Barack Obama

December 16, 2012

Chris McGreal vs. Harriet Sherwood on Israel’s 2009 settlement construction freeze

As we reported on Nov. 8, Chris McGreal’s post-election analysis, Obama’s in-tray – Isra...

December 5, 2012

CiF editor questions Anna Wintour’s fitness to be US Ambassador but avoids thorniest issue

‘Comment is Free’ editor Natalie Hanman asked a question today: Should Anna Wintour be t...

November 29, 2012

CST report on antisemitic discourse slams the Guardian: Singles out Orr and McGreal

The CST, the official body advising the UK Jewish community on matters of security and antisemi...

November 8, 2012

Chris McGreal lies about Israeli building freeze

Chris McGreal’s latest Guardian report is illustrated with a photo recycled from five days ag...

September 7, 2012

The Guardian’s Ewan MacAskill and Jewish money

Walter Russell Mead, in an essay at his blog, cited the following quote: “American Presidents ha...

July 30, 2012

Mitt Romney’s trip to Israel & Harriet Sherwood’s miscalibrated American political ‘Jewdar’

The strap line for Harriet Sherwood’s Guardian report of July 27th, Mitt Romney woos Israel...

October 13, 2011

Meet Moazzam Begg: Al-Qaeda and Taliban supporter, and latest Guardian contributor

For some reason, the Guardian never publishes essays by prominent liberal Muslims such as Irshad Ma...

August 10, 2011

Anti-Zionist blog attacks CiF Watch and defends racist depiction of Obama by Carlos Latuff

A post at the anti-Zionist (and often unintentionally hilarious) blog, Dessert Peace, took exceptio...

May 26, 2011

Netanyahu throws down the gauntlet of racism

A guest post by AKUS Whether it’s Jimmy Carter (“Apartheid”) or the Guardian and its devoted r...

March 6, 2011

Purim, and the patronizing paternalism of Presidents, Prime Ministers & “Progressives”

I’ve been organising our community Purim party for many years now and that means that from early J...