Posts Tagged: Sean Durns
The Washington Post Gives a Pass to Antisemitic Institutions
“Sunlight,” the jurist and Zionist Louis Brandeis famously observed, “is said to be the best of disinfectants.” Yet, one of the world’s leading newspapers, The...
The Washington Post Refuses to Report on Palestinian Terrorism and Rejectionism
“Facts,” Mark Twain famously observed, “are stubborn things.” But at The Washington Post, facts about Israel are in short supply. And instead of unearthing them,...
Are New Standards Coming to The Washington Post?
The American media is in crisis. But The Washington Post might be doing something to address a growing lack of faith in America’s fourth estate. Trust...
The Philadelphia Inquirer Hides Antisemitism — Again
Antisemitism, The Philadelphia Inquirer warned in 2018, is “rising.” But the newspaper is doing its best to hide what it once acknowledged was a growing...
Blogger ‘Elder of Ziyon’ Reveals His Protocols
“As long as there have been Jews,” the blogger Elder of Ziyon observes in his new book, “there has been Jew-hatred.” His new book, "Protocols:...
Washington Post Obituary on Adelson Attacks Israel and Defends Hamas
On January 12, 2021, it was announced that Sheldon Adelson, the American billionaire and philanthropist, had died at the age of 87. The Washington Post...
This West Bank Land Is Not ‘Palestinian’
“Who can challenge the rights of the Jews in Palestine?” Yusuf al-Khalidi wrote to the chief rabbi of France on March 1, 1899. “Good Lord, historically...
The Audacity of Herzl
“With audacity,” Napoleon Bonaparte once observed, “one can undertake anything, but not do everything.” As Derek Penslar’s new book Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader makes clear, few...
Hamas and the Terrorism Double Standard
JNS.org - Many members of the Western press seem to have two standards for covering terrorist groups: one for those whose primary target is Israel,...
Bernie Sanders Posts Facebook Video of Supporter Praising Him for Accusing Israel of Apartheid
A prominent social justice activist and Bernie Sanders supporter recently praised the Democratic presidential candidate for accusing Israel of apartheid. Shaun King, a promoter of the...
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 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 Washington Post Soft-Pedals the BDS Movement
JNS.org - Washington Post coverage of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement is, with growing frequency, violating the newspaper’s own policies and standards....
Foreign Policy Magazine Does PR Work for UNRWA
JNS.org - Foreign Policy magazine bills itself as a “global magazine of news and ideas,” but recently, the bimonthly periodical appears to have branched out into...
