Region: Middle East
CounterSpin: Seymour Hersh on Israel's Syrian air strike, Gerald LeMelle on Bush's Africa trip (2/15/08)
Extra!: Coverage of Syria Airstrike (Update December 2007) By
Extra!: The Return of Elliott Abrams (September/ October 2007) By
Activism Update: NYT Correction Dodges the Question: Missing the point of the missing Amnesty report on war crimes (12/8/06)
Action Alert: New York Times on Israeli War Crimes: No independent analysis of pro-government spin (12/6/06)
CounterSpin: Gary Younge on Iraq politics, Ali Abunimah on 'One Country' (12/1/06)
Extra!: Newsworthy and Unnewsworthy Deaths (September/October 2006) By
Extra!: Lives in the Balance: Media 'vexed' by civilian deaths in Lebanon (September/October 2006) By
CounterSpin: Noam Chomsky on 'Failed States' (8/25/06)
CounterSpin: Stephen Zunes on Israel-Lebanon, Geoff Nunberg on 'Talking Right' (8/4/06)
CounterSpin: Norman Solomon on Mideast War, Jamal Dajani on Mosaic/LINK TV (7/28/06)
CounterSpin: Michael Klare on Iran, Fawaz Gerges on Journey of the Jihadist (6/9/06)
CounterSpin: Ali Abunimah on Muhammad cartoons, David Swanson on White House memo (2/10/06)
CounterSpin: Danny Schechter on the Alito hearings, Stephen Zunes on Ariel Sharon (1/20/06)
Extra!: The Great Emancipator: Media credit Bush for “democratization” of the Mideast (May/June 2005) By
Extra!: Blunting Bolton's Problems (Update April 2005)
CounterSpin: Mark Jones on "forgotten crises," Jack Shaheen on Arabs on TV (3/18/05)
CounterSpin: Stephen Zunes on Syria, Terry Allen on John Negroponte (2/25/05)
Press Release: "Terrorism" Is a Term That Requires Consistency: Newspaper and its critics both show a double standard on "terror" (4/8/02)
Extra!: Why They Hate Us: Looking for a flattering answer (Update October 2001) By
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Independent Media Center-Israel, progressive, grassroots news coverage in English, Hebrew and Arabic.
Ha'aretz. Israel's leading Hebrew-language paper—in English.
MERIP, the Middle East Research and Information Project.
Alternative Information Centre news and analysis on Israel and Palestine.
The War in Context, alternative perspectives on the "war on terror" and the middle east conflict.
Research Guide to the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict, 3719 links with media analysis, alternative news and much background information.
MADRE's resources on Israeli/Palestinian conflict, and their Background Resource, which includes useful media criticism.
Ali Abunimah's Bitter Pill, "Uncovering media myths about the Middle East."
Palestine Media Watch, media activism challenging anti-Palestinian bias.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, fights anti-Arab bias in media and elsewhere.
The Electronic Intifada, "countering myth, distortion, and spin from the Israeli media war machine."
CAMERA, media criticism from the right-wing of the Israeli political spectrum.
Political Ads Shot Down: Arab-Americans See U.S. Media Bias, by Cynthia Cotts (Village Voice, 3/6/01).
Turmoil in Palestine: The Basic Context, by Alex R. Shalom and Stephen R. Shalom (ZNet, 10/10/00).
world-newspapers.com Middle East news sites in English.
