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What Happened to #BringBackOurGirls?

Posted by Kemberlee Kaye on August 25, 2014 16 Comments

Disappointing results of hashtag diplomacy.

“Death Valley” for Yazidis in Northern Iraq

Posted by Bruce Carroll on August 11, 2014 14 Comments

Trapped Yazidis die by the thousands.

The slaughter of the Yazidi

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 07, 2014 41 Comments

Finally the story is being told.

Sochi: Stunning Display of Cultural Confidence… For Some Reason

Posted by edgeofthesandbox on February 14, 2014 15 Comments

In the best Soviet tradition, Russians couldn't help exaggerating.

134 House Members sign letter against academic boycott of Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 17, 2014 11 Comments

"blatant disregard for academic freedom" and "thinly-veiled bigotry and bias against the Jewish State."

100 House Reps already have signed onto letter denouncing anti-Israel academic boycott

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 15, 2014 10 Comments

Is your Rep on this list? If not, contact his or her office TODAY.

What if you threw a traffic scandal and only the media cared?

Posted by Mandy Nagy on January 14, 2014 22 Comments

Pew Research poll: Little public interest in Christie story

Has your Rep signed Congressional letter against Israel academic boycott?

Posted by William A. Jacobson on January 14, 2014 10 Comments

If not, pick up the phone or send an email right now.

Schadenfreude is free; Antarctic air-sea rescues are not

Posted by Leslie Eastman on January 04, 2014 39 Comments

Price to Americans for helping other countries deal with “climate change”: $7.45 Billion. Price of an international air-sea rescue of 52 passengers (including 4 journalists and 26 paying tourists, and various academic advocates of “global warming”): Millions of dollars, to be paid by the shipping...

Gift from Obama family mistakenly delivered to Illinois woman

Posted by Mandy Nagy on January 02, 2014 9 Comments

A special gift from the Obama family intended for the godmother of the president’s daughters was mistakenly delivered to an unsuspecting recipient in Illinois, after a post-office mix-up. From ABC News: A woman in the Chicago suburbs got quite a surprise when opening up a...

University statements rejecting academic boycott of Israel

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 22, 2013 9 Comments

Dozens and growing

Israel Haters and Hezbollah at the University of Washington

Posted by 0387erp on November 13, 2013 9 Comments

While life goes on as usual in the caffeinated city, a concentrated and vicious strain of Israel hatred has taken root at the center of Washington State’s flagship University.

Remembering: Lessons of the Lod Airport massacre

Posted by New Neo on September 24, 2013 12 Comments

The Nairobi mall attack has conjured up memories of the first terrorist attack I ever remember, the Lod airport massacre. You may never have heard of it—or of Lod airport, for that matter, which is the main airport in Tel Aviv and was later renamed...

Mideast Media Sampler – 06/05/2013 – Erdogan’s straits

Posted by David Gerstman on June 05, 2013 8 Comments

1) Talkin’ Turkey Claire Berlinski provides the recent background for the foment going on in Turkey: Of late, almost every sector of the electorate has felt unease about one part or another of Erdoğan’s agenda. Restrictive new alcohol legislation, rammed through parliament, as usual, with...

The post-#Benghazi hearing spin begins

Posted by David Gerstman on May 09, 2013 17 Comments

After public editor, Margaret Sullivan’s unconvincing arguments about the New York Times coverage of Benghazi, I was expecting the New York Times and other members of the MSM to be out today with editorials spinning yesterday’s testimony in favor of the administration. .@sulliview insistence on...

Mideast Media Sampler – 05/06/2013 – Mixed Messaging on #Syria

Posted by David Gerstman on May 06, 2013 4 Comments

1) The Israeli “message” Why is it that threats against Israel are regularly downplayed by the media? ‘Everywhere an #Iranian embassy exists, they plan terror on #Jews, #Israelis‘ ow.ly/kJZlH — Israel Hayom English (@IsraelHayomEng) May 6, 2013 Typical of this phenomenon is the headline Airstrikes...

Add Boston Marathon Bombing to pile of Failed Eliminationist Narratives

Posted by William A. Jacobson on April 20, 2013 40 Comments

It started with Bill Sparkman, the part-time Census worker who went missing and then was found dead, setting off an avalanche of mainstream media and left-blogosphere accusations that he was the victim of anti-government “right-wing” hate. It turned out that Sparkman killed himself, but there...

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