Book review: Can 'The Whole World' Be Wrong? by Richard Landes

Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, by Professor Richard Landes, is a hard but important book to read. Landes does no less than directly taking on the orthodoxy of the liberal world that regards Israel as one of the worst human rights violators, that regards supporting the Palestinian cause as the archetype of progressive...

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For Jews, Fake News Doesn't Go Back To Trump -- It Goes Back To Al Dura (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosEveryone knows about fake news. Some people know it's all Trump's fault, others know that it's all the media's fault. And now countries are generating it, using bots on social media. But for anyone who follows how the media reports about Israel, this is kind of old. How old? Daniel Rubenstein addresses this question in his first podcast, featuring...

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Al-Dura trial update

For those following the French hearing about the infamous Mohammed al-Dura videotape, Media Backspin has the latest:HonestReporting together with Take-A-Pen covered this afternoon's hearing in France where raw footage of the Mohammed Dura was publicly screened for the first time. HonestReporting/Take-A-Pen's Alain Benjamin, who saw the video in court, discussed by phone the...

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