April, 2013

April 17, 2013

Glimpse of upcoming BBC programme on Israel

Ahead of tonight’s BBC Two programme “Israel: Facing the Future” (scheduled at 21:...

April 17, 2013

Benghazi to Boston: Glenn Greenwald’s hypocrisy in condemning ‘rush to judgement’ over marathon attack

In response to the bomb attack at the Boston Marathon on Monday which killed three people and injure...

April 17, 2013

BBC Israel focus in numbers

The BBC News website’s Middle East page features ‘Country Profiles’ for twenty sta...

April 16, 2013

Is James Harding’s religion relevant when reporting on his new position at the BBC?

Lisa O’Carroll’s April 16 story in the Guardian reports on the appointment of James Har...

April 16, 2013

Beyond the BBC Middle East news filter

Among the recent Middle East events not reported by the BBC was the controversy caused on April 1st ...

April 16, 2013

Israeli Declaration of Independence read by David Ben-Gurion on May 14, 1948

As Israel celebrates its 65 birthday today, here’s David Ben-Gurion’s full reading of th...

April 15, 2013

Yom HaAtzmaout

Happy 65th Independence Day to all those celebrating! ...

April 15, 2013

‘Comment is Free’ on the ‘Anonymous’ and “heroic” cyber-attack on Yad Vashem

What ‘progressive’ goal inspired the group calling itself “Anonymous” to make the d...

April 15, 2013

From Memorial to Independence

Sixty five years ago today, on April 15th 1948, the retreating British Mandate authorities abandoned...

April 15, 2013

Glenn Greenwald and Israel’s booming anti-Zionism tourism trade

Glenn Greenwald’s ‘Comment is Free’ post on April 13 concerns a bill circulating�...