Ishaan Tharoor

Debunking the Media Narrative on West Bank Violence

According to many recent flawed news accounts, the “flare-up” in violence began only with the introduction of a new Israeli government and has been driven by extremist Israelis. The data, however, disagrees. Not only did the “flare-up” begin long before the current government took power in November 2022, but it has been overwhelmingly driven by Palestinian attacks.

The Washington Post’s World View Infantilizes Palestinians, Again

The Washington Post's world view on Israel is profoundly distorted. The newspaper's vaunted foreign affairs columnist is once again depriving Palestinians of independent agency, omitting their leadership's predilection for supporting terror and rejecting peace.

The Washington Post’s Selective Coverage of Palestinian Deaths

The Washington Post's coverage of Palestinians remains lopsided. The newspaper will expend considerable column space when Israel can potentially be blamed for the death of a Palestinian. Yet the systemic torture and repression that Palestinians endure at the hands of their own rulers is widely ignored.

The Washington Post’s ‘World View’ Attacks the Abraham Accords

The Washington Post's World Views column has found a problem with the Abraham Accords, the normalization agreements between Israel and several Muslim majority nations. The agreements, Post World Views columnist Ishaan Tharoor says, make Palestinian statehood less likely. Yet, the blame belongs with Palestinian leadership alone.

When the Washington Post’s World View Doesn’t Include Palestinians

The Washington Post's World View column provides disproportionate, and often misleading, analysis on Israel, much of which castigates the Jewish state for supposedly repressing Palestinians. But when the Palestinian Authority imprisons, tortures, and murders its own people, including journalists, the Post's World Views columnist is silent.

UPDATED: The Washington Post’s Israel Problem

The Washington Post has a problem. The newspaper's bias against the Jewish state is not only getting worse, it is getting harder to deny. Indeed, it's even becoming a joke to other journalists.

CAMERA Op-Ed: Beinart and Brit Shalom

Peter Beinart's proposal for a "bi-national solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been hailed as novel and thought provoking by some in the press. But as CAMERA noted in The Jerusalem Post, such proposals have a long history.