Yarden Frankl is the Executive Director of CAMCI, the Center for Analyzing Media Coverage of Israel. He was a senior editor for HonestReporting for 11 years. He made aliyah in 2005 and now lives in Neve Daniel. He has been published in various media internationally.
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If Jerusalem was conquered by the Jordanians in 1948 and “liberated” or “reunified” in 1967 the Israeli claim becomes not only reasonable, but more more legitimate than the Palestinian claim.
As former Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the New York Times, Peter Baker must know the compete lack of veracity behind Abbas’ claim. Yet he gives him a pass.
The NY Times felt the best way way to show readers the announcement of the new 40 person replacement town of Amona was by printing a big photo of Maale Adumin, a city of 40000 people. Is that accurate?
It seems that the use of the “international community” to provide context on the Middle East is restricted to issues in which Israeli arguments are dismissed.
In yet another example of slanted journalism, the NY Times has published an article on Jared Kushner that violates the basic journalistic standard of not exhibiting media bias by editorializing
We can no longer take the media’s word on anything as gospel; Nor can we immediately side with those claiming the media are lying just because what they are reporting contradicts are own world-view
The casual news reader will get one impression reading 200 Palestinians and 40 Israelis have been killed and quite another learning that the 200 Palestinian were terrorists/“attackers”
Simply put, today, under Israeli control, Muslims, Jews, and Christians, live and pray in Jerusalem. When it was under Arab control, Jews could not even visit.
A senior journalist told me they refrain from using the term “terrorism” because it can mean “lots of things to lots of people.” I don’t understand how “terrorism” can mean that many different things
The outrage with the media is because many believe false news stories attacking Clinton cost her the election. Israel has long been the victim of fake news stories. Where has all this outrage been?
The NY Times dismissed the canard that Trump or Clinton were recruiting tools for ISIS yet editorialized that Israeli settlers are at the heart of the reason people join the terror group.
Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem by Arabs? How on Earth could Bibi make such a pernicious accusation? Perhaps, because it’s already happened back in 1948 when the Jordanians "purged" the Old City of JEWS


