Matti Friedman

December 22, 2015

Independent amplifies the smears of EU-funded group ‘Breaking the Silence’

There’s nothing at all surprising about an op-ed published at the Independent by their former ...

November 3, 2015

Times of London embraces the ‘Israeli root cause’ explanation for Palestinian violence

The reason why such journalists always look for an Israeli root cause when explaining such acts of t...

May 15, 2015

The context of the BBC’s promotion of ‘Breaking the Silence’

As readers no doubt recall, at the beginning of this month the BBC produced three items on various p...

May 5, 2015

Matti Friedman comments on Breaking the Silence report

Yesterday, we posted a response to a Guardian article on a new report by the European-funded NGO Bre...

February 9, 2015

No, Sky News did NOT apologise for suggesting that Israel may provoke anti-Semitism

As previously noted on these pages, Sky News reporter Adam Boulton asked Britain’s Chief Rabbi Eph...

January 30, 2015

Media and Israel: Friday night long reads

1) Over at the Fathom journal is a transcript of a speech titled ‘The ideological roots of med...

January 30, 2015

Perhaps the most important speech about media coverage of Israel ever given

The following is the text of a speech given by former AP journalist Matti Friedman at a BICOM dinner...

December 1, 2014

Matti Friedman sheds more light on the reporting of the summer conflict

Back in the summer we noted an article written by former AP correspondent Matti Friedman which share...

September 28, 2014

Why does the Guardian portray Hamas as a victim of Israeli aggression?

“Our narrative has gained the upper hand in the media” – Hamas deputy political l...

September 21, 2014

Guardian/Reuters buries the lead on Hamas targeting of Palestinian civilians

Hidden in the final sentence of a Guardian/Reuters report on Sept. 20th, Egypt to host Gaza talks b...