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Nov 25, 2025, 5:57 AM

Canceled for Defending Israel — at a Journalism Conference

I have seen the future of journalism. Sadly, it resembles the reporting of the BBC, whose top bosses recently resigned over allegations of bias in its coverage of President Trump and the Gaza war. This gloomy outlook comes from being...

Dec 8, 2020, 1:00 PM

How wire services amplify biases against Israel

Slanted news gets recycled on a massive scale when it comes from wire services and reference guides that are go-to resources for thousands of media outlets. Part Two of a two-part report on Israel and language usage in the...

Dec 7, 2020, 7:02 AM

Give ‘Judea and Samaria’ its place in news coverage

The style addition of ‘Judea and Samaria’ alongside ‘West Bank’ or other Palestinian-friendly language would serve readers with objectivity and context missing in Middle East coverage. Part One of a two-part report on Israel and language usage in the...

Oct 29, 2020, 8:55 PM

Dubious Holocaust content calls for creative education

Treblinka. Dachau. Mauthausen. The worst of humankind was unleashed in these horrific places. Yet if you ask people under age 40 to name a concentration camp nearly half would give you a blank stare and could not name a...

Oct 2, 2020, 12:36 PM

Devoted Ugandan Jews deserve full embrace

The central synagogue of the Abayudaya Jewish community in rural Uganda. (Ben Sales/JTA)

If the Abayudaya were recognized as full Jews, as I believe they should be, then the WZO would not deliberate whether to permit them a Zionist federation under its auspices

Sep 22, 2020, 7:39 AM

The Best of the Abraham Accords

The Abraham Accords story has been unfolding with new developments at breakneck speed since details were first announced last month. The meditative nature of the High Holidays presents an opportunity to reflect on Israel’s normalization agreements with the United...

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Allan Richter is a journalist in Long Island, New York.