Jim Lederman, at The Blogs

Jim Lederman

Dec 5, 2016, 7:22 AM

Thank you, Donald Trump, for showing us why the foreign media acts as it does in the Middle East

I have spent the last quarter century of my professional career studying and analyzing those political, economic and social aspects of the Middle East that almost everyone either refuses to consider or has simply ignored. The recent Trump presidential...

Oct 20, 2016, 6:59 PM

Why Have Trumpmania, Brexit and Mass Jihadi Recruitment in the West Come As Such A Surprise? Because Too Few People Are Out There Listening To The People Who Matter

I have been waiting for it for months, years, even decades. All I want is for a politician, an academic, a journalist, a diplomat or a member of the punditocracy to volunteer why the organizers of events such as...

About Me

Jim Lederman has been the longest-serving foreign correspondent in Israel. Over almost 50 years, among other positions, he has been the Jerusalem Correspondent for the CBC, NPR and The New York Post. Among his many works is Battle-Lines: The American Media and the Intifada (Holt 1992).