Mike Fegelman, at The Blogs

Dec 6, 2022, 9:33 PM

Economics are uniting Israel & the Arab world together

For more than 40 years, Israel and Lebanon have been in an official state of war. Although armed combat last took place in 2006, when Hezbollah, the Lebanon-based Shia Islamist terrorist group, launched thousands of rockets into Israel, tension nevertheless...

Sep 5, 2022, 11:16 PM

Commemorating 125 Years Since 1st Zionist Congress

Over the course of three days in late August, 1897, 208 delegates gathered at Stadtcasino Basel, a concert hall in Basel, Switzerland. Together, they convened the first ever Zionist Congress, and they met as a small symbolic parliament to...

May 9, 2022, 10:21 PM

Russia-Ukraine War Isn’t Israel-Palestine Conflict

Ever since February 20, when Russian forces began their invasion of Ukraine, the world’s attention has been focused on Eastern Europe and the humanitarian disaster unfolding as a result of the war. Individuals, organizations and states around the world have...

Sep 25, 2021, 8:13 AM

Fakhrizadeh Killing Proves IDF Most Moral Army

Anti-Israel critics frequently deride the country’s moniker as being home to “the world’s most moral army,” arguing that the Jewish state is guilty of terrible crimes against humanity and war crimes, including “disproportionate response” by Israel’s armed forces against...

Apr 22, 2021, 9:21 PM

Concordia Student Union Atones For Antisemitism

Once again, Canadian Jews have the dubious distinction of being the most targeted group for hate crimes. In a report released on March 29, Statistics Canada revealed that Jewish Canadians were the single biggest victims of religiously motivated hate...

Mar 4, 2021, 5:46 PM

The ‘vaccine apartheid libel’ is anti-semitism

For the mainstream media, there are only two news narratives about Israel and its coronavirus vaccine rollout. First, that the Jewish state is the world leader in inoculating its population, having distributed millions of doses in only a matter...

Jan 26, 2021, 6:04 PM

Dear Twitter: Ban Iran’s Supreme Leader Khamenei

The face of social media changed a lot recently. In the immediate aftermath of the riots in Washington, DC. by supporters of Donald Trump, social media platforms took important steps to combat incitement to violence. Facebook decided to temporarily suspend...

Jan 11, 2021, 12:37 AM

Dear Mahmoud Abbas: Hold Palestinian Elections Now

Less than nine months after its last legislative election, Israel is once again set to go to the polls again this spring, after the Knesset recently failed to pass the 2020 budget. In what will be the fourth election in...

Dec 30, 2020, 11:00 PM

Where’s The Outrage: Jews Attacked Over Chanukkah

For more than two thousand years, Jews around the world have celebrated Chanukkah, the festival of lights, which commemorates their triumph in thwarting the ancient Greek empire who tried to forcibly assimilate the Jewish population of the Levant in...

Sep 1, 2020, 11:04 PM

Israel and UAE change Mideast peacemaking paradigm

For decades, a sacrosanct pillar and bedrock of international diplomacy held that the Arab-Israeli conflict could only be solved once the Israeli-Palestinian impasse was concluded. Dubbed “linkage,” this concept’s conventional wisdom posited that a comprehensive peace would never be negotiated...

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Mike Fegelman is Executive Director of HonestReporting Canada, a non-profit organization which ensures fair and accurate Canadian media coverage of Israel.

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