Letters to the Media

NPR’s reporting on the Palestinian attack in Hebron has been the most unprofessional and inaccurate EI’s Ali Abunimah has come across. As late as Sunday morning, NPR was still reporting as fact utterly false Israeli government claims of an ambush and massacre of “Jewish worshippers” in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.

EI’s Ali Abunimah responds to an inflammatory column in Chicago’s The Daily Herald by Chaya Gil, a vice-president of the American Jewish Committee’s Chicago Chapter. Gil implicitly equates Abunimah’s criticism the Nusseibeh-Ayalon agreement with a lust for violence and extremism.

In a published letter, EI’s Ali Abunimah responds to a Chicago Sun-Times commentary accusing him of hiding behind an “image of moderation” to advance a hate-filled agenda. As Abunimah points out, it is the commentary’s author who is using such personal attacks to cover up Israel history of attacks on Palestinians and ever louder calls in Israel for total ethnic cleansing.

National Public Radio’s Morning Edition Host Bob Edwards says that the United States has been “encouraging democratic reforms” in the Middle East, but EI’s Ali Abunimah asks, where’s the evidence?

EI’s Ali Abunimah finds that an installment of National Public Radio’s special series on the history of Palestine gets it largely right, but misses a major point about the expulsion of the Palestinians.

EI’s Ali Abunimah says that a BBC News Online report about the second anniversary of the Intifada includes Israeli claims that Palestinians deliberately began a violent campaign against Israel, without mentioning strong evidence to the contrary, as from the Mitchell Commission report.

Following a baseless attack on EI by a former Israeli cabinet minister, published in Ha’aretz newspaper, EI’s attempts to get Ha’aretz to print a very reasonable correction ended in an unsatisfying exchange with Ha’aretz editor David Landau.

“Palestinians accused Israel of massacring up to 500 civilians [in Jenin].” You’ve seen the claim. It’s been so oft-repeated that you might remember hearing it from the horse’s mouth. But it didn’t really happen. EI asks the Economist for a source.