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It’s a man’s world: women in journalism and publishing

Over five years of on-the-ground research. Almost three years of writing and rewriting. And my book about migrant workers and African refugees in Israel just isn’t selling. I’ve spent more than two years addressing everything in my control (with the help of an excellent literary agent who has sold some very big books). My experiences…

By Mya Guarnieri Jaradat December 30, 2012

Why I hate those Bibi memes

They serve as Netanyahu’s echo chamber, they divert attention from the real issues at hand and they disguise political desperation as internet-activism. Memes shouldn’t be more than inside jokes, but nowadays they seem to lead the conversation. On Thursday night, Ami Kaufman posted on this site a collection of memes dealing with the Looney Toons…

By Noam Sheizaf September 29, 2012

Formen head of Mossad, Maj. Gen (res.) Meir Dagan (photo: Cpl. Ori Shifrin, IDF Spokesperson, CC BY-NC 2.0)

What covert ops did former Mossad chief lead in Lebanon prior to 1982 invasion?

A well known method which Israeli reporters use to bypass the military censorship is to take the story to the foreign press, (at the price of losing exclusivity, but sometimes journalists just want to get the stuff out). In the New Yorker profile of former Mossad head Meir Dagan, this paragraph appears: Far from everything is known about…

By Noam Sheizaf September 5, 2012

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Jerusalem Post op-ed calls New Yorker editor ‘anti-Israel’

By publishing an op-ed whose sole purpose is to demonize the editor of The New Yorker, the Jerusalem Post is positioning itself in direct odds with liberal values – not to mention journalistic integrity. The Jerusalem Post ran an op-ed yesterday (Monday) by a writer and attorney from Washington, D.C. explaining why he is canceling…

By Mairav Zonszein May 1, 2012