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November 30, 2024
Even when the WaPo gets it right, it’s wrongIn “The ICC is not the venue to hold Israel to account” (11/25/24), it seems that The Washington Post, in its lead editorial, is finally recognizing that global bodies unfairly single out Israel for opprobrium. But the Post can...
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October 14, 2024
WaPo report discloses true Hamas intent to destroy IsraelIn “Captured documents reveal Hamas’s broader ambition to wreak havoc on Israel” (10/12/24), the Washington Post, perhaps for a moment, revives its former glory by engaging in investigative reporting. This, on a topic that has lacke...
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October 6, 2024
Pro-Palestinian group desires to rub salt into wound with Oct. 7 protestIn “Pro-Palestinian group urges judge to allow Oct. 7 vigil at University of Maryland” (09/30/24), a pro-Palestinian group has chosen October 7 as the date for a “vigil to mourn people killed in Gaza during the ongoing war.”...
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July 26, 2024
Somehow, only Israel’s numbers need a disclaimerWhy does the WaPo make a disclaimer for the democracy Israel’s numbers but not the terrorist organization Hamas’s? In “Hamas attack civilians intentionally, Human Rights Watch says“ (7/17/24), The Washington Pos...
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July 24, 2024
The Washington Post just can’t get it rightIs it possible for The Washington Post to misreport a critical element of a story after getting it right just two days earlier? Apparently. In “Israel should evacuate settlements, pay reparations, ICJ says“ (7/19/24), Post reporter Loveday Morris...
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June 16, 2024
Sensationalist blabber from the Washington PostIn The Washington Post’s “Genocide is our redline” (6/9/24, before the title was changed), there are so much manipulation, distortion, and outright lying that it’s hard to encompass it all in a short response. Israe...
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June 13, 2024
WaPo and Hamas' 'best interests'In the Washington Post editorial “Biden is right. We must seize this opportunity for peace,” veteran Post editorial author David Ignatius writes about the ceasefire plan that the “Israeli war cabinet, Egypt, Qatar and the Group of S...
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June 1, 2024
When a brainwashed son brainwashes his motherIn “She backed Israel. Her son led a protest” (05/22/24), The Washington Post published another front-page article that gave an opportunity to malign Israel and showcase the false Palestinian narrative. In this edition, there wer...
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May 29, 2024
On genocide, leftist media need an educationIn “WCK draws criticism for neutrality in Gaza” (5/27/24), The Washington Post provides a platform to state its views: the libel that Israel is committing genocide — which it clearly isn’t. The Post is publishing misin...
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May 21, 2024
Obstructing Jews is not news at the WaPoInstead of disparaging the pro-Israel billionaires concerned about antisemitic protests on college campuses, it would have been more newsworthy for the Washington Post to criticize the pro-Hamas billionaires who orchestrated the protests. ...
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May 11, 2024
Vandalism and defilement at George Washington University are not a 'makeover'In “Washington’s makeover for GWU protest,” dated May 4, 2024 (before the title was changed), a perspective piece from the Washington Post refers to the vandalism and defilement of our founding father, George Washington, as a “makeover.” ...
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April 24, 2024
Jews get passed over on PassoverIn the worst anti-Jewish college campus protests since...well, maybe ever, the oldest virus is spreading from university to university in a copycat pattern that should make every American ashamed. Worse, the Biden administration is paying ...
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April 7, 2024
The Washington Post, misleading down to the subheadlinesEven the subheadlines are substandard at the Washington Post. In “Gazans go hungry as aid groups step back” (04/04/24), the subheadline reads, “Israel’s war has wrecked Hamas civilian rule, with no alternative in pl...
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April 2, 2024
WaPo and the Hamas WarIn “How the US and Israel can get back on the same page” (3/31/24), the Washington Post is a broken record in their editorial about how to end the Israel/Hamas war. The most obvious idea - which the Post refuses to offer -- is to put pres...
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March 22, 2024
WaPo points the finger in the wrong direction: at IsraelIn the Washington Post article “Dinners attracted ire before fostering insight” (3/19/24), readers can gain insight about the author by reading his explanation of the Israel-Gaza conflict. The ”humanitarian crisis” wasn...
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March 9, 2024
Washington Post inadvertently tells the truth about Israel?In “The White House tries to steer Israel back onto a two-way street” (03/07/24) by David Ignatius, despite all the Israel-bashing that is typical for a Washington Post column, two fundamental truths emerged about the Hamas/Israel war ...
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February 19, 2024
Five U.S. Senators, in an attempt to help Gaza, provide recipe to make Gaza worseIn the February 18 Washington Post op-ed, “The U.S. should go it alone on humanitarian relief for Gaza,” five U.S. Senators (Jeff Merkley, Dick Durbin, Elizabeth Warren, Chris Van Hollen, and Peter Welch) provide their view of humani...
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February 14, 2024
Washington Post contradicts itself in two articles in the same issue, thwarting its attempt to bash IsraelThe Washington Post felt the need to print two articles on the same topic in the same edition of its Monday newspaper (2/12/24), both about an alleged fraying of the relationship between President Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. ...
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January 12, 2024
Anti-Zionism is Anti-SemitismIf, as the Washington Post editorial title says, "Anti-Zionism isn't the same as antisemitism..." (1/7/24), then why is the one tiny Jewish state the only country in the world challenged over its right to exist? Further, if ant...
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December 16, 2023
WaPo claims Israel detaining Gazan civilians for no reason at allIn “Israel is detaining civilians in Gaza. Many have disappeared, families say” (12/11/23), the Gazans interviewed by the Post claimed that Israel detained their loved ones for essentially no reason at all. Israel is fighting t...
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December 10, 2023
Front-page anti-Israel animus at The Washington PostIt was telling, and not unexpected, to see the front-page, above-the-fold placement of the Washington Post article “Young Palestinians describe harsh treatment in Israeli jails” (12/04/23) describing alleged Israeli mistreatment of P...
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November 21, 2023
WaPo errs on Palestinian intentionsIn “The gunfire in Gaza might abate. Alas, not so the horror of global hatred” (11/10/23), Washington Post editorial writer Colbert King writes of his visits to the sites of the worst atrocities befalling the Jewish people in the last cen...
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November 16, 2023
Washington Post omits that ‘Palestinians’ walked away from chance at statehoodOn November 7th, The Washington Post ran an article titled, “What is the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians?” The item, which encompasses almost a half-page, doesn’t once mention that the Palestinians have been offered...
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November 11, 2023
WaPo plays the antisemite card on Elon MuskIn “Long before Musk, Henry Ford battled with Jewish Groups“ (11/8/23), The Washington Post stoops to an absurd comparison between Henry Ford and Elon Musk. Henry Ford was known for his rabidly antisemitic hate speech, whereas Elon ...
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October 27, 2023
NY Times Gaza report ‘editors' note’ is an explanation, not an apologyIn “Editors’ Note: Gaza Hospital Coverage” (10/23/23), the NY Times attempts to apologize for a front-page top-of-the-fold error which falsely blamed Israel for a Gaza Hospital attack parroting Hamas saying that it killed hundreds. ...
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October 15, 2023
CNN's claims about Gaza are loaded with canardsWhat is with CNN and its reporting on Israel's military operation to take out Hamas in Gaza? Its reporting is littered with cliches and canards. Here is an obvious one: CNN claims Gaza is an "open air prison" with, by implica...
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October 11, 2023
Washington Post omits that Americans were slaughtered by HamasWhen the Washington Post prints the subheadline, “9 U.S. citizens killed in conflict,” and in the first sentence of the article says, “Nine U.S. citizens have been killed in the fighting between Hamas and Israel,” doesn’...
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September 9, 2023
Do you think CNN doesn't know why there are no Jews in Egypt?In CNN's "One of the world's oldest synagogues reopens in Egypt" (9/6/23), the article gives background information on the synagogue, stating that it was "home to the most significant single trove ...
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May 23, 2023
Bombing a Jewish kindergarten isn't 'retaliatory'"Only 620 of the rockets launched [by Palestinian Islamic Jihad] made it into Israeli territory" (emphasis added) is the strange way The Washington Post depicted the hailstorm of rockets on Israel from Gaza. Would The Washin...
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March 3, 2023
Double-standards for Israel in the Washington PostIn "In Israel, extremist's hands wield great power" (02/23/23), Washington Post reporter Shira Rubin applies double-standards to Israel, a common tactic at the Post. Never is Palestinian leader-dictator Mahmoud Abbas called a...
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February 6, 2023
Palestinians want Jews dead is the whole storyIn "Spate of shootings against Israelis puts region on high alert" (1/28/23), the Washington Post blamed the recent acts of violence in Israel over the last few days on a "cycle of violence." Israeli security have a 24/...
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January 27, 2023
History class takes a holiday at The Washington PostIn "'Farha' film on Netflix brings Palestinian lens to a broad audience" (1/23/23), Washington Post reporter Claire Healy can't hide her determination to report news from the Palestinian point of view. ...
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December 6, 2022
'Violence on both sides' narrative at the WaPo downplays Palestinian murders of IsraelisPalestinian terrorists are back at it. "Twin rush-hour blasts at bus stops in Jerusalem kill teenager, injure 18" (11/24/22) is another report of sadistic Palestinian terrorists, this time targeting bus stops with "explosive...
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December 5, 2022
Washington Post anti-Israel bias on full display againIn "Palestinians fear for their children after Israeli vote" (November 12, 2022), what's missing yet critical to this story is that Israelis have feared for their children before, during, and likely long after Israel's recent e...
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November 23, 2022
Washington Post manipulates events surrounding Israel's creationEarly this month, in "Palestinian Israelis divided, disillusioned as election nears," the Washington Post stated that "many Palestinians fled or were expelled" after Israel's "creation in 1948." The mere creation ...
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November 14, 2022
Washington Post invents history to advance Palestinian narrativeIn an article titled, Palestinian Israelis divided, disillusioned as election nears, the Washington Post invents history. The Post has the temerity to rename the Arab citizens of Israel as "Palestinian Israelis" to match the invented nation...
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September 30, 2022
Palestinian aggression has to be Israel's fault somehowIn "Jenin's young Palestinians arm themselves for resistance" (9/21/22), The Washington Post refers to Palestinian "resistance" when it is more accurately posited as aggression. The Post actually admits to this when...
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August 19, 2022
The Washington Post gives terrorists the last wordIn "As rival Gaza factions battle Israel, civilians bear the cost" (8/12/22), we learn, among other things, that The Washington Post takes the word of a terrorist organization (recognized as such by the U.K., the United States, an...
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July 28, 2022
Washington Post distorts the news against Israel (again)In "3 journalist deaths cloud Biden's push on human rights" (7/19/22), The Washington Post brazenly equated the death of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, killed in an Israeli-Palestinian firefight,...
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June 28, 2022
WaPo falsifies Israel reportage"Rocket fired from Gaza prompts airstrike" (6/19/22) describes how Palestinian militants fired rockets into Israel this past weekend, "shattering a two month lull in violence at the Gaza-Israel border[.]" The ...
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May 28, 2022
The WaPo really had to reach this time to bash IsraelIn The Washington Post article “Ahead of Biden visit, Israel launches biggest eviction of Palestinians in decades” (5/13/22), The Post sides with the Palestinians once again. Israel didn’t “launch” anything; it complied ...
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January 17, 2022
WaPo unfairly criticizes Israel...againIn "Israel must choose: Withdraw from the occupied territories or grant Palestinians under its control full rights" (1/6/22), Mairav Zonszein, an Israeli-American journalist and analyst for the Crisis Group, attempts to lecture Is...
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September 3, 2021
CNN special report on Jerusalem reversed who ethnically cleansed whom in the Palestinian/Israeli disputeI watched with dismay CNN's special report on Jerusalem (pay link) on the history of Jerusalem, first broadcast on August 22, 2021. One particular portion of the documentary was so egregious for promoting propaganda that I wa...
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June 18, 2021
Washington Post hammers Israel's treatment of its Arab citizensIn "Israeli Arabs asserting their Palestinian identity" (6/12/21), the Washington Post asserted its Palestinian bias. The front-page article starts off with the story of Mahmoud Abo Arisheh, who grew up in an Arab village in the ...
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June 5, 2021
NY Times op-ed by former Israeli official provides no solution to Middle East conflictIf Tzipi Livni, who was in the know as Israel's chief negotiator in the 2007 negotiations, was not able to make headwind with her Palestinian counterpart as she states in her New York Times op-ed, "There Is a Solution to the Israeli ...
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June 3, 2021
WaPo misses the real parallel for anti-Jewish attacksIn "'Who's out protecting us?': Spate of anti-Jewish attacks in the US draws calls for more forceful response" (5/23/21), The Washington Post describes a series of violent attacks on Jewish citizens of America, most initiated by...
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May 28, 2021
Fareed Zakaria wrong on IsraelFareed Zakaria in "The only way to solve the Israeli-Palestinian problem" in The Washington Post fails to come close to solving the conflict. His answer: "It can only be resolved with moral persuasion." ...
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May 27, 2021
Shock: Washington Post publishes something sensible on IsraelThank you to Washington Post columnist Charles Lane for a sane perspective of the recent Hamas-Israel conflict in an otherwise insane world Mr. Lane's level-headed op-ed really provides more news than in the news reporting part o...
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May 18, 2021
Washington Post chronology of Palestinian-Israeli conflict replete with Palestinian talking pointsIn "Israeli-Palestinian conflict: A chronology" (5/16/21), The Washington Post begins the chronology of the conflict with "a coalition of Arab states, allied with Palestinian factions, battle Israeli forces." In the Pos...
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May 15, 2021
Washington Post laps up the latest Palestinian propagandaThe front-page photo for The Washington Post article "Violent clashes, rocket fire shake Jerusalem" (5/11/21) has a caption that directs blame for the recent violence, started by the Palestinians — yes, the Palestinians — agains...
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December 23, 2020
WaPo: Palestinians not getting vaccine is Israel's faultIn "Israel is starting to vaccinate, but Palestinians may have to wait months" (12/18/20), The Washington Post blames Israel for adopting a vaccination policy that fails to prioritize Palestinians. Never mind that Israe...
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December 22, 2020
Washington Post stoops to Nazi imagery against RepublicansWhen it seems the media can't stoop any lower, along comes The Washington Post to prove that assessment wrong. On Sunday, December 20, 2020, The Post published a cartoon that encompassed nearly a full page using Nazi imagery to demonize Americ...
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September 30, 2020
'Expert' admits he was wrong, for decades, on IsraelIn a Washington Post piece titled "Arab-Israeli progress seemed impossible. That's because of old assumptions," published on Sept. 23, Aaron David Miller, a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, former Departm...
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September 25, 2020
WaPo beclowns itself criticizing Trump's Middle East peace dealIn "A lopsided Middle East strategy" (9/19/20), The Washington Post editorial board is critical of the current administration for supporting our allies over those that want to do us harm. If the Post calls that lopsided, I'll...
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August 7, 2020
NY Times keeps on blowing it when it comes to Israel coverageN.Y. Times columnist Roger Cohen in "The Less Impossible Israeli-Palestinian Peace" (07/31/20) debates two options to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by asking which is “the least impossible.” Mind you, Cohen...
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May 21, 2020
WaPo should stop trying to predict the news and start reporting it insteadIn "Netanyahu sets sights on annexing West Bank territory" (5/13/20), The Washington Post continues its trend of writing about what "could" be caused by an Israeli action — always suggesting the worst out...
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April 10, 2020
Israeli elections 'ugly'? At least Israel has elections!In "Even after partnership, Israeli government stalls" (4/4/20), the Washington Post calls the recent national Israeli elections "ugly." In a part of the world where elections aren't even apparent, the Post's ch...
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March 12, 2020
Palestinians target Israeli children with explosive balloonsThe Washington Post published an article entitled "Gaza militants send bomb-loaded balloons to Israel" (3/9/20). The article describes an Israeli child named Emma who was initially "pleased" when she saw a balloon float...
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March 3, 2020
No thanks to Bernie's Israel policyOf all the countries mentioned during the recent Democratic debate last week, including some of the most evil, repressive countries in the world like China, North Korea, and Russia, the debate participants had disparaging words to say about only one:...
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February 26, 2020
Another embarrassment from the Washington PostIn "U.N. report identifies 112 companies doing business with Israeli settlements" (2/13/20), the Post states that "President Trump has declared that U.S. policy no longer views the settlements as inherently illegal." Th...
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February 13, 2020
Washington Post wants you to believe Trump's peace deal will deport Arabs from IsraelThe Washington Post in "How peace plan could dispossess Arab Israelis" (2/9/20) has dispossessed and manipulated the truth. The Post uses a device called a "straw man argument" to indoctrinate its readers. In the art...
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February 2, 2020
Why won't the Washington Post acknowledge how pro-gay Israel is?In "Israel's education minister is swiftly rebuked for latest anti-gay statements" (1/13/20), the uniqueness of what happened in Israel, compared to all of the other countries in that region, was that the minister was indeed rebuked....
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January 14, 2020
Washington Post speaks about antisemitism from ivory tower, misses the cureIn "Fighting the virus of antisemitism" (1/10/20), Washington Post opinion writer Michael Gerson, in the name of evenhandedness, points fingers at both sides of the political spectrum as culpable for the antisemitism occurring in America to...
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December 11, 2019
Washington Post finds another way to bash Israel, this time bashing a minuscule sectIt was very interesting to see The Washington Post article, which made the front page, about ultra-religious Jews who abandon their religious community ("For former ultra-Orthodox in Israel, a race to catch up" 12/05/19). It was ...
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November 27, 2019
WaPo columnist seriously embarrasses himself on Middle East conflict"A two-state solution moves off the table" (11/19/19) describes a situation that was never even on the table. The Palestinians have walked away from numerous peace offers, each time leaving without tabling a counter-offer. ...
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November 26, 2019
Jewish homes an obstacle to peace to WaPoIn "U.S. shifts its position on Israeli settlements" (11/19/19), the Washington Post states that the U.S. acceptance of Israeli settlements in the West Bank "upends 40 years of US policy." Quite right — ...
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November 23, 2019
Israelis accused of 'agricultural terror' against PalestiniansIsraeli attacks on Palestinian crops are real; Palestinian attacks on Israeli citizens — people — are "purported." That's the tenor of The Washington Post — how much clearer can the bias be? In "In W...
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September 5, 2019
WaPo inverts victim and aggressor“Israel’s ominous escalation” (8/28/19) could also be called the Washington Post’s “ominous escalation” with three articles/editorials in three days about Israel’s allegedly egregious responses to Iranian agg...
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September 1, 2019
Gaza’s woes self-inflictedThe Washington Post put out an August 29 news item headlined: "A summer day at the beach? For many Gazans, the conflict has put an end to that, too." or, "In Gaza conflict taints a summertime respite." (Non-subscrip...
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August 30, 2019
Washington Post clings to an 'Israel as aggressor' narrative to kiss up to IranIn the Washington Post's "Attacks blamed on Israel across three Middle East countries ratchet up tensions" (8/26/19), the operative question would be, blamed by whom? The article makes it quite clear that the overwhelming bla...
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July 27, 2019
The Southern borders are not AuschwitzPolitics destroys both moral compasses and perspective. In "Will future museums study our migrant cages?" (7/21/19), readers of the Washington Post are presented an article about the Hirshhorn exhibit detailing the archit...
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July 18, 2019
Palestinians are incapable of statehood. There, I said it!In "The provocations of Trump's ambassador to Israel are upturning decades of U.S. diplomacy" (07-08-19), The L.A. Times blames the U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, for...well, actually doing something. Nothing has ...
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June 20, 2019
Even when Israel opens up to the Palestinians, WaPo can't find anything nice to sayInstead of portraying as progress the formation of a multi-million-dollar crossing point by Israel for the Palestinians, The Washington Post turns the step toward peaceful co-existence to the negative. "A notorious Israeli checkpoint ...
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May 22, 2019
Washington Post fails History 101It is shocking that someone as well read as Washington Post editorial writer Richard Cohen still propagates the harmful canard that Israel's creation in 1948 "caused" the Palestinian displacement. The actual Declaration of...
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April 16, 2019
WaPo covers up information to make Israel look badIn "Netanyahu makes election vow to annex settlements in occupied West Bank" (4/7/19), the Post clearly and correctly states that the Golan Heights is "a plateau captured from Syria in 1967." The Post then obfuscates th...
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April 3, 2019
Israel vs. Hamas: Washington Post reverses cause and effectThe Washington Post published back-to-back half-page reports on Gaza, the area controlled by Hamas. Hamas is classified as a terrorist organization, not only by Israel and the United States, but also by Egypt, the European Union, Great Bri...
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March 22, 2019
Anti-Israel bias even in the book world section of the Washington PostNo place is safe from anti-Israel bias at The Washington Post. Even in the Book World section (3/15/19), in "West Bank. Brooklyn. It's all occupied territory for a woman," we read a review by Diana Abu Jaber, who can't he...
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March 17, 2019
The closest a Washington Post columnist can get to calling out Ilhan OmarIn "Let's stay united against bigotry," E.J Dionne, Jr. inadvertently identifies the real yet diluted interpretation of Representative Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.)'s recent bigoted rant. While m...
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February 20, 2019
Washington Post can't help but sympathize with Ilhan Omar's anti-SemitismThank you, Washington Post, for your pontificating piece on Amazon and capitalism in "Amazon's mugging in N.Y. a warning for U.S. business" (2/17/19). Nice generalization of Amazon — does one failed deal define the...
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February 8, 2019
Remembering how Ralph Northam remembered himselfVirginia governor Ralph Northam says one thing one day, another thing another day. He says he was in the racist photo – now he says he was not in the photo. The press is debating this while Northam has applied one of the g...
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December 2, 2018
The WaPo buys the anti-Israel propaganda line even in reporting signs of rapprochement between Israel and the Arabs"The Israeli anthem breaks a sound barrier" was the reporting in the Washington Post of Israeli athlete Sagi Muki who "became the first Israeli athlete to hear Israeli's national anthem played openly at a medal ce...
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November 5, 2018
WaPo exposes Palestinian aimsIn "For Palestinian candidates in Jerusalem, a political vacuum" (10/30/18), the Washington Post ends the article by quoting Palestinian Jerusalemite Mahmoud Ahmad Ali as saying that "as a Palestinian," he could not ...
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September 27, 2018
Who is the real extremist?Dana Milbank calls Israelis "extremists" in his editorial "America's Jews are watching Israel in horror" (9/23/18). Milbank adapts the perennial straw man approach, this time using his rabbi, whom Milbank brags...
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September 16, 2018
WaPo still clownishly horrified at Trump's Jerusalem embassy moveThe Washington Post editorial "No relief" (9/6/18) states that an "angry Palestinian leadership turned its back on the United States" after the United States moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. But how can the Palestin...
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August 3, 2018
Washington Post defends 'soldier-slapping' Palestinian teenager with truckload of misinformationI read with interest The Washington Post article "Palestinian teen protester who slapped, kicked Israeli soldier leaves prison" (7/30/18). The sympathy-laden piece glorifies 17-year old "soldier-slapping" Palestinian Ah...
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May 3, 2018
WaPo attempts to explain why Israel shootsIf anti-Semitism isn't already a growing problem, The Washington Post gave it a shot in the arm. Israel is not "Shooting to maim" (4/29/18), as the front-page-center Post article suggests, with color photo to boot. ...
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April 7, 2018
WaPo undercuts Israeli militaryWhile the factual news reporting of the Washington Post raised doubts about Israel's claim that Hamas militants attacked Israelis with Molotov cocktails and live ammunition, at least the Post's editorial section confirmed that ...
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March 26, 2018
Washington Post attempts to blur terrorismIn "Austin revives a question: What is terrorism?" (3/24/18), the probing response would be: revives a question by whom? The Washington Post and its agenda-driven news reportage? The article starts with the following...
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March 24, 2018
WaPo uses calculator to excuse Palestinian terroristsWashington Post “fact checker” Glenn Kessler, in “Netanyahu goes too far in claims of Palestinian authority payments to terrorists” (3/18/18), claims that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exaggerated how much the Pale...
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March 5, 2018
The Washington Post's passive-voice propaganda smears IsraelWith the headline "Sacred Jerusalem church is shuttered amid tax dispute" (2/26/18), the Washington Post uses the passive voice to slyly imply, but avoid directly stating, that Israel shuttered the Church of the Holy Sepulcher for...
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February 27, 2018
To avoiding tarnishing Palestinians, WaPo gives Fred Astaire a run for his moneyIn "US tells angry Abbas, 'We will not chase after you " (2/21/18), a vast number of news sources led with U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley's response to lead Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, where she remarked, "I wi...
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February 19, 2018
WaPo does it againThe Washington Post article "Trial thrusts Palestinian girl further into spotlight" (2/14/18) should read "Media thrust Palestinian girl further into spotlight." The Post not only sides with the Palestinians...
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February 1, 2018
Another WaPo 'error'In “‘A death sentence’: Palestinians decry U.S. decision to reduce aid” (1/17/18), the Washington Post continues its history rewriting by claiming that the Palestinian refugees were caused by the creation of Israel. Not one Pa...
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December 22, 2017
WaPo displays blatant anti-Israel bias (again)In "Bomb targets subway in NYC" (12/12/17), the Washington Post chose to quote a pro-Islamic State media group, Maqdisi Media, which "suggested that it [the NYC terrorist attack] was carried out in response to Trump's rec...
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December 12, 2017
WaPo attempts to use context in covering Jerusalem, failsIn "Arab nations warn U.S. against moving embassy" (12/5/17), The Washington Post puts into context Israel's acquisition of Jerusalem by stating that Israel "captured the eastern part of the city from Jordan in 1967 in the Six-Day ...
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December 4, 2017
WaPo dismisses Jew-hatredTo the Washington Post editors, the fact that more than half of all religious hate crimes in the U.S. are directed against Jews is not particularly troubling...and never has been. But now that Muslim hate crimes have increased to one ...
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November 19, 2017
Does the WaPo even know about Resolution 1701?"Plunge into political crisis leaves Lebanon vulnerable to war" is yet another Washington Post attempt to cast Israel as the aggressor rather than the surrounding terror groups and countries that explicitly call for Israel's destru...
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October 31, 2017
Washington Post distorts BDS anti-Israel movementIn "Hogan signs order prohibiting state business with firms that boycott Israel" (10/24/17), The Washington Post simplifies, and in effect distorts, what the goal of the "boycott, divest, and sanction" (BDS) movement is ...
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October 25, 2017
WaPo reserves special disclaimer for IsraelIn "Top Netanyahu ally is 'disappointed' in Trump" (10/10/17), the Washington Post states that "Israel considers Jerusalem its capital." "Considers"? Israel doesn't "consider" that J...
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September 27, 2017
No good deed goes unpunished for Israel"Israel courts Syrians with humanitarian aid on border" (9/12/17) is yet another Washington Post article that tells a true, touching story yet spins it 180 degrees because of the paper's antipathy toward Israel. Israel t...
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August 1, 2017
Lone wolf attackers? No such thing.The press often refers to Palestinian terrorists (or the more sanitized version, Palestinian "attackers") as "lone wolves" (e.g., "Israel sues the heirs of Palestinian attackers," 7/7/17). But i...
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June 7, 2017
The Washington Post fails to recognize what Israel's Six-Day War was really aboutIn "The 50-Years War" (06/04/17), the Washington Post describes, in five full pages, in a special issue, the historic Six-Day War of 1967 and its aftermath. The author, Dan Ephron, states that the Six-Day War was a "mil...
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May 16, 2017
Palestinians refuse to give up on conquest of IsraelIn "Palestinians think Trump can make a deal to restart talks" (5/3/17), the Washington Post states that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas is reluctant to recognize Israel as the Jewish state "in part [emphasis added] ...
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May 11, 2017
Israel, according to the PostIn "Confident Trump says he wants to 'prove them wrong' and get a Mideast peace deal" (5/3/17), The Washington Post refers to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas as leader of the "moderate" Palestinian gover...
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May 2, 2017
Washington Post in anti-Semitism glass house, throwing stonesIn "Trump makes an unambiguous vow" (4/26/17), an article about Donald Trump's speech at the U.S. Holocaust Museum's Day of Remembrance event, The Washington Post inserted their review of President Trump's job performance vis-...
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March 23, 2017
Washington Post fails to debunk another blatant lie about IsraelThe Washington Post published an article entitled "Freed 20 years after slaying of 7 Israeli schoolgirls, Jordanian is hailed as hero" (3/13/17). The article included a quote by 45-year-old Jordanian shopkeeper Mohammed Youssef...
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February 21, 2017
Hey, WaPo: Time to learn the difference between opinion and factIn "Trump pulls back from two-state plan" (02/16/17), the Washington Post reporters state that Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu's reason for caution of a two-state solution "stems partly from his skepticism about a peace deal ...
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January 28, 2017
WaPo smears IsraelThe Washington Post has provided yet another tiresome front-page smear against Israeli Jews who want to live in an area considered disputed territory, though Israel won it after being attacked by Jordan in 1967 ("Israel forges ahead on new ...
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January 2, 2017
John Kerry uses sleight of handSecretary of State John Kerry, in his parting speech on the Middle East, posed what is called a "false dichotomy argument," which is sometimes referred to as a "false dilemma." This type of argument presents two choices...
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December 7, 2016
New York Times foresees 'anti-Muslim Holocaust' under TrumpIn the opinion pages of the N.Y. Times, written by N.Y. Times editors, was a piece called "Threats of an anti-Muslim Holocaust" (11/29/16). Not sure where this title comes from – where could there be an anti-Muslim Holocaust in ...
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September 22, 2016
Overt bias at The Washington Post continuesIn "Palestinian proud of 'terrorist' label" (09/19/16), The Washington Post defends and gives explanations for Fathi Hammad, Hamas member, recently designated a terrorist by the U.S. State Department. Perry Mason would have be...
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September 20, 2016
Washington Post: Israel ‘a nation not known for religious tolerance’In a Washington Post article, "In Israel, 'burkinis' and bikinis have been living side by side," the subheadline reads, "In a nation not known for religious tolerance, many people accept the attire without question." Is...
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September 14, 2016
Washington Post blows it on Mahmoud AbbasThe Washington Post went through an entire article without anti-Israel bias, only to succumb on the last sentence because it just couldn't resist the temptation. In "Palestinian President Abbas was once a KGB spy, report claims" (...
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September 9, 2016
What's in a word? Even in obituaries, Associated Press slants against IsraelEven in its obituaries, the Associated Press slants against Israel. On September 1, 2016, the obituary of Israeli Benjamin (Fuad) Ben-Eliezer written by the Associated Press states innocently that "Mr. Ben-Eliezer ... was born in Basra, Ir...
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September 3, 2016
More distortion from the Washington PostAll over the world houses built without permits are dismantled. Only when it happens in Israel or the adjacent disputed territories does it make the front-page news in a major American newspaper: the Washington Post. Unnamed Palestinians ...
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April 27, 2016
Washington Post glosses over the real reason for Palestinian terrorismThe Washington Post continues to be defender-in-chief for Palestinian atrocities against Israelis. Readers are treated to more excuses for Palestinian terrorism than all other acts of terror combined. According to Post reporter William Bo...
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May 31, 2015
Even Amnesty International, no lover of Israel, condemns HamasAmnesty International, which has made many accusations against Israel, has finally accused Israel's adversary Hamas of brutal war crimes inflicted against fellow Palestinians in the recent Gaza war (Hamas accused of summary executions). One can o...
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May 21, 2015
WaPo Rewrites Israeli HistoryThe May 16 Washington Post article "Onetime Palestinian negotiator revisits boyhood memories in Jaffa" by William Booth describes the origins of the tragic Palestinian refugee problem as "the mass exodus of indigenous Arabs from B...
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November 16, 2014
Washington Post frames story as if Palestinian displacement was sudden and unprovoked.According to the article, "Israeli officer arrested in Palestinian teen's death" (11/13/14), the Palestinian day of mourning, Nakba, is "when Palestinians remember those displaced when the state of Israel was created in 1948"....
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October 21, 2014
Do you really have to see 'The Death of Klinghoffer' to criticize it?In "Protests are at center stage in Met program",10/17/14, The Washington Post asks "how do you counter protesters who, almost with defiance, say they have not seen the work?" Does one need to read Mein Kampf to realize that...
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August 27, 2014
Best for facts to be given by impartial observers...Why does The Washington Post quote the UN as if they are an impartial observer in the Gaza war? For example, in "Fatalities in Gaza prompt scrutiny of US weapons sales to Israel"(8/24/14) the UN is quoted as saying that "nearly three-f...
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August 13, 2014
Washington Post disproves own premiseA Washington Post reporter portrays his experience with what he states is propaganda from both sides of the Gaza war. Interestingly, in the body of his article, he is only able to come up with propaganda from one side. In "A reporter explains...
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July 1, 2014
Anti-Semitism: Coming to a theater near you?The Washington Post front page article "Anti-Semitism erodes France's Fraternite" (6/21/14) reports on an escalation of anti-Semitism in France that some say is linked "to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." The article doesn...
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August 3, 2013
WaPo picture tells the story its text won't touchThe Washington Post recently published a picture (in a piece titled "Mideast peace talks set to begin") that inadvertently exposes the real intentions of the Palestinians, as opposed to their ostensible willingness to negotiate with Israel. The...