Akiva Van Koningsveld
ARTICLES BY: Akiva Van Koningsveld
Euronews Asks Hamas Terror Official to Comment on Israeli ‘Attacks’ on Children
To suggest that Hamas, the internationally-designated terror group that controls the Gaza Strip, cares about the rights of children is preposterous. After all, Hamas stands accused...
Vice Anti-Israel Producer Lama Al-Arian Defends Islamic Jihad-Linked Father
An award-winning Vice News producer has downplayed the actions of her father, a convicted leader of the Palestinian terrorist organization Islamic Jihad (PIJ), HonestReporting revealed...
Vox Journalist Asks: Is It Really Antisemitic to Harass Jews at Prayer?
The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) Working Definition of Antisemitism has been embraced by more than a thousand global organizations, governments, and institutions, including the...
Portland Fox Affiliate Sanitizes Radical Anti-Israel Rally, Calls Nakba and ‘Destruction of Palestine’ a ‘Historic Event’
Under the sinister slogan “Resistance until reclamation, generation after generation, until total liberation,” crowds of students gathered in downtown Portland, Oregon, on May 21, as they...
Fact Check: Palestinians Are the Ones Who Block Access to Jewish Religious Sites
All too often, critics have charged the Jewish state with limiting Palestinians’ freedom of worship, specifically at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque. However, an honest examination of...
Holocaust Distortion, Erased: Major News Outlets Omit Palestinian Leader’s Antisemitism From Reports
On May 15, 2023, Palestinians around the world marked the 75th anniversary of what they call the “Nakba” -- the “catastrophe” of Israel’s rebirth in 1948...
Israel vs. Islamic Jihad: No Ceasefire for Skewed Reporting
A shaky ceasefire put a stop to days of intense cross-border fighting between the Israel Defense Forces and Palestinian Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, restoring...
‘The Power of the Unicorn’: Israel Haters Use Eurovision Song Contest To Bash Jewish State
Five years after Netta Barzilai’s “Toy” brought the Jewish state its fourth Eurovision victory, and exactly half a century since the country first joined, another Israeli contestant...
US Victims of Palestinian Terror That the Media ‘Forgot’ About
The media’s disproportionate focus on the death of one US citizen caught in Israeli-Palestinian crossfire suggests that in the eyes of the press, some American...
Meet Muhammad Shehada, Social Media’s Favorite Terror Apologist
Muhammad Shehada, a Gaza Strip-based Palestinian author and Twitter activist who rose to fame writing articles for the Forward, claims to advocate for “peace and coexistence.”...
Dissecting the Anti-Israel ‘Medical Apartheid’ Myth
The “Israel Apartheid” campaign isn’t confined only to mainstream media outlets. It also infects the discourse in medical publications. In an article published by Global Public Health,...
World Press Photo Jury Blames Israel for ‘Lack of Press Freedom’ in ‘Palestine’
The World Press Photo Foundation -- which has partnered with UNESCO to promote its vision of a “fairer world with a free press and freedom of expression”...
The Harvard Crimson at 150: How the Nation’s Oldest Student Newspaper Went off the Anti-Israel Deep End
The Harvard Crimson, the prestigious student-run newspaper at America’s most elite university, has produced journalists who have gone on to populate positions of power in...
Media Jump the Gun: Who Killed Palestinian Sameh Aqtash?
Did gullible journalists once again echo Palestinian charges against the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) before checking the facts? Sheik Sameh Aqtash was allegedly shot on February...