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In a New Statesman cover story, John Pilger illogically explains the significance of the first

Last Sunday, two Palestinian terrorists murdered an Israeli couple near the Gaza border. The perpetrators

A recent independent assessment of the Palestinian security forces found them in a state of

While the official PA newspaper continues to glorify terrorists as ‘martyrs’ (shahids): … Palestinian journalists

The British group StandUp4Israel is running a YouGov poll aimed at soliciting opinion from the

Rarely does a media outlet show the human face of the IDF. But the Christian

Given Reuters’ strident policy against using the word “terror” in coverage, we’re a little curious

The latest in the ongoing ‘Blaming Israel for ___’ series, submitted by Frimet Roth: On

Tom Gross in the Jerusalem Post: Had Israeli police shot dead an innocent foreigner on

NY Times coverage of Saturday night’s murder of the Kol couple (pictured) gets a thumbs

Nearly the same exact article, here accredited to Knight Ridder’s Dion Nissenbaum, and here accredited

The Jerusalem Post reports that Egyptian media are quoting a number of local ‘experts’ linking

Two Israelis, 2 Gaza gunmen die in new violence They just ‘died’, seemingly equivalent deaths…

For the third anniversary of Media BackSpin, we gave the blog a facelift, with emphasis

The latest HonestReporting communique – on Reuters’ unreliable sources in covering the murder of a

From Baltimore Sun cartoonist Kevin Kallagher:

Reuters, relying on unnamed ‘witnesses’, reported that a 12-year-old Palestinian was stabbed to death by

Melanie Philips: I wondered who would be the first person in Britain to openly blame