All of us who devote much time to countering anti-Israel media bias are disciples of David Bar-Illan, late editor of the Jerusalem Post and author of its groundbreaking “Eye on the Media” column. If you’re seeking a top professional journalist’s responses to these unjust attacks on our people’s homeland, this classic compilation is it.
Commentary’s Norman Podhoretz wrote this: “An account so richly and meticulously documented that it will shock even readers already aware of the egregious bias against Israel in the mainstream media.” I agree. Journalist Gutmann was there, analyzing the damage and what needs to be done.
Lipstadt assessed the great damage done us by the American media during Holocaust times was in its downplaying of the horrors against Jews then going on. If you doubt that, read this classic work. Today, in feeding the false frenzy of Israel committing “genocide” in Gaza, its bias remains, only the damage-inflicting tactic has changed.
Only 30 pages of this book relate to letters on Israel, but IF the NY Times et ilk had fairly informed the US public of the Holocaust’s horrors, the public might have pressed the US to act. Seigel writes of Israel coverage from 1948 on: “On no other issue were there such sensitive antennae at work, such a willingness and readiness to debate ….”
There’s an anti-Israel media bias for every letter of the alphabet: A-Apartheid that isn’t, B-Borders that aren’t … Q-al-Quds, not your forefathers’ Jerusalem…. Come read this book and sharpen your awareness and capacity to counter the poison being injected into Americans’ perception of Israel every day.
This is a cogent collection of essays on different aspects of anti-Israel media bias by experts, including David Bar-Illan, Zeev Chafets, Norman Podhoretz, Rael Jean Isaac and more. There’s a long chapter on “The New York Times Propaganda War Against Israel.”
This profusely illustrated analysis of international, mostly American, miscoverage of Israel will alert you to the multiple ways the media poisons the mind of the public. This is old, but copies are still out there, and if you’re looking for a wide-ranging graphic depiction of “Israel in Medialand,” this is it.
