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Throughout the quarter I received appeals for funds from other organizations.One of them asked for money because they had helped to get people to complain to Amazon and Google to remove a violent anti-Israel videogame from their app stores.
I was the first one to report about that video game.
Similarly, I saw an appeal based on an organization debunking the Hamas lie that an Israeli dam had been opened to flood Gaza.
I was not only the first to debunk that myth this year, but I had debunked similar stories years ago.
When you read EoZ, you get many of these stories first, way before the mainstream media - stories that, in some ways, end up making a real difference.
This quarter was no exception:
- EoZ was a major factor in the Jim Clancy meltdown that led to his being let go from CNN.
- I prompted a New York Times (silent) correction where they used the nonsensical phrase "Israel's 1967 borders with Palestine."
- I exposed some truly idiotic BDSers who thought that Sabra hummus was named after the Sabra and Shatila massacres in Lebanon, forcing them to remove their accusations.
- I embarrassed left-wing NGO Gisha into reluctantly mentioning for the first time that Hamas was stopping people from leaving Gaza - supposedly the raison d'etre of the organization.
- I exposed Fatah's poster that showed a pile of skulls with Stars of David, a story that did reach the mainstream media and forced Fatah to distance itself from the image - not very convincingly.
But that isn't all.
I made posters:
I critiqued the media. I wrote original analyses, I pointed out hypocrisy, I exposed NGO bias. I explored history. My articles appeared or were linked to from Algemeiner, Jewish Press, TheBlaze and elsewhere. I was interviewed on Voice of Israel. My twitter follower count went past 14,000.
In three months I posted about 500 articles.
And this was a typical quarter for me.
This is besides the daily linkdumps by Ian, which are, hands down, the best daily round-up of stories about Israel and the Arab world that you can find anywhere.
EoZ is also now blessed with three regular weekly columnists: Mike Lumish, Vic Rosenthal and PreOccupied Territory.
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Thanks again for your readership and for your support through the years. I do appreciate it.