Wednesday, December 30, 2015
Elder of Ziyon
It is the end of the year and I am seeing lots of emails from professional pro-Israel sites listing their accomplishments for the year (and, of course, asking for money.)
So I thought I'd look back and see how my reporting has made a difference this year (including things that some others take credit for!)
Here are some ways that stories I broke ended up changing things for the better 2015:
- An anti-Israel activist named Ariel Gold removed an embarrassing post where she claimed that Sabra Hummus was named after the Sabra and Shatila massacre (done by Christian Phalangists.)
- After Jim Clancy of CNN went on a bizarre anti-Israel Twitter rant against me and others, he was unceremoniously dumped from the network.
- I noted that the Israeli Gisha NGO that is supposedly supporting free movement of Arabs from Gaza never said anything bad about Hamas' limitations on freedom of movement. Immediately after, they started to report on Hamas.
- The New York Times corrected the nonsensical phrase "1967 borders with Palestine" after I pointed it out.
- After I reported out that the Imperial War Museum referred to the Jewish Brigade as "terrorists," they corrected it.
- The College Board corrected material that said that Jerusalem was a city in "Palestine" after I pointed it out.
- After a year of pointing out how UNRWA teachers are pushing hate on Facebook, UNRWA admitted it and sent out a note to its employees to stop being so obvious about their hate.
- MSN.com took down an antisemitic article they had republished from the Arab News.
- A story I broke about Fatah's hate on its Facebook page got picked up by the mainstream media, forcing Fatah to issue bizarre denials and remove the image.
- I reported first about an anti-Israel video game app on the Google store; it was removed.
- The New York Times removed a reference to a "2,500-year-old Islamic cultural heritage site" in Yemen after I wrote about how that was quite impossible for a religion that is 1,300 years old.
- A Palestinian NGO removed its antisemitic Facebook posts after EoZ readers informed their funders that this was a problem.
None of these could have happened without you. I find the information, but I need my readers to act on it - to tweet and email and shame the offenders. And many of these stories came from reader tips.
So we did make a difference in 2015.
Thanks for your support!
So we did make a difference in 2015.
Thanks for your support!
