Author Salman Rushdie, who was forced to spend a chunk of his life in hiding because his book, The Satanic Verses, offended Islamic religious authorities in Iran who imposed a murder fatwa on him, was stabbed in the neck and had to be airlifted to a hospital when he was attacked on stage. Author Salman Rushdie, […]
The Wire Service Headlines That Mislead
Headlines matter. Investigators have concluded – I know not how — that 80% of consumers of the news – in newspapers, or online — do not read beyond the headlines. And that means those headlines can do a lot of good, or a lot of damage. When it comes to covering Israel, it’s more often […]
AP Likens Palestinians to Ukraine, Israel to Russia
Quite a few members of the army of pro-Palestinian anti-Israel propagandists have tried to convince us that just as the brave and resourceful Ukrainians are resisting Russian aggressors, so are the brave and resourceful Palestinians putting up “resistance” against their Israeli oppressors. A report on this latest preposterousness is here: “Reality Check, AP: Palestinian Terrorists […]
AP: Men Perspire, Women Glow, Trump Lies, and Biden ‘Misspeaks’
New in PJ Media: “Horses sweat, men perspire, but ladies merely glow,” went the Victorian adage, and in a similar vein, according to the modern-day establishment media, Donald Trump lies, but Joe Biden merely misspeaks. The Associated Press (AP), which still enjoys respect as a reliable news outlet despite the fact that it is as […]
Somaliland: FGM ‘cutters’ go door-to-door to perform the procedure on young girls
This article is a bit schizophrenic, trying to hold together the media narrative even as its separation from reality is obvious. The AP story below says twice that there is no justification in Islam for female genital mutilation. However, it also notes several times that Islamic religious leaders support the practice and interfere with efforts […]
AP Turns Palestinian Car Crash Into Indictment of Israel
Eight Palestinians died in a car crash in the West Bank on January 5. No Israelis were involved. Nonetheless, the Associated Press (AP) managed to turn this story of a car crash into an indictment of Israel. A report on how AP twisted this simple story into a vehicle for anti-Israel propaganda is here: […]
How the Associated Press Covered Israeli President Herzog’s Candle-Lighting in Hebron
The AP covered, in its peculiar way, the latest contretemps between Arab and Jew in Hebron, the second holiest city in Judaism. It involved President Herzog’s lighting of the first candle for Hanukkah at a menorah in the Cave of the Patriarchs. When he first announced his intention to do so, Hamas reacted furiously, […]
How the Associated Press Sanitizes Hamas Terrorists
Words matter. Those who describe Israel as a “colonial-settler state,” an “apartheid regime,” are attempting, by dint of repetition of such phrases, to blacken the image of the Jewish state. They have met, alas, with some success. Similarlly, those who describe every act of islamocriticism as “islamophobia” have been able to intimidate many islamocritics […]
In the Run-Up to the 20th Anniversary of 9/11, Media Pushing Stories About How Muslims Were the Real Victims
My latest in PJ Media: Saturday marks twenty years since Islamic jihadis attacked New York City and Washington, and the establishment media is doing all it can to ensure that Americans grasp the true significance of those attacks: not that America was hit by a global jihad that has only gained in strength since […]
Can the Hamas-Linked AP Any Longer Be Considered a News Source?
My latest in PJ Media: The Associated Press (AP) is one of the largest, most respected, most venerable news sources on the planet. It is also increasingly clear that the AP, in these overheated days, has reduced itself to acting as a press agency for Hamas. This tendency has become so pronounced recently that […]