Op-Ed: BBC Exposes Its Mideast Bias?
This opinion piece by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished courtesy of The Commentator. In 2004, the BBC conducted a thorough internal review of its coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian...
View ArticleHR Comment: Righting a Capital Offense
This opinion piece by Simon Plosker, HonestReporting’s Managing Editor, was originally published in the Jerusalem Post. When HonestReporting filed a complaint with the UK’s Press Complaints Commission...
View ArticleFinally, BBC Admits to “Shoddy Journalism”
The following opinion piece by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished from the Times of Israel. Just imagine the scenario: A flagship BBC news program investigates an alleged Israeli “war...
View ArticleThe Media, Not Israeli Voters, Take the Hardline
For several weeks we have been bombarded with international coverage of the Israeli election campaign. A common thread emerged: a surge to the right accompanied by the death of the peace process and...
View ArticleHow Does the Media Relate to Anti-Semitism?
This opinion piece by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished from The Times of Israel. Simon Plosker presents at the Global Forum During the 4th International Conference of the Global Forum...
View ArticleIran Learns the Language of the West
This opinion piece by HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker is republished from The Algemeiner. A recent Washington Post / ABC News opinion poll found that an overwhelming 79 percent of Americans expressed...
View ArticleCopenhagen Terror: They Just Don’t Get It
Metro is a free newspaper handed out on major UK transport networks and other outlets. It has a readership of millions. This is its recent front page: Once again, a European Jewish community has been...
View ArticleThe Iranian Deal and Doublethink
Cherryl Smith, PhD, is professor emerita in rhetoric and composition at California State University, Sacramento. She writes at Framing Israel. The substance of what’s wrong with the Iran deal (see here...
View ArticleIt’s Terrorism, But Not an Intifada
My colleague Pesach Benson has written why he believes we should acknowledge that the current Palestinian violence should be properly labeled an “Intifada.” He writes that the excessive number of...
View ArticleThe Disappearing Ongoing Terror Wave
Cherryl Smith, PhD is Professor Emerita of rhetoric and composition, California State University, Sacramento. She writes at Framing Israel. A week into the ongoing wave of terror against Israeli Jews,...
View ArticleHaaretz’s Owner Proves Paper Has an Anti-Israel Political Agenda
The following excerpt is taken from HR Managing Editor Simon Plosker’s opinion piece published in The Algemeiner. With a circulation as low as 6% market share of Israeli print media according to...
View ArticlePeering Through a Distorted World View
Stéphane_Dion (CC By Chris Slothouber) Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion recently released the sort of supposedly even-handed statement that is all the rage among political leaders...
View ArticleIs Murdering Israelis Just “Human Nature”?
On January 26, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made the bold assertion that terrorism against Israelis is “human nature.” According to Ban, “Stabbings, vehicle attacks, and shootings by Palestinians...
View ArticleWhere Terrorism is Not News
I’m a runner. I’m a long distance runner and for the past few years, I have run thousands of kilometers. Most of my runs have started and finished from my home in Neve Daniel, a small town in the Gush...
View ArticleJohn Kerry Wants Less News Coverage of Terror?
John Kerry wants less news coverage of terror. The Secretary of State raised a stink when he told reporters he wished the media wouldn’t cover terrorism “quite as much.” This is from the State...
View ArticleThe Gaza Energy Crisis: A Catch-22
In a guest post exclusive to HonestReporting, Col. (Res.) Grisha Yakubovich, former Head of the Civilian Department in the IDF’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) unit,...
View ArticleEXCLUSIVE: How Reporting From Israel Changed My Worldview Forever
In an exclusive article for HonestReporting, foreign journalist Hunter Stuart recounts how he was exposed to the realities of reporting from Israel and found that his pro-Palestinian views were...
View ArticleFrom the Scene: Temple Mount Troubles
On Friday a week ago, three Arab-Israeli gunmen carried out a terrorist attack in Jerusalem’s Old City, shooting dead two Druze Israeli police officers. That those terrorists opened fire from within...
View ArticleTo Understand Zionism, Read Herzl Not Mahmoud Abbas
Paul Gross, a member of HonestReporting’s Israeli board of directors, is a Senior Fellow at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem and writes and lectures on Israeli history and politics. He...
View ArticleBDS: The Bane in Spain
Angel Mas is president of ACOM, an organization fighting the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement in Spain. The views expressed here are his own. Intersectionality is the unnatural...
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