Pesach Benson
ARTICLES BY: Pesach Benson
Agriculture Without Borders
JNS.org - Israel’s Arava region is not the most likely location for a center to teach agriculture. Stretching along the southern part of the border...
The War of Independence: The ‘Sin’ of Israel’s Creation?
Israel’s War of Independence isn’t very well-understood in the West. The prevailing narrative is probably best articulated by the late US comedian Alan King, who...
PBS Distorts the Truth About Gaza Violence
For more than a year, Palestinians have violently clashed with Israeli soldiers guarding the Gaza border. The clashes first erupted in March, 2018, originally spun by...
The New York Post Erases Years of Palestinian Rocket Fire
If The New York Post was my newspaper, I’d fire a salvo of complaints to every writer, proofreader, and editor whose fingerprints were on a...
It’s Time for the Media to Adopt the IHRA Antisemitism Definition
A working definition of antisemitism is gaining traction. Drawn up by the Berlin-based International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA), this definition has been adopted and endorsed...
Pinkwashing or Brainwashing Eurovision in Israel?
Anything good that Israel does is claimed to be just an insidious way to distract the world from the “occupation” of Palestine. Planting trees to make...
Anti-Israel Hit Job Conflates Press Freedoms in Israel and Palestinian Territories
If you were a writer spotlighting Israeli Arab media issues for a magazine like the Columbia Journalism Review, your reporting would include interviews with veteran...
‘Vogue’ Can’t Glamorize Palestinian Terror
When talking about photo bias, we’re usually dealing with breaking news images that are lacking context, misleadingly framed, cynically staged, spuriously cropped, carelessly recycled, or dubiously photoshopped. Sometimes, editors make poor decisions on how...
A Night of Rockets and Headline Fails
Residents of southern Israel spent Wednesday night in bomb shelters as Palestinians fired a heavy barrage of rockets and mortars (nearly 200, according to the most...
AP’s Three-Way Independence Day Botch
Ahead of Independence Day celebrations in the Jewish state, The Associated Press took stock of what Israel has accomplished in 70 years -- and where things...
BBC News Kicks Israel in the Face
Of the 120 Knesset members that the BBC could have interviewed for an Israeli point of view on Ahed Tamimi’s trial, reporter Jeremy Bowen chose a disgraced,...
Questioning Mahmoud Abbas’ Historical Revisionism
One of the more overlooked issues raised by Mahmoud Abbas’ recent speech was a claim that the Palestinians are Canaanites, whose presence in the Holy Land predates...
Media Whitewashes Abbas’ Revisionism and Rejectionism
Mahmoud Abbas’ two-hour address to the central committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization was the diplomatic equivalent of giving the middle finger to Israel, the US and...
Dishonest Reporter of the Year Award 2017: ‘The Independent’
The biggest surprise of this year’s Dishonest Reporter Award is that the winner has never been given the accolade in the past. However, The Independent has a...