Israel Destroys a Synagogue; US Media Yawn
Underplaying the story obscures not only Israel’s aggression, but the actual nature of Iranian society, portrayed as obsessed with wiping Jews off the map.
Looking to Blame Anyone But Israel for Youth’s Anti-Israel Turn
The Zionist media narrative is looking for the culprits who have apparently miseducated our youth, turning them not just into Israel critics, but Jew haters.
Pundits Blame Sydney Slaughter on Protest Slogan
The rush to blame the shooting on a pro-Palestinian slogan reflects the extent to which media serve as an echo chamber for Israeli talking points.
NYT Covers Racism From the Point of View of the Racist
The New York Times’ problem isn’t that it hasn’t probed deeply enough into the far-right psyche; it’s that it refuses to stop normalizing it.
Cartoonists Can Compare Victims of Genocide to Nazis—But Not the Perpetrators
Right-wing media and pro-Israel pressure groups still have the capacity to threaten the employment of cartoonists who do not toe the pro-Israel line.
I Covered the Intifada. It’s Wrong to Say It Means Violence Against Jews.
I can say unequivocally: Intifada was used by Palestinian activists to describe a civil resistance movement rooted in dignity and national self-determination.
Jeff Cohen and Norman Solomon on Mamdani and the Democrats
Elite news media are Trojan-horsing their hatred for any ideas that threaten their ill-gotten gains, via very deep “concerns” about Zohran Mamdani as a person.
NYT Undermines Fight Against Antisemitism by Using It as Shield for Zionism
The New York Times invokes the canard that pro-Palestine leftists hold Israel to a different standard by ignoring human rights concerns in other countries.
NYT Assumed Antisemitism in DC Embassy Attack
The New York Times asserted definitively that Rodriguez’ violent action was antisemitic and must be understood in the context of global anti-Jewish hate.
Fox News Can’t Admit Jewish Identity of Anti-Israel Protesters
In its coverage of Jewish Voice for Peace’s Trump Tower protest, Fox News obscured the Jewish identity of protesters—while echoing antisemitic conspiracy theories and racist tropes.
ADL’s Stats Twist Israel’s Critics Into Antisemites
Media outlets continue to print headlines about antisemitism based on Anti-Defamation League statistics known to be faulty and politicized.
Media Coverage of Amsterdam Soccer Riot Erases Zionist Hatred and Violence
Rather than acknowledging that there was ethnic animosity on both sides, some articles about the melee elevated the violence to the level of a “pogrom.”
For NYT’s ‘Free Speech’ Maven, Racism Needs Protection, Gaza Protests Don’t
The speech of white supremacists must be defended, but criticism of Israel and support for Palestinian human rights are going too far.
CNN’s Tapper Smears Tlaib With Baseless Charge of Bias
CNN’s Jake Tapper took a baseless accusation made on X and elevated it to a national story, smearing Palestinian-American Rep. Rashida Tlaib as antisemitic.
A Bookstore Brouhaha Confuses Whose Speech Is Being Curtailed
Free speech debates tend to value the importance and rights to a platform of the saintly media class.
Students Left Out of Discussions About Student Gaza Protests
A new FAIR study finds that media conversations about student-led campus encampments in solidarity with Palestine rarely included students themselves.
NYT Cynically Suggests Antisemitism Cost Shapiro the VP Slot
The New York Times has stood by the fiction that Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, who made the short list of vice presidential hopefuls, didn’t get the nod because of left-wing antisemitism.
Italy’s Antisemitism Scandal Should Have Raised Alarms in US
Lackluster coverage at best focused on Giorgia Meloni’s self-interested damage control rather than the dark ideology at the center of her movement.
Establishment Press Hails Big Money Crushing a Black Progressive
The Wall Street Journal presented Jamaal Bowman’s loss as “voters reject[ing] his antagonistic progressive politics,” and the rest of the establishment press took the same line.
Censorship at a Jewish School Part of a Crisis for Free Expression
The Boiling Point affair is indicative of a larger problem with a censorship that exploits the term “antisemitism” to silence anything remotely critical of Israel’s far-right government.
