Tamar Sternthal
ARTICLES BY: Tamar Sternthal
Top Israel News Coverage Fails of 2018
The end of the year is a natural time to look back on 2018’s most defining moments, the highs and the lows, the pictures and...
When Is a Journalist Not a Reliable Eyewitness?
JNS.org - Despite the recent erosion of public confidence in the media, many readers probably consider journalists trustworthy eyewitnesses. Journalists are duty bound to rise above their...
AP ‘Clarification’ Casts Iranian Threats as Israeli Perception
After reporting yesterday that “Iran has never threatened to attack Israel,” the Associated Press’ “clarification” today unfortunately casts those very real threats as a matter...
The New Yorker Puts Its Anti-Israel Bias on Display
“We checked nonfiction. We checked fiction. We checked poems. We checked cartoons. We checked cartoon captions,” asserted Richard Sacks, describing his work in The New...
MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Presents Hamas Propaganda as Fact
In a completely biased report saying Israel is endeavoring to "pick off" unarmed Palestinian demonstrators, MSNBC's Chris Hayes discarded any semblance of journalistic professionalism and embraced Hamas...
Will Layoffs at The New York Times Lead to Even Worse Coverage of Israel?
As long ago as 2002, gay activist Paul Varnell observed about the Middle East that, “Israel is the one country in the region in which gays have...
The New York Times — At It Again on Israel
A New York Times article last week discussed the opening of the new Louvre Abu Dhabi museum, describing it as a "soft power" means "to promote the capital...
Reuters’ Jerusalem Bureau Chief Displays Anti-Israel Bias
Journalists are tasked with sorting through competing claims, bringing facts to light, and carefully examining uncomfortable or controversial subjects. When it comes to questions about...
Elle Publishes an Article That Slanders Israel, and No One Cares
In 2011, the popular fashion magazine Vogue dubbed Asma Assad, wife of Syrian dictator Bashar Assad, "the freshest and most magnetic of first ladies." But that happened...
The New York Times’ Obsessive, Unsubstantiated Criticism of Israel Reaches New Depths
"Struggles for freedom continued across the Middle East and North Africa in 2013, but several countries faced worsening violence as antidemocratic forces asserted themselves," according...
New York Times Says Abbas ‘Vilified’ for Challenging Number of Holocaust Victims
As Israelis mark Holocaust Remembrance Day at ceremonies naming individuals among the 6 million murdered Jews, The New York Times reports that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas...
How the New York Times Demonizes the Israeli People
If "demonize" means "to try to make someone or a group of people seem as if they are evil," as the Cambridge Free says, can...
Let’s Get the Facts Straight About Ethiopian Jews and Contraception
As a bat mitzvah girl in suburban Philadelphia, I was riveted by the plight of Ethiopian Jews in the late 1980s, and was twinned with...
The Injured Man Who Wasn’t and Agence France-Presse
If you're going for transparency, you can't do much better than an x-ray. The Agence-France Presse, an international news service, claims there are x-rays that...
