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According to the Maan News Agency, Palestinian journalists got feisty when Hamas tried to arrest

We’re pleased to announce the winner of our 2007 Israel Trip Giveaway, Judith Golub, of

The National Union of Journalists scrapped its boycott of Israel. According to The Guardian: The

Blogger Edgar Davidson compares the BBC’s coverage of the Red Mosque siege in Pakistan with

It’s becoming chic for terrorists to get op-ed space in major American papers. Now the

You know the Alan Johnston affair is over when the BBC asks everyone to remove

Hamas frees a kidnapped lion, leaving The Independent buzzing: Five days after securing the release

According to Naharnet, Syrian troops took up positions three km inside Lebanon. Michael Totten‘s reaction:

Times of London columnist Gerard Baker raises some important points about Hamas’ propaganda coup over

IZA, a German-based think-tank, came out with a study worth pondering: Our results do not

Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell responds to critics of her paper’s decision to print a

The International Federation of Journalists is protesting the IDF’s shooting of Imad Ghanem, a cameraman

Could these staff-eds about Hamas’ involvement in Alan Johnston’s release be any more diametrically opposed?

Jerusalem Post columnist Anshel Pfeffer on the state of the proverbial “fourth estate” in Gaza.

In the Beirut Daily Star, Khairi Abaza charges that the Arab media has learned nothing

Alan Johnston was freed this morning. After 114 days of captivity, the BBC correspondent is

According to Toronto Star correspondent Oakland Ross, there’s only way Israel can demonstrate its sincerity

In the LA Times, Matthew Levitt explains how Hamas accumulated enough money to take over