Sean Durns
ARTICLES BY: Sean Durns
Israel’s Other Founding Fathers and a Vanquished World
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019). “Time spent with old spies,” author...
The Media Only Cares About Palestinians If Israel Can Be Blamed
Narrative and bias are the chief problems facing the news media today -- not, as some would have it, issues of revenue created from the...
Stop Whitewashing Ilhan Omar’s Antisemitism
“Strong language,” Winston Churchill once said, “is often used by weak men and it is never used more strongly than on a weak case.” The...
The Washington Post Uses Arens Obituary to Bash Bibi
Newspapers typically publish obituaries of famous figures in order to sum up their life’s work. The Washington Post, however, used an obituary to belittle Israel’s...
The ‘Arab Street’ Is a Dead End
It’s time to put an old aphorism to rest. For decades, Middle East analysts and journalists have used the informal phrase “the Arab Street” to...
Once Again, the Media Whitewashes Antisemitism Around the World
The Washington Post’s Ishaan Tharoor has previously warned about a “a rising tide of anti-Semitism.” Yet when the journalist sat down to interview one of the world’s leading antisemites, Malaysian...
Foreign Policy and The Washington Post Whitewash UNRWA’s Misdeeds
“I worry,” Walter Cronkite once said, “that we’re not getting enough of the news to make us informed citizens.” Looking at recent coverage of the...
For The Washington Post, Jewish Blood Isn’t Cheap — It’s Just Not Worth the Ink
“If it bleeds, it leads” is an old adage describing the media’s tendency to prioritize stories involving violence. But this is not the case, it...
Here’s Why the Media Got the Gaza Violence Wrong
Western journalists covering the Arab-Israeli conflict are in need of an intervention. Many of them have spent the last several weeks regurgitating claims by Hamas...
Examining a New View of the Third Reich
“Once we attain power,” the Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels wrote in his diary, “we will never give it up until our dead bodies are...
Media Propagates Abbas’ Historical Lies
In a long, rambling February 20, 2018, speech before the UN Security Council, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas fed fables to his audience -- and continued to...
Washington Post Provides Cover for Palestinian Antisemitism
The Washington Post is treating antisemites as credible sources -- and purposefully omitting hate-filled remarks by Palestinian leaders. On January 14, 2018, Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud...
World Media Silent as Mahmoud Abbas — Israel’s ‘Peace Partner’ — Undermines Talks
Just how bad is the media bias against Israel? In a week filled with extensive coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- much of it poor -- the leader of...
Hitler’s ‘Jolly Elf’ and The New York Times
Haj Amin al-Husseini was one of the seminal figures of the 20th century. He was a founding father of Palestinian nationalism and a Nazi collaborator, whose support...
Jerusalem Was Largely Ignored as a Muslim Holy City — Until Zionists Came Along
An Open Letter on Israeli ‘Pinkwashing’ and True Discrimination Against the Arab Gay Community
Anticipating Trump’s ‘Deal of the Century’
Jewish Group Condemns Revival of Folk Tradition in Poland as Antisemitic
US Prepares to End Iran Oil Waivers; Asian Buyers to Be Hardest Hit