Matti Friedman

April 17, 2024

Guardian again engages in Oct. 7th Massacre inversion (Update)

(See important update below the post) “Bewildering”, wrote Matti Friedman in a penetrating essay...

February 1, 2022

British media outlets omit reason why Amnesty is accused of antisemitism

In 2014, Associated Press’s former Jerusalem correspondent Matti Friedman commented on a media...

May 18, 2021

The Guardian, Sheikh Jarrah and the eternal Israeli ‘provocation’

One of the ways the Guardian has obfuscated Palestinian responsibility for the violence in Jerusalem...

May 5, 2021

Financial Times editor embraces HRW’s apartheid lie

David Gardner has been with the Financial Times for over 40 years, was previously their Mid-East edi...

April 5, 2020

Looking for a good book to read? Here are a few of our top picks

We thought this would be a good time to recommend a few of our favourite books relevant in some way ...

December 27, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

August 27, 2019

Guardian silent on murder of Rina Shnerb and celebrating Palestinians.

When last Friday, a few days after her 17th birthday, beautiful Israeli teenager Rina Shnerb was mur...

February 26, 2019

Indy journo again falsely accuses Israeli politician of “glorifying” civilian deaths

An op-ed by the Independent's Mid-East correspondent on the electoral hopes of Benny Gantz expresses...

January 18, 2019

Weekend long read

Our weekly round-up of Middle East related background reading....

January 16, 2019

Former AP Jerusalem reporter exposes big flaw in media coverage of Israel

If you see only an “Israeli-Palestinian” conflict, then nothing that Israelis do makes sense. (T...