Posts Tagged: Matti Friedman
Latest New York Times Rant About ‘Israeli Settler Colonialism’ Is Seen as Sign of ‘Mental Breakdown’
A professor at the University of Southern California and Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist is out with a 2,000-word essay in The New York Times exhorting his fellow...
New York Times Birthright Israel Article Echoes ‘Zionism Is Racism’ Myth
The New York Times gave a front-page platform this week to a news article about a handful of anti-Israel activist who walked off a Birthright...
Israel’s Other Founding Fathers and a Vanquished World
Spies of No Country: Secret Lives at the Birth of Israel by Matti Friedman (Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2019). “Time spent with old spies,” author...
New York Times Op-Ed Writer Faults Paper’s Israel News Coverage
How bad is New York Times coverage of Israel? So bad that not even one of the newspaper’s contributing opinion writers appears to believe it. For the...
New York Times Retreats From Gaza Medic War Crime Investigation
Two and a half weeks after a front-page Sunday investigative project in which ten New York Times journalists accused Israel of “possibly a war crime,”...
Creative Writing: Breaking the Silence’s Book Project
Kingdom of Olives and Ash, edited by fiction writers Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman and prepared in cooperation with the highly controversial (understatement) Israeli NGO “Breaking...
Media Malfeasance Exposed in ‘Eyeless in Gaza’
During Operation Protective Edge in 2014, Hamas operatives burst into the Associated Press (AP) Gaza bureau and threatened its staff. But the journalists never reported the incident. This...
Jewish 100, 2015: Matti Friedman – Voices
Matti Friedman Reporter Former Associated Press reporter Matti Friedman continued to make headlines in 2015, writing a scathing criticism of the report from NGO Breaking the Silence on...
Former AP Journalist Expands on Criticism of ‘Breaking the Silence’ Report: ‘This is Not Journalism, It’s Propaganda’
Israeli-Canadian journalist Matti Friedman expanded on his recent criticism on Facebook of a report by Israeli nongovernmental organization Breaking the Silence about the conduct of...
Jewish 100, 2014: Matti Friedman – Voices
Matti Friedman Journalist As the Gaza War raged last summer, a number of wider dramas connected to the war, not least in the media, came under a...
Guardian Omits ‘Minor’ Detail in Story: Alleged Palestinian Plot to Kill Obama
The Guardian tradition of tendentious, misleading editing in stories involving Israelis and Palestinians is again revealed in a comparison between a December 9 Associated Press (AP) story...
AP’s Weak Pushback Against Former Reporter’s Criticism
The Associated Press is firing back at a former reporter who claims the global news agency helps set a narrative for "the Israel story" that...
Matti Friedman Explains the Media Bias Against Israel
In carrying out our mission, CiF Watch often attempts to contextualize the Guardian's coverage of Israel by explaining not only what they get wrong, but...
Ex-AP Reporter Helps Explain Media Bias Against Israel
Life as a foreign correspondent often is portrayed as dangerous, sexy work for a journalist. But it also can be insular - you're a stranger in...
