Martin Fletcher, at The Blogs

Martin Fletcher

Jun 26, 2024, 6:17 PM

Here we go again. Is anti-Zionism antisemitism? Is there genocide in Gaza? Is there apartheid in Israel? My contribution is this: it doesn’t matter. Definitions don’t matter. Results do. And the result, every time, sadly, is the same old...

Jun 17, 2024, 1:10 PM

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When a faux rally for peace came to my Mexican town

A protestor at the San Miguel de Allende rally. (Photo courtesy of author)

Slogans that followed a bigoted playbook – ‘apartheid,’ ‘genocide,’ and ‘ceasefire now’ – betrayed the protest for the sham it was

Apr 23, 2024, 4:00 PM

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What if I asked them why they support murderers and rapists?

Demonstrators protest against the Israel-Hamas war in front of The New School university in New York on Monday, April 22, 2024. (AP/Patrick Sison)

Many fear that it’s like the 1930s, when age-old hatred resurfaced ahead of the murder of six million Jews. It isn’t. It’s worse

Dec 11, 2023, 4:34 PM

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The opportunity within the catastrophe

Palestinians at the site of an Israeli air strike in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip. December 9, 2023 (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Jews and Arabs have shown they can live together in peace, but first, there must be a reckoning with both sides' leaders

Nov 28, 2023, 10:33 PM

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CPJ’s misleading tally of journalist deaths is clickbait for Israel haters

Palestinian journalists carry mock coffins of Palestinian journalists who were killed during the current war in Gaza during a symbolic funeral toward a United Nations office, in the West Bank city of Ramallah, Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)

It matters that a large number of listed fatalities were tragic casualties of the war, not necessarily reporters at work

About Me

Martin Fletcher served as NBC News Mideast correspondent and bureau chief in Tel Aviv for 28 years, winning almost every award in television journalism, including five Emmy’s. He has written seven books. Walking Israel won the National Jewish book Award in America for non fiction and Promised Land was a finalist in the fiction category. He is the only author to be honored in both categories.