Jodi Rudoren

NY Times Mischaracterizes Conversations Between Egyptian Intelligence and Media

The New York Times was wrong to claim an Egyptian intelligence officer urged the media not to condemn U.S. recognition of Israel's capital. It was wrong to suddenly change its characterization of Ramallah from a lively city to a dreary town. And it was wrong to ignore anti-Semitism by Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.

The Gray Lady Doth Protest Too Much

A New York Times ad campaign promises to give readers "truth" and "fact-based" journalism. The record shows something else entirely.

Updated: New York Times: Journalism of Few Facts

On Jerusalem stabbings,The New York Times' Jodi Rudoren buries the evidence and facts under a pile of competing Israeli and Palestinian claims. She ignores MSNBC footage which confirms the Israeli account and completely belies the Palestinian "narrative."

Bibi, the Mufti, and the Media

Grand MuftiPrime Minister Netanyahu is being criticized for saying in a speech that the first Palestinian leader, Haj Amin el-Husseini, known as the Grand Mufti, had given Hitler the idea of exterminating the Jews. But the criticism can't erase the facts: the Mufti was a Nazi war criminal who got away with mass murder.

“Desperation” to Rationalize Murder

On NPR's On Point, Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua's promoted the flawed narrative that desperation is the cause of the current wave of violence, and epitomized the errors of fact and analysis that are part of that view.

The New York Times, the “Newspaper of Broken Record”

NY TimesJodi Rudoren's  "East Jerusalem, Bubbling Over With Despair" is yet another tiresome example of the New York Times whitewashing Palestinian terrorism, omitting material facts, and just generally getting the story wrong about Israel and about the Palestinians.