Jodi Rudoren

New York Times. (photo: flickr/niallkennedy CC by NC 2.0)

‘New York Times’ on Jerusalem violence: What occupation?

Bureau chief Jodi Rudoren’s new article doesn’t even rise to the level of false moral equivalence. I don’t like to pile on in the left-wing criticism of the New York Times’ coverage of Israel/Palestine; as a rule I find it irritatingly “even-handed,” equating the violence of the subjugator with that of the subjugated, but this,…

By Larry Derfner November 7, 2014

The bodies of Palestinians lie in the Al Shifa Hospital morgue in Gaza City following an attack on an UNRWA school in Jabaliya, July 30, 2014 (photo: Activestills)

How journalists become complicit in Gaza’s suffering

Reporters seize upon the list of Gaza’s most recent victims, only to parse their death certificates for proof that they, too, did not deserve to die. “Journalism,” wrote the Swedish war correspondent Stig Dagerman, “is the art of coming too late as early as possible.” The dictum resounds in Gaza, where an eight-year Israeli siege –…

By Samer Badawi August 12, 2014

President Barack Obama talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office Monday, May 18, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

Netanyahu’s incredible spin: How they once more speak of ‘Palestinian rejectionism’

The ‘conflict of narratives’ hoax wins the day. You’ve got to hand it to Bibi – he is the master of micro-politics. What he lacks in vision he makes up for with details. He is also becoming very good at setting the media’s agenda, something he wasn’t able to do in either his first term…

By Noam Sheizaf March 20, 2014

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A young Palestinian is seen injured during a protest against the wall in Bilin, april 2004 (photo: Anne Paq/Activestills)

‘The New York Times’ investigates a Palestinian hobby

You thought Palestinians throw stones because of the occupation? Think again. The New York Times on Sunday published one of its most out-of-context items from the West Bank in recent years – and it has published many of them. The piece consists of a study of “the culture of stone-throwing,” which apparently has become part of…

By Noam Sheizaf August 5, 2013

J Street and Zion Square engage ‘Pro-Israel’ question

I write a lot about the term “pro-Israel,” since it is a highly-charged and problematic term used often with impunity. Regardless of what I think it means, it is clear that it is a subjective term that is often attempted to be passed off as an objective one. Even just saying that a working definition of…

By Mairav Zonszein March 14, 2012

New NYTimes J’lem bureau chief accused of bias against Likud

The demand that the New York Times new Jerusalem bureau chief – who has yet to take up her post here – be “unbiased” towards the Netanyahu government is the height of ‘chutzpah’ Jeffrey Goldberg, the former IDF prison guard and self-appointed gatekeeper of all things Jewish and Zionist, is not happy with the incoming…

By Yossi Gurvitz February 18, 2012