Faculty in the Trenches
An Interview with Scholars for Peace in the Middle East President Ed Beck
Countering Propaganda: Focus on Diana Buttu
LA Times’ Uncritical ‘Review’ of Corrie Play
In his Los Angeles Times review of the British play "My Name is Rachel Corrie," David Gritten describes Rachel Corrie as "a relatively obscure name in her native U.S," one of several distortions about the American who interfered in a closed military area in the Gaza Strip and was killed accidentally.
AFP Doctors Story on U.S.-Syria Deal
In a case of apparently blatant manipulation, AFP has removed a key item in a reported list of four U.S. demands being made of Syria in the wake of the Hariri assassination. More than one AFP story omits the call to "stop support for militant groups like Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad."
Chicago Tribune Public Editor Lauds Sabeel
In his October 20th column, Chicago Tribune public editor Don Wycliff weighed in on the debate surrounding Sabeel, a Jerusalem-based Palestinian Christian organization which is accused of reviving the anti-Semitic "teaching of contempt" dogma long repudiated by most of the Christian world. Wycliff stated that the organization does "classy work."
The Al Dura Affair: France 2 Misleads About U.S. Congressional Report
The name "Mohammed Al Dura" has become synonymous with Palestinian "martydom," thanks to the deceptive news coverage of France 2. Rather than admitting its guilt in broadcasting a false report, the French government-owned network is mired in a deceptive cover-up. In an email viewer, France 2 falsely alleged that an "authoritative American opinion" by the US government "discredits" the IDF conclusion that Al Dura was not killed by Israeli bullets.
Lessons Learned at Columbia
Two students who led the campaign for academic freedom share strategies for effective activism
BACKGROUNDER on Professor Ilan Pappé: When Ideology Trumps Scholarship
Openly disdainful of factual accuracy, University of Haifa professor Ilan Pappé campaigns for the dismantlement of the Jewish State.
The Academic Blacklisting of Israel, the Tantura Affair and Ilan Pappe
Academic boycott of Israeli universities by the British Association of University Teachers, among the first to jump onto the BDS bandwagon, was based in large part on charges relating to Zionist ideologue Ilan Pappé's unscholarly promotion of a contested claim of an Israeli-perpetrated massacre of Arabs in Tantura. What were the claims? How did Pappé promote them? And how was it used as a pretext for boycott?
Star Tribune Editors Exonerate Hamas
The Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul) stands by highly disturbing changes they made to an Associated Press story. The newspaper removed key information so that readers were left with the misleading impression that Israel alone is blamed for a Sept. 23 explosion in Gaza that killed many – an explosion that Palestinian eyewitnesses and even the Palestinian Authority blame on Hamas.