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Apr 4, 2018, 7:02 PM

No One Actually Crossed the Fence…(on Friday)

Once again, there are competing narratives between supporters and opponents of Israel. This time, the subject is what has happened in the last few days along the border between Israel and Gaza. More specifically, we know that 17 Palestinians have...

Mar 30, 2018, 4:40 PM

Selling the news

In the last few years, the top complaint of those pushing for greater accuracy in news coverage of Israel has been with misleading headlines. Often, the news article underneath the headlines give a proper accounting of the event, yet...

Mar 13, 2018, 8:09 AM

The fake news cop-out

Illustrative: The International New York Times and Al-Quds newspapers on November 9, 2016 (Tamar Pileggi/Times of Israel)

If you want to know what's really going on in the world, mainstream media is required reading -- biases and all

Dec 11, 2017, 11:02 AM

Jerusalem Days of Rage?

Illustrative: Israelis enjoy the sun as they sit outside at Cafe Rimon in downtown Jerusalem on January 14, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

While the NY Times portrays Jerusalem as tense, the city's Jewish and Arab residents go on with their lives

Dec 8, 2017, 1:30 PM

The Cult of Jerusalem

Jerusalem became the center of a cultlike devotion that had not really existed previously,” said Rashid Khalidi, a professor of modern Arab studies at Columbia University. “This has now been fetishized to an extraordinary degree as hard-line religious nationalism has come to predominate in Israeli politics,...

Aug 17, 2017, 8:14 AM

The Glorification of Hate

How do you think a black child attending the Robert E. Lee school feels? What is it like for Americans to walk past commemorative statues of those whose contribution to history is that they tried to destroy the United States? I...

Jun 1, 2017, 10:31 PM

Dying of cancer

The Washington Post ignored Hamas priorities that put terror tunnels and rockets ahead of chemo wards

Apr 7, 2017, 6:25 PM

Settlers are not leaving

There are no numbers to support a Reuters report claiming that Jewish West Bank residents are getting fed up

Mar 22, 2017, 11:57 AM

The Flame Wielding Barbers of Gaza

The technique is yet another form of resilience displayed by Gaza's 2 million residents, who are entering their 10th year under a blockade. The above is the key sentence from an article and photo essay appearing in the Associated Press....

Mar 3, 2017, 5:05 PM

A Sharp Rise in Anti-Semitism?

There have been deeply disturbing bomb scares at Jewish community centers and schools in the last few months. Thankfully, they have all turned out to be hoaxes. But still, the need to evacuate so many places, especially where there...

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Yarden Frankl works for the ALYN Hospital Special Projects Department which organizes events that allow participants to bike, run, hike, and even sky-dive to help the children being treated at ALYN -- Israel's ONLY children's rehabilitation hospital.

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