Posts Tagged: The Economist
Lone Soldiers
JNS.org - “Israel Alone” was the headline on the cover of the March 23 issue of The Economist, the British weekly. The illustration shows an Israeli...
The Economist Misleads With Flawed A-Z on the Arab-Israeli Conflict
In what should have been a well-researched piece, The Economist recently provided its readers with an A-Z glossary on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Unfortunately, the "glossary"...
Why Does The Economist Accept False Palestinian Claim at Face Value?
An August 26 article in the print and online editions of The Economist (“The challenge of making Palestinian wine”) represents another example of how journalists...
‘The Economist’ Needs a New Middle East Correspondent
An Economist article (“The Palestinians need new leaders,” May 11) begins with a context-free and misleading description of an Israeli checkpoint: Few experiences are more humiliating...
‘The Economist’ Twists the Truth About Israel
I recently came across an Economist article published during the recent conflict between Hamas and Israel, which gets the Israeli view of their conflict with...
The Need for Jewish Proofreaders
I read The Economist religiously every week. Its coverage of world affairs in a concise and readable form, combined with its cultural, scientific, and review articles,...
‘The Economist’ Says Abbas Has ‘Rejected Violence’ Since 2005
The Economist weighed in on President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital with a December 7th article titled, “Donald Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital...
Academic Study: Middle Eastern Airlines That Omit Israel From Route Maps Appear to Be Playing to Antisemitic Prejudices of Customer Bases
Airlines that omit Israel from their route maps -- as well as those that don’t offer kosher meal options -- appear to do so to...
In New Economist Index, Israel Ranked Among World’s Top 30 Most Democratic Nations
Israel was ranked 29th out of 167 nations included on The Economist’s newly released 2016 “Democracy Index.” With an overall score of 7.85, the Jewish state...
The Economist: ‘Israelis Seem Especially Susceptible to Hysteria’
A 2012 Economist article claimed that Israelis and their Prime Minister fear Iran because they suffer from Auschwitz complex -- a “ghetto mentality” evidently based on obsessing over past suffering...
‘Sophisticated’ Economist Revives Facile Cartoon Smearing Israel
The following cartoon was posted recently on the Facebook page of The Economist: The cartoon was originally published by The Economist in July 2014, during the war between Hamas and Israel. As...
‘Economist’ Article Falsely Blames Israel for Slow Pace of Gaza Reconstruction
A recent (annonymous) article in The Economist assigned primary blame to Israel for the slow pace of Gaza reconstruction. Not one of the 19,000 homes in...
Economist Says European Jews Overreacting to Anti-Semitism
In fairness, a characteristically anonymous article in the June 7th print edition of the Economist, titled 'Of guns and ballot boxes' about European anti-Semitism does partly...
The Economist Falsely Claims That Exports From Gaza Are Banned
The Economist's Middle East blog, Pomegranate, published a post on April 2 about the art scene in Gaza, titled 'Not so bleak', which included the...
