the Pope in 24 hours
Arab media coverage of Pope’s death infuriates Islamists
March 2005
Scoring goals against the “Israeli apartheid” myth
Teachers object to book showing Jewish children
Yassin home to be turned into a museum (& Canadian teachers praise terror)
Al-Jazeera to be launched in English in America
Putin to visit Israel – a first for Russia
Auschwitz awareness jumps sharply in the UK
Arafat killed by high tech laser attack
AP to offer two different leads for the same story
Attack on statue of “eternal leader Hafez Assad” blamed on Israel
Kofi Annan, Turkey updates
Annan bow at Arafat’s grave sparks outrage
World’s top soccer coach Jose Mourinho to visit Israel
Mein Kampf is a bestseller in Turkey for second month in a row
Kofi Annan to attend the re-opening of Yad Vashem
Ha’aretz interviews Asper on the future of the Jerusalem Post
Eichmann was dressed up in an El Al uniform (more on Peter Malkin)
“Better than James Bond” (The death of Peter Malkin)
The BBC admits “lack of balance” over “A family in mourning”
February 2005
“A family in mourning” (The BBC means the bomber’s)
Israeli woman wins Mrs. World; & Israel’s new bobsled team
YWCA says Israel is “just like Hitler”
Teheran bemused as France bans anti-Semitic Iranian TV station
“Patricia Roxborough,” the Mossad’s Christian superspy, buried in Israel
London’s mayor still refuses to apologize for “Nazi remark”
Humane portrayal of Palestinian suicide bombers at Berlin Film Festival
“Israel killed Hariri”: Latest Arab and Iranian conspiracy theory
Kuwaiti newspaper: “America being held hostage by the Jews”
Jerusalem Post co-owners now go to court in two continents
Now Palestinian parents ask: Were suicide attacks worth it?
Mithal al-Alousi: Paying a heavy price for recognizing Israel’s existence
How can Arabs influence the media in the west?
Reporting on Auschwitz: 2005 & 1942
Fans flock to Harry Potter’s grave in Israel & Coming soon: Arafat-Park
The struggle for control of “The Jerusalem Post” heats up
Israeli technology to bring Super Bowl to the world
January 2005
(3) Auschwitz, 60 years on: “Evil Too Great to Grasp – or Remember”
(2) Auschwitz, 60 years on: “Witnesses for the witnesses”
(1) Auschwitz, 60 years on: “My father was no longer there”
Tehran Times marks Holocaust Day by denying it happened
The New York Times and the Holocaust, and other items
Update: VW sues over fake suicide bomber ad
AFP, AP, CNN: Where the reporting stops
Spoof Volkswagen suicide bomber ad sparks global row
Further BBC misrepresentation of the Holocaust; & British government: 4m Jews died
Forgetting to mention the Jews: The BBC, Prince Harry, and the Holocaust
Latest conspiracy theory: “Mossad agents running ops inside the U.S.”
Latest myth: “Israelis to establish settlement in Turkey”
Abu Mazen and the Munich Olympics massacre (continued)
Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas) and the Holocaust (continued)
December 2004
Tunisian accuses Arab world of “a deafening silence” on Darfur
Iranian TV: Israelis steal Palestinian children’s eyes
Nobel Peace laureate compares Israeli nukes to Nazi gas chambers
Ukraine’s poisoned Yushchenko to have Plastic Surgery in Israel
Outrage re (1) Hitler art near Dachau (2) Swastika flowers in Melbourne
CNN, BBC, Eurosport refuse to air Ron Arad campaign
Hamas admit BBC Gaza Correspondent is one of their own
“French Jewish doctor treated Arafat in Paris”
Zionists “secretly control” both Al-Jazeera and the National Geographic
Hamas art goes on display in Australia
“Stoned to death in France: Why Europe is starting to lose faith in Islam”
New poll: 51 per cent of Germans equate Israel with Nazis
Alan Rickman, Rachel Corrie, David Irving, and Robert Fisk
Julie Burchill follow-up; and “Great Britain stands indicted”
November 2004
The Sacramento Union stands by its criticism of Arafat
An evening to celebrate the life of Yasser Arafat: Dec 7, 2004 (& SOAS)
“My nation of heroes, my chosen people...” (& BBC complaints cover-up?)
Columbia University, “a Poison Ivy”
Examples of U.S. Media against the Israeli government and army
“They had lost their names” (and other items)
“Arafat as Moses.” Arafatmania
A partial list of some of Yasser Arafat's victims
Yasser Arafat, “the stuff of legends”
Former Guardian columnist: “There is a heaven. And its name is Israel”
Osama Bin Laden praises Robert Fisk (& other items)
Danish NGO helped fund yesterday's Tel Aviv suicide bomb
U.S. elections: “Will Jews still vote like Puerto Ricans used to?”
October 2004
English Queen (finally) to host Holocaust survivors (& other stories)
Operation Guardian and the U.S. elections (Part 2)
Operation Guardian (Part 1)
The “media intifada”: Is it running out of steam?
BBC “to ditch Reuters”?
Leading medical journal compares Israel to al Qaeda
The Jews are an “inferior race,” says Diana, 26, Budapest
Arab intellectual: It is time to stop blaming the Jews for 9/11 and Beslan
September 2004
Egypt bans Madonna after Israel visit
On bus bombs and bystanders
Iraq war leads Jewish voters to Kerry, poll finds (and other items)
The global head of Reuters news responds
France to show “Shoah” in schools (and other articles)
Moderate Muslims speak out; also warn “liberal Jews” to “wake-up”
Iraqi official wishes “shana tova” to the Israeli people
Madonna to celebrate Jewish New Year at Rachel’s Tomb
London convention will celebrate 9/11 (and other items)
August 2004
European Union funding and the Beersheva massacre
NY Times: Ariel Sharon “defining Israel’s boundaries and its very identity”
On the first day Israel was shunned, on the 12th it won gold
Sudan genocide 2: Where’s Sean Penn when you need him? Where’s the ISM?
Sudan genocide 1: Israel to blame, says Sudanese foreign minister
Israeli Army To Combat Stress With Cannabis (and other items)
New Zealand, France, Canada, Uzbekistan, Winston Churchill, & other items
July 2004
Explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict through numbers
Arafat’s greatest defender in the U.S., the NY Times, calls on him to go
Arab media: “Arafat should go”
June 2004
“For al-Qaeda maniacs, we are all Jews…”
BBC’s former Mideast correspondent: BBC is much too pro-Israel
The BBC conducts its very own Middle East foreign policy
The Intifada comes to an end?
How Arafat intimidates Palestinian journalists and deludes Western ones
Media news 5: Looking into the lens of Al Jazeera (and other items)
Media news 4: The IHT, An American In Paris (and other items)
Media news 3: Ex-Mossad chief to protect NBC in Athens (& other items)
May 2004
“Write your own Thomas Friedman column!”
Notes on Rafah: A biased media, but better than Jenin 2002
“Media buying into Palestinian lies over Gaza raid,” says IDF chief
Recommended new books; book reviews
“The Uncomfortable Question of Anti-Semitism”
The Modern “Hep! Hep! Hep!”
Gays attacked at Palestinian protest, and other items
Ma’ariv catches CNN exaggerating again, and other items
Media news 2: NY Times “appoints new Jerusalem bureau chief”
Media news 1: Liberal radio’s “bad jokes and worse taste”
Iraq 26: “This war is also about sex” (2) Kicking body parts of dead Jews
“Compared to the rest of the Mideast, Gaza is quiet”; Toska dies
Thousands mourn slain mother, girls
NY Times public editor: Paper wrong to say Yassin was a “spiritual leader”
April 2004
Schwarzenegger, Russell Crowe, Colin Powell, Robert Fisk, Mussolini, others
Backlash begins against ex-diplomats’ “poisonous views” on Iraq, Israel
BBC “goes bananas” with excitement as ex-ambassadors attacks Israel
Vanunu released: What nuke whistleblower doesn’t know scares Israel
Meshal 1: Hamas leader speaks at length to BBC
Rantissi 3: The Observer newspaper: Rantissi “loved children”
Rantissi 2: A minute’s silence by British MPs for Sheikh Yassin
Dr Abdel al-Rantissi, “the Pediatrician of Death,” in his own words
German version of Google removes “Jewwatch”; U.S. won’t
“Palestinian Imam planned to bomb Budapest Holocaust museum”
When should people stop supporting Israel?
Gibson’s “Passion” a hit in Beirut, Damascus, Kuwait, Ramallah
Yassin 2: “Spiritual brother of Osama bin Laden”
Yassin 1: Charming and Witty?
Iraq 25: “Iraqi Christians fear Muslim wrath”
Iraq 24: The NY Times and College Basketball
March 2004
(1) NPR: “Poisoning American Minds” (2) UK magazine: Israel as al Qaeda
The NY Times’ idea of democracy; the BBC’s idea of balance
Madrid 2: “The terrorists toppled a European government”
Nearly half British Muslims would become suicide bombers
Madrid 1: Does Bin Laden wish to reclaim “Occupied Spain”?
Iranians in Lebanon, including “lawyers”, “professors” throw rocks at Jews
Palestinian PM came close to winning Nobel Prize
What’s popcorn in Aramaic? (Mel Gibson’s film “The Passion”)
Lithuanian hoops team’s Nazi “prize”: Ten Jews to kill
Human rights groups and Islamic terrorism
(1) A Frenchman or a Jew? (2) British and Israeli MPs as Fagin
February 2004
The NY Times, Al Jazeera, and Holocaust distorters
Sweden 4: “The Crucifixion of Arafat”; Jews afraid to be Jews
The Saudi Separation Fence. (Also: Rumsfeld on Israel)
John Kerry’s family “hid Czech Jewish heritage just like Albright’s”
Google News and “Palestinian commandos”
Slightly improved coverage in NYT, IHT, Guardian (& other news)
France to ban “revolting” anti-Semitic TV broadcasts; and other reports
January 2004
Sharon and Hitler share space at Anne Frank house in Amsterdam
As edited by... “The International Herald Tribune”
For and against: the British MP who would be a suicide bomber
Sweden 3: Pro-Palestinian suicide bomber posters removed from subway stations
Sweden 2: The ambassador and the artist debate live on radio
Sweden 1: The killer as Snow White
The BBC’s Arab problem
Syria and the NY Times: Two Languages, Two Versions
Israeli army says goodbye to the Uzi; upgrades female combat soldiers
Palestinian women protest Chirac’s proposals
December 2003
“Saddam” a popular new name for babies born since his capture
“On the twelfth day of Christmas, Arik Sharon sent me...”
9/11: Palestinian terrorist “Abu Nidal trained Mohammed Atta in Baghdad”
Many Palestinians mark “black day” as Saddam is captured
The Guardian: More from Julie Burchill and others
Fury at French comic's “Heil Israel” jibe
Conflicting views on the “Geneva accords”
November 2003
European media and anti-Israel bias
The Guardian discovers modern anti-Semitism
“Cartoon of the Year” awarded to Sharon eating babies “blood libel” cartoon
Italians join Jews in solidarity Sabbath services
EU body shelves report on anti-Semitism
“Surge in German attacks on Jews”
World media reaction to Istanbul bombings
French banks refuse to clear Israeli checks
French schoolbook: “It was an exam day in the occupied West Bank”
French “help thwart UN resolution protecting Israeli children”
“The dangers of Fisking”
Article on “Jeningrad” and the British media
Poll shows 17 percent of Italians oppose Israel’s existence
Israeli cabinet minister compares Greek composer to Hitler
Singapore and India: Examining antisemitism in an honest way
Both Reuters and AP omit Israel from world terror victim lists
BBC: Fatah is funding Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades
CBS: Arafat transfers $100,000 a month to his wife in Paris
“A letter to Leah Rabin”
NY Times 2: More dove-loving terrorist profiles
NY Times 1: The infamous Walter Duranty
Jeremiah Duggan: it was “no suicide”
Antiglobalism’s Jewish Problem
Inquest opens tomorrow into the death of Jeremiah Duggan
October 2003
We’re all Israelis now, says Australian politician
Pan-European poll calls Israel the biggest threat to world peace
Iraq 23: “Another Vietnam? No,” says military expert
A world divided over “Mahathir’s charming message”
Dr. Mohamad’s fantasies, Islam and the Jews
“A visit to Oxford Street, London”
Malaysia apologizes after PM says “Jews rule world”
Iran 4: “Iran and Israel: best of enemies?”
Iran 3: Missing Israeli airman “in Tehran cell”
Iran 2: An “Imminent Threat to British Jews”
Iran 1: Nobel calling
Arafat reported seriously ill
Haifa 3: The Financial Times & British politicians compare Israel to the Nazis
Haifa 2: “Something was missing from the BBC news bulletins”
Haifa 1: Three generations wiped out in “slaughter of the families”: Did CNN notice?
Bombed Israeli bus to be exhibited in New York, and other stories
September 2003
Terrorist who killed baby released from prison two months ago
Terrorist shoots dead 7-month old girl during Rosh Hashanah meal
IMF: “Arafat diverted $900M to private account”
Celebrities fly in to salute Shimon Peres’s 80th birthday
Arab commentator: the “new anti-Semitism must be clearly denounced”
Second Jewish man murdered in Morocco since Thursday (and other items)
Palestinian columnist: Time to recognize Israel, at least for now
Auschwitz museum balks at Israeli flyover
Survey: 83% of Israelis satisfied with their lives
Israeli scientists make important lung cancer discovery
300,000 attend sixth annual Love Parade in Tel Aviv
Israeli and Palestinian children in Japan for football and friendship
World’s first Hasidic soap opera airs on Israeli TV
The problem with France
August 2003
Rantisi: “The False Holocaust – The Greatest of Lies” (and other items)
Arafat, the great con man of modern politics
A child goes to his grave
Hatred in the air: The BBC, Israel and anti-Semitism
“Orwell’s warning: The BBC is blind to its bias”
“Many dead and maimed” in Jerusalem terror attack
Up to 1400 Arab journalists rally to defend Zayed Center
UAE closes Zayed Center (“Harvard and the Holocaust” Follow-up)
The death of an Israeli teenager
Diet watermelons and memorial asteroids
Arnie opponent “has consistently defended terror groups”
Arnie and the Jews
Iraq 22: Iraqi shepherd takes Rumsfeld, Franks to court
Iraq 21: There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world
July 2003
Iraq 20: Tourism down in Baghdad (and up in Israel)
Iraq 19: The Associated Press now says Iraq forced out its Jews
Iraq 18: Deaths, threats, and allegations
Iraq 17: 99-year-old Iraqi Jew reaches Israel at last
Saudis to Host World Conference on Human Rights
“Saudi Arabia fingerprints all over 9/11”
Albeit reduced, the terror continues
Update: Many media still misreporting Road Map conditions
Palestinian TV last night: “Mohammed Ordered Muslims to Kill Jews”
“Palestinians confirm: There was no Jenin massacre”
“Hamas will now set the agenda”
Hamas Dot Com
Prisoner releases are not a part of the road map
News from Europe and Australia
Report on Washington Post “Bias”
UNESCO designates Tel Aviv as World Heritage Site, and other stories
Rutgers University to hold sessions on how to pressure Israel
Passover Bomb claims further victim, and other updates
Divisions over Oxford academic
June 2003
Success – AP corrects their wording on the “Hudna” (ceasefire)
AP misreports ceasefire declaration
Follow-up on the BBC and Oxford University
Israel breaks links with BBC in anger at “demonization”
Egypt bans “Matrix Reloaded”
Leon Uris, author of “Exodus,” dies aged 78
Harry Potter taught at Bar-Ilan University
Mein Kampf sequel to be published in English
An Englishman in Auschwitz and other Holocaust articles
Voice of Palestine justifies murder of 7 year old girl in Israel
“Fridge bomber” named special adviser to Arafat
“President Bush doesn’t have a clue,” American says
Hamas: We killed 16 “settlers”
Abu Mazen and the Munich Olympics massacre
Abu Mazen and the Holocaust
Harvard and the Holocaust
May 2003
Boy, 17, murdered for “looking like a Jew”
Road map 5: Abbas says Arafat still in charge
Road map 4: “A road map based in denial and wishful thinking”
Road map 3: “The value of the written or spoken word is worthless”
Road map 2: “This little sliver of land called Israel”
Casablanca 3: “What do these barbarians think they are doing?”
Casablanca 2: Jews ponder uncertain future
Real victims: Fifth suicide bombing in 48 hours in Israel
Terror in Morocco: Malaysian PM says Israel should be blamed
The Atlantic, June 2003: Who Shot Mohammed al-Dura?
Follow-up: BBC, Economist and others on “Jewish cabal”
Seinfeld, Norah Jones, lead Israel support parade
Senior British politician steps up attacks on “Jewish cabal”
April 2003
Road map to peace, or to war?
Iraq 16: Edward Said: “A Stupid War”
Iraq 15: CNN’s “propaganda flowed like wine” (Washington Times)
Iraq 14: CNN: “The news we kept to ourselves”
Iraq 13: An Iraqi writes: A personal view on the liberation of my country
Iraq 11: “Smiles and flowers for U.S. Marines in Baghdad”
Syria next?
Church of the Nativity: Bush, Blair, Rumsfeld, Straw excommunicated
British media under fire over Israel, Iraq
March 2003
Iraq 7: Weddings with Gas masks
Further attacks on young French Jews
Iraq 6: Stars and Gripes
Iraq 5: Views of Elie Wiesel, Jimmy Carter, Simon Wiesenthal & Winston Churchill
All The News That's Fit To Print? The NY Times and Israel
High school victims
BBC: How the Israelis have stolen Christmas
Saudi dictator tells Gadhafi “Your death awaits you”
February 2003
Arafat appears on “Forbes” world’s richest list
Egyptian government paper: “Talmud and Torah behind burning of Iraq”
Donkeys more important than Israelis, suggests American animal rights group
Unlikely partners: White supremacists ally with Moslem extremists
Israel Harel, “The man who made the Mossad”
Iraq 3: Iraq for the Iraqis
Iraq 2: Kurdish and Iranian victims and hopes
Iraq 1: Criticizing the antiwar marchers
British paper apologizes for citing Holocaust denier in anti-Israel piece
EU to finally investigate whether it’s funding Palestinian suicide attacks
Israel reacts with fury to Belgium decision
January 2003
Suicide bombers and professors
New record in 2002 for media obsession with Israel
December 2002
Mamet, Fonda, Ensler, Spielberg, Streisand: Hollywood and the Middle East
Not much joy at a Saudi Christmas
Not all children are equal: UN ignores Jewish Israeli child victims
Boycott of world-class Israeli scientists “could cost lives” elsewhere
Mr. Assad takes tea with the Queen
Columbia University “may offer Tom Paulin a permanent position”
Suicide bomber game tests the boundaries of taste
Madame Tussauds to remove Arafat making “V” for victory sign (& a Spanish MP speaks out for Israel)
Kenya bomb attacks: “Terror is terror is terror” (& “British tourists shun Israelis”)
November 2002
Mossad to track down those behind triple bomb attacks in Kenya
“Slaughter of innocents,” notices The Guardian and The Independent
Saudi paper: Paulin’s views on Jews are “repulsive”
Harvard reinvites Oxford’s Paulin; “Harvard Crimson” calls Paulin “ghastly, repulsive and sickening”
AP: the Muslim terrorists are “devout” while the 12 Jewish victims are “radical”
“Time Out” magazine launched in Tel Aviv, & the shame of “Fortune” magazine
Harvard withdraws its invitation to Tom Paulin
Developments in Palestinian terror strategy and thinking
Harvard invites Oxford academic who wants some Jews “shot dead”
Egyptian government defends the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as art
Israel “a nightmare that gives Jews a bad name,” & other election comment
October 2002
HRW: Suicide bombs against Israel are crimes against humanity
The BBC, olive groves, and the murder of teenage girls
German embassy in Israel to honor SS
Finally, The New York Times reports on Arab Anti-Semitism
The question of Palestinian refugees
“America in the dock”: myths and truth
Toronto Star, BBC, Washington Post and others hit back at bias claims
Bali backlash against the “lets blame Israel” sections of the media
Defying terror: “Experts say many Israelis show remarkable resilience”
More on the Bali bombings: outright anti-Semitic lies and good deeds
“UN paying disgraced Waldheim $125,000 per year”
The Bali disco difference: not all terror victims are treated equally
Israel has “won the Intifada”
At the Irish inn, “no Jews or dogs” allowed
NPR under fire
“Arabs, not Jews, driving Bush’s Iraq plans”
September 2002
Israelis operating in Iraq
Professor: Israel is the “mirror image of Nazism”
An Essay by Jack Schwartz: Why does Israel stir such passions?
In the U.S. & Canada too, “Hating Israel is part of campus culture”
Hamas: Barghouti is a traitor. Al-Aqsa: Amar is a traitor
Yom Kippur update: TV boss attacks his own station
On Yom Kippur, British TV screens a particularly harsh attack on Israel
The Guardian’s views on U.S. think tanks
The killing of Israelis, harassment of journalists by Arafat resumes
Barenboim would play for Arafat, Assad, not Sharon
Sara and Benjamin Netanyahu in the news
Danny Levin: September 11’s “first victim”
London to host “celebration of September 11”
August 2002
Rabbi’s anger will fuel terror, say critics
Israel set on tragic path, says UK chief rabbi
Memri responds to the Guardian
Jenin: The rush to judgment
Abu Nidal: was he colluding with the Saudis?
“With unyielding faith”: The EU and the Palestinian Authority
“Arafat’s a billionaire”
Dispatches from Europe: Prague, Moscow, Romania, Belgium
The Guardian attacks Memri
Goldenberg bows out
Gold for Israel, 30 years on from Munich
Hero of World Trade Center attack laid to rest in Israel
“Annihilate Hamas”
Clinton: I’d die for Israel
July 2002
Einstein and other stories
Arafat’s missing millions
An anti-Israel Freudian slip in London
“What Occupation?”
Remembering Shiri, a particularly moving website
Their Kampf: Did Monica Lewinsky pave the way for 9/11?
The true Palestinian resistance?
Terrorism’s youngest victim, just moments old
LAX attack was “no isolated incident”
The anti-Semitic lies that threaten all of us
George W. Bush: Visionary or “someone stupid”?
Updates on Russian righteous gentile and on Oriana Fallaci
Dr Ruth and “Star Wars” Queen stand up for Israel
June 2002
Al Jazeera: Bomber was AIDS carrier
19 more kids dead on bus today: On Hamas and the meaning of “occupation”
The BBC, CNN and Chen Keinan
Jerry Seinfeld planning solidarity visit to Israel
Al Jazeera says Jews behind today’s massacre
A Double Thread
Israel & the anti-Semites: An essay from Commentary
Old habits die hard: The renewed anti-Semitism in historical context
May 2002
Are Reuters journalists transporting grenades for Palestinian terrorists?
Is the UN agency UNRWA complicit in Palestinian terrorism
Israelis not safe outside Planet Earth either
Lawyer takes on BBC over “bias”; The Guardian reflects
Edward Said and others on Israel
“We need a Palestinian Mandela”
Tragic twist in Netanya; Israeli family sues EU for Palestinian attack
Ehud Barak and others attack The New York Times’ reporting
Post-Post Zionism and the Israeli and European left
Jeningrad – What the British media said
Rishon Lezion: Real victims and false reports
“EU cash funded suicide bombers”
CNN & Saeb Erekat: “Why TV news loves a liar”
Massacres, non-massacres, and fake burials in Jenin
Lecturing about wicked Israel is now a must at Notting Hill dinner parties
Suicide-bomber Internet game awards points for killing
Egyptian Government daily newspaper: “If only Hitler had done the job”
British troops in 1938: The Real Massacre in Jenin
April 2002
“Italy’s Rushdie” – Oriana Fallaci gets death threats for speaking her mind
P.A. rewrites Jenin (AP, Boston Globe, LA Times, Ha’aretz)
Dennis Ross on the “Camp David myths” of the anti-Israel crowd
Israel, Rwanda, The Gestapo: A hypocritical world
Israel is “every bit as repellent” as Bin Laden, says The Guardian
Bethlehem at war: Makano and Takahashi take in the sights
Oriana Fallaci, Ron Rosenbaum, speak out on anti-Semitism
Gila Weiss, the nail polish on her toenails
Jenin: “The Massacre that wasn’t”
Contrasting editorials from the Sun, Independent and Evening Standard
Oxford University professor: Jews should be shot dead
Saudi government daily newspaper praises the Passover massacre
At least six dead at Tunisian synagogue blast
Magen David Adom appeals for funds
An open letter to the world, by a defiant Israeli
UN Ambassador loses niece
Dachau: Never Again?
Activist for Palestinian cause kills himself in Tokyo park (& other items)
Backs against the wall: Why Israel fights
Passover bombing toll reaches 25; Another Haifa victim dies
Yesterday Haifa, tomorrow who knows?
Steven Spielberg, Barbara Streisand, Philip Roth, Daniel Libeskind: Where are you?
March 2002
Sephardi Chief Rabbi: Arafat wants another Holocaust
Passover 2002: Attacks from Lyon to Netanya
Passover massacre bomber was on Israel’s wanted list
British ambassador tells Israelis how to polish their image
Articles on Arafat by Charles Krauthammer and George F. Will
Esther Klieman, a teacher for Downs Syndrome kids, & other victims of terror
Suicide bomber wept tears of joy when chosen for mission
German TV: Mohammed Al-Dura was killed by Palestinians
Terrorist confirms: Orders to kill Israeli civilians come from Arafat himself
“Almost everything you think you know about the Middle East is untrue”
At least 13 Israeli civilians killed in Jerusalem and Netanya
Egyptian columnist: Guantanamo Bay is the real Auschwitz
Bomber wipes out family, and Magen David Adom volunteer
The Media and the Middle East: The view from Jerusalem
Palestinians celebrate as 24 Israelis die in terror attacks
February 2002
Saudi writer: Palestinian Authority no longer credible
Rachel Thaler, 16, and other victims
Jews, Christians, Muslims save abandoned Palestinian baby
Terms of abuse: A black Britain denounces anti-Semitism
Benny Morris changes his tune
Serious allegations about the objectivity of NY Times Israel reporter
At least 3 dead in Pizzeria suicide bombing, 27 hospitalized
Former U.S. Consul Abington and an Israeli “wrote Arafat’s New York Times op-ed”
“Thanks to Hitler”, says Egyptian newspaper
The problem of Saudi Arabia: Time to face Mecca
Fragments, a Holocaust book fraud
(1) Arafat interviewed (2) Red Crescent ambulance delivers terrorist
Terrorism is stronger than democracy: A warning to Israel
Wada Idris: She’s no saint
January 2002
Egyptian government weekly: This great danger is the Jew
The Middle East media definition of a settler
The Guardian: “Anti-Semitic – whatever the intentions”
New York Twin Towers survivor injured in Jerusalem blast
Attack victim was survivor of 1929 Hebron Arab riots
Shots in Paris; bomb in Tel Aviv
“Menem took Iranian bribes in Jewish bombing” claim
Child finds bomb in Jerusalem overnight
“I almost killed a patient”: “Strange times for a Jerusalem Doctor”
Belgian politicians say Peres should be put on trial
“My camel ate the manifest” (& other excuses for the Karine A)
Estee Lauder and Harrods
Terrorist opens fire in downtown Jerusalem
The New Statesman’s racist slur
Bazooka Bubble gum’s new hero for kids: Yasser Arafat
France and England’s Jewish problem
Israel’s response to terror raid will come soon; attacker was from PA naval force
Bush beats Bin Laden to become second worst personality of 2001
BBC wins award for most dishonest reporting
Editorial: “Encourage the IDF to drain another ‘swamp of terror,’ Arafat and all”
Israel seizes massive haul of weapons
December 2001
Saudi government “Jewish hellish plan to take over the world”
Shoe bomb suspect took “dummy run” flight to Israel; El-Al checked his shoes
Christmas day killing; Israel claims Jordan under threat
“Jews persecute Arafat like they did Jesus”
Sari Nusseibeh: Right of return should be only to Palestinian state
The hate that dare not speak its name
“That shitty little country Israel”
Arafat calls for more “martyrs”
Renewed anti-Semitism in England since Sept. 11
Israel’s leading new historian appears to change his mind
Saudis airing anti-Semitic TV series for Ramadan
British opposition leader: BBC “gives legitimacy to Arab terrorists”
Kabul’s last two Jews celebrate Hannuka
Jerusalem bomb had rat poisoning
Suicide bombings justified, says Jerusalem Mufti
PA radio: U.S. flooding Israel with Afghani Jews
Ido Cohen, 17, succumbs to his wounds
Lebanese Christians face death for contacting Israel
In defense of fundamentalist Jews
Rudy Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg to light Hanukka candles in Jerusalem
Former Nobel Committee member: Revoke Arafat’s prize
Some facts you might not have seen in regular news reports
Grenade fired at building with El Al office in Bangkok
Today’s bomb at Jerusalem Hilton targeted government ministers
Palestinian Authority plans longer-range rocket
Intifada poetry: An appeal from Gilo
Bush freezes Hamas assets in U.S.
Searching for victims’ relatives abroad
Hizbullah MP’s praise the suicide attacks in Israel
In a rare move…
Palestinian school teachers celebrate
Bomber quit PA intelligence service to join Hamas two days before attack
Of the 10 Israeli dead, eight were teenagers and two were aged 20
Today’s suicide bombs followed by celebrations in Jenin
Three Jerusalem bombs
November 2001
The Wall Street Journal: Why Europe Hates Israel
Jewish leaders protest “unbearable” Berlin march plans
New suicide bomb; Celebrations in Jenin
BBC: September 11 attacks “not terrorism”
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