Media silence on Palestinian hunger strikers: Et tu, Amy Goodman?
19 June 2012
Amy Goodman breaks her silent streak on Mahmoud Sarsak with an egregious error.
Media Watch
When will The New York Times address the ongoing ethical problem at its Jerusalem bureau?
12 June 2012
It has been two months since the latest serious allegations of a conflict of interest at The New York Times Jerusalem Bureau, but no one at the newspaper has yet addressed them.
What the Günter Grass controversy says about censorship in Europe
9 April 2012
Zionists and their supporters control large chunks of the media in the EU’s three largest countries.
Israeli army official speakers misinform their readers on Twitter
20 March 2012
I am getting sick of the idea that the Israeli army spokespersons are allowed to tweet wrong information, mock dead people, tweet outdated
Daily Show takes on US punishment of UNESCO over Palestine membership
16 March 2012
A two-part report aired yesterday on the US comedy program The Daily Show the US for cutting off funding to the United Nations education and cultural organization UNESCO after the UN body admitted Palestine as a member state last year.
Two Kinds of Non-Violence
19 February 2012
Violence has always been a useful term for governments and their allied establishment figures in media and punditry. Key to that utility is a very specialized use of the term as a descriptor for actions that don’t originate with the establishment or authorities. Police, armies, presidents and city administrators do not engage in violence. They use strategies, protocols, plans of action, deployments, operations and strikes. The people that are injured and die in those acts are not actively killed by violence. Rather, they suffer only in the passive voice.
Al Jazeera English Doesn't Care About Khader Adnan
10 February 2012
In a few hours, Khader Adnan will enter his 56th day of hunger strike. As international solidarity grows, the international media’s silence on his case is deafening. Below is how Al Jazeera English reacted to the simple question of “Why isn’t Khader Adnan getting more coverage?”
Despite Netanyahu denial, campaign to smear Haaretz as "enemy" of Israel already underway
19 January 2012
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to deny comments attributed to him that The New York Times and Haaretz are Israel’s greatest enemies.
National Press Club suspends journalist for asking Saudi prince a tough question
18 November 2011
Journalist Sam Husseini asks a Saudi prince a tough question and gets booted out of the National Press Club, showing the limits of what the “free” media are allowed to do in Washington
Protest smearing of Occupy Wall Street, Palestine solidarity movements as "anti-Semitic"
28 October 2011
In a news segment broadcast Wednesday night by ABC 7 News in Chicago, reporter Chuck Goudie claims that there is “a vein of anti-Semitism flowing through the movement that has Jewish leaders concerned.” I and other activists have responded to this vile smear attack on the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the Palestine solidarity movement more generally.