Once again, the terror that plagues Israel’s southern communities from the Gaza Strip is rearing its ugly head. And once again, the media is silent in the face of the indiscriminate targeting of Israeli civilians. This weekend was marked by untenable terror that forced scores of Israeli civilians in bomb...
Indian CAMERA Fellow Educates His Peers on Israel
When you think of anti-Israel bias, India probably isn’t the first place that comes to mind. It might surprise you, but with one of the oldest continuous Jewish communities in the world, and an expanding diplomatic relationship with the Israeli government, college campuses in India are wrought with inaccuracies when...
The Guardian Whitewashes Charges of Antisemitism Against Malia Bouattia
An article in the Guardian, written by their education correspondent Sally Weale, focused on recent reports of hate crimes targeting Jews at Exeter, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Sussex and University College London. Among the people interviewed in the article (UK universities urged to a tackle rising tide of antisemitism, Feb. 18th) was NUS President Malia Bouattia....
Could Everything the Media Told You About Israel’s Eroding Democracy Be Wrong?
The putative ‘erosion’ of Israel’s democracy is one of those NGO and media-driven narratives that has developed into something akin to conventional wisdom among the state’s critics – despite the dearth of any real empirical evidence attesting to such a political decline. Such erroneous predictions, amplified within both the Israeli and British far-left, sometimes go...
The Boundless Anti-Israel Hatred of AJ+
The fact that AJ+, the social media wing of Al Jazeera, is vehemently anti-Israel, is not really surprising. But even by their standards, AJ+ managed to stoop to a new low this week, by using the murders of four Israelis in a terrorist attack, to demonize the Jewish state even...
Do You Remember When Arizona Representative Gabby Giffords Was Shot?
It was a few years ago; I remember the commotion and stress. People were glued to their screens and social media, scanning CNN and NPR’s Twitter feeds for any insight or information on her current status. Several news outlets quickly jumped to be the first to say that she had...
Israel Increased Water Supply to West Bank
Some kids find rumors fun in grade school. A child makes up something about a schoolmate, tells it to the whole class, and that schoolmate ends up crying from embarrassment. But what is he embarrassed of? The rumor is simply a lie, a lie that needs to be confronted and...
Media Bias: Addressing the Unaddressed
On April 4th, Syracuse Students for Israel hosted journalist Liz Wahl for an event educating the campus community on the issue of media bias, especially concerning Israel. Wahl rose to prominence following her on-air resignation from the state-owned Russia Today network after becoming aware of RT’s blatant censorship of Russian...