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July 12, 2024

Weekend long read

1) At The Free Press, Eli Lake explains why (contrary to the claims of the Guardian, the BBC and oth...

December 4, 2014

UK media absurd political analogy watch: The Berlin Wall & Israel's Security Barrier

Ben Zygier (known as Prisoner X) was the Australian-Israeli Mossad agent imprisoned at Ayalon Prison...

September 1, 2014

Focus below the line: Profile of 'anti-Zionist' Guardian commenter Eileen Kuch

We first noticed commenter ‘Eileen Kuch’ on a ‘Comment is Free’ thread about...

October 27, 2013

In a nutshell: Why Guardian readers shouldn’t be so smug

Cross posted by Dan Coen at Trending Central The Guardian has a track record of gladly giving jobs ...

February 14, 2013

Peter Beaumont’s absurd political analogy regarding Israel and ‘Prisoner X’

Peter Beaumont, foreign affairs editor at the Observer (sister publication of the Guardian), has alr...

October 29, 2012

Seumas Milne, antisemitism and “the usual internet suspects”.

An apparatchik named Seumas Milne, who worked for the decidedly pro-Stalinist magazine called Straig...

August 15, 2012

Communist ‘Hasbara’ at the Guardian

Who among us hasn’t longed for the ‘workers paradises’ of the former Soviet bloc? ...

June 7, 2012

The Six Day War: Day Two

This week, Jewish Ideas Daily commemorates the forty-fifth anniversary of the Six-Day War with a d...

December 13, 2011

Guardian’s Seumas Milne: Trainee @ PFLP terror camp in Beirut? (Updated)

Harry’s Place today asked the question, “Did The Guardian’s Seumas Milne spend his ga...

October 10, 2011

“KGB agents loved the Guardian”

H/T Gerald A CiF Watch reader came across this juicy little nugget about the Guardian, from a report...