If people who target civilians in Norway are "terrorists," then by any consistent standard those who target civilians in Israel are "terrorists." If one is a "militant," objectivity and fairness would dictate that the other is also a "militant." 8/19 Update: A later version of the story added the word "terrorist" to the body of the article.
The New York Times' Ethan Bronner has once again provided a platform for a fringe extremist Israeli group to air its views unchallenged. The July 27 article is, in effect, an advertisement for a radical organization which calls itself "We Will Not Obey," whose purpose is to illegally smuggle Palestinian women into Israel.
When tempted to weigh in on contentious legal debates, Karl Vick should remember that he's not a scholar of international law but a journalist. And his editors should take note that he has shown himself not to be an objective journalist but rather one who feels all-too-comfortable taking sides.
When Israel and Egypt restrict access into and out of the Gaza Strip, it is described in the New York Times as an "Israeli blockade." Egypt's responsibility for the closure is minimized as being nothing more than enforcement for Israel.
Responding to Benjamin Netanyahu's address to Congress, the AP's Josef Federman wrote a "fact-check" to "counter" the Israeli prime minister's assertions. The wire service story reads more like the spin of a hired public relations specialist seeking to denigrate a political opponent and redirect the audience to a preferred message.
On the Op-Ed pages of the New York Times, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas promotes stories about Palestinian refugees that contradict his own past admissions and the historical record.
In an essay published in the Spectator, a British news magazine, CAMERA critiques the latest disingenuous attempt by the BBC to defend its one-sided documentary about Jerusalem.
Harvard Professor Stephen Walt cannot get his facts straight. He claims that "the official policy of every president since Lyndon Johnson" has been to dub settlements illegal, an argument that ignores the official policy of every president since Ronald Reagan.